Peak Performance Secrets

While physical training and practice begins early and often occupies vast amounts of time, top performers across all sports report that they also give vital attention to the training and practice of their mental and emotional skills.

To excel at the 'mental game', there are four essential mental skills to be mastered, often referred to by sport psychologists as the 4-C's.

1. Confidence

Those who believe they can and those who believe they can't are both right.
Henry Ford

Self-confidence, referring to the degree of certainty you have about your ability to perform a task, is the main factor that will determine how well you will perform that task! Neuro-linguistic Programming or NLP, which has emerged as an important model of human behaviour, offers powerful strategies for building supreme self-confidence which work on both the conscious and unconscious levels.

2. Concentration

You ignore everything and just concentrate. You forget about the rest of the world and become part of the car and the track. It's a very special feeling. You're completely out of this world and completely into it.
Jochen Rindt

Concentration is about focusing all your attention on the things that are important to whatever you are doing. A crucial part of peak performance is a state of relaxed concentration that it epitomised in the Flow State.A sport psychologist can help you identify what you need to be concentrating on and enable you to maintain your focus for the duration of the match or competition.

3. Control of Emotions

While the ability to relax under pressure is crucial, it is also important to recognise the particular mix of feelings and emotions that go together to create your own peak performance state. You also need to be able to re-access that state after distractions such as noises from the crowd, poor decisions from officials or opponents trying to intimidate you. The NLP technique of 'anchoring' can be very helpful in learning to control your emotions.

4. Commitment

Success is sweet but it usually has the scent of sweat about it.
Anonymous

While goal-setting has traditionally been used as a way to increase and maintain commitment or motivation, with SMARTER goals often touted as a magic formula, there are many pitfalls to the process that can actually inhibit the achievement of the desired outcome. More powerful and effective personal change technologies are now available that have moved way beyond the traditional approaches to enable you to optimise your own unique motivational system.

To find out how you can develop your essential mental skills and maximise your performance
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