Mental Performance

What separates the world's most successful people from those who never reach their full potential? The answer is self-discipline—a relentless commitment to taking action, pushing past obstacles, and staying consistent over time. Look at any elite athlete, world-class musician, or visionary entrepreneur, and you'll find a common thread: Discipline, resilience, and an unwavering focus on mastery. Kobe Bryant, for example, was known for his grueling 4 AM training sessions, practicing harder than anyone else. Elon Musk consistently works long hours, maintaining laser-sharp Discipline to drive...

Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) - although still in its early stages of global recognition - is a form of therapy that has helped millions with their psychological ailments. Extensive research has evidenced the efficacy of EMDR’s approach in the treatment of trauma. This audiobook provides essential information about EMDR, discussing its history and definition, the eight phases of treatment, research-based results, and plenty of self-help techniques.

Many organizations approach the issue of employee engagement and motivation by tapping into age, gender and other stereotypes. Motivation and Performance challenges these notions, bringing together evidence that group differences are often exaggerated and that getting to the heart of what really motivates individuals is what's most important. This book is a practical guide to ensuring that organizations consider all motivators - job security as well as the need for personal growth - to improve employee satisfaction, boost organizational productivity and reduce staff turnover.

Heidi Hanna introduces listeners to a brain-based approach to realistic, sustainable energy management that supports a healthier brain, and as a result a healthier, happier body. By engaging our brain, we can strategically re-wire how we operate, creating more energy and improving productivity while simultaneously reducing stress. As a result, we become more focused and productive, flexible and resilient, and able to sustain higher levels of health and performance over time.

The concepts of mental toughness are simple to understand and, with the right mind set, are easy to implement. Richard Bond's aim is for you to take the understanding you gain from this book to train your mind, just like you would in any other discipline. Knowledge on its own is not enough; you need to practice. For example, you might know how to perform a bench press, but that alone won't allow you to bench 500 pounds. You need to train, rest, grow, and adapt over time to get to that level.

Have you tried to develop a champion mindset but were confronted with fear, doubt and disbelief? Do you want to learn how to develop amazing mental toughness, resilience and optimism for achieving greatness in life? If so, then this powerful book, Sports Psychology for Athletes 2.0, will teach you how to think, train and eat for optimal physical and mental performance!

The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction. Like Milch's best screenwriting, Life's Work explores how chance encounters, self-deception and luck shape the people we become, and wrestles with what it means to have felt and caused pain, even and especially with those we love, and how you keep living.

This is a book about practical neuroscience. That means that while it is scientifically based, it gets down to how you can compensate for your brain's evolutionary habits and excel in spite of them. Our brains are stuck in the year 10,000 BC, so let's find out how to make that work for us.

To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness are the keys to thriving in any environment.

This audiobook is about developing winners - providing salespeople with the secrets sports professionals have used over the years to help them win in highly competitive environments. For example, most top golf pros are all virtually equal skill-wise - you couldn’t pass a sliver of paper between their ability, yet only one of them can win each week. Only one can triumph. So what is it that separates them - if not their skills? The answer to this question is as simple as it is profound; it’s all about how they think!

Develop high-performance mindset, train your mind to build self-discipline, discover how to learn faster, and become the best version of yourself. Do you always wonder - why only a handful of people beam with self-confidence and perform at their best, while others struggle to finish their tiny five-point to-do-list? Why do some people always move at a fast pace despite facing obstacles, and others drag their feet merely on fearful thoughts? Find out more....

This book, Personal Reinvention: Enhancing Mental Clarity and Focus With Meditation, is your guide to unlocking your mind's full potential. It takes you on a transformative journey, revealing the power of meditation to move beyond simple relaxation and into a realm of significantly enhanced cognitive function. Within this book, you will discover how to sharpen your focus, elevate your decision-making skills, and achieve a level of mental clarity that empowers you to excel in every aspect of your life.

The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies, James Charney, MD, a practicing psychiatrist and long-time cinephile, examines films that delve deeply into characters’ inner worlds, and he analyzes moments that help define their particular mental illness.

The world urgently seeks renewable energy sources, yet often overlooks the valuable resource of personal grit. Why do we wait for crises to tap into our inner strength? In "Know Thyself, Love Thyself," Mike shares his journey and helps listeners find their personal energy supply. He reveals the secrets of his growth, offers strategies for reducing stress and boosting productivity, and provides guidance for entrepreneurs to empower their teams. Start enjoying better company flow, optimized performance, healthy relationships, and personal fulfillment today.

In a world filled with constant change, challenges, and uncertainties, the ability to bounce back from adversity and thrive amidst difficulties is more critical than ever. This book, "The Resilient Mindset," is your guide to cultivating the strength, adaptability, and positive habits necessary to not just survive but truly thrive in life.Understanding Resilience Resilience is often misunderstood as a trait that only a few possess, but research shows that it is a skill that anyone can develop. In Chapter 1, we explore what resilience truly means, its psychological and neurological ...

In Whatever Works, Thalma Lobel explores groundbreaking psychological research on job performance, satisfaction, and creativity. Did you know that just doodling in a certain way can increase your creativity? That looking at something green for forty seconds will improve your attention? That crossing your legs similarly to an interviewer could get you the job? That the mere presence of a smartphone on your desk can lessen your performance, even if it's turned off? These are the invisible factors that nudge our behavior on a daily basis.

Preparing for Pressure was written to provide solutions for the vast majority of tennis athletes that are able to thrive on the practice court only to wilt under game-day pressure. Navy Seals say “We don’t rise to the occasion...we fall to the level of our training.” In tournament pressure the same holds true. Competitive tennis is a game of “keep away” not a game of “catch.” Players would be wise to practice in the manner they’re expected to perform versus simply hitting. This book assists athletes, coaches, and parents in assembling the software tools and the customized ...

If you are one of the individuals that is seeking health and wellness on not just the physical level but the mental as well, you need to listen to Mental Strength Positive Attitude: 7 Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance In Life. This text gets right to the point and explains the best techniques that can be used to improve mental performance. The author has gone to great lengths to make the text as easy to understand as he possibly can and he also has put his own seal of approval of the methods as these are things that he has tried himself and has found to be successful.

This Modern Meditation Technique has been taught by this author regularly, on a quarterly basis, at the US Patent and Trademark Office and as an annual seminar at a Natural Living Expo in Washington DC, as well as at other organizations like the American Cancer Society, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the US Psychotronics Association, the International Conference on Science and Consciousness, and at corporations during lunch hour in the DC area. After teaching physics, environmental science, and electrical technology courses at Erie Community College for several years, I ...