It’s not all about your physical talent. It’s not all about the work you’re willing to put in. Although let’s face it, that matters too. A very important part about success is how you think about yourself.

In any big moment in your life, Super Bowl, a big interview or a presentation, you will always default back to the most dominant habit you’ve cultivated over the years. That is why it is important to get to a state of mind where the best possibilities are at the forefront of your consciousness.You can’t just turn this state of mind on and off with a switch.You have to cultivate it: You have to exercise the confidence muscle to build up a mental bank account of experiences that create energy and enthusiasm.

Cultivate the right state of mind

<ul><li>Screen your memories for things that are uplifting and build a diary of small successes. What are the highlights of your career? Allow these memories that produce energy, optimism and enthusiasm, to be more upfront in the consciousness.</li><li>Work on your thought processes about yourself. What are the constructive stories you tell about yourself? Look for ways to think about how you want to be as if you are there already.</li><li>Think about your future in the right way. Ensure that those thoughts are what you want to happen. If it is about what can go wrong, include how to get back in the game.</li></ul>

Exercises to improve how you think about yourself

You become the best version of yourself when you get yourself to a state of mind that allows your talent and training to express itself freely.We have to learn to be certain about ourselves and believe that we are enough at this moment without second-guessing ourselves."This Is my moment.""I am the guy for this job.""This is my opportunity to pull away from the crowd."It’s telling yourself that you are in this moment as good as you need to be in order to win the moment.

How to be the best version of yourself

You want to make sure your thoughts and attitude influence your performance, but you never let your performance influence your thoughts or your attitude.

<ul><li>Don’t think of yourself as just a plain regular guy. You are unique; you have talents; you have something special about yourself. Find it.</li><li>Don’t compare yourself with someone on a tv screen. Instead, start looking for the best in yourself. What excites you? What are you good at in your own career?</li></ul>Success is the peace of mind that comes from the satisfaction that you did the best with what you had. Whatever that is.

How to get a confident mind

<ul><li>E - Effort: Look back at your day. Ask yourself where did you give quality effort today? Where did you overcome procrastination? Where did you show effort?</li><li>S - Success: What did you do right today?</li><li>P - Progress: What do you get better at? Where do you show progress?</li></ul>Then ask yourself: What do I want to get at tomorrow? What do I want to attack tomorrow? What’s next?

Building confidence with ESP

You won’t have that sense of certainty about yourself unless you’ve done the work to build it up over the course of your training. If you have been diligent in your study or training, that is what makes you confident.It is important to put yourself in a training crucible so you get practice responding to fatigue, responding to a mistake, responding to a setback constructively. You can’t let a negative moment dominate you. Your training should include stepping up knowing how to get it right.

The key to getting past natural uncertainty


<ul><li>Take baby steps in the new area.</li><li>While you are working on your skills, reflect on the quality of your efforts.</li><li>Acknowledge small successes as you build those skills.</li></ul>

Building confidence in any area of your life

Dr. Nate Zinsser, is an expert in the psychology of human performance who consults with individuals and organizations seeking a competitive edge, including professional sports teams like the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Giants, joins our show in this special episode of the Elite Man Podcast! In today’s episode Dr. Nate Zinsser talks about how to cultivate unshakeable confidence in any aspect of life. He breaks down his work with world-class athletes, including Superbowl champions and national wrestling champs, and the incredible trainings he uses to condition their minds for ultimate performance. If you’re wondering how to unleash your confident mind, check this episode out now! *Download this episode now and subscribe to our channel to get more of these amazing interviews! In our episode we go over: • Dr. Nate Zinsser’s work with Superbowl champion quarterback Eli Manning and how he helped Eli win 2 rings against the New England Patriots • Cultivating your mind to forget about the past bad performances and be optimistic now • The work that goes into confidence behind the scenes • How to cultivate the confidence muscle • The techniques and trainings that Dr. Z works on with world-class athletes • The importance of how you think about yourself • Working with your memories and past performance • The mental toughness involved in wrestling • The importance of training vs. mindset vs. genetics • The fact that we all have confidence in us already • Changing the way you think of yourself • The fact that you are unique and have something special • Honing in on your talents to maximize your success • Daily trainings that people can do to improve their confidence • The fact that confidence is situationally specific • The 3 questions you should be asking yourself at the end every day Check out Dr. Z on: Website: https://www.natezinsser.com/ Book:  The Confident Mind Sponsors: *Deepstash - For 60% off a premium Deepstash Subscription go to https://deepstash.com/eliteman * Follow Justin on Instagram now for daily content not found anywhere else! *Check out Justin’s new book  ELITE MIND at EliteMindBook.com. *Join our email list at EliteManMagazine.com/newsletter now!

The secrets of mental toughness and self-belief. Mastering confidence - which is key to performance in any field.

Don't let the voice in your head push you down"Everyone talks about winning but our biggest opponent is in our own head."

Uncovered: The Essential Mental Skills For Ambitious Youngsters

Write it down somewhere where you can see it and remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing.Imagine living that goal everyday. Believe in it till it becomes a reality.SA cricket Captain Graeme Smith had it written on his refrigerator that he wanted to captain the national team at mere 11 years old. He saw it daily for all these years and down the line he did that.Believe in the beauty of your dreams.

Set A Goal

What I heard from champion's is that they visualize the success in Technicolor. They visualize with all their senses; they know what it will sound like on the podium; they taste the salt in their tears; feel the sun on their backs in front of that crowd.

Instead focus on what you can control.Surely winning is the ultimate goal but you shouldn't talk about that all the time. Work on the things you can control. Training, your mindset, the work you put in to succeed.Sir Dave Brailsford, famous Olympic winning coach focuses on training and behaving like a champion rather than just winning. He also focuses on being clear about the target, the dream. Its about developing that behaviour of a champion and being able to control what is within your limits.

Don't Focus On Winning

Many of us are self critical. We tend to bash ourselves after a failure for a very long time. Being analytical is one thing and self critical another.We tend to think we're useless, in the wrong field, not deserving etc. Don't let that happen.Give yourself time to feel bad. But limit that negative talk time. Set a timer say 20 mins. In these 20mins you can bash yourself all you want but beyond which you won't talk or think about it. If timer isn't possible keep a physical sign say at your doorstep you'll stop thinking no matter what. Train your brain to do it in limited time.

That Negative Voice

Imagine you are at the start of a race. You see your competitors. All look built up like proper runners. You start feeling that you've got no chance although you've been practicing well.This thinking already sets the tone for your race. You wouldn't win even if you tried now because your mind already told you that you're not going to win. You will try hard but it will be difficult to get on from there.Don't feel overwhelmed by the people around you. Stay confident. Push that negative thought out as soon as it comes.

Environment Stressors

All of us know this. It's self explanatory. Sweaty palms, nausea, muscular movements, faster heart rates and what not. We have all been through this a lot many times to know we're in stress. The human brain wasn't meant to deal with stress thousands of years ago. The occasional threat was a predator. All these physical changes were preparatory phase to fight and flight.However today it means different. This stress response has the power to spoil our performance. Nervousness and anxiety make you commit mistakes.

The Stress Response

To perform at your highest level you need to be able to fight off this stress response.Slow down. Don't rush. Take a deep breath.When you slow down, you allow your body to be able to adjust to the stress hormones in the system and make sense of it. Decisions taken in a hurry often are wrong.To make it easier to remind yourself to calm down, you can use tactics like see a picture or an act like tapping your fingers to calm down. This will train your mind to start being calm once you see this picture.

Control Your Stress Response

Every morning when I wake up, I see two versions of myself; one the energetic one who is ready to conquer his day and inch closer to his targets and the other a low energy one who just gets through his day.You get to choose which one you want to be.

Social media is 80% fake. Something created so we can buy into it. What's real is in front of you. Listen to anybody who has a feedback that helps you and as you go along you can dissect what is important out of this.

I have been listening to this podcast for more than a year now. It's a simple yet effective one on how to be at the best of your performance. Give it a go!

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Podcast E7 | Sporting Edge | Uncovered: The Essential Mental Skills For Ambitious Youngsters |

“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”

It's not about how you win, it's about how to raise after losing. 

first man to hit a three-time World Cup title as Brazil's victory secures the right to take home the Jules Rimet trophy.  Here are some Pele Quotes.

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Helps to spend extra time on morning routine and prepare my mind for the day.Also, you will feel fresh and energetic

Wake Up Early

Use affirmations, talk to yourself, meditate, exercise, etc.This will help to keep your balance:Physically and Mentally

Have A Morning Ritual

Ask yourself how can I help others? How can I be of use to someone who is in need.This will provide you with a sense of motivation. Remember:"All you can take with you is that which you have given away."

Think About Serving Others

Morning essential

It is generally accepted that success breeds confidence, and confidence increases the ability to handle pressure. And yet, as the experiences of Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have shown this year, the story is not so simple. While success can indeed breed confidence, it can also increase visibility, multiply expectations, and raise pressure to unhealthy levels over time. When you are leading star performers, you need to recognize the double-edged nature of success and help them do two things: keep the stakes of failure in perspective and manage the volume of demands for their time.

Success Breeds Confidence And Confidence Breeds Pressure

Even the greatest performers feel pressure more than you might think. Consider the penalty kick in soccer. The stakes for each shot are immense, and players are expected to score; a miss is considered a failure. Beyond losing the game, players who miss high-profile shots often face vitriolic abuse from so-called fans, as did <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/world/europe/england-european-championships-racism.html">three Black members of England’s team </a>that lost to Italy’s team in the European soccer championship in July 2021.

The Star Performers Carry The Pressure They Feel

So, if you’re the coach, you want your superstars taking these shots, right? Not necessarily. Researcher Geir Jordet studied 366 kicks from 37 penalty shootouts held at the world’s largest soccer tournaments. His counterintuitive <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10413200902777263">finding </a>was that superstars — those who had won a major international award like FIFA’s Player of the Year — performed worse than those who had not. The superstars scored only 65% of the time versus the 74% overall average. Even more striking, they scored far less than players who would later go on to win the same awards. These “future stars”’ scored 89% of the time.

… And The Pressure They’re Laden With

In short, players who have the skill but not yet the status that comes with winning a major award performed far better than those who had both the skill and the status. Status, it turns out, can be a burden.

Status Can Be A Burden

Understanding the burden of status requires understanding what creates pressure. Dane Jensen, author of the book “The Power of Pressure” has, for the past three years, conducted research into pressure with hundreds of high performers in sports, business, medicine, and the military, including in-depth interviews with Olympic and Paralympic athletes who have collectively won 21 medals, 13 of them gold.

Research On Pressure

Jensen has found that pressure is a function of three things:<ol><li>The importance of a situation’s outcome</li><li>The uncertainty of the outcome</li><li>The volume of tasks, decisions, and distractions surrounding the outcome</li></ol>All three are affected by success and status, but two are particularly acute: a ratcheting up of the importance attached to the outcome and a dramatic rise in the volume of tasks, decisions, and distractions facing the performer.

The Origins And Power Of Pressure

Following her decision to withdraw from the Olympics’ team final in gymnastics, Simone Biles laid bare exactly how high the stakes were for her: “We hope America still loves us,” <a href="https://www.today.com/news/simone-biles-gives-teammates-empowering-pep-talk-after-withdrawing-olympics-t226674">she said</a>. At her level of visibility and adulation, this was not just about the very real physical stakes of performing complex maneuvers 10 feet in the air at speeds of up to 150 rpm; it was also about the expectations of 300 million people, her identity as a champion, and the very basic human need to be loved and respected.

The Champion And The Human Being

As success and visibility accumulate, the stakes in high pressure situations expand from tangible things like medals or compensation and begin to encompass existential things like identity and self-worth. Leading or coaching highly successful performers through a high-pressure event requires reducing the overwhelming baggage they can attach to failure. You can start to accomplish this by asking one key question: What are the things that are the most important to you — that are integral to your being — and won’t change regardless of the outcome?

The Stakes And Yourself

When Norwegian speed-skater Johann Koss found himself overwhelmed by pressure in the lead-up to his first Olympic Games in 1994, his sports psychologist did just that. The psychologist methodically worked through with him all of what wasn’t at stake: his future career as a doctor, Norway’s overall success at the Olympics, and so on. It helped Koss regain his perspective and deliver three all-time great performances in which he won three gold medals and established three world records in three events.

Identify What Is Not At Stake - Challenge, If You Must

As you work through the stakes with someone, play the role of challenger. For example, at a key moment Koss’ sport psychologist asked, “Do you think the Norwegian people care whether you or another Norwegian win a medal?” This push caused Johann to admit that, no, the Norwegian people would be fine either way — their happiness wasn’t at stake. The cost of failure dropped.

No Stakes, No Costs

Such questions force us to challenge our view of what’s in play when confronting a high-pressure challenge and thus broaden our perspective to see those stakes in balance alongside all the things that are not affected by our performance.

When Under Pressure, Reduce The Stakes Of Failure

On May 26, 2021, tennis phenom Naomi Osaka <a href="https://twitter.com/naomiosaka/status/1397665030015959040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1397665030015959040%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Ftennis%2Fnews%2Fnaomi-osaka-announces-she-will-not-speak-to-the-media-at-the-french-open-citing-mental-health-awareness%2F">announced on Twitter </a>that for the sake of her mental health she would not do any press interviews at the French Open. After a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/sports/tennis/naomi-osaka-quits-french-open-depression.html">tone-deaf response from the organizers </a>, she pulled out of the tournament five days later.The volume of tasks and distractions that surround performance can dramatically increase pressure. And as success and status build, so too does volume. The requests for Osaka’s time at the French Open in 2021 were vastly greater than they were in 2016 during her first Grand Slam event.

As Success And Status Build, So Too Does Volume

In response to the increase in volume, Osaka — like all of us — had two choices: accommodate more or eliminate the volume that was creating the most pressure. She chose the latter, which is exactly the right response to pressure that comes from volume.As leaders, we can aim higher than the French Open organizers and hold more productive discussions with our stars to help them manage the volume they face. If a star subordinate is feeling overwhelmed, consider sitting down and looking at each of the items demanding their time and asking:

Increase In Volume - Choices To Make And Questions To Ask

<ul><li>Is this helping or hurting mperformance on what matters most? This is the key filter for sources of pressure that are ancillary to the core matter at hand (like winning a tennis tournament).</li><li>Will this help you grow in a way that matters to you? Growth gives meaning to pressure. Preserving the pressure that is helping move us forward is vital, even if it is uncomfortable.</li><li>Will eliminating a particular source of pressure lead to regret? There are some sources of pressure that don’t help us grow and hurt performance but ultimately must be endured in order to stave off regret down the line</li></ul>

Sources Of Pressure Evaluation And Filtering

If something is hurting performance, is detached from growth, and is not linked to regret, it’s a source of pressure that likely should be eliminated or redirected from your stars to other team members.Few of us will ever know the pressure of carrying the expectations of 300 million people into a physically and mentally demanding environment. But, through thoughtful conversations that aim to keep importance in perspective and simplify volume, we can help our own stars carry the burden of success a little more lightly.

Superstars And Our Own Stars

A reminder that pressure is not only felt, it is also laden - sometimes we are laden with it, sometimes we lade it on others

What leaders can learn from top athletes like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka.

The secrets of mental toughness and self-belief. Mastering confidence - which is key to performance in any field.

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