This guided journal is intended for those striving for mastery, combining excellence with personal growth and well-being. It takes you through evidence-based strategies for fueling your performance by combining positive, sport, and performance psychology as well as mindfulness training. In easy-to-understand language, the journal summarizes research that supports each concept.
This interactive book also comes with access to online resources including exercises, videos, printable worksheets and posters, downloadable meditations, guided yoga recovery workouts, and much more!
You might read this book if you are:
A coach. Coaches can learn strategies from sport and positive psychology that can help their athletes improve both individually and as a team.
A team. The whole program can be done in 8-10 weeks to go along with a typical sport season. When this journey to performance improvement is undertaken together as a team, the benefits are magnified as individuals can reinforce and support each other's newly learned skills and attitudes.
A class. This book can serve as a guide for a high school or college class on life skills, performance, psychology, mindfulness, and/or leadership.
An athlete. The separate modules of the journal can be read and the associated exercises completed either during or outside a sport season by any athlete who wants to improve their performance and well-being
Not an athlete, but wanting to improve performance and/or well-being. Many of us "perform" on a daily basis, whether it be in the classroom, on the fields, on a stage, in business, or elsewhere. While some sections refer to sport, you can simply replace that with your own performance realm where you strive for excellence.
Anyone! Parents, teachers, anyone wanting to learn more about positive habits, mindset, mindfulness, mental skills, positive psychology, and more. This book is designed for people to go on a personal journey of self-reflection. So, I simply recommend you apply the exercises to yourself and complete as many as you care to. Don't be just an observer. To get the most out of the journal, engage with it and complete the exercises.
What can you get out of this book and program?
- A newfound superpower to choose how you respond to events and challenging situations.
- An understanding of team roles and ways to be a leader.
- An understanding of character strengths and how to use them to maximize your leadership skills and the ability to authentically be yourself.
- Clear mental skills training tips for improved performance.
- A deeper clarification and understanding of your values and goals.
- A perspective that cultivates success and thriving.
- Science-based strategies for implementing new habits, setting goals, cultivating hope and optimism, savoring and feeling gratitude more often, and practicing "deliberately," among others.
- The development of a mindfulness practice along with a clear understanding of how it can impact you as an athlete and person.
- An appreciation and love for your sport (or performance realm), your abilities, your strengths, and the opportunities you have.
- The impulse to do more for others. Feel good and DO good!
- An enhanced belief in yourself.
