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Personal best performances typically do not involve much thinking, only great physical and mental preparation.

An important awareness point here is that many times when we perform our best, we are not thinking, at least consciously anyway.

When asked by a reporter about his mental training, one of our professional athletes said “These are the moments I train for all year. I know these moments do not necessarily happen as much as I would like, but I could do anything with the puck tonight. I knew exactly where to pass and there was no stopping me on the offensive side — I knew it was going to be a multiple-goal game. It just happened. I was not thinking about anything. I did all the prep work — mind, body, and skill — with doc and it just happens sometimes.”

Another response on mindset from one of our golfers: “I was 30 yards out, had for some reason practiced it during the week, imagined in my mind and heart hundreds of times that this type of shot was going to happen. It just did. I knew it was going in after I hit it.”

In working with thousands of athletes and performers from all over the world, it is obvious to us that one of our goals is to help them not think during performances. We can’t emphasize this point strongly enough: Mental training is about using your mind to get your body to follow.