Mental Management now has a page on Facebook. Click here to view our page
We hope you will join us on Facebook!
We will add photos & updates there as well as our blog & website.
Thank you
Your Mental Management Team
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Brady Ellison is Olympic Bound!
Brady Ellison's Website
We just received and email from Brady's parents with a link to an article on his success and wanted to share it on our blog. Here is a link to that article: http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20080403-9999-1s3archer.html
Brady attended a 2 day seminar with Lanny Bassham last year to help with his mental preparation for Archery.
At age 19 he has a great future ahead of him! We are very excited for Brady and look forward to watching his continued success!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
I came to the sport of agility in the 1990’s. My background in sports did not demand that I have a mental management system to be successful. As Nigel, my miniature schnauzer, and I prepared for AKC World Team Tryouts in 2001, it was apparent that I had reached a level of competition that required skills that I did not possess. Sensing my struggle, a dear friend gave me Lanny’s book With Winning In Mind. Reading With Winning in Mind was a cathartic experience. I began to apply Lanny’s Mental Management System and developed my own applications to agility. I soon discovered the concepts from Mental Management showing up as I taught agility clients.
I credit Lanny’s Mental Management system with my ability to perform at national events. My commitment to training gets me to the event, running Lanny’s Mental Management System provides me with the skills to perform on the day of the event. In the 7 years that I have put Lanny’s Mental Management System into practice, Nigel and I have not faulted in the preliminary rounds of AKC Agility Nationals.
I encourage my clients, whether weekend warriors or national champions, to use Lanny’s Mental Management System to help them reach their potential.
Webb Anderson
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Sign Up Now for Mental Toughness
Now is the time to sign up for Mental Toughness Course offered at Eagle "U" July 21-26, 2008 at TWU in Denton, TX! Seating is limited!
If you are age 14 - 25 consider spending 6 days and 5 nights attending an Eagle "U" Summer session. Get a 7 year head start on your career this summer!
For over 10 years, hundreds of students have "graduated" from Eagle "U", learning how to:
• Set Goals and Achieve Them
• Communicate comfortably and confidently
• Study less and get better grades
• Become more self confident
• Identify strengths and unlock their potential
Now that Eagle "U" has added the Mental Toughness Course with Olympic Gold Medalist Lanny Bassham students will also learn:
• How to Handle the Pressure of Competition
• The 3 Mental Processes that Control Performance
• Principles of Mental Management
• How to Turn Deficiencies into Strengths
• Goal Getting System used by Olympic Champions
• How to Change Self Image
• Much, Much More
Mental Toughness offers 16 hours of mental training with Lanny Bassham. Plus you receive all the other Eagle "U" perks including sun up to sun down training from the Eagle "U" staff and guest speakers, room & board and a fun filled exciting learning environment!
Cost for this amazing 6 day course is only $2695! Life changing information, room & board, valuable instruction from Olympic Champion Lanny Bassham and much, much more are available through this program. 1-888-7EAGLE U www.eagleu.com
This is a wonderful opportunity for young adults and teens. We want to make certain our clients & friends get the best rate so please use this code (22774) when you call for a $200 discount on tuition and let them know you were referred by Mental Management Systems. If you sign up to attend any Eagle "U" session this summer please let us know! We would love your feedback on the seminar!
Registration is handled through the Eagle "U" office, we are promoting the session because Lanny is a speaker and we believe in the program. You are welcome to email us with questions though - we will answer if we can and if not forward you to Eagle U. info@mentalmanagement.com is the Mental Management email address.
If you are age 14 - 25 consider spending 6 days and 5 nights attending an Eagle "U" Summer session. Get a 7 year head start on your career this summer!
For over 10 years, hundreds of students have "graduated" from Eagle "U", learning how to:
• Set Goals and Achieve Them
• Communicate comfortably and confidently
• Study less and get better grades
• Become more self confident
• Identify strengths and unlock their potential
Now that Eagle "U" has added the Mental Toughness Course with Olympic Gold Medalist Lanny Bassham students will also learn:
• How to Handle the Pressure of Competition
• The 3 Mental Processes that Control Performance
• Principles of Mental Management
• How to Turn Deficiencies into Strengths
• Goal Getting System used by Olympic Champions
• How to Change Self Image
• Much, Much More
Mental Toughness offers 16 hours of mental training with Lanny Bassham. Plus you receive all the other Eagle "U" perks including sun up to sun down training from the Eagle "U" staff and guest speakers, room & board and a fun filled exciting learning environment!
Cost for this amazing 6 day course is only $2695! Life changing information, room & board, valuable instruction from Olympic Champion Lanny Bassham and much, much more are available through this program. 1-888-7EAGLE U www.eagleu.com
This is a wonderful opportunity for young adults and teens. We want to make certain our clients & friends get the best rate so please use this code (22774) when you call for a $200 discount on tuition and let them know you were referred by Mental Management Systems. If you sign up to attend any Eagle "U" session this summer please let us know! We would love your feedback on the seminar!
Registration is handled through the Eagle "U" office, we are promoting the session because Lanny is a speaker and we believe in the program. You are welcome to email us with questions though - we will answer if we can and if not forward you to Eagle U. info@mentalmanagement.com is the Mental Management email address.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Don’t Keep a Diary…Keep a Performance Journal
Don’t Keep a Diary…Keep a Performance Journal by Lanny Bassham
Most of us take a lesson from a teaching pro at some time in our life and we are all self-coached every time we play or practice. Has this ever happened to you? Your golf pro asks you “How have you been playing?” and you say something like “OK, I guess!” You say that because you cannot with precision remember what you have been doing because you have no record of it. I believe that the primary reason people do not keep a record in a performance journal is that they have never been given a really good reason to do it and because they have never been taught how to do it.
OK! Here is why you MUST record your progress in a Performance Journal. I’ll give you three reasons. First, because you cannot manage what you do not measure. Simply put, you cannot afford to be in the dark as you progress. You need to have a plan to reach your goals. So, you set a goal, make a plan and go to a competition. Let’s say you do not reach your goal at that event. If you have a well-documented performance journal you can easily determine if your plan failed or you just failed to work your plan. Winning is not an accident. You must plan your work, work your plan and be accountable.
Secondly, I will not coach an individual without a performance journal and if you are a coach you should demand it of your players. Why, because without one you are wasting a lot of time when you try to coach someone. I know, by referring to the performance journal of my players, how often they are practicing, how long the practice lasts, what went on in the training session or competition, what worked and what did not work, what the objective of each session was and if it was accomplished. I know what equipment was used, when a change in equipment occurred and the reason for the change. I know what the competition results were, what the weather was like on the course and the start time of the player. And what is even more important is that if I can determine this level of information from the journal then the performer can as well. How does a coach know this amount of detail if someone does not record it? I am not willing to trust my memory or that of the player on these critical issues. No journal, no coaching from me. You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
Finally, if you are using the journal only to record information you are not maximizing the use of a performance journal. I believe that the primary benefit of a performance journal is to build Self Image. Self Image is built primarily by imprinting both real and rehearsed images. Every time we think about something it imprints and shapes our Self Image. I believe that when we talk about something it imprints with greater power than just thinking about it. Talking about a bad golf shot is a fine way to cause it to become a habit. We become what we think and talk about. Want to have bad shots frequently, just talk about your failures to everyone. It also seems that mental images that are written down have a greater impact on the Self Image than those that we simply talk about. If you really want to change your Self Image make it a habit of writing down what you wish to have happen. You tend to become what you write about. But, be careful, do not write about anything that you do not want to have happen or you risk disaster.
So, if keeping a performance journal is such a good idea why do so few competitors take the time to keep one. Again, I’ll give you three reasons. First, they keep a diary not a journal. My definition of a diary is to record your impressions, good and bad, of what happened today. Recording the statistics can be helpful and we will do this as well in a Performance Journal but if you record your mistakes you are making a huge mental error and the Self Image suffers. Let’s say you have a bad day on the course and you record all of your failures and just how you performed them. The principle of reinforcement works against you big time. You have just improved the chance of performing poorly again in the future by writing them down in your diary. A Performance Journal, by my definition, has no references to bad experiences or poor performances. It is a performance journal not a lack of performance journal. People who keep diaries often find their performance suffers. When this happens they do the correct thing. They throw the diary away. Diaries don’t work but Performance Journals do and are essential if you really want to improve your performance in competition.
Secondly, competitors do not know how to keep a performance journal and are rarely taught to do so by those who coach them. If they are taught anything they are taught to keep a diary and we have already covered that issue. OK, so what should be in a Performance Journal? I recommend that you record critical information in a journal every day at the end of practice. You should record the date, location, time started and total time spent, weather conditions, what you did (no negative here, just record what you practiced), what you did well, what you need to find solutions for and your goals for the future. You should have an equipment page that is constantly updated every time you change anything. You need a competition page to record your scores in competition and an easy way to relate them to the performance analysis pages. Next you should have a system of storing these sheets in a binder that you keep in a safe place. Keep your performance analysis journal where you can record this information immediately after a day of practice or competition. You can remember things only so long, so do your recording before you leave to head home. Then later place the recorded sheets in your storage binder. If you do not store them in a binder in a safe place you will probably lose them.
Finally, most competitors will not keep a journal because they are just lazy. Look, if you are playing just to have fun this section may not be for you but if you want to win you must separate yourself from the others in your dedication. I understand, I do not like to document things either but I do it because not doing it is just not acceptable. It is not acceptable to be unable to remember what I have or have not done. It is not acceptable to make the same mistakes over and over because I did not record the solutions the first time. It is not acceptable to not know if my plan is correct or if it is working at all. It is not acceptable to be defeated by someone keeping a Performance Journal. It is not acceptable to beat myself. It is not acceptable to lose because I’m just too lazy to do what is needed to win!
A Performance Journal will yield great benefits to you if you are a competitor or a coach and have your players on the system. This is a painless way to keep players accountable to themselves and for you to document what you have done for them. Ask any competitor who keeps a Performance Journal “How is it going?” and see if he doesn’t pull out his Performance Journal and show you.
Performance Analysis, the performance journal that we recommend and sell, is designed to do all of the things that I mentioned above in the article and to grow your Self Image circle at the same time. We do this by encouraging the performer to fill out the success analysis, solution analysis and goal statement steps in our prepared sheets.
We have a Performance Journal you can purchase from our office if you like click here for details. Or call if you have questions about whether a journal is right for you. 972-899-9640 or 800-879-5079
Most of us take a lesson from a teaching pro at some time in our life and we are all self-coached every time we play or practice. Has this ever happened to you? Your golf pro asks you “How have you been playing?” and you say something like “OK, I guess!” You say that because you cannot with precision remember what you have been doing because you have no record of it. I believe that the primary reason people do not keep a record in a performance journal is that they have never been given a really good reason to do it and because they have never been taught how to do it.
OK! Here is why you MUST record your progress in a Performance Journal. I’ll give you three reasons. First, because you cannot manage what you do not measure. Simply put, you cannot afford to be in the dark as you progress. You need to have a plan to reach your goals. So, you set a goal, make a plan and go to a competition. Let’s say you do not reach your goal at that event. If you have a well-documented performance journal you can easily determine if your plan failed or you just failed to work your plan. Winning is not an accident. You must plan your work, work your plan and be accountable.
Secondly, I will not coach an individual without a performance journal and if you are a coach you should demand it of your players. Why, because without one you are wasting a lot of time when you try to coach someone. I know, by referring to the performance journal of my players, how often they are practicing, how long the practice lasts, what went on in the training session or competition, what worked and what did not work, what the objective of each session was and if it was accomplished. I know what equipment was used, when a change in equipment occurred and the reason for the change. I know what the competition results were, what the weather was like on the course and the start time of the player. And what is even more important is that if I can determine this level of information from the journal then the performer can as well. How does a coach know this amount of detail if someone does not record it? I am not willing to trust my memory or that of the player on these critical issues. No journal, no coaching from me. You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
Finally, if you are using the journal only to record information you are not maximizing the use of a performance journal. I believe that the primary benefit of a performance journal is to build Self Image. Self Image is built primarily by imprinting both real and rehearsed images. Every time we think about something it imprints and shapes our Self Image. I believe that when we talk about something it imprints with greater power than just thinking about it. Talking about a bad golf shot is a fine way to cause it to become a habit. We become what we think and talk about. Want to have bad shots frequently, just talk about your failures to everyone. It also seems that mental images that are written down have a greater impact on the Self Image than those that we simply talk about. If you really want to change your Self Image make it a habit of writing down what you wish to have happen. You tend to become what you write about. But, be careful, do not write about anything that you do not want to have happen or you risk disaster.
So, if keeping a performance journal is such a good idea why do so few competitors take the time to keep one. Again, I’ll give you three reasons. First, they keep a diary not a journal. My definition of a diary is to record your impressions, good and bad, of what happened today. Recording the statistics can be helpful and we will do this as well in a Performance Journal but if you record your mistakes you are making a huge mental error and the Self Image suffers. Let’s say you have a bad day on the course and you record all of your failures and just how you performed them. The principle of reinforcement works against you big time. You have just improved the chance of performing poorly again in the future by writing them down in your diary. A Performance Journal, by my definition, has no references to bad experiences or poor performances. It is a performance journal not a lack of performance journal. People who keep diaries often find their performance suffers. When this happens they do the correct thing. They throw the diary away. Diaries don’t work but Performance Journals do and are essential if you really want to improve your performance in competition.
Secondly, competitors do not know how to keep a performance journal and are rarely taught to do so by those who coach them. If they are taught anything they are taught to keep a diary and we have already covered that issue. OK, so what should be in a Performance Journal? I recommend that you record critical information in a journal every day at the end of practice. You should record the date, location, time started and total time spent, weather conditions, what you did (no negative here, just record what you practiced), what you did well, what you need to find solutions for and your goals for the future. You should have an equipment page that is constantly updated every time you change anything. You need a competition page to record your scores in competition and an easy way to relate them to the performance analysis pages. Next you should have a system of storing these sheets in a binder that you keep in a safe place. Keep your performance analysis journal where you can record this information immediately after a day of practice or competition. You can remember things only so long, so do your recording before you leave to head home. Then later place the recorded sheets in your storage binder. If you do not store them in a binder in a safe place you will probably lose them.
Finally, most competitors will not keep a journal because they are just lazy. Look, if you are playing just to have fun this section may not be for you but if you want to win you must separate yourself from the others in your dedication. I understand, I do not like to document things either but I do it because not doing it is just not acceptable. It is not acceptable to be unable to remember what I have or have not done. It is not acceptable to make the same mistakes over and over because I did not record the solutions the first time. It is not acceptable to not know if my plan is correct or if it is working at all. It is not acceptable to be defeated by someone keeping a Performance Journal. It is not acceptable to beat myself. It is not acceptable to lose because I’m just too lazy to do what is needed to win!
A Performance Journal will yield great benefits to you if you are a competitor or a coach and have your players on the system. This is a painless way to keep players accountable to themselves and for you to document what you have done for them. Ask any competitor who keeps a Performance Journal “How is it going?” and see if he doesn’t pull out his Performance Journal and show you.
Performance Analysis, the performance journal that we recommend and sell, is designed to do all of the things that I mentioned above in the article and to grow your Self Image circle at the same time. We do this by encouraging the performer to fill out the success analysis, solution analysis and goal statement steps in our prepared sheets.
We have a Performance Journal you can purchase from our office if you like click here for details. Or call if you have questions about whether a journal is right for you. 972-899-9640 or 800-879-5079
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Should You Write Down Your Goals - by Lanny Bassham
This article was posted in our September, 2007 email newsletter called MENTALCOACH
How important is writing down your goals? Well. Linda Thom, Olympic champion in pistol shooting in the 1984 Olympics from Canada credits writing down her goal to win the gold as critical to her success. I had the honor of teaching her in 1983 and introducing the concept of the Goal Statement to the Canadian team in a seminar in Toronto. Here is an excerpt of Linda's article written after the 1984 games.
A turning point was a clinic which I attended in February 1983. The clinic was given in Toronto by Lanny Bassham, who is a World Champion rifle shooter from the U.S. Out of his own competitive difficulties, experienced at the 1972 Olympics; he had dug around and developed what he calls, "The tools of mental management." That man really spoke to me.
One thing he said was so important, "You've got to write it out. In this country and the United States too, we don't write our goals out." We're a very literate society otherwise, but we don't seem to write our goals out.
One of the most important things he found useful for himself was to write out the goal in the first person, present tense. "I am the 1984 Olympic Gold medalist in Ladies Match Pistol," in my particular case. And he said, "Write it out in your diary every night, every single night, and one of two things will happen, either you won't believe it and you'll stop writing it, or you'll keep on writing it and you'll succeed." But he said, "It really works."
Although I have a journalism degree, I don't like sitting down and writing and I have to make an effort, but I did make an effort to write my goals in my diary. For 18 months I wrote that I was the Olympic Champion, every single night in my diary, and it came true. It helped me grapple with myself and my image of myself as a champion.
"Imagine yourself on the podium," he said. "You have won. You know it's behind you now. The flag is going up and the anthem is being played. There are the reporters and they're interviewing you. Visualize all of these things, and savor them."
"Act as if you are going back over your life, the gods have given you the chance to relive this. You've won it. It's yours. You've got the gold medal. But the gods are giving you the chance to relive and savor your experiences." You can say, "Hey, I can enjoy this. I'm not just in a headlong rush." I can also notice the other things in life and enjoy the little steps along the way.
A Goal Statement is a sentence written in the first person present tense about something you want to have happen. Here are some other examples; I am debt free. I follow through on every shot. I recover well. I savor my successes and forget my failures.
Are you writing down what you want to have happen in your life? Doing it only one time isn't enough. Linda found that the real power came from repeatedly writing down her Goal Statement every day for 18 months. Think of the imprinting her Self Image received from these few minutes every day. She felt that it was worth it. How badly do you want your goals?
Monday, March 24, 2008
Freedom Flight Arrives!!
(Lanny after he received the book in the mail) Today we received the shipment of Lanny Bassham's new book "Freedom Flight - The Origins of Mental Power". What an exciting day! Order your copy NOW and SAVE - Retail will be $21.95 - your price is $20 for 1 copy, $18 each for 2 - 9 copies and $16.50 each for 10 or more copies. Sale Ends April 15th! Click here for details
(Lanny taking his first look at the new book)This is a small book with a POWERFUL message. Lanny released the Audio version of this book back in October of 2003. We have sold thousands of copies to people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Sometimes people assume that with Lanny having a background in shooting that our program will only help shooters or that since we work with PGA Tour players that our program and products are for golfers. Freedom Flight is good for anyone no matter their competitive outlet or reason for wanting to learn more about personal growth or the mental side of competition. This book is a wonderful introduction to our system and included are 15 principles of mental control.
Here is a list of sports and competitive outlets of individuals who have ordered the Freedom Flight CD from us directly to show the variety of who this product can benefit:
Golf
Business
Archery
Baseball
Basketball
Football
Tennis
Table Tennis
Running
Cowboy Action Shooting
Skeet
Sporting Clays
Trap
Ballroom Dancing
Barbershop Singing Competition
Pageantry
Dog Agility
Dog Obedience
Pistol
Rifle
Music
Bowling
Swimming
Gymnastics
Canine Freestyle
Figure Skating
Running
Equestrian
Sailing
Soccer
Wakeboarding
Cycling
Billiards
English Darts
Fly Casting
And many more...
"Freedom Flight" is our second best selling item next to the book "With Winning in Mind" and it is our most popular gift Audio - more people purchase Freedom Flight as a gift than any other Audio CD we offer. It is quite possibly more often loaned to friends than even "With Winning in Mind". We believe the book is even more powerful than the Audio CD version!
Only 3 weeks left to obtain the discounted price on your Book purchase. Here is the link once again to order http://mentalmanagement.com/a_freedom_flight_book.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)