Mindset : a mental guide for sport

Learn how to focus like a world class athlete, conquer your nerves and enjoy the challenge. In preparation for the 2014 World Championships, the Dutch national women's field hockey team worked together with Jackie Reardon using the Mindset method. As did the archer Peter Elzinga in his preparation for the Compound Archery World Cup in Colombia. The hockey team and the archer both won gold medals. All these extremely disciplined elite athletes were willing to use and apply the simple and practical instruments of the Mindset method to go for gold with friendly eyes. 'Friendly Eyes' are the foundation of achieving a balanced mind. If you look with friendly eyes, objectively and non-judgmentally - not just at yourself but also at the world around you - emotions will lose their power over you. These world class athletes realised that they could improve their mental toughness and at the same time enjoy the challenge of the matches even more. In our eyes these athletes have proven that passion and drive can be combined with friendliness for yourself and others. In this way, the battle field can become a playing field once again. And that is what Mindset is all about. The Book Mindset is written for parents, coaches and athletes of all levels, empowering them to systematically train the mental side of their discipline.It describes a new way of thinking in sport. You learn how to convert anger, impatience, tension and frustration into self-confidence and pleasure. It is not merely a mental guide for sport, but also an awareness guide, using tennis as a metaphor to realise how unconscious so much of our behaviour is. The universal principles of the book are incredibly easy to understand and with practice you can experience the same level of focus as an elite athlete. At the end of the book you create a 3 month personal success plan to put your newly learnt skills to the test.