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Mental Toughness for Peak Performance, Leadership Development, and Success: How to Maximize Your Focus, Motivation, Confidence, Self-Discipline, Willpower, and Mind Power in Sports, Business or Health

Want to Double Your Mental Toughness Within Weeks?

Tired of working hard, training hard and still not achieving more success or more wins?

What essential quality do all winners, champions, and high achievers possess? Simple. They possess the characteristic responsible for making talent and training applicable for real-world results—mental toughness.

Regardless of your activity, position, or skill level…you cannot achieve peak performance unless you have complete and consistent control of your mind. Mental toughness is often the sole difference between winning and losing in sports, business, and personal health.

Learn The #1 Mental Toughness Method for Sports, Business, Leadership, and Health

Based on proven methods of mental masters–such as Michael Jordan, Bruce Lee, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, and other champion athletes, world-renowned leaders, and highly successful business people–Mental Toughness for Peak Performance, Leadership Development, and Success provides specific instructions and exercises to increase mind power for competition, career advancement, and personal achievement.

The Mental Toughness LoopTM method…detailed in this guide…is the most simple, innovative, and effective process for developing superior mental toughness. The Mental Toughness Loop method is designed to isolate, transform, maximize, and integrate the seven skills of mental toughness for peak performance.

Discover The 7 Keys to Superior Mental Toughness

1.Motivation: The starting point for all significant success is motivation. Learn how to spark your motivation and overcome the mental barriers that are holding you back from taking action and achieving greater success.

2.Willpower and Self-Control: Most people point to lack of willpower as the number one reason for being unable to make successful changes in their training, habits, and lifestyle. Learn a simple 3-step process for developing consistent willpower to resist negative influences and eliminate negative habits.

3.Self-Discipline: Find out how to stop procrastinating. With self-discipline–you can more easily create new habits, achieve continuous improvements, and deliver better results.

4.Focus and Concentration: The ability to focus instantly and intensely is a hallmark skill of champion athletes and successful leaders. Discover how to develop “hyper-focus” skills for improved concentration and competitive performance.

5.Mental Stamina: Elite athletes and leaders can “lock in” on their focus during intense competition and crucial performances. Learn how to increase your mental endurance–so that you can maintain peak performance, outlast the competition, and finish strong!

6.Self-Confidence: Belief in your skills is a basic requirement for mental toughness. Learn how to bolster your self-confidence, elevate your courage, and prevent fear from affecting your ability to take action and get results.

7.Mental Strength: Learn how to acquire the mental toughness skills that allow champions and leaders to achieve outstanding results in the face of extreme pressures, obstacles, or pain.

Get 2 Bonus Chapters

In addition to a step-by-step guide on mental toughness training, you will receive a bonus chapter on developing advanced peak performance and leadership skills. Also, you will receive a 2nd bonus chapter featuring “mental toughness masters.” The mental training lessons shared by these legendary winners and champions will inspire you to maximize your skills, performance, and results.

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Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life

Twenty-six point two miles isn’t enough anymore. Obstacle course racing, which combines the endurance challenges of a marathon with the mind-bending rigors of overcoming obstacles along the way, is taking the world by storm. At the center of this phenomenon is Joe De Sena, the driving force behind the enormously popular Spartan Race. De Sena offers a simple philosophy: commit to a goal, put in the work, and get it done. From that philosophy, as played out first in his own life and now for millions across trails, through mud, and up mountainsides, Spartan Race was born.

Now in Spartan Up! De Sena gives you a life strategy guide that takes you out of your comfort zone and into a combat zone. As he breaks down obstacles from his many races, detailing how each parallels real life experiences, you will learn how to:

 

• conquer your greatest obstacle—your will
• embrace your greatest friend—discipline
• make limitations vanish and establish a new normal
• achieve the ultimate: obstacle immunity

 

Other events breed sheep; Spartan Race breeds wolves. Filled with unforgettable stories of Spartan racers as well as hard-won truths learned along the course, Spartan Up! will help anyone reach their full potential—in life, business, relationships, indeed anything one sets out to do. It is the blueprint that takes you right past Go to your finish line.

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The Art of Mental Training: A Guide to Performance Excellence (Collector’s Edition)

Achieve the Warrior Mindset for Peak Performance.

Reach new levels of success and mental toughness with this ultimate guide.

Learn the “Science of Success” and prepare to excel.

In this concise and highly acclaimed training guide, Peak Performance Coach DC Gonzalez teaches a blend of unique mental training technologies, sports psychology essentials, and peak performance methods that are effective and motivational. Get ready to increase your self-belief, self-confidence, and mental toughness using this powerful guide designed to help you reach new levels of success, sports performance and personal development.

This book is powerful, in it Dan explains, teaches, and helps you develop the psychological skills required for peak performance, while pointing out the underlying mental training strategies that will help anyone reach higher levels of achievement and performance – not by random chance, but by focused choice.

The Art of Mental Training teaches the critical essentials while interwoven with stories from Dan’s fascinating background as a Naval Aviator, Federal Agent, Military Cyber-Security Specialist, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt and Peak Performance Coach. Dan creates a powerful teaching connection between his adrenaline-filled life experiences and the mental skills and mental training that make all the difference.

• Access your true potential, control your state and excel even under extreme pressure

• Enhance performance by transforming the negative energy generated by nervousness and fear into shatterproof confidence

• Improve focus and concentration for positive results — often instantly — with battle-tested mental training techniques

• Learn the psychological factors that will help you view set-backs as opportunities to create lasting positive change

• Enhance visualization techniques and create success imagery loaded with feelings and emotions that will generate powerful results

• Understand what to practice and which success conditioning exercises will vastly improve your self-belief, self-confidence and performance

• Gain access to the coaching psychology behind redirecting anger energy and using it to strengthen your resolve and remain in control

• Use proven sport psychology techniques to leave your ego outside your event and avoid performance choking completely

• Learn to create the Ideal Performance State using Neuro Linguistics Programming and “The Critical Three”

• Get rid of limiting beliefs and the negative critic in your head once and for all

• Achieve the champion mindset and gain the mental edge over your opponents or the situation on demand

• Learn how to find the place from which peak performance springs forth

The lessons and techniques presented in this book are essential reading for anyone seeking more success and peak performance, whether it be on the playing field, in business, or life in general. Whatever your personal endeavor may be, whatever challenge you may be facing; these lessons will prepare you to move forward and to excel in a powerful way. Reach new levels of personal success and performance, as you learn, practice, and apply these powerful concepts and proven techniques.

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The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

In this groundbreaking book, New York Times–bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-hand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of “flow,” an optimal state of consciousness in which we perform and feel our best. Building a bridge between the extreme and the mainstream, The Rise of Superman explains how these athletes are using flow to do the impossible and how we can use this information to radically accelerate performance in our own lives. At its core, this is a book about profound possibility; about what is actually possible for our species; about where—if anywhere—our limits lie.

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Stephen R. Covey’s The 4 Disciplines of Execution: The Secret To Getting Things Done, On Time, With Excellence – Live Performance

Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization’s work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team – from senior leadership to the front line – is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals. FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our research shows that execution breaks down in four ways: 1. People and teams don’t know the goals. Either there are too many goals or the goals aren’t clear. 2. People and teams don’t know what to do to achieve the goals. The goals are not translated into day-to-day activities. 3. People and teams don’t keep score. Few can tell at any moment if they are on track to achieve the organization’s critical goals. 4. People and teams are not held accountable. For results, employees need relevant and timely feedback and regular accountability. The 4 Disciplines of Execution will help you eliminate these breakdowns.

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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with them from East Africa. At the same time, I began to notice that a training group on my team could consist of five men who run next to one another, stride for stride, day after day, and nonetheless turn out five entirely different runners. How could this be?

We all knew a star athlete in high school. The one who made it look so easy. He was the starting quarterback and shortstop; she was the all-state point guard and high-jumper. Naturals. Or were they?

The debate is as old as physical competition. Are stars like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams genetic freaks put on Earth to dominate their respective sports? Or are they simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training?
The truth is far messier than a simple dichotomy between nature and nurture. In the decade since the sequencing of the human genome, researchers have slowly begun to uncover how the relationship between biological endowments and a competitor’s training environment affects athleticism. Sports scientists have gradually entered the era of modern genetic research.

In this controversial and engaging exploration of athletic success, Sports Illustrated senior writer David Epstein tackles the great nature vs. nurture debate and traces how far science has come in solving this great riddle. He investigates the so-called 10,000-hour rule to uncover whether rigorous and consistent practice from a young age is the only route to athletic excellence.

Along the way, Epstein dispels many of our perceptions about why top athletes excel. He shows why some skills that we assume are innate, like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball or cricket batter, are not, and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like an athlete’s will to train, might in fact have important genetic components.

This subject necessarily involves digging deep into sensitive topics like race and gender. Epstein explores controversial questions such as: Are black athletes genetically predetermined to dominate both sprinting and distance running, and are their abilities influenced by Africa’s geography? Are there genetic reasons to separate male and female athletes in competition? Should we test the genes of young children to determine if they are destined for stardom? Can genetic testing determine who is at risk of injury, brain damage, or even death on the field? Through on-the-ground reporting from below the equator and above the Arctic Circle, revealing conversations with leading scientists and Olympic champions, and interviews with athletes who have rare genetic mutations or physical traits, Epstein forces us to rethink the very nature of athleticism.
 

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The Motivation Myth: the simple yet powerful key to unlock human potential and create inspired performance and achievement

The Motivation Myth: the simple yet powerful key to unlock human potential and create inspired performance and achievement Most people believe praise, appreciation, and compliments are great ways to motivate and inspire people. Many think these communication tools are good people skills and are useful everywhere ~ from parenting to the boardroom, from friendship to leadership, from relationships to coaching. People mistakenly believe these tools are the keys to unlock human potential. That is a myth, says Mattison Grey and Jonathan Manske. Praise, compliments, and appreciation do not do what people think they do. They do not unlock human potential. In this provocative and compelling book, Grey and Manske debunk the myth that performance, achievement, confidence, and connection ~ at work, at school, and at home ~ are improved by these communication tools. Fortunately, there is an alternative, acknowledgement. This communication tool is the cure for underperformance, lack of self-confidence, and ineffective motivation techniques. Grey and Manske have seen it over and over again ~ acknowledgement changes lives! Acknowledgement effectively produces the results ~ increased performance, motivation and inspiration, and improved self-confidence ~ these other communication tools try to accomplish but do not. The Motivation Myth draws on scientific research, anecdotal stories from interesting people, and thirty-five plus years of combined experience in using and teaching the tool of acknowledgement. Grey and Manske reveal the simple yet effective communication tool of acknowledgment and how to work with it to motivate and inspire with integrity and grace. Acknowledgement is the invisible language of results! Table of Contents 1 ~ Introduction 2 ~ Why I Wrote This Book 3 ~ The Myth 4 ~ Compliments, Praise, And Appreciation Do Not Work 5 ~ Acknowledgement ~ What It Is And What It Is Not 6 ~ How To Acknowledge 7 ~ Acknowledgement As Feedback 8 ~ Self-Acknowledgement 9 ~ Using Acknowledgement In Team Meetings 10 ~ Acknowledgement In Leadership 11 ~ Acknowledgement In Sports 12 ~ Acknowledgement In Parenting 13 ~ Acknowledgement In Relationships 14 ~ Acknowledgement In Sales 15 ~ Acknowledgement In Peak Performance 16 ~ Because You Can