What do Miss Iowa, India's first Olympic Gold Medalist, and Golf Professionals have in common?

What do Miss Iowa, India's first Olympic Gold Medalist, and Golf
Professionals have in common? Mental Management Systems.

Miss Iowa, Olivia Myers, took 2nd RU at the Miss America pageant in January.
The road to Miss America is long and hard: contestants must win on the local
and state level which typically takes years of hard work and determination.
You only get one shot at Miss America so the pressure is intense.

"Mental Management helped me achieve a level of concentration and confidence
that is necessary for anyone seeking the job of Miss America.
I received mental strategies and training techniques that I could easily
transfer into daily life. Now when the competition begins, nothing will
distract me from the task at hand." Olivia Myers, Miss Iowa 2008

Abhinav Bindra won a gold medal in rifle shooting at the 2008 Olympics.
This is a milestone for Bindra personally and for his country: the first
gold medal ever for India. Imagine the pressure of feeling as if the hopes
and dreams of your entire country are riding on your shoulders.

PGA Tour Players and Professional Golf Instructors also have joined the
Mental Management fan club.

"Lanny Bassham and the people at Mental Management Systems can give you the
tools to perform at the peak of your physical skills. This is not "sports
psychology" taught by someone who has never competed. This is performance
enhancement training, taught by a competitor that won an Olympic Gold Medal
and spent 10 years at the top of his sport. I have begun to use it in my
teaching and my own competitive game, and I believe in it 100%."
-Cameron Doan, Preston Trail Golf Club, NTPGA Teacher of the Year

How can one system meet the needs of 3 very different groups of people? Ask
Founder and CEO of Mental Management Systems Olympic Champion, Lanny
Bassham!

As the author of the books "With Winning in Mind" and "Freedom Flight - The
Origins of Mental Power", Lanny Bassham has been teaching mental training to
athletes, business professionals and performers for three decades. His
Mental Management System has been used and endorsed by top athletes
including PGA Tour Players such as Fred Funk and Jerry Kelly.

In 1972, at the Munich Germany Olympic Games, Lanny Bassham failed in his
attempt to win the Gold Medal in International Rifle Shooting. He had a
mental failure resulting in his taking the Silver instead.
Frustrated, Lanny wanted to take a course in controlling the mind under
pressure. After looking for such a seminar and not finding satisfaction,
Bassham began to interview Olympic Gold Medalists to discover what they were
doing differently to win.

What he discovered was truly remarkable. Bassham created a system of mental
control he calls Mental ManagementR. Within the next six years Lanny Bassham
dominated his sport, winning 22 world individual and team titles, setting 4
world records and winning the coveted Olympic Gold Medal in Montreal in
1976.

For the past 30 years, Lanny has been teaching Mental ManagementR to
Olympians, business owners, Fortune 500 Corporations and the elite of sport
and business community. Lanny Bassham is recognized as a teacher of the
world's best in the area of mental preparation for sport and business. His
clients include the PGA and PGA tour players, Miss America finalists, Miss
USA winners, World and Olympic Champions, Fortune 500 companies, The United
States Secret Service, The US Navy SEALS, The United States Army
Marksmanship Unit, The FBI and many more.

To set up an interview with Lanny Bassham or to learn more about Mental
Management Systems please email info@mentalmanagement.com or call
800-879-5079.

Lanny Bassham at the North Texas Golf Expo THIS WEEKEND

Olympic Gold Medalist and Mental Management Founder, Lanny Bassham will be speaking at the North Texas Golf Expo in Dallas this weekend! February 27 - March 1st.

Lanny's Speaking Schedule:

Friday February 27 - 6pm - Mastering Performance Under Pressure

Saturday February 28 - Noon - Mastering Self-Image Change

Sunday March 1 - 11am - The Mental Game Demystified

Come and learn more about Mental Management from Lanny and stop by our booth at the show anytime this weekend.

Show hours are:

Friday 3pm - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

North Texas Golf Expo
Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX

Other featured speakers at the expo include: Hank Haney, Art Sellinger, Nyle "Nyleator" Pruitt, Edlridge Miles, Kathy Whitworth, D.A. Weibring, Sandra Haynie, Dan Scull, Peter Murphy & Tony Martinez. Check out the North Texas Golf Expo for speaking schedules for all speakers.

Lanny Bassham's Bio:

Author of the books “With Winning in Mind” and “Freedom Flight – The Origins of Mental Power”, Lanny Bassham has been teaching mental training to athletes, business professionals and performers for three decades. His Mental Management System has been used and endorsed by top athletes including PGA Tour Players such as Fred Funk and Jerry Kelly.

In 1972, at the Munich Germany Olympic Games, Lanny Bassham failed in his attempt to win the Gold Medal in International Rifle Shooting. He had a mental failure resulting in his taking the Silver instead. Frustrated, Lanny wanted to take a course in controlling the mind under pressure. After looking for such a seminar and not finding satisfaction, Bassham began to interview Olympic Gold Medalists to discover what they were doing differently to win.

What he discovered was truly remarkable. Bassham created a system of mental control he calls Mental Management®. Within the next six years Lanny Bassham dominated his sport, winning 22 world individual and team titles, setting 4 world records and winning the coveted Olympic Gold Medal in Montreal in 1976.

For the past 30 years, Lanny has been teaching Mental Management® to Olympians, business owners, Fortune 500 Corporations and the elite of sport and business community. Lanny Bassham is recognized as a teacher of the world's best in the area of mental preparation for sport and business. His clients include the PGA and PGA tour players, Miss America finalists, Miss USA winners, World and Olympic Champions, Fortune 500 companies, The United States Secret Service, The US Navy SEALS, The United States Army Marksmanship Unit, The FBI and many more.

For answers to your questions on Mental Management please call 972-899-9640 or email info@mentalmanagement.com

Open House March 11 - Mental Management Systems

Open House
March 11
Come and Meet Us!


March 11, Mental Management Open House, 700 Parker Square, Ste 140 - Flower Mound, TX. Office is open from 9am to 8pm

The Mental Management System is the #1 mental training system used by elite performers today! 3 master level instructors will speak at this event to help give you an edge in sport, business or performance in today's climate.

This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about Mental Management and meet our team of experts on mental control under pressure! How can we help you reach your goals for 2009? Does not matter whether your goals are related to performance, sport or business. Come and find out!

Why attend?

- Meet Olympic Champion Lanny Bassham

- Listen to talks on Mental Management by our Master Level Instructors & learn more about our program

- Discounts on products up to 50% off!

- Enter in a drawing to win FREE training from the instructor of your choice

- IT'S FREE!!


Speakers include:

Olympic Champion Lanny Bassham, Founder and CEO

Troy Bassham, Director of Junior Development

Heather Sumlin, Director of Performance Programs

Speaking times:
10am
2pm
6:30pm

Email heather@mentalmanagement.com or call 972-899-9640 to register to save a seat at one of these special sessions - limited seating available at each session. Cost to attend is FREE!

This is an opportunity for us to meet those who live or office near the Mental Management office. We will have special pricing on products and seminar discounts available as well so feel free to stop by and see us! Also, everyone who stops by our office on March 11th can enter a drawing for Free consultation!

The Mental Management System, founded by Olympic Gold Medalist, Lanny Bassham has been in existence since 1977.

Here is a bio on Lanny Bassham:

Author of the books “With Winning in Mind” and “Freedom Flight – The Origins of Mental Power”, Lanny Bassham has been teaching mental training to athletes, business professionals and performers for three decades. His Mental Management System has been used and endorsed by top athletes including PGA Tour Players such as Fred Funk and Jerry Kelly.

In 1972, at the Munich Germany Olympic Games, Lanny Bassham failed in his attempt to win the Gold Medal in International Rifle Shooting. He had a mental failure resulting in his taking the Silver instead.
Frustrated, Lanny wanted to take a course in controlling the mind under pressure. After looking for such a seminar and not finding satisfaction, Bassham began to interview Olympic Gold Medalists to discover what they were doing differently to win.

What he discovered was truly remarkable. Bassham created a system of mental control he calls Mental Management®. Within the next six years Lanny Bassham dominated his sport, winning 22 world individual and team titles, setting 4 world records and winning the coveted Olympic Gold Medal in Montreal in 1976.

For the past 30 years, Lanny has been teaching Mental Management® to Olympians, business owners, Fortune 500 Corporations and the elite of sport and business community. Lanny Bassham is recognized as a teacher of the world's best in the area of mental preparation for sport and business. His clients include the PGA and PGA tour players, Miss America finalists, Miss USA winners, World and Olympic Champions, Fortune 500 companies, The United States Secret Service, The US Navy SEALS, The United States Army Marksmanship Unit, The FBI and many more.

Please feel free to invite others to this event!

Brady Ellison is 2 for 2 in 2009!

Brady Ellison, 2008 Olympic archery team member and Mental Management client, is already having a great 2009 season! He won the World Indoor Trials in January and last weekend won the World Archery Festival in Vegas. This weekend he will be in Rio Rancho, New Mexico for the NAA Indoor Nationals. The following week he'll be off to Poland for the World Championships. Congratulations on your success so far this year, Brady, and good luck!

Click here to visit Brady's website!

Bowling and Mental Management

Susie Minshew was the first two-time USOC Bowling Coach of the Year and has her own coaching business, Strikeability, Inc. Susie is a Gold Level Coach, an award winning writer, and sought after speaker.

"Lanny Bassham has it figured out. How we play sports is how we live our life. Lanny's innovative approach to truly managing the mental aspects of your life provides a unique skill set for any competitor. Whether in sport, sales, or life, if skills are equally matched, the advantage will always go to the competitor who can manage their mental efforts successfully. The Mental Management System is a complete program embracing the whole person. Its application in sport and most importantly, in life, is refreshing and practical. Without exception, all of my students on the program only regret they didn't know about it sooner!"

Susie Minshew, CEO, Strikeability, Inc. Alvarado TX

The Mentor Factor by Lanny Bassham (from the Performance Coaching Audio CD)

The Mentor Factor - (track #3 from the Performance Coaching Audio CDs)

I’m not sure why this is true, but it seems to me that some of the most important things in life are really hard to learn. Like being a parent for the first time – who is really prepared for that? I can’t think of two more unqualified people in the world than a mom and dad on the first day of this job. We just don’t take courses in parenting. It’s the same thing with coaching. The role of a coach is critical to the development of many people, but it’s hard to find good information about coaching and how to coach. When I first became a coach, I was really astounded at how little information was available. Now, there are a few books that I guess you could pick up, but if you ask most coaches where they learned how to coach and they’ll probably say “Well, I just kind of picked it up.” Stay at something long enough, and pretty soon you get good at it.

I spent about 6 years in Colorado Springs, and during that time I was reflecting a little bit on what I had done and what I had accomplished as a competitor. I had been a coach much longer than I was a competitor. When you tell people you are an Olympic gold medalist, they just kind of quit thinking you can do anything after that; you are always introduced as the Olympic gold medalist. But I have actually spent more time as a coach. I was the Olympic coach in ’84 and ’88 and had many competitors going to the Olympics and World Championships. We certainly developed our share of Olympians and World Champions, even a couple guys that actually went on to win gold medals in the Olympics. It gave me a lot of insight into what might help other people. I found as a coach I needed to be very efficient in what I did.

Running the International Shooting School, most of my students were there because they were pretty much on tight budgets; they didn’t have any big government support. My students were private students, and their parents were normally paying for it – so we had to get the money’s worth for everything that we did. So, I was always looking for ways that would work and principals that would help me become more effective and more efficient.

I’m going to share those with you. Some of these may be things that are common sense, and you may say “Yeah, I’m doing that already” – that’s great. Some of them may be new and different for you, they certainly were for me. I wish I could give credit for all the great people that shared these things with me. Sometimes I’ll remember where I learned something or who taught me something, but most of the time I just can’t – so I apologize to all those guys that I’m standing on the shoulders of, but I will tell you what I know about it and how we were able to develop a very effective and efficient system to help people perform well under pressure.

One of the things that I had to learn early on was that I can’t take credit for any of the successes of my students and I can’t really be blamed for any of their failures. I had a hard time with that. I kind of felt responsible when they didn’t perform well; and although I don’t think I ever felt like I wanted to take credit when they did do well – but I think one of the things you have to come to grips with early on is that you are only there for one reason, and that is to save the performer time. You’re not there to win through them or to win even with them – you’re there really just to assist them, or to aid them in their struggle and their journey in the sport.

And so, we can’t make an athlete perform, but we can help them to perform and we can save them time and that’s really our role, to help someone do a better job. Now there is a special relationship that sometimes occurs in the performance coaching situations. It doesn’t always occur, and it doesn’t have to occur for you to be a good performance coach. But when it does, it is really remarkable – and I’d like to like to talk about it first. It’s called the mentor factor.

Mentorship is an extremely interesting thing when it happens. When I surveyed Olympic champions to find out what they were doing mentally to win, this concept kept coming up of “Well, I had a mentor one time that told me this” or “I had someone who mentored me” and I thought, can we define this, can we define this mentor experience? When does it happen? When is it not a mentor experience? How can we come to understand what’s going on?

So, I discovered this way of doing it. I think you have a mentor when three things exist at the same time. You have a person that is capable, caring, and is a confidant. A mentor has to be, in my opinion, of course everything in this tape is about my opinion, I’m a world class expert in that (as we all are) but, I believe for it to be a true mentorship experience, all three have to happen.

A capable person is someone who is capable of helping in the area that they are mentoring. Now, parents are often capable in helping their children and mentoring to their children, but sometimes they’re not. If my child is learning to play the flute, for example – if I don’t know how to play the flute, I’m not capable of mentoring to them in flute playing.

The second area is that they must be caring. Now, I hope that all of us as parents are caring, and caring all the time. But a caring person is someone who is vitally interested in not only the success of this individual, but interested in them personally. And that they care about them, and want what’s best for them.

And finally, they must be a confidant. It is a situation where you have the trust of the individual so that they’re able to come to you and say “I’ve got a challenge” and know that if they share a personal thing with you that it will stay personal. This is a very special relationship, so if you’re fortunate enough in your life to have even one mentor – it’s an incredible situation.

In order for it to be a mentoring experience, you have to have a teaching moment occur. For a teaching moment to occur, you as the apprentice need to go to the mentor and say “I need help” and be willing to listen. I think many of us have mentors in our lives, but we don’t have the teaching moment. But when those two come together – the mentor is available, and the apprentice is ready to be taught… it is a miraculous turning point in a person’s life.

I can probably count on one hand all the mentors I’ve had in my life, and all the teaching moments I have had in my life – and that’s true of most people. We would hope that we would be in a position to mentor more often. Maybe we don’t look for the mentor situations or we don’t try to find them because it is certainly an important thing, but it is not something we are taught in school or something you expect to necessarily have happen.

But the mentorship experience is powerful, and most elite performers have had a mentor. Now I suppose my mentor, the one that I remember certainly first, was my father. Now, I’ll give you an example of how this happened. I was the kid that never made the team, I mean I was bad at everything in school, the kids wouldn’t even pick me for dodge ball I was so poor. And so finding a situation where I could learn a sport, or to succeed in anything was a big task for my father. He was always looking for something for me, and encouraging me.

So when we discovered rifle shooting, and he took me to a rifle club – it was a great experience the first day. I really liked it and my father could tell that this was maybe something that would build my self-image, so we went back the next week for the next rifle team meeting and we found out that they were going to close down the program because they just didn’t have enough interest. I was just devastated as I walked off the range. Here was something I finally found that I was interested in and could probably do well and now I had no opportunity. My father just looked at me and said “Don’t worry about that son, just because they’re not going to shoot, doesn’t mean you’re not going to”. And I didn’t know what he meant, but he had already made up his mind at the meeting that he was going to buy a rifle for me, a rifle for himself, and all the equipment that we needed, and got the keys to an indoor range.

He would pick me up after school about 3-4 days a week and would take me to the range and he would train me – and he became my first coach. But that was a mentor experience for me because not only did I learn about rifle shooting, but I got to learn about the special relationship of a father and son can have together.

This article is a short track from the Audio CD set Performance Coaching - to order the complete set go to http://www.mentalmanagement.com/a_mentorship.html
Lanny Bassham is the author of "With Winning in Mind" and "Freedom Flight - The Origins of Mental Power". His Mental Management System has been used by elite athletes and performers since 1977. To find out more about his program please call 800-879-5079 or 972-899-9640 - info@mentalmanagement.com www.mentalmanagement.com