177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class

269 Pages·2010·32.92 MB·English

by  Steve Siebold

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Credits
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the three most important people in my
life, for their never-ending love, support and encouragement in the
rea)tzatton of my goals and dreams.
Dawn Andtews Siebold, my beautiful, loving wife of almost 20
years. You are my soul mate and best friend. I feel best about me
when I'm with you. We've come a long way since sub-man. I love
you.
Walter and Dolores Siebold, my parents, for being the most
Ioving and supporting parents any kid could ask for. Thanks for
everything you've done for me. I love you.
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Acknowledgements
To my late business partner and best friend, the great Bill Gove,
for everything you taught me and all the fun we had together build-
ing Gove Siebold Group. We will meet again, Spider. I miss you.
To Ada Gove, for loving and taking care of Bill for all those years,
and for always supporting our work at Gove Siebold Group. Bill
lived a longer, healthier and richer life because of you.
To Larry Wilson, for being a great friend and mentor, and for
showing me how the system works.
To Bob Proctor, for promoting Gove Siebold Group tirelessly
over the years. For always pushing me to think big.
To John R. Spannuth, for introducing me to Bill Gove, and for
always encouraging me every step of the way. There would be no
Gove Siebold Group without you.
To Keith Harrell, for your friendship, guidance and endless
referrals.
To Lou Wood, for your friendship, and for your ongoing feed-
back during the mental toughness process. A speaker could never
have a better client. A person could never have a better friend.
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To all of the members of Gove Siebold Group's National Board
of Advisors: Dr. Tony Alessandra, Bill Brooks, Jim Cathcart,
Dave Yoho, Dr. Jim Tunney, Mark Victor Hansen, Randy
Gage, Patricia Fripp, Larry Wilson, Nido Qubein, Brian
Tracy, Bob Proctor, Ray Pelletier. For all of your advice and
guidance over the years.
To Jay Travis and Christy Travis Hey, for being the example
of what's possible as adults when you begin the mental toughness
process as children.
To Magic Sammy Lankford, for being a great friend and mentor
when I needed you most.
To Brian Lee Allen, the original great one, for helping me find
my way home.
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.d Foreword
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It's important to understand that the author of this book, Steve
Siebold, is not an ordinary coach, but a world-class Mental Tough-
ness Coach. As you ponder whether or not this book is for you,
think about your life. How well are you performing in the areas of
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your life you deem to be most important? Are you thriving or just
surviving? Are you at the top of your game or sitting on the bench,
or watching others play, wishing you could be the star performer?
No matter how you've answered these questions, you're going to
ad want to read this book. Why? You already know that good per-
formance coaching is like eating healthy food. What you eat influ-
ences your energy and your body's performance. So eating healthy
food just makes good sense.
But what controls how well you perform? What you think con-
trols how you perform -- pure cause and effect. Your thinking is
the cause. Your performance is the effect. So thinking the right
thoughts (and acting on them) makes great sense. In fact, it makes
Performance Champions. And a steady diet of "high-performance
thought food" is contained in 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the
World Class. It's your recipe for a great life, the "thought food" of
champions.
Oh, did I mention that you, too, are a coach? You are the one who
chooses your thought food. You're the one who swallows your
thought food. And, you're the only one who is accountable for
what you swallow (think). For better or worse, you are your own
head coach, the coach of what thoughts are in your head.
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But don't despair, Steve is here to save the day. Steve is my good
friend and your primary assistant coach. He's here to assist you
in making the best choices possible -- the thoughts you feed your
brain. He does this by studying the thought diets of the highest
performers in a variety of fields. No surprise, the best of the best
feed their brains similar thought foods. This book shares this food
with you.
Steve makes it easy and convenient for you to say, "I'll have what
the champion performers are having." If you want to Be like a
champion, you've got to Think like a champion.
Come on coach, start the Mental Toughness diet now!
Start today Playing to Win the Great Game of Your Life. There's
a champion performer inside you just waiting to Get in the Game
and lead a life really worthy of living.
Larry Wilson
Founder
Wilson Learning
Co-author of Play to Win,
Choosing growth over fear in work and in life and author of
the personal growth process, The Great Game of Life.
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Introduction
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I have had the privilege of competing against, coaching, being
coached by and observing world-class performers since I was
six years old. As a junior tennis player competing throughout the
United States from ages 7-18, I became fascinated with what it
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takes to become a champion. My dream was to be ranked among
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the Top 10 players in the world, but I fell short. At my best, I
hovered around the Top 500 in the world, and that's as high as I
could seem to reach. Deep down, I knew I had the talent to make
my dream a reality, and I knew the missing link was mental. After
I hung up my racquet for the last time, I became obsessed with
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uncovering the mental toughness secrets of champions. Starting
in 1984, I spent every free moment conducting interviews with
champions, reading their books and studying everything I could
get my hands on about the psychology of peak performance. My
friends said I was obsessed. They were right. This book is the
result of my 20-year obsession.
When I started to implement the ideas in this book, my whole
life changed. It wasn't overnight, but sometimes it seemed like it.
There's no magic here, just practical thought processes, habits and
philosophies drawn from the greatest performers in the world.
This book contains no theories. Every secret comes straight from
the street of experience, either my own or that of our clients. This
book is loaded with ideas you can implement immediately. Some
will be familiar, and some new All of them have the power to
catapult your results, no matter how high you're flying. As a matter
of fact, the people who get the most value out of our mental
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