Prepare for Peak Performance
If you are a violinist and you have a recital, you prepare, right? If you are a CEO and have a business meeting with an important client, you prepare, right? So it only makes sense that when you have a big competition, game, or event, you prepare, right? I cannot stress the importance of preparing yourself for certain events throughout life. But “to prepare” can mean so many things. I am going to write about your sports performance today and how you can prepare. The suggestion I use is: “I train my mind to see good in myself, to feel prepared & confident in who I am & what I bring to my game & life.”
The Only Disability in Life is a Bad Attitude
Never Give Up: The Lauren Hill Story
Lauren Hill, the freshman basketball player suffering from a rare, incurable cancer, says her body is shutting down, but she believes God has the last say. That’s an awfully powerful and truthful approach to death.
“My body is shutting down, and there’s nothing I can do,” she said.
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Such an intricate name, almost elegant-sounding, for such a brutally simple disease.
Diffuse: To spread or scatter widely.
Intrinsic: Anatomy: Belonging to or lying within a given part.
Pontine: Of or relating to the pons, a band of nerve fibers in the brain.
Glioma: A tumor of the brain composed of neuroglia.
Kevin Massey Miracle
Kevin Massey, who is Kentucky basketball’s newest student manager, has been on a transcendent journey – a journey which has taken him from death’s door, after the discovery of a tumor on his brain stem on Feb. 7, 2010, all the way to UK’s campus, where he now finds himself an integral part of the Wildcat family.
His journey began like an unwelcome lightning bolt from the heavens, as Kevin, then a 16-year old, three-sport sophomore Indianapolis’ Franklin Central High School, was stricken with a nightmare scenario.
“I was playing basketball and I noticed my shot was really off, so I told mom I needed to go to the doctor,” Kevin said. “So we went and everything checked out fine. Then two days later I woke up and couldn’t walk.”
Noah Galloway’s Inspirational Journey
The last night Noah Galloway’s body was whole, he was behind the wheel of a Humvee in Iraq. His night-vision goggles didn’t reveal the trip wire. “The roadside bomb was big enough to send our 10,000-pound Humvee flying through the air,” he says in his Alabama drawl. “We landed wheels down in a canal.”
Until that moment, Galloway had found his calling in the U.S. Army. He’d dropped out of the University of Alabama at Birmingham after the planes hit the twin towers, and went to Iraq with the 101st Airborne in 2003.
Mental Magnitude of Monks
We have all dealt with adversity. Adversity in the workplace, schools, community, etc. But the one adversity in which we fail to recognize time and time again is the great adversary in your head. Your mind. Your mind can be the defeatist. Your mind can be the “negative nelly.” Your mind can ultimately set you back or deter you from moving forward. How easy is it for you to turn off the negative noise in your head? The chatter in your mind is the biggest adversary. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Mental training teaches one to turn off the chatter of fears, doubts, worries, insecurities, and even the wandering mind.
11 Things Your Soul Wants to Know Now
As we all enjoy our unique human experience, we find ourselves burning the candle of life too quickly while trying to exist in society and keep up with the times. So much so, that we often forget the most important lessons we came here to learn – the lessons that our inner spirit is trying to teach us during our relatively short stay here on this beautiful planet
Here are 11 Things Your Soul Wants You to Learn While You’re Still Human:
12 Forgotten Life Secrets
The more I ponder about life, the more I come to one solid realization: The biggest curse and predicament of modern Man is forgetfulness. Like a creeping malaise, forgetfulness has seeped through all of Man’s being and doing. Individually, collectively, historically or culturally, we are spellbound to forget.
We haven’t only forgot our past but also our place in the present and our responsibility of the future. On a personal level, our ego-based state of consciousness is on a mission to keep us in this state of forgetfulness – to break the link to our being as a whole and to the interconnected web of life and universal consciousness. On a collective level, this forgetfulness is perpetuated and reinforced by social and cultural means – mainly by being tranced into a reality of unconscious consumerism, inauthentic lifestyles and a materialistic mindset.
Are Your Relationships Healthy?
Working in the therapeutic sector with many different people in many types of relationships – including partners, parents/children and friends – it has become apparent that there are a few key factors which are generally present when the relationship is healthy.
Throughout the following ten hallmarks a common theme is open and clear communication. We may feel or think a certain way, but if we don’t express it, how the hell is anyone meant to know? Real communication is without a doubt integral to a healthy relationship, so if it’s not one of our strong points, then we should keep practicing it until it is.
Tap into Your Younger Mindset: Golf with Confidence
Have you been a golfer for many years? If so, do you remember how confident you felt when you were young (or younger) and just starting out? Even as you made some not-so-great shots in your early days, you understood that was part of learning and you still hung on to a healthy confidence as you played. Or maybe you thought that the more you played and mastered the mechanics, the more confident you would become. How has that worked out for you? Are you as confident as you would like to be?
Shoot Like an Olympic Athlete
It is no big secret that the world of Olympic Athletes is a demanding one. Constant training, failure upon success, it is a vicious cycle. Next year, 2016, the Olympics will be held in Rio. These Olympians have been qualifying since 2014. Qualification can be achieved according to world rankings, through the major international competitions, or via specific qualifying tournaments. Often, two or more of these methods are combined. All IF federations have finalized their systems for Rio 2016, although some are still pending IOC approval.