Mental Toughness
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Palms Up For This Mental Toughness Hack
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Palms UP for This Mental Toughness Hack I’ve been to many different churches, Church of Latter Day Saints, Jewish Synagogues, A.M.E. Zion and Unitarian Universalists. I wanted to learn more about other’s beliefs, so I was fortunate to be able to explore. However, I was always more into Whose your master rather than whose your…
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The Ed Sheeran Technique of Building Mental Toughness
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The Ed Sheeran Technique of Building Mental Toughness No, this isn’t Ed Sheeran, More on his technique for building mental toughness in a minute. This is Ogi Ogas , a genius who was on the show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He actually knew the answer to the Million Dollar question, but just couldn’t…
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Two Mental Toughness skills that NO ONE talks about
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Two Mental Toughness Skills that NO ONE Talks About I was stubborn, errr, iron-willed growing up. In high-school, I REFUSED to take some typing class, because why would I ever need to type that fast? And as a result of NOT taking it, I still suck at typing. I am a pecker! I actually only…
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The one way to FAIL at your goals…
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There are tons of ways to achieve your goals. I don’t think it is a lack of information, we all know what to do. In fact, I can do without hearing any more people touting off about setting S.M.A.R.T. goals. It’s like they invented the acronym or something. The One Way To Fail At Your Goals …
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My Top 5 Books From 2015
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“If you are a coach, you are paid to read.” That’s what Tim Robbins taught me, I believed him, so I tried to abide. I hammered more audiobooks this year than every before as well. Here are my top 5 books from 2015 (in no particular order). Click on any book image to learn more……
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Why we Should NOT have heroes
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Why We Should NOT Have Heroes. I was a huge B.J. Surhoff fan. He played baseball for the Brewers and the Orioles. I didn’t just meet him, I bum-rushed into him at a bar at the University of North Carolina and I apparently freaked him out. He wouldn’t even let me buy him a…
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19 Ways to Practice Humility
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19 Ways to Practice Humility My mom took a friend and I to the beach for the weekend….at the time was working her way through nursing school and was exhausted because she had worked several consecutive shifts. This wasn’t a family vacation, those were sadly over after my parents split-up. This was just a mom…
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Signing The Eyeball Contract Of Mental Toughness
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Signing The Eyeball Contract Of Mental Toughness One summer, I spoke to a group of 30-40 elite divers every week. This particular session, I brought along my son and daughter, ages 6 & 4. They enjoyed sharing the stage with daddy, (I think my daughter loved selling the books), but this time they were particularly…
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Top 10 things I’ve learned from coaches
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My high school baseball coach once praised me behind closed doors but criticized me in front of my teammates. I think he had it backward, but I wasn’t mentally tough at the time. He served as a huge external motivator to prove him wrong later in life. My junior varsity soccer coach taught me the…
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3 Ways To Prevent The Big Meltdown
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3 ways to prevent the big meltdown I took a few steps to my right at second base to field a simple ground ball. I dropped it… Run scored, game over! I then proceeded to punch the brick wall of the dugout before getting on the bus, I probably broke it (my hand, not the…