Introduction: Mental Skills Development
Developing Mental Skills Versus Physical Skills, Using This Workbook
1. Getting Unstuck /5
The Practice Mindset, Self-monitoring correctness, Analyzing cause and effect, Self-instructing, The Performance Mindset, Trust as your Performance Goal
2. Playing Your Best /15
Understanding Your Best Performances, Understanding Your Worst Performances, Playing Your Best, Steps For Creating Your Performance Script
3. Your Performer Vision /27
Clarifying Your Performer Vision, Embracing Your Performer Vision, Mental Barriers and Solutions
4. Sustaining Performance Excellence /33
Self-leadership and Self-management, Barriers to Sustaining Excellence, Strategies for Overcoming Goal Barriers
5. Mental Performance Skills /43
Courage as a Performance Skill, Courage before performance, Trust as a Performance Skill, Acceptance as a Performance Skill, Mental Performance Skills Development
6. Courage: Overcoming Fear And Self-doubt /53
How Butterflies Become Dragons, Preparing to be Courageous, Steps to Instilling Pre-performance Courage, Your Performance Preparation, Your Performance Game Plan
7. Trust: Getting Out Of Your Own Way /69
The Inner Battle, Trusting the Untrustworthy, Recognizing Break Downs in Trust, Training Trust / 74
8. Acceptance: Focusing And Refocusing Without Judgement /81
Acceptance as a Performance Skill, Acceptance Expands Attentional Capabilities, Acceptance Strategies
9. Getting Where You Want To Go /89
Positive Rituals, Weekly Planning Ritual, My Weekly Roles and Goals, My Weekly Schedule, Practice Planning Ritual, My Weekly Practice Plan, Keeping a Daily Practice Journal