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- Achievement, Productivity, Motivation
And Success
- Peak Performance, Performance Enhancement
and Mental Toughness
- Sports Psychology, Mental Training,
Mental Fitness and Mind Tools
- Leadership, Managing and Coaching
- Organizational Development And Team-Building
- Speaking, Training and Presentation Skills
- Selling and Customer Service
- Exam, Test-Taking and Interviewing Skills
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Achievement, Productivity, Motivation
and Success
Championship world-class superstars walk the
talk of excellence, achievement and peak performance. Champions
are accountable and know what it takes to get to the top and to
stay there. Learn 10 key attributes of these super-achievers and
how you can emulate them in your personal life and career life.
665 words.
Is the fear of success real? How could anyone
possibly fear such a wonderfully positive thing as success? As strange
as it sounds, many people do fear success. This fear holds them
back from achieving their goals and dreams. It may sound more reasonable
to fear failure, and not to fear success. What is this all about?
Here are some reasons people fear success. Think these through and
you'll begin to resolve these issues within yourself. 593 words
How would you rate yourself on personal productivity?
Top achievers have a systematic plan for motivation, self-coaching
and focusing on successful behaviors. Learn the 10 special ways
top producers are able to drive themselves up the ladder of success.
782 words.
Who is your all-time favorite star athlete? What
is inside them that drives them to the heights? All great athletes
have common attributes that propel them to be excellent. Learn 10
characteristics common to all superstars and how you can develop
them yourself to grow and achieve more than you ever thought possible.
670 words.
Are superstars born or made? How do they succeed
so often? How do they dream so big and achieve so big? Learn the
8 secrets superstars have that you can start using now. Let them
tell you what it takes to make it in the big-time. 749 words.
Learn these 12 principles and laws of training,
performing and winning in sport and use them to succeed more in
your life. Find out how top performers raise their games under pressure,
how they play to win and avoid playing not-to-lose. 750 words.
Is your work and life organization out of control?
Do you read all the time management books but still never seem to
have enough time? Take a page out of the peak performer's book of
life and hear what they do to organize, choose tasks wisely, execute
well, achieve highly and enjoy their success at the same time. 725
words
Do you feel that the pace of life is sometimes
more than you can handle? Do you feel even more at a loss for time
after "getting organized"? Today's world of hyper-communication
demands that we be accessible by phone, fax, beeper and all things
high tech that seem to come on the scene daily. Here's how to get
organized. 720 words.
What rating do you give yourself on personal
productivity? Do you have a systematic plan for improving your effectiveness
in your daily work? Superachieving business people and athletes
know what it takes to motivate themselves, stay on track, maintain
focus in the face of obstacles and drive forward to completion of
their vision and dreams. Top ten tips of how superstars do this.
795 words.
How can being a success possibly be a problem?
Don't we all want to be winners? In fact, there are potentially
negative consequences in achieving our goals and in being known
as a successful person. This article takes a look at the 20 paradoxical
factors in success and formulates some strategies to deal with the
inevitable challenges that surround anyone who strives for success.
796 words
How often do you evaluate your sport competition,
speech, interview, job evaluation, class tests and papers in win-loss
terms? Either you succeeded or you failed? Either you won or you
lost? Isn't this an unhappy, pressure-packed way to go through life?
Is there a better way? Top performers use internal goals, called
process goals or performance goals, in these specific ways. 790
words.
Are you living the life you want? Are you settling
for less than a full, vibrant existence? Are you living someone
else's definition of success? What is your definition of a successful
life? Read this article to discover how to avoid false happiness,
redefine success your way, and continually reinvent yourself so
you can follow your bliss and create true meaning in your life.
Bill Cole interviews Ed Brodow, the author of the book Beating
the Success Trap, to discover these answers. Brodow tells how
anyone can be a winner in life if they live life on their own terms
and realize that "life is not a trial run" -- it's the real deal.
607 words.
Are you satisfied with the velocity, quality and
level of your achievements? Are you living a full, satisfying existence?
What makes you happy and helps you reach your full potential? This
tool can help you quickly discover your personal strengths and pinpoint
those areas you still need to work on. Take this 69-item personal
assessment and discover what's holding you back from reaching your
full life's potential. 874 words.
Peak Performance, Performance Enhancement
and Mental Toughness
Athletes, sales people, teachers, public speakers,
media people and anyone else who "officially performs"
successfully uses pre-performance routines or rituals. This article
tells why you need them, how they work, and reveals the top 20 strategies
peak performers use to psych up for top performances. 888 words.
Do you ever wonder why you perform with excellence
one day and can't get out of your own way the next? The answer might
lie in how you prepare. To not prepare is to begin to fail, but
psyching up with purpose can light the fire of greatness inside
you. Here are seven top tips to get you focused and ready to take
on the world-for any task or performance. 414 words.
In what arenas do you want to perform better?
To improve your performance abilities, you need to recognize, understand
and be able to avoid the myths surrounding performance. Top performers
have seen all the traps, pitfalls and blind alleys about performing,
and have devised methods to overcome them to be able to sustain
high levels of performance under all adverse conditions. Why are
these myths dangerous? If you don't handle them, they will creep
into your performances and sabotage you. And you may not even know
that's happening. Learn to avoid these twenty peak performance myths
and you will immediately see your performances soar. 1887 words.
Are you happy with your productivity? Could you
get more out of yourself on a daily basis? Do you have a system
for creating more self-discipline in your life and for becoming
better at achieving your goals? Learn about the special system top
achievers use to reach for the stars. 760 words.
The United States military has historically done
a very good job of instilling mental toughness in its people. Military
officers in particular require stringent mental toughness in order
to perform and lead to their utmost under pressure. The U. S. Navy
has a time-tested, rigorous system of ingraining that mental discipline
in its Naval officers. This article examines how this is accomplished,
starting at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. 2714 words.
Sports Psychology, Mental Training,
Mental Fitness and Mind Tools
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IMGCA has the world's largest collection of mental game articles
from experts around the world, including leading-edge strategies
on the mental game, mental training, peak performance, sports psychology,
sports psychiatry, sports philosophy, sports sociology, sports medicine,
human performance, exercise psychology, stress control, youth sports,
motor learning, sports coaching, teaching, teamwork, sports ethics,
mind-body disciplines and human movement.
What mental tools do you have in your peak performer's
tool kit that will propel you to excellence? Peak performers have
a wide array of mental technologies to help them overcome obstacles,
prepare for performances, and review and adjust their mental game.
Here's a list of superior psychological tools you can use to create
your own custom mental training system. 748 words
How fit do you consider yourself? You can be fit
in any number of arenas--financial, health, physical, etc. But have
you ever thought about the level of your mental fitness? Have you
stopped to consider that it might make sense to take an inventory
of your mental wellness? Take this quiz and find out your MFQ--your
Mental Fitness Quotient. 730 words.
Sport is a mind game. A place where a small difference
in mental powers often makes a big difference between winning and
losing. The field of sports psychology can help athletes and coaches
succeed faster and achieve higher sports goals than they ever dreamed
possible, but there are many myths and mysteries surrounding this
fascinating field. This article examines 32 sport psychology myths
and offers facts and analysis to shed new light on age-old misinformation
and misunderstandings. 2858 words.
Many people are reluctant to go to a physician
out of fear. Many athletes also steer clear of sports psychologists
out of fear, and worse, the social stigma that still exists when
asking for mental help. When an athlete does call a sports psychologist,
it is often when all else has failed, they have an important event
coming up, and they need mental help--fast. Virtually every college,
national, professional and Olympic sports team has a sports psychologist
on staff and countless individual professional athletes work closely
with sports psychology consultants. Learn the 72 reasons athletes
avoid sports psychologists. Discover the many benefits of sports
psychology training, and what to expect in a sports psychology session.
6602 words.
What factors prevent you from playing your best
game? Why aren't you fully confident and self-assured every time
you step into the competitive sports arena? Why can't you enter
the zone at will, and stay there under pressure? Do you know why
you practice well, but consistently under-perform in a real contest?
Perhaps you have stress, personal, practice, mental, coaching, parent,
or communication issues that negatively affect your sport performances.
Take this quick 65-item assessment and discover what's holding you
back from reaching your full sports potential. 921 words.
This article presents competition tips to help
you tune your mind up to compete at your best. Included are examples
of behavior to avoid and questions to ask yourself about your competitive
attitude. 870 words.
Leadership, Managing and Coaching
You're familiar with psychologists, psychiatrists,
psychotherapists, peak performance coaches and sport psychologists,
but you may be wondering, what's a mental game coach? Read this
in-depth article about how to choose the best type of this unique,
specialized mind coach who will help you reach more of your potential
in business, sports and life itself. 2004 words.
Do you have a special competitive edge in your
career? Smart executives and professionals have a trusted advisor
who can help them navigate the ins and outs of personal and professional
life so they can keep stress low and burnout at bay. An executive
coach can raise executive awareness and assist in devising peak
performance strategies to create invaluable career velocity and
momentum. Read this article to learn the 16 reasons executives and
professionals make executive coaches an integral part of their success
team. 1790 words.
A tennis coach, golf coach, swim coach, personal
coach, business coach, executive mentor, financial planner, personal
trainer, sport psychology coach. What do all these coaches have
in common? Why work with a coach? A coach won't do the work for
you, but here are ten top tips how a coach can help launch you to
the next level. 373 words.
What are the core principles of great coaching?
How does a highly effective coach operate with a client? How does
a coach help a client get the most out of themselves? These answers
depend on the coach, the client and many other factors. This article
gives you Bill Cole's top ten core features that all good coaches
have in common. 366 words.
What makes for an excellent coach? Is it something
that can be learned, or are great coaches born? Of the coaches you've
had, what made them stand out? Read this article to discover Bill
Cole's view of the top 15 characteristics of excellent coaches.
400 words.
How can you as a coach bring the world of peak
performance to bear upon your life and your work? How can you embrace
the ethic and abilities of the peak performer to raise the level
of your entire life's functioning on a daily basis? How can you
help your clients to become their own best coaches? How is your
own mental game? Learn the secrets peak performing coaches use to
inspire others. 1226 words.
How well do you learn from your own experience?
How coachable do you think you are? Do you actively use one of the
most powerful tools in the peak performers armamentarium, self-coaching?
The secrets of self-awareness as applied to coaching are revealed
here. 790 words.
Volumes have been written about the MBA-driven
attributes of top business leaders. These are the button-down, rigorously
mandated strictures of executive leadership that every "proper"
leader shall possess. But is there more than this neat list when
it comes to leading others? Yes. There's an art to leadership. Learn
the 15 inner qualities that top leaders possess. 589 words.
What makes a good leader? What have people who
have led you done that you admired? What qualities should more leaders
possess? What are the most valuable qualities a leader should possess?
What are the most basic qualities a leader should own? Most of us
would agree that we need to respect a leader we would follow. Some
leaders have feet of clay, but we might follow them anyway. What
are the qualities that might disqualify someone from being a leader?
Read this list and discover the top ten characteristics of excellent
leaders. 261 words.
Do top level, highly effective executives think
differently than lower level, less experienced executives? Do top-notch
leaders have different thought processes than those who are less
accomplished? The answer is yes to both these questions. Read this
article to learn how the mental game of top-achieving leaders differs
from the approach of those with less experience. Learn the top ten
key questions to ask yourself daily that can propel you into the
ranks of highly accomplished leaders and executives. 255 words.
Leaders who fail to provide true and proper command,
inspiration and strategic vision for their company leave a battered
organization. They delude themselves and mislead others within a
losing legacy. This article examines the causes of squandered leadership
opportunities and offers solutions for salvaging the leadership
imperative: strategic planning and mental toughness. 1045 words.
Are you satisfied with the velocity, quality and
level of your achievements? Are you a respected leader who gets
results? Are you reaping the benefits from all your hard work in
the executive suite? Is there more you want from your career? This
tool can help you quickly discover your executive strengths and
pinpoint those areas you still need to work on. Take this 73-item
executive assessment and discover what's holding you back from reaching
your full life's potential. 875 words.
Organizational Development And Team-Building
How well are your teams performing? The traditional
way leaders built teams may not work anymore. Modern team-building
approaches are needed. If you want your teams to rise to their potential,
you have to approach team-building from a different mind set. Here
are 12 executive leadership strategies for building a world-class
team that can compete with anyone. 598 words.
Not all teams are created equal. Some teams clearly
are better than others. Keeping in mind there are various definitions
of teams and their purposes, we can paint a fairly clear picture
of what we want in the ideal team. Here are 17 things we know that
peak-performing teams have in common. 498 words.
Corporations today are committed to helping organizations
empower their people with high-performance work styles. People who
are identified as peak performers, even in high stress environments
have mastered the skills top achievers in all disciplines possess.
The secrets of renewing oneself in a high-stress world are revealed
in this cogent work. 1899 words.
Did you know that you might be a team-building
coach but may not know it? If you influence others as a group, you
are a team coach. You might be a parent and coach your kids. You
might be a manager and coach your subordinates. You probably coach
teams more than you realize. Learn ten mental game success strategies
that team-building experts use to help their teams reach for greatness.
711 words
How well are your work teams functioning? Are
they reaching their potential? Are they fighting and imploding?
Or are they a business asset? As leader, what is your role in their
success? All teams, even superbly functioning ones, have some conflict.
Your job as leader is to assist them in surmounting these inevitable
troubles. This article describes how to analyze the potential problems
in your teams before they happen, and to devise plans and systems
for successfully dealing with these normal issues before they become
business liabilities. Your role as leader calls upon you to be a
catalyst, orchestrator, cheerleader, counselor, coach, consultant
and organizer. This article shows you how. 763 words
Why do some work teams soar and succeed and others
crash and burn? Why do some teams eat stress for lunch and others
let simple stress cause bad work digestion all day? The answer,
in part, may be in the team leader recognizing the early signs of
stress and burnout and having a plan for dealing with these problems.
Your mandate as team leader is to be a combination cheerleader,
navigator, counselor, analyst, orchestrator, catalyst and all-around
facilitator of good team things. The team can use you as a fixer-upper
of issues and strains that befall the team. This article lists the
15 potential signs of team stress and burnout, explains how much
of this is normal and predictable and presents 13 strategic ways
leaders can help their teams handle stress. 742 words
You're a leader in your organization. When you
have great ideas for the business, but no one is buying into them,
do you know why not? Do you know how to handle the inevitable resistance
that comes from the change process in an organization? This article
helps you manage organizational change through your own mental toughness,
employee attitudes and the bell-shaped curve. 633 words.
Speaking, Training and Presentation Skills
Can you play at the top of your game on demand?
Mental toughness is the ability to thrive on stress and to perform
in the upper ranges of our potential more often. The top athletes
who possess mental toughness live this every day. Professional speakers
are the pro athletes of the business world. The speakers who continually
perform to their potential over a lifetime know what it takes to
build and maintain a strong mental game. Read about ten powerful
strategies that can propel you into top form on the platform each
time you speak. 758 words
Do you usually perform well and learn from your
speaking experiences? Or are you your own worst enemy on and off
the platform? Do you use one of the most powerful tools in the peak-performing
speaker's armamentarium, self-coaching? This article reveals 5 secrets
pro speakers use to improve and 3 crucial steps to putting these
strategies into immediate action. 538 words.
Do you have the desire to become a speaker of
excellence? Do your dreams take you to the heights of platform greatness?
If you have a strategic plan and work hard, those dreams can come
true for you. This article gives you a quick snapshot of what great
speakers do to achieve excellence in speaking. 306 words.
How many of your speeches could be considered
in the artistic category? Do your audiences view you as a master
speaker? What would you have to do to boost your speaking to the
next level? Highly experienced speakers not only know their subject,
they know themselves, their audiences and their craft. They know
how to write, stage and organize winning presentations that engage
the audience at all levels. To kick your speaking up a notch, take
any of these 13 tips on as a project and watch your investment in
yourself as a speaker grow. 486 words.
When you sit in the audience enjoying a wonderful
speech, the speaker's words seem to all make sense. The speech is
logical, interesting, convincing, entertaining and has a nice flow
to it. There is a reason for this. It's the writing. Do you have
a speech coming up soon? Need to write a talk that will grab your
audience and make them sit on the edge of their seats? Take a moment
to learn these ten essential elements of speech-writing and you
may just give the speech of your life. 806 words.
Did you ever notice that it often takes far longer
to write a shorter speech than a longer one? That's because some
people tell almost everything they know in a long one, and they
also fail to highlight what's important for the audience. Short
speech writing and giving is an art. This article tells you how
to craft the short speech and how to deliver it for maximum impact.
654 words.
Do you fall victim to speaking nerves? Do you
have so much anxiety about performing that you avoid giving speeches?
Do you have a plan for conquering your nervousness before a speech?
Help is on the way! This article gives you eight tried-and-true
ways to overcome the jitters before every speech you give. 571 words.
If you are a less experienced speaker than you'd
like to be, you probably make some errors on the platform that could
be easily fixed. If you just knew what they are!! Here we describe
the 15 most common speaking mistakes made by people who are new
to speaking. Once you know these, your confidence and effectiveness
as a speaker will multiply many fold. 813 words.
With all the hundreds of books, videos and DVDs
on how to write and give a speech, why would anyone want to hire
a speech coach? Why would people feel the need to take group classes
on presentation skills when they can simply learn the material on
their own? But many people like the guidance of a private speech
coach. Discover the many reasons you may benefit from having your
own presentation coach at your side. 607 words
Hiring a professional speaker can be a substantial
investment. The important realization? It's not what an investment
costs, it's what the investment returns that is important. This
article takes a look at what savvy and cost-conscious meeting planners
are doing to maximize their speaker investments. Read this to learn
the 21 additional ways you can use one professional speaker to make
your event be better than ever. 592 words.
Do you know the ins and outs of hiring a professional
speaker? Do know the right questions to ask? How to determine if
a particular speaker is a good fit with your meeting needs? This
article serves as a handy speaker interviewing checklist to help
you get the perfect speaker for your next event. 1097 words.
Who do you call when you need a speaker for your
next meeting? A local college professor? Someone you once heard
at Rotary? Lance Armstrong? Probably none of the above. You want
a speaker who is an expert in their field, someone who can hold
an audience's attention and someone you can afford. This article
explains the four main classifications of speakers for hire and
the strengths and weaknesses of each, so you can make an intelligent,
informed decision and improve your meeting ROI. 732 words.
Do you know how your audiences perceive you as
a speaker? What do they like about you? What about your presentation
skills and style annoys them? Can you get in the performance zone
every time, or do you struggle with stage fright and nerves? Do
you give consistently solid performances, or are you erratic? Perhaps
you have stress, practice, mental, staging, readiness, voice, technique,
mannerism, writing or organizational issues that negatively affect
your presentations. Take this quick 68-item assessment and discover
what's holding you back from reaching your full platform potential.
788 words.
Selling and Customer Service
Are you working longer hours but getting less
done? Are you being asked to do more in less time? Productivity
problems can make you feel incredibly stressed--and then you're
just spinning your wheels. But there is help. You can use your mind.
You can win the mental game of personal productivity. Peak-performing
sales professionals work smarter, not harder, by using these 28
mental strategies for improving personal productivity. 610 words.
You're competitive-minded, or you wouldn't be
in sales. Here's how you can develop and maintain a can-do, can't-wait-to-get-going,
nothing-can-stop-me, I-hate-to-lose mind-set. Learn how other successful
professionals think for success and how they approach building their
mental game with these three powerful mental strategies. You'll
sell better with a stronger competitive mind-set. 608 words.
People are always observing you and determining
if they want to do business with you. Do you pay attention to how
ethical your business practices are? Do you set high ethical selling
standards for yourself? Do you assess your level of ethics on a
regular basis? Do you leverage your honesty as a business advantage?
As you go through your selling day, consider these five critical
quotations and questions about ethics and honesty. 607 words.
What's the most pressurized selling situation
you have ever found yourself in? How well did you perform? I traveled
to Austria as the sport psychologist for the Israeli Davis Cup Team
under severe counter-terrorism security conditions and watched them
competing under international pressure. In tennis you either win
or you lose. In selling you either hit paydirt or you walk away
empty-handed. What's the common secret? Having a strong mental game.
Learn how you can improve your own selling, using their secrets.
620 words.
You miss an important sale. You have a series
of bad days. You can't sell to your potential. This article takes
a snapshot of what slumps are, how to get out of one, and how to
avoid them altogether. You'll learn how to get out of the dreaded
sales slump syndrome so you can reach more of your selling potential.
588 words.
A superstar sales professional performs deftly,
smoothly, seemingly with no obvious selling techniques. But he completely
knows his sales methods, is highly aware of himself and his surroundings
and makes things happen. He's in the zone. How would you rate your
selling skills? Amateur? Professional? All-Star? Hall Of Fame? No
matter what the performance arena, there are four levels of skill
attainment. Learn how each level works and how this knowledge can
make you into a top sales pro. 619 words.
Is Tiger Woods the greatest golfer who ever lived?
One thing's for sure. Tiger Woods' mental game is absolutely the
very best on the pro golf tour. Here are four peak performance strategies
sales professionals can learn from a mental master like Tiger. Manage
your mental game like Tiger Woods and soon you'll be reaching more
of your selling potential. 627 words.
People don't plan to fail...they just fail to
plan. Powerful performances must provide perceptive pre-performance
procedures so poor performance is precluded! Here are ten pre-performance
sales psych-up strategies from some of the world's top selling professionals
and others who have achieved preeminence on the platform of life's
stage. 524 words.
How many of your sales are won or lost starting
right in your mind? Are you giving yourself every opportunity for
victory and success by using the full potential of your mind? This
article gives an overview of Timothy Gallwey¹s Inner Game method
and shows how you can use its tenets to invigorate your selling
game. Build the powers of your mind and you¹ll be an inner winner
all the time. 599 words.
Do you know how your customers perceive you in
a selling situation? What do they like about you? What about your
style and behavior annoys them? Do you give consistently solid performances,
or are you erratic? How expert are you at the wide variety of sales
skills that top selling professionals need to possess? This tool
can help you quickly discover your selling strengths and pinpoint
those areas you still need to work on. Take this 66-item sales assessment
and discover what’s holding you back from reaching your full selling
potential. 889 words.
Exam, Test-Taking and Interviewing Skills
Do you like to take tests? Do you see them as
a challenge and a puzzle to be solved? Or do you see test taking
as a threat and something to be avoided at all costs? Whichever
camp you are in, test-taking does carry some stress. Read this article
to discover the 50 stress factors that surround test taking. 564
words.
Some people just work themselves into a frenzy
before a test. It doesn't have to be that way. Read this list of
27 ways people scare themselves before and during a test, so you
can stop creating your own fear. 485 words.
Do you review your performance after every test?
If you do, it will help you immensely. Here are 18 test taking questions
you will want to ask yourself after every test. Through this analysis,
you'll see what you liked and what you didn't like about your test
taking skills. 448 words.
How test savvy are you? How knowledgeable are
you about "Test Psychology"? That's the knowledge about tests and
your ability to apply it to test taking so you can succeed. It can
be learned by reading about it, by lots of trial and error, and
by working with a coach. Take this self-assessment of 44 test psychology
factors and discover your strengths and weaknesses. 618 words.
If you interview, you will experience interview
anxiety. It's a given for any human being. To conquer this performance
anxiety, you need to know what causes your interview nerves, what
the symptoms are and how to control the performance stress. Take
a 75-item self-assessment on the symptoms of stage fright as applied
to interview stress. Discover a master mind tools plan to beat interview
stress and you'll rise to the occasion to reach your full performance
potential. 1029 words.
Do you know how people perceive you in an interview
situation? What do they like about you? What about your style and
behavior annoys them? Can you get in the performance zone every
time, or do you struggle with self-consciousness and nerves? Do
you give consistently solid performances, or are you erratic? Perhaps
you have stress, practice, mental, staging, readiness, voice, technique,
or mannerism issues that negatively affect your interview situations.
If you are called upon to do media interviews, job interviews or
school/exam interviews this tool can help you. Take this quick 68-item
assessment and discover what's holding you back from reaching your
full interview potential. 866 words.
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