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MESSAGE #1648 ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY?
I have a client and friend I’ll call George. When I met George, he was depressed for many years. During our first conversation, he had an insight and understood how the human experience and mind worked. He realized that he was creating his own suffering for all those years via his own thoughts. His depression […]
MESSAGE #1646 THE ZONE
Everyone wants to perform in the zone, or in flow, but to nearly everyone, it is an “X-factor” because it is elusive, a mystery and people don’t know HOW to be in the zone consistently. To me, the zone is our natural state. It is a state of no thought (at least we don’t realize […]
MESSAGE #1645 ANDY’S DREAMING
I just read an interesting article on Yahoo! Sports by Martin Rogers about how Andy Murray is having “bizarre dreams” and is thinking about seeking a sport psychologist to work with. You can read the article HERE. While reading the article, I had many insights about how Andy is heading down the wrong road, and […]
MESSAGE #1644 THINK LIKE THE PROS
My friend used to coach the great Pete Sampras. One day he was training with Pistol Pete, getting him ready for his clay court season…his least favorite surface. Well, my friend proceeded to beat Sampras in three groundstroke games in a row, and as they were getting some water, he thought, “I just beat Pete […]
MESSAGE #1643 TWEET THIS!
Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Pavel Baresh. Recently, I overheard that a local girls high school tennis player tweeted during her match in a tournament. She lost. Did she lose because of the tweeting? Not necessarily. She lost because her mindset was low in the moment and she felt like she needed […]
MESSAGE #1642 YOU CAN STILL DO YOUR BEST WHEN YOU FEEL YOUR WORST
Recently I was chatting with a professional baseball player before his game. This player was as physically fit as an athlete could be, but he knew the most important aspect of the game was on the 6-inch field between his ears. I asked him if he ever got nervous during a game and he responded, […]
MESSAGE #1641 TOP 5 WAYS TO PLAY IN THE ZONE ALMOST INSTANTLY
I recently spent some time with the former Yankee great, Jeff Nelson at Yankee Stadium. We were at an event for Cystic Fibrosis and participated in the famous roll call with bleacher creature, Bald Vinny, Yankee writer, Jon Lane, and my friend Fred Weiland, among others. What did I learn from “Nellie”? 1. He was […]
MESSAGE #1640 HOPE WEEK
Well, it’s officially HOPE Week, my favorite week of the entire baseball season. The above photograph is of myself and the great Mariano Rivera at HOPE Week 2011. For an entire week, the Yankees honor a person or organization that could use their help. HOPE is an acronym for Helping Others Persevere and Excel. Every […]