The Performance Mindset 7 Steps to Success in Sport and Life
Build your resilience -- Step 3 Sharpen your focus -- Self-talk: you are what you think -- 'The little voice' -- Technical, tactical and emotional self-talk -- Positive, negative or neutral and curious self-talk -- Mantras -- Internal or external focus -- Narrow or broad: switching focus -...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newark
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
2022
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Values congruency
- Diversity
- Challenges to culture
- Physical environment, geography or size
- Change
- Competitive-collaborative balance
- Intensity-enjoyment balance
- Building a good culture is hard
- keeping a good culture is harder
- Summary
- Build your leadership
- Step 6 Protect your wellbeing
- No one is immune
- Find the positive
- Person first, athlete second
- Athlete-centred environments
- Look beyond the behaviour
- Wellbeing and mental health
- Destigmatising wellbeing and mental health
- Incidence of wellbeing and mental health concerns in sport
- Prevention is better than cure
- Self-appreciation, self-permission, self-acceptance and self-compassion
- Gratitude and kindness
- Journaling
- Sport relationship and identity
- Taking action
- Help-seeking
- The journey and narrative
- Recovery, rest and sleep
- Cognitive behaviour therapy and thinking traps
- Environment, thinking and doing
- Mindfulness and ACT
- Diaphragmatic breathing
- Supports and mentors
- Wellbeing programs and data
- Wellbeing checklist
- Summary
- Build your wellbeing
- Step 7 Execute your performance
- Behind the scenes in Rome
- Psychological characteristics and personality
- Mental skills of high performers
- Individual mindset plans
- Lifestyle
- Performance platform
- Confidence and competence
- Imagery and visualisation
- Mental skills programs
- Mental skills for juniors
- Learn competitiveness
- Maximising effort: intrinsic and extrinsic strategies
- Clutch and flow
- Set up for sub-two-hour marathon speed
- Create and execute a simple plan
- Great performances
- Embracing new situations and challenges
- Meaning contributes to performance
- Strengths win battles
- Managing performance anxiety and nerves
- Managing nerves through reframing
- Taking control of nerves
- Optimism and positivity
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- IntroductionMade not born
- Laying a mindset foundation
- Early success does not guarantee future success
- The mindset to keep going
- Attitude nurtures talent
- You grow in the direction of your focus
- Is talent overrated?
- Assessing mindset variables
- Enjoyment matters
- How much practice?
- Many different paths
- Patience and persistence
- Early bolters and late bloomers
- Reasons for leaving
- Tough transition
- McDonald's to Olympics
- Maintaining discipline
- Environments that help performance
- Talent doesn't coach you
- Summary
- Step 1 Harness your motivation
- The seven summits
- Action ignites motivation
- Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers
- Multiple motivators
- Competence, autonomy and relatedness
- Engagement
- Choices and sacrifices
- No one is superhuman
- Goal setting
- The art of goal setting
- Owning goals
- Creative goals - '34 by 34'
- Benchmarking
- Expectation and motivation
- Rewards and positive feedback
- Self-positivity and celebration
- Motivational dynamics
- Environment and culture
- Task and ego
- Managing motivational challenges
- Passion, meaning and purpose
- Summary
- Build your motivation
- Step 2 Boost your resilience
- Mat's mantra: Always keep riding
- Aim to be resilient
- Break it down into smaller parts
- Ride the roller-coaster with multiple resilience strategies
- Resilience grows with an open mind
- A learning approach to building resilience
- Keep going: injuries, disappointments and setbacks
- Learning to lose
- Life challenges
- Explanatory style
- Optimism helps resilience
- Reflecting, reviewing, debriefing and feedback
- Team resilience
- Navigating transition and other vulnerable times
- Adaptive perfectionism and flexibility
- Many paths to high performance
- Summary
- Build your performance
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- EULA.