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Reason behind the lack of posts

November 3, 2010 - 10:15 pm

For some time now I have worked as a professional sports consultant at BYU. Towards the end of August I decided to take a great offer to join my father inlaw’s human and organizational performance company. The company, Griffin Hill, specializes in performance enhancement through the application of cutting edge science. For example we helped [...]

Disappointing observation about life

August 17, 2010 - 10:35 pm

Posted in Focus | 9 Comments

It is always disappointing to me when I observe individuals that sell out on truth in order to fill their bucket of resentment. I recently observed an individual rationalize their own behavior to in very aggressive manner because of something that happened many years prior. The part that is most disappointing, is this individual that [...]

Determination in the face of adversity

July 15, 2010 - 9:00 am

Tags: Confidence, Dr. Craig Manning, fearless mind book, high performance, Overcoming Adversity, performance enhancment
Posted in Confidence, Focus, Overcoming Adversity | 1 Comment

I had an unfortunate experience a couple of days ago. The funny thing is I just blogged not long ago about how high performing individuals seem to focus their energy on what they can do and don’t appear to waste energy on what they can’t do or on judging others. They are busy working hard [...]

Young Phenom stays Calm amid Hype

July 14, 2010 - 9:00 am

Tags: adversity, alanta braves, baseball, Confidence, confident athletes, Craig L Manning, craig manning, Dr. Craig Manning, high performance, jason heyward, Mental Skills, Mental skills journal, Mental Skills Training, Mental Skills training sports, Mentall skill sets, Overcoming Adversity, performance journal, Performance Journal Training, psychological skills training, psychology of athletes, psychology of sports, psychology sports, Sport Psych, sports psychology
Posted in Confidence, Focus, Overcoming Adversity | 10 Comments

In the modern era, sports have become a lot more then a recreational past-time. The pressure to perform can be very intense. The stakes have gotten so high in specific arena’s that individuals will do almost anything to get an edge. A side effect that often comes from individuals dealing with large amounts of stress [...]

Another form of Interference-homesickness (Part 2)

July 13, 2010 - 9:00 am

Tags: Confidence, Craig L Manning, craig manning, Dr. Craig Manning, Focus, high performance, homesickness, Mental Skills, Mental skills journal, Mental Skills Training, Mental Skills training sports, Mentall skill sets, Overcoming Adversity, performance journal, Performance Journal Training, psychological skills training, psychology of athletes, psychology of sports, psychology sport, psychology sports, Psychology Sports Training, Sport Psych, sports confidence, sports psychology, the fearless mind
Posted in Focus, high performance | No Comments

Homesickness has a couple of effects on our performance. First, homesickness directs our focus to what we don’t have in our lives, namely our family, friends, familiar environment etc. This unfamiliarity creates a feeling of a lack of control. Whenever we don’t feel like we have control anxiety goes up and we start to approach [...]

Another form of Interference-homesickness

July 12, 2010 - 9:00 am

Tags: confident athletes, Craig L Manning, craig manning, Dr. Craig Manning, high performance, performance journal, Performance Journal Training, psychology of athletes, sports psychology, the fearless mind
Posted in Focus, high performance | No Comments

Obviously achieving high performance is not solely about just the physical components of whatever it is that we do. In fact, the interference that takes our focus away from what we need to do, what we CAN DO often comes from directions we least expect, and sometimes from bizarre directions.
He is an example, quiet a [...]

Conclusion to the Barry Zito article (Part 3)

July 10, 2010 - 9:00 am

Tags: Barry Zito, baseb, baseball, Confidence, confident athletes, Craig L Manning, craig manning, Dr. Craig Manning, fearless mind book, high performance, performance journal, Performance Journal Training, psychological skills training, psychology of athletes, Sport Psych, sports psychology
Posted in Confidence, Focus, Overcoming Adversity, high performance | 8 Comments

After talking about the root of his problem which is summarized best as he was setting himself up for failure with the goals and expectations he was putting on himself. He talked about hitting rock bottom. He said “I almost took it too seriously instead of just playing baseball.” When we are in an interference [...]

The Barry Zito article (Part 2)

July 9, 2010 - 6:00 am

Tags: Barry Zito, baseball, Confidence, confident athletes, Craig L Manning, craig manning, Dr. Craig Manning, Focus, high performance, Mental Skills, Mental skills journal, Mental Skills Training, Mental Skills training sports, Mentall skill sets, performance journal, Performance Journal Training, psychological skills training, psychology of athletes, psychology sport, Psychology Sports Training, san fransico giants, Sport Psych, sports confidence, sports psychology, staying in the present
Posted in Focus | 8 Comments

Barry then said “I was trying to control things that I couldn’t control—like what the batter would do. It was frustrating, to say the least. Now I know I can control only how I prepare for a game and how I throw the baseball. However hitters react to it, I have to just forget and [...]

Learning from the best

July 8, 2010 - 8:58 am

Tags: Barry Zito, baseball, can do mentality, Confidence, confident athletes, Craig L Manning, craig manning, Dr. Craig Manning, Focus, high performance, Learn from the best, Mental Skills, Mental skills journal, Mental Skills Training, Mental Skills training sports, Mentall skill sets, performance journal, Performance Journal Training, psychology of athletes, psychology sport, Psychology Sports Training, san fransico giants, Sport Psych, sports confidence, sports psychology, staying in the present, thinking the wrong way
Posted in Focus | 9 Comments

In the June 11th issue of Sporting News magazine there is an article about Barry Zito, a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants in major league baseball. The article is the perfect example of what happens to our performance when we start thinking the wrong way. Meaning what happens when we allow interference to enter [...]

Fatigue is toxic to maintaining high levels of performance

July 7, 2010 - 11:29 am

Tags: Confidence, Craig L Manning, craig manning, Dr. Craig Manning, Fatigue, Focus, high performance, Mental Skills, Mental skills journal, Mental Skills Training, Mental Skills training sports, Mentall skill sets, performance journal, Performance Journal Training, psychological skills training, psychology of athletes, psychology of sports, psychology sport, psychology sports, Psychology Sports Training, Sport Psych, sports psychology
Posted in Fatigue, high performance | 1 Comment

I had another post ready to go today, or at least I was close to having it ready to go when I felt prompted to go in another direction. I think the post today follows nicely off of yesterdays.
Fatigue messes with our performance no matter how disciplined/high performing we become. Researchers have spent large amounts [...]