The Confident Champion Session Three Transcript

The Confident Champion
Session Three Transcript

Hi it’s Lisa Lane Brown welcome to the Confident Champion System. In this System, you are
going to discover how to create breakthrough confidence so you can believe in yourself so you
can deliver incredible peak performance, become a star athlete, and dominate your sport.
Remember, I created this system so that you NO LONGER:

1. Lose your confidence, be passive and self-conscious, and over-think what you are doing so
you perform at only a fraction of your potential and really don’t enjoy competing

2. Approach competing overwhelmed with fear, choke, and get worse and worse out there so
that your performance goes up and down like a yo-yo and you lose playing time, get yelled at,
or let your team down.

3. Try to compete with sub-par skills or skills that have hit a plateau so you really can’t
accomplish your goals no matter how motivated you are because you don’t have the skills.
Instead, you will learn to do the following:

1. Create breakthrough confidence for yourself so that you are energized, confident,
aggressive, and excited to perform whenever you go out there.

2. Transform yourself into a star athlete with superior, amazing skills so you can deliver
peak performances, get instant respect, and win, even against tough competitors.

3. Develop consistent confidence by mastering the art of persistence and the will to win so
you achieve total self-mastery and are in control of your athletic destiny.
In this program you’re going to learn five key skills:

Session One
How to Create Unshakable Confidence and BELIEVE in Yourself in Sport
Session Two
How To Express Your True Greatness & Transform Yourself Into A Genuine STAR
Session Three
The Magic Formula for Becoming Fearless and Super-Charged with Confidence BEFORE You
Compete
Session Four
CONSISTENT Confidence: How to Master the Art of Persistence & the Will to Win

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Session Five
Relationship Mastery - How to Create Happy Relationships for Ultimate Confidence

Session Two Review
In Session Two, Master It – The Practice of Competence, you will discover exactly how to do
this. Specifically, you will learn:

Letting Go and Locking in Superstardom. The astonishingly simple tool that all superstars use
to draw the lesson out of every setback, let go of emotional baggage, and free themselves to
make exponential gains in their performance.

How to Create a Winning Self-Image. How to make ‘being a star’ and a ‘true winner’ feel
completely natural in your heart, no matter what your past. You will construct a powerful,
unstoppable self-image that will set you up to dominate your sport.

Get Better, Faster. Why superstars have better skills -- and how to harness their secrets to
become 30% better this season (without adding any time to your practice schedule).

The Greatness Mindset. Most athletes are trapped inside their Comfort Zone, afraid to take
chances and express their true greatness.

GOALS! How to find The Big Goal for you that will cause you to finally Break from the Pack - and
fill you with excitement every single day.

You had a number of Action Exercises to complete from Session Two, but there are two that I
want to check in on:

EXERCISE – Instilling Your Belief
Your next assignment is to repeat this belief for two minutes in your warm ups for practices,
games, or training.

Why Star Athletes Have Better Skills
There are three reasons why star athletes have better skills:

1) They work harder than other athletes
2) They work smarter than other athletes
3) They go outside their Comfort Zone more

EXERCISE – Your Athlete’s Training Journal
To become a star athlete and express your true greatness in sport, you’ll want to take a super-
simple approach to your practices and competitions. Here’s a simple formula that you can try
that will make you 30% better this season with very little extra training time.

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Step One
Select three weaknesses you want to turn into strengths.
Step Two
Select the #1 skill in your sport that, if you perfected it, would make the biggest impact on your
results.
Step Three
List these skills in order of importance from 1 to 4, with one being the most important:

1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
Step Four
Choose to devote one month (30 days) to improving each skill (making this a four month
training program). Then, work on this skill using the following three step format:
1. Practice this skill for one extra hour each week outside your regular training and

competition. Record and make notes in your training journal.
2. Visualize executing this skill perfectly for 10 minutes a day, three times a week. You can

do this in warm up or while falling asleep at night. Record notes in your journal.
3. In practices or competition, put much more effort into improving this skill, and make

sure you go outside your Comfort Zone. For example, if you’re a softball catcher, call a
different pitch than you would normally call; if you’re a conservative tennis player, come
to the net; if you’re an overly aggressive volleyball player, pass the ball rather than spike
it. Record what you did to go outside your Comfort Zone, what you learned, and how it
worked.
4. After each competition, record what you learned about this skill and how your efforts
are paying off.
How did your Exercises from Session Two go? Did you notice a difference with your
confidence levels and if so, how can you build on this next week? Write down your
comments and observations in the space below:
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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Session Three Agenda
The Magic Formula for Becoming Fearless and Super-Charged

with Confidence BEFORE You Compete
• Eliminate The Fear of Making Mistakes. Learn the Code of the Samurai, which is the

psychology of “winning beforehand” – once you know this formula, it will be like child’s
play to take the lead early in competition, putting you in the driver’s seat. This is the
specific method for eliminating the fear of making mistakes so you can start off your
event excited, aggressive, and ready to take the smart chances needed to win.
• Good Nerves, Not Bad Nerves. What do to when you’re overwhelmed with nerves to
become calm and energized, including how to transform “bad” nerves into self-trust and
let go out there.
• Becoming Fearless Before You Compete. You discover how most athletes put massive
pressure on themselves before competing and the most effective strategy for avoiding
this trap to become fearless before you compete.
• Creating A Winning Self-Image Using GAME FACE 2.0. Detailed, step-by-step
instructions on how to set yourself up from the beginning of your event to be a fearless,
confident competitor so it is easy and automatic for you to handle “rough patches” and
sail through the situation.
What Is Confidence?
Confidence is the belief that you can cope with the challenges of competition and fulfill your
desires. It is a profound belief in your athletic self.
It's a truly wonderful feeling. You know you're the goods and you believe you can succeed.
We develop confidence from continually defeating fear using the three mental practices of the
Confident Champion: Face It, Master It, and Make It Happen.
Face It – The Practice of Consciousness
Master It – The Practice of Competence
Make It Happen – The Practice of Commitment
When you engage in these three practices every day, you gain more and more CONTROL over
your performance, which triggers your Confident Self.
In Session One, you learned how to face your fears using the Practice of Consciousness. In
Session Two, you learned how to Master It – Master Your Sport Using the Practice of
Competence.
In Session Three, we are going to focus on a really important element of confidence, which is
how to become fearless and super-charge yourself with confidence BEFORE you compete.

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This session is a combination of both Face It: The Practice of Consciousness and Master It: The
Practice of Competence and takes you “deep” into both practices.
How To Eliminate The Fear of Making Mistakes
Remember, the very best method for triggering your Confident Self is gain a sense of CONTROL
in your event.
One of the key ways you can do this is to eliminate the fear of making mistakes. The main way
to accomplish this is to learn a simple, easy technique for correcting mistakes when you make
them in big events.
Sounds obvious, right?
If you want to stop stressing out over mistakes, then figure out how to correct them.
Yet, most athletes do not do this. They were told by a parent, coach, or leader to “not be so
hard on themselves,” or “be more positive” about their mistakes.
I always thought this advice was ridiculous. What competitive athlete is going to be able to be
positive about making a mistake?
To me, it makes more sense to figure out WHY you are making mistakes and correct them. This
way you can re-gain your confidence, because it’s impossible to stay confident while you are
making mistakes.
You can see that by correcting mistakes, you’re using both Face It: The Practice of
Consciousness and Master It: The Practice of Competence. You are facing your worst mistakes
(including why you are making them), and becoming much, more competent in competition by
being able to correct them on the fly.
How To Correct Mistakes in Competition
We start be determining WHICH mistakes are mostly likely to lower your confidence and
destroy your performance.
EXERCISE - Your Demon Mistakes
List in the space below the worst 7 mistakes you can make. Here are some examples athletes
often cite (these are not all technically ‘mistakes’ but they all relate to poor performance):
 Feeling bad in warm up (being tight)
 Getting behind in the score
 Making a technical error, like missing a pass
 Losing your check, who scores
 Letting in a goal
 Feeling slow or tired
 Trying a new move and having it backfire
 Calling the wrong play
 Looking stupid

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In the space below, list your worst 7 mistakes (things that trigger a loss of confidence):
1._____________________________________________________________
2._____________________________________________________________
3._____________________________________________________________
4._____________________________________________________________
5. ____________________________________________________________
6. ____________________________________________________________
7. ____________________________________________________________

Now, list your worst mistakes in order from most bothersome to least bothersome.

1._____________________________________________________________
2._____________________________________________________________
3._____________________________________________________________
4._____________________________________________________________
5._____________________________________________________________
6._____________________________________________________________
7._____________________________________________________________

Now you know which mistakes cause you to lose confidence, choke, or under-perform. This is
very powerful exercise, because now you have the opportunity to transform your performance
as an athlete by figuring out how to CORRECT these mistakes and remove their influence over
your emotions and results.
The Code of the Samurai: Win Beforehand
To create breakthough confidence and BELIEVE in your ability to cope with the challenges of
any competition, you can use the Code of the Samuari: Win Beforehand.
You determine how you can SUCCEED in your competition no matter what happens in it, or
how your opponent performs, or what conditions you must face.

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How To Correct Errors – Diagnose Before You Prescribe
To trigger your Confident Self, you’ll want gain even more control by realizing one very
important principle: it’s not making any particular mistake that counts.
It’s WHY.
Remember earlier when I said that most athletes get ‘cooked in the squat’ because they don’t
admit their fear?
The reason why ignoring fear is dangerous is because if you push it away your fear of failure or
rejection, you’ll never ask yourself WHY were making the mistakes that led you to lose or fail in
competition.
Take Branden, for example.
"Lisa I won the first match and was up 18-12 in the second. I just needed three points to lose it
out. But I got anxious. I hit the bird into the net and then out. He got momentum, I got
frustrated, I ending up losing the tournament. Lisa I need more mental strength."
--Branden, badminton player
Can you see Branden's MAJOR problem?
What he's missing?
He's doing what 97% of athletes do. He's thinking about the fact that he got nervous and
choked. And he's putting himself down for choking and losing.
He forgot to ask WHY he got so nervous, WHY he got behind in the match, and WHY he lost.
If you try to re-gain your confidence, become a star athlete, or win without answering this
question first, you'll spin your wheels forever.
So I asked my badminton player the one question he WASN'T asking: "What was happening in
this match that made you so nervous?"
Turns out Branden’s opponent was a long time rival who Branden beat five months ago by
moving him around the court.
See, Branden's a smart player. He's quick. He specializes in exhausting the other player so he
can't get shots back.
That's how he won five months ago. But then the inevitable happened. After he got beat,
Branden's rival got mad.

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Then he got better.
When he saw Branden again, he was returning Branden's shots. This unnerved Branden, who
counts on his opponent not being able to get the bird back.
And here's the truth: There's a story behind every match, every game, and every race. There
are physical, technical, and tactical REASONS why one side wins.
There aren't many flukes in sport. That's why it's so sweet when you win. But Branden forgot to
dig up the story.
My guess?
He didn't want to face the story. That’s why we’re using the practice of consciousness to Face It
– face your fear, face your story, face anything that can help you get back on track.
Once you know what it is, your power is back, because you’re back in control. You're now in a
position to solve the problem that’s creating your fear, including the MISTAKES that are a part
of this problem.
Prescribe The Solution
To crank up your confidence and start performing like a star, your next job is to be like a doctor:
prescribe a solution and correct the mistakes that both you most.
You prescribe a solution by assigning yourself the proper RIGHT FOCUS that will correct the
error.
Two Targets
There are two ways to learn how to hit a target. The first way is to stand 50 feet away from the
bull’s eye and practice trying to hit it.
The second way is to walk up to the target so you’re only a few feet away and shoot. Then, you
could walk to the side of the target and shoot from there and notice what happens. Then, you
can step back another two feet and shoot again.
Obviously the second way is a much, much easier way to learn how to hit a target, because the
closer you are to the target, the more CONTROL you have over your shot, the more relaxed you
are, and the faster you will learn.
The RIGHT FOCUS
To become fearless and create breakthrough confidence for yourself BEFORE you compete,
you’ll want to set a RIGHT FOCUS goal for the competition.

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A RIGHT FOCUS is a goal that is under your direct and immediate control that, when you
achieve it, corrects a performance problem almost instantly and dramatically reduces your fear.
A RIGHT FOCUS is your “second target.”
Have you ever noticed that a coach correcting you lowers your confidence? Have you ever
wondered why? I discovered the answer eight years ago teaching kids a lesson in my sport,
ringette (if you aren’t familiar with this sport, picture ice hockey in your mind).
I was frustrated because we were trying to teach them to speed up when skating with the ring
instead of slowing down.
But no matter how often we corrected them, they were still slowing down after picking up the
ring. I realized that the more we corrected them, the less confident they got, and the slower
they skated.
I said, “Ok, I have an assignment for you. Just watch me skate with the ring three times. After
each time, tell me exactly how fast I’m skating. If I’m skating fast, yell out the number 3. If I’m
skating at medium speed, yell out the number 2. If I’m skating slowly, yell out the number 1.”
After each time I skated through checkers, the players cried out their numbers in unison:

"Two!"
"Three!"
"Two! Three!" (sometimes the group disagreed)
"One!"
"Three!”
Eventually, they could all pick out exactly how fast I was skating with the ring.
Next, I had them to do the same drill, except I called out the speed I wanted them to skate at (a
1, 2, or 3). After the drill, I brought them back in. "So, what did you notice?”
"It's easy for the checkers to check you if you skate slowly!!" They cried. "Hmm...interesting
observation. Let's try the drill again.
They hustled back into the drill. I called out, "One! Two! Three! One!" and they mirrored these
speeds exactly. Every time they skated at a 3 (the fastest speed), they were able to hold onto
the ring.
The final test: I had them do the drill one last time. Except, no one told them what to do. They
were allowed to choose their speed. Without exception, every one of them skated at top speed

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(a 3) while carrying the ring.
They got it! All of them!
Only 22 minutes had passed.
I was a bit stunned. How could this be? They all got it--in less than half an hour! No coaching, no
corrections, no begging, no cajoling.
What Happened?
These athletes learned a new skill in 22 minutes, all because we let them trust themselves to
figure it out. We told them the RIGHT FOCUS was – their speed when carrying the ring -– and
they did the rest. In sport, experience is the best teacher--as long you focus on the right things
during the experience.
One time I was working with one of the best hitters on the Canadian National softball team
because she had lost her confidence in hitting, but didn’t know why.
We were casually watching her team scrimmage. I wanted to know what part of her batting had
gone awry so I asked her to watch the pitcher carefully and tell me exactly when the pitcher
was releasing the ball by saying the word “pitch”.
The first two times she said it, she was late – instead of saying “pitch” exactly when the ball was
released, she said it a fraction of a second after the release. I told her this, and she quickly
corrected it and said “pitch” at the right time.
We then chatted for a few minutes until I asked her to resume the exercise. Once again, she
was late calling the pitch too late, but didn’t realize it. I had to point it out to her. This told me
what had gone wrong with her hitting – she was obviously reading the pitch too late, and
therefore swinging her bat too late.
Why was she doing this? …probably because she was a little afraid of the pitch.
However, by bringing her focus back to the timing of the pitch, she was able to self-correct her
timing and hit with confidence again.
Why Does RIGHT FOCUS Work?
When you are not succeeding in an outcome like scoring goals, putting a ball, scoring a point, or
winning a rally, or sweeping a stone, it’s because you LACK AWARENESS of a variable critical to
your skill or strategy—but you don’t know it.
Usually, the more anxious we are, the less AWARE we of what what’s going on around us in
sport. When anxiety goes up, awareness goes down.

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When this happens, you have very little control over your performance, because you are
literally not seeing what’s happening around you correctly.
RIGHT FOCUS works because it raises your awareness of the exact variables you need to be
aware of to execute and win.
When this happens, your Confident Self comes out, because you are giving your body what it
needs to excel, putting yourself back in CONTROL.
Jim Furyk, 2003 US Open Champion in golf, developed a classic RIGHT FOCUS to put his golf
career back on track.
For years Furyk used to slice the ball. His Dad wanted Furyk to improve his alignment by first
laying his club down parallel to his target.
This would help Furyk keep his shoulders parallel and aligned to the target.
But Furyk was lazy and stubborn and refused. He just kept hitting the ball, trying to get a good
outcome.
Finally Furyk got fed up with being inconsistent.
He started carrying rulers around in his bag, putting them down parallel to his target line every
time.
That made Furyk practice his alignment on every swing.
Hank Aaron & RIGHT FOCUS
Baseball legend Hank Aaron created a textbook example of Right Focus to help him become
one of the best hitters in the game.

You probably know that in the summer of 1973, baseball legend Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's
career home run record.

What you may not know, though, is that he did it despite being massively pressured by haters.

Aaron got more than 3,000 letters a day during his chase for the record.

Unfortunately, much of the writing was hate mail because Aaron is black. For example: "Dear
Nigger Henry, You are (not) going to break this record established by the great Babe Ruth if I
can help it...Whites are far more superior than jungle bunnies. My gun is watching your every
black move."

On April 8, 1974, in front of the biggest crowd in the history of the Braves (53,775) Aaron ripped
an Al Downing pitch into the Braves bullpen.

The new home run king was feted by his teammates and cheered by his fans.

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But Aaron still has the letters.
They remind him of what the real world is like - and what he accomplished.
Aaron's secret to focusing?
He approached hitting with a RIGHT FOCUS mindset.
Most hitters worry about their batting form (their technique).
They obsess about their hips or their hands.
This is a technical focus and most of the time all it does is make you clumsy.
That's why Aaron focused on the pitcher and the ball instead.
He'd visualize the pitcher, because every pitcher has a different fastball.
Some fastballs move up. Others sink.
And you'd better know what's coming at you if you want to hit the ball.
Aaron would even say to himself, "What is good for Koosman, what works good for Koosman,
and how is he going to try and get me out in different situations?"
You can see that confident champions think differently than everyone else. Their mindset is not
about what everyone else thinks is important.
It is about what they think is important: focusing on what they can control and getting sky-high
awareness so they can correct mistakes and deliver amazing peak performance.
In Aaron's case, he carefully prepared a Right Focus that let him anticipate pitches better than
anyone else.
EXERCISE – Your RIGHT FOCUS
I want you to select one RIGHT FOCUS for competing that is under your control for your next
big event. The best way to come up with this is to ask the question, “What is a goal under my
control that, if I achieve it, will give me success in what matters most to me in competition?”
For example, if you are a badminton player, you might set a goal to move your opponent
around by mixing up your shots. If you are a figure skater, you might set a goal to really connect
with your music and the feeling of your routine. If you are a basketball player, you might set a
goal to “box out” and stay between your check and your defensive hoop. If you are a curler, you
might set a goal to have supreme awareness of ice conditions and hog to hog times so you can
make strategy and sweeping calls. If you’re a hockey player, you might set a goal to take the

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puck to the net with speed. If you’re a golfer, you might set a goal be highly aware of your club
head and swing speed by giving it a number after each shot.
Remember, your RIGHT FOCUS is always under your direct and immediate control, it gives your
body the information it needs to succeed and helps you correct errors. In the space below,
write down a specific RIGHT FOCUS that, if you achieve it, will set you up for success:
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
More Examples of RIGHT FOCUS

Hockey
Goal: “I want to improve the accuracy of my backhand shot.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I want to look at the net when I’m shooting.”
Golf
Goal: “I want to improve my distance putting.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I want to read greens better – specifically, knowing if the putt is it uphill,
downhill; is the line going to break left or right?”
Tennis
Goal: “I want to be more aware of my opponent’s tendencies in competition.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I want to notice my opponent’s weak side, hit to him there, and notice if
he adjusts.”

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Badminton
Goal: “I want to improve my smash.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I will keep my eyes focused squarely on the shuttlecock when
smashing.”

Curling
Goal: “I want to improve my ability to draw to the button.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I want my leg drive to be just right – not too fast or too slow.”

Fastball
Goal: “I want to improve my batting percentage by one.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I want to be able to say “pitch” exactly when the pitcher releases the
ball.”

Soccer
Goal: “I want to make more completed passes every game.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I want to know exactly how far off my passes are when they are not
accurate.”

Basketball
Goal: “I want to cut down on how many baskets my check gets.”
RIGHT FOCUS: “I want to keep the perfect gap control so that I am in front of her the
entire way.”

Already Heard of The RIGHT FOCUS?
If you’ve been involved with any of my programs in the past, you’ve heard of the concept of
RIGHT FOCUS.

But, chances are, you are not getting the massive improvement in your performance you
COULD be from using it.

I’ve noticed two important reasons why this may be happening. These are three secret errors
that, if you correct them, will cause you to leapfrog over your competitors and go straight to
the top.

RIGHT FOCUS Secret Error #1
Most athletes don’t really COMMIT in their hearts to executing their RIGHT FOCUS. Instead,
they ‘mess about’ with it a few times.

The reason most athletes don’t commit to executing their RIGHT FOCUS is the same reason
they are afraid.

They’ve been programmed to believe that there are only three really important things worth
obsessing over: winning, performing well, and being confident.

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They’ve never truly considered that they could create a WIN for themselves and obsess over
that.
Confident champions don’t let other people dictate their destiny. Confident champions take
control by realizing that by obsessing over their RIGHT FOCUS, they will have enough awareness
to execute without having to press. This allows them to relax and TRUST themselves
completely.
RIGHT FOCUS Secret #2
The second error is not selecting the proper RIGHT FOCUS needed to correct the errors you are
making.
Remember my story about the National Team softball hitter who was struggling to hit the ball?
In working together, we figured out that the reason she wasn’t hitting the ball was timing. Her
timing was off. By having her create the RIGHT FOCUSE exercise of saying “pitch” when the ball
was released from the pitcher’s hand and saying “swing” when she thought she should swing,
she was able to correct this error by bringing more awareness to her timing.
But if her timing wasn’t the problem, this would not have corrected the problem. What if her
problem was that she was swinging at the wrong pitches? For this problem, the RIGHT FOCUS
exercise would be to say “ball” whenever she thought the pitch was a ball and “swing”
whenever she thought the ball was going to come over the plate into the strike zone.
Your job as a confident champion is to use the exact RIGHT FOCUS needed to correct the errors
you are making. Here’s how to do it:

1. Figure out which error you want to correct. Example: if you are a tennis player and you
keep hitting forehands long, outside the court, the error you want to correct will be, “I
want my forehand to be more accurate and hit the ball just inside the line.”

2. Assign yourself a RIGHT FOCUS exercise that makes you try the skill you’re trying to
correct THREE different ways: once just right, and two that are in the opposite of just
right. For example, you’d try hitting the ball too long, too short, and just right.

3. Notice what happens and make notes in your Athletes Journal. Hitting the ball too long
will feel differently than hitting it too short and just right. What is the difference in feel?

Remember in Session Two when I revealed the three reasons why confident champions have
better skills than other athletes? One of these was Working Smarter – The Perato Principle,
where I discussed the fact that you can break from the pack simply by focusing on perfecting
the 20% of skills in your sport that will give you 80% of your results. The example I gave was the
movie Moneyball, where the Oakland A’s were able to compete with the best teams in baseball
with only a fraction of the budget because they evaluated and selected players based primarily
on hitting - whether they could hit the ball and get on base.
The same applies to correcting errors. Every athlete has the tendency to make the same errors
over and over again. You could call them bad habits. And some of these errors are more

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significant than others. By eliminating these errors, you can take yourself from good to great to
world class.
I’ve give you an example. Right now in my sport, I have three errors I’ll make in a game: not
picking up my check quickly enough; being too aggressive on defense and letting the other
team get too close to our net; and not shooting a really quality shot when I have an opportunity
(either shooting a slow shot or an inaccurate one).
For me, the third error is by far the most significant, because if I were able to score two or three
more goals every game, it would have the biggest impact on my team’s success and my athletic
self-esteem.
EXERCISE – Creating the Proper RIGHT FOCUS for Correcting Errors
Let’s create the proper RIGHT FOCUS to correct the most important error you are making. Here
are the steps:

1. Describe in the space below the error you want to correct.
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

2. Describe how you would execute the skill three different ways:
Way One: ___________________________________________________
Way Two: ___________________________________________________
Way Three: __________________________________________________

3. Practice the skill this way three times this week. Notice what happens and make notes in
your Athletes Journal. What is the difference in feel?

RIGHT FOCUS & Expectations
To become fearless and create breakthrough confidence for yourself before competing, you’ll
also want to become masterful at managing your expectations.
The reason for this is because your expectations govern how much pressure you’ll feel.
How Most Athletes Pressure Themselves
Most athletes pressure themselves by loving themselves when they succeed and hating
themselves when they fail.

You may not be consciously aware of this phenomenon, but if you observe yourself carefully,
you’ll see that it is true. Consider your most painful failures for a moment. I suspect the hurt of
these failures is really the emotion of shame.

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Shame is the emotion we experience when we criticize ourselves for not getting what we
want.
When most athletes perform poorly, lose, or lose their confidence, they criticize themselves
mercilessly.
They do not distinguish between results under their control and results not under their control.
This is a big disadvantage to winning. It’s a big disadvantage because it puts ridiculous pressure
on you. Your edge will come being different.
EXERCISE -- Expectations
For the two things that scare you the most, I’d like you get clear on your expectations of
yourself in competition. Example: If your biggest fear is not scoring, write down how many
goals you expect to get in every game.
In my case, I expected myself to score within the first 4-5 shifts of the game.

EXERCISE – Effect of Expectations
If I scored, I would feel great and play better and better. If I didn’t, I’d decide that I wasn’t
having a good game, my confidence would go in the toilet, and things would go downhill from
there.
If you meet your expectations, what happens to your confidence and results?

If you violate your expectations, what happens to your confidence and results?

How Confident Champions Pressure Themselves
Confident champions are not people who perform well under pressure.
Nobody performs well under pressure. Confident champions are people who create an internal
environment for themselves in which they do not feel overwhelming pressure.

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Confident champions do expect a lot of themselves, but they do it differently than most
athletes. They do not pressure themselves to do things outside of their control.
Confident champions expect themselves to execute on things under their control, including
their RIGHT FOCUS goals.
As a confident champion, you can EXPECT yourself to go to the wall physically...to be awake to
what’s happening in the game…to learn on the fly…to take calculated chances…to persist and
never say die, not matter what.
Most of all, you’ll want to expect yourself to execute your RIGHT FOCUS goal – and hold
yourself accountable for doing this with 100% quality effort, no matter how tempted you are to
focus on outcomes.
This is a challenging goal to achieve when everyone around you is doing the opposite, but when
you take it seriously, you put yourself back in CONTROL, which triggers your Confident Self.
He Came Out of Nowhere to Beat Giants Like Tiger
In 2011, the Golf US Open was up for grabs as late as Sunday morning.
In terms of technical golf ability, there were several guys -- including golf giants Tiger Woods,
Phil Michelson, and Ernie Els -- who could have won the Open.
But the player who brought the most mental toughness was North Ireland's Graeme McDowell,
the first European in 40 years to win the Open.
His mental game secret?
Expertly managing his expectations.
The entire day on Sunday, McDowell never lost sight of how hard playing the US Open is...let
alone winning it.
Realizing how tough a golf course Pebble Beach is, McDowell (smartly) peeled back his
expectations.
After missing a few shots on the 9th and 10 holes, he was frustrated -- but not shocked.
His realism allowed him to get back on track. "If you go chasing birdies, they'll quickly turn into
bogeys," McDowell said later. (For you non-golfers that means if you try too hard to shoot a
hole one under par, you'll end up scoring one over par).
When you bring your expectations in check, you develop the 'slow and steady wins the race'
mentality.

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In poker there's a saying: "He's playing on TILT." Playing on TILT happens after a player loses a
hand he SHOULD have won.
He forgets that poker is maddening and sometimes violates statistics. So he gets mad and takes
unnecessary chances with his next hand.
He plays on TILT.
Playing on TILT is very tempting when your event is tough. That's because you'll be thwarted at
every turn.
If you don't take control of your expectations, pretty soon you'll be playing on TILT.
McDowell summed up his expectations beautifully after he won. "It's so difficult to win a golf
tournament, let alone a major. I'm just so thrilled to get over the line," he said, hugging the
silver trophy on the 18th green.
Again, don’t misunderstand me.
It’s okay to have high expectations when your expectations are about things under your
control. When it comes to working hard, focusing, or executing on your strategy, your
expectations of yourself should be sky-high.
The key to managing expectations is not to lower your expectations. The key is to have sky-high
expectations about what you CAN control.
EXERCISE - RIGHT FOCUS Expectations
What expectations are you willing to commit to with respect to your RIGHT FOCUS?
For example, if you are a basketball player, can you commit to boxing out and keep the perfect
gap against your check on every play?

EXERCISE – RIGHT FOCUS Stakes
Assuming your RIGHT FOCUS is the correct one for you, there is only one reason it will fail to
improve your performance dramatically: if you don’t commit to it.
Since you now know how important it is to commit to your RIGHT FOCUS, I suggest you raise
the stakes to make sure you do it.
What are you will to give yourself in way of a reward for committing to your RIGHT FOCUS?

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Example: You will try to achieve your RIGHT FOCUS goal every time during your next game or
you’ll donate $100 to your opponent’s fund-raising efforts. You will tell the person keeping
stats for your team about your goal and have him track your results. You will put your goal on
Twitter or Facebook and declare it publicly and then report back to your team. You will treat
yourself to your favourite gift (outfit, iPod, movie, etc.). You will do your most hated chore
every day for a week. OR: all of them! You get the idea. Put down the biggest stakes you can
think of to motivate yourself to committing to your RIGHT FOCUS:

How To Eliminate The Fear of Errors and CRUSH IT in
Try Outs, Evaluations, and Qualifying Events
To be a star athlete, you must know in your heart that you can CRUSH IT at a try-out or
qualifying event when you need to.
If you're like me, tryouts make you nervous. They can be ESPECIALLY nerve-racking if you have a
new coach or team to "impress," because you are worried about making mistakes in front of
people.
Remember, the method for mastering fear and triggering your Courageous Self is to create a
sense of CONTROL over what you are doing.
And as I just explained, the way to take control and is to turn them from bad nerves into good
nerves using your RIGHT FOCUS goal.
I know what you're thinking. "Ew. That's lame. It's too simple to actually work."
Stay with me here.
Just last week I talked to a goalie who was disappointed by his latest try-out.
GOALIE: "I really struggled in try outs - there were 12 goalies and 6 made it. I should have been
able to get noticed more."
LISA: "What do you mean?"
GOALIE: "I could have covered my angles more. People have told me that all season - to make
sure I'm always following the puck and not the player."
LISA: "If you DON'T follow the puck and you follow the player, what happens?"

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GOALIE: "When I follow the player I'm too far back into my net - I'm almost on top of the goal
line. When I follow the puck I push out and challenge."
See, here's the thing.
In try-outs, you'd never make a mistake intentionally.
It only happens because your AWARENESS of something is a little bit low. This happens in
pressure situations because when your anxiety goes up, your awareness goes down a bit.
In my goalie's case, his awareness of where he is in the net can get low. To correct it, he needs
to follow the puck.
At this point I asked him the obvious question: "Did you have a GOAL to follow the puck?"
I'm sure you can guess the answer: No.
RIGHT FOCUS works like a charm in try-outs because you’re not trying to accomplish something
that is outside your control.
You’re simply executing on a goal that you know you can accomplish. This brings out your
Confident Self because you know you can do it as long as you are committed.
EXERCISE – RIGHT FOCUS for Try-Outs or Evaluations
In the space below, write down the name of an upcoming try-out or qualifying event for your
sport. Then, write down your best RIGHT FOCUS goal – the one that will create high awareness
for you and bring out your best performance:
Event: ________________________________________
RIGHT FOCUS Goal:

Remember to record this goal in your Athlete’s Journal and evaluate how you did after the
event.
Are You A Perfectionistic Athlete?
I’d like to say a word here about confidence and perfectionism. Most athletes who struggle
with their confidence are usually super-intense, Type A perfectionists struggling to trust
themselves.
I should know.

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This was exactly my mindset before discovering mental toughness training.
Below is a confession from Sandra, a perfectionistic tennis player:
"Lisa I had a really terrible tennis match today. We went early and had a good warm-up. We
also had a good game plan. We were winning 5 games to 2 and on match point I hit a smash
out of bounds. Then I hit the next one in the net and then another smash out of bounds.

Then my partner hit a ball out and we ended up going into a tie breaker and losing that. We lost
6 to 4 in the third set. After i made those 3 mistakes I could hardly hit the ball.

I told myself relax, relax, and breathe. I also said just go point by point. Don't think about
anything else. I tried to laugh and stay positive. I am so discouraged. What positive learning can
I take from this? How can I prevent this from happening again?

We played so well to start with and then couldn't finish it off. I CHOKED. I never want this to
happen again so please help me."
Here’s what’s important about Sandra’s situation.
I don't think Sandra choked on match point - the choking came AFTER she missed match point.

And I suspect it happened because underneath everything Sandra is an intense perfectionist.

My guess is that when she makes mistakes, she becomes so ashamed and fearful that a) she
can't focus and b) she starts punishing herself by beating up on herself mentally.
On a gut level, Sandra actually doesn’t believe it's Ok to make mistakes, including mental ones.
What Sandra is missing is that perfectionists - people who are defensive about mistakes - are
not LEARNING.
I’m here to tell you that mistakes will make you better if you have the right attitude towards
them.
When you get uptight about mistakes, you get so emotional that you miss out on what your
mistakes are trying to teach you about your skills, your fitness, and your strategy.
I asked Sandra what she might be missing and here’s what she said:
"Thanks Lisa...I think my main problem is not hitting the ball with power. I am so worried about
hitting it out of bounds that i tend to just push it over and safely guide it instead of smacking the
ball.

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Then it usually ends up short and they step up and hit it hard which puts us on the defense. At
some point I need to have the courage to just hit the ball rather than push it. I need to focus on
putting the topspin or backspin on it to keep it in the court."

Here’s what I told Sandra:

Sandra, the RIGHT FOCUS you need is simple. Hit the ball (don't push it). If it lands out of
bounds, identify exactly HOW FAR OUT the ball landed - to the inch.

Get really good at this, and you'll naturally start hitting the ball inside the court without trying
to. To pull this off, you need to get CURIOUS about where the ball lands when you hit it out.
Genuine curiosity will tell you why you're hitting it out and how to correct it.

For example...

Are you trying to hit a winner and overdoing it? Is your stroke unsound? Why? Are you swinging
too soon or too late? Or are you thinking about your follow through so much you're becoming
clumsy?

What's happening?

You'll learn a ton about your game, your strokes, and other things that you haven't noticed
because you've been wrapped up in your perfectionism for so long."

Again, to be a confident champion and create breakthrough confidence for yourself, you need
to be committed to learning.
You’re not trying to be or look perfect out there. You’re simply setting a really specific goal for
yourself and making every effort to reach it.
Creating A Winning Self-Image Using GAME FACE 2.0
In Session Two you learned about the concept of developing a persona for sport, which is a self-
image or vision for yourself that is much more majestic and grand then how you see yourself
now.
In fact, I asked you to envision yourself TEN TIMES better than you are right now.

I also asked you to invent a BELIEF (statement) and repeat this statement in every warm up
before practices, games, or competitions.

This exercise was the beginning of creating a new self-image for yourself as an athlete.

Why Your Self-Image Matters
In Session Two, you learned why your self-image matters.

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Map of Reality
We all have a map of “reality” in our mind and we operate as though our map is actual reality.
You have a map of reality in your mind about everything: about how your sport works, about
how a person makes money, about how a relationship is supposed to work, and even how
subjects such as how math works, how English essays work, how music works – everything.
A GOOD Map = A Good Trip
A BAD Map = A Bad Trip

The better and more complete your map, the better your trip will be. That’s another way of
saying that the better model of reality you have in your head, the better you will be at dealing
with everything from math to money to relationships to your sport.
Your Map of YOURSELF
In addition to having a map of your sport and how it works in your head, you have a map of
yourself. This map is called your self-image.
When you create a new, positive self-image and continually reinforce it, you start to ACT
differently.

The Law of Congruent Behaviour
This is called the Law of Congruent Behaviour according to Dan S. Kennedy, author of No B.S.
Wealth Attraction in the New Economy.
According to Mr. Kennedy, to succeed, our behaviour must be Congruent.
Congruent with what?
“Congruent with the behaviour of people already achieving goals you want to achieve,” says
Kennedy. “Consider a goal to lose 40 pounds. Dropping by a doughnut shop every morning is
incongruent behaviour. Taking the elevator to the second floor instead of walking is not
congruent. With regard to wealth, if you get your behaviour congruent with whatever your
wealth goals are, and congruent with the behaviour of others who’ve achieved your wealth
goals, it is an absolute certainty that your wealth will come flowing in.”
When your actions start to conform to the NEW vision of yourself the Universe has no choice
but to reward you with success in your sport, and you smash through old mental barriers and
create a new reality for yourself.
When Li Na beat Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6 to win the 2011 French Open, she broke every
barrier imaginable.
She broke a race barrier: Na is the first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam singles title.

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She broke an age barrier: At 29, Na is not the oldest player to win a Grand Slam, but in
professional tennis terms she's no spring chicken.
She broke a training barrier: Na did not start playing tennis until the age of nine, late for most
professionals.
She broke a typical player history barrier: at 20 she retired to become a journalist, saying "I
didn't think I would become a good player."
She broke a conditions barrier: growing up she never played on clay because in China they have
sand courts, which are radically different to play on.
And finally, Li broke a pressure barrier: during the final over 40 million Chinese fans watched
her compete for the title.
How did she do it?
By BELIEVING and trusting her true self, not holding herself back with self-limiting beliefs such
as, "I'm too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too slow, too fast..."
After the match, Na said, "In those last few points I just said to myself, trust yourself. Believe in
yourself."
In fact Na's team were all wearing a yellow t-shirt with the Chinese version of the words "Be
yourself" on it.
The good news is that you don't have to be controlled by an outdated or negative self-image.
You can take control of it using GAME FACE 2.0.
GAME FACE 2.0
GAME FACE 2.0 (the advanced version of GAME FACE) is your detailed, step-by-step pre-
competition routine that sets you up from the beginning of your event to be a fearless,
confident competitor.
In GAME FACE 2.0, you ‘ramp up’ your mental programming to make a radical leap in
performance and results. Rather than try to make 5% or 10% improvements in your results, you
set yourself up for a quantum leap in performance using your pre-competition routine.
GAME FACE 2.0 is the pre-competition routine that installs your new vision of yourself and
makes it so real in your mind that your actions change.
Your GAME FACE routine should have the following components:
1. A Physical Warm Up

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2. A Positive Affirmation
3. Emotional Visualization

The first element, your physical warm up, is unique to your sport and we will leave this up to
you.

You created the second element, your positive affirmation, in Session Two. You will want to
KEEP repeating this positive affirmation in all your warm ups until you no longer feel it is
inspiring you to new heights.

The third element is E.V., or Emotional Visualization. If you’ve taken any of my other programs,
you know that Emotional Visualization is the technical term for mentally rehearsing success in
advance.

Emotional Visualization:
The Power of Positive Feeling

Visualization is the technical term for mentally rehearsing success in advance. Here is
what Sylvie Bernier, the diver, had to say about it:

My mental preparation for the Olympics was really different from the
preparation of other athletes in my sport. That year I didn’t dive as much as
everybody else. I didn’t train 6 hours a day in the pool. I probably did 2
hours a day…So I had to work on my mental preparation a lot.

I did my dives in my head all the time. At night, before going to sleep, I
always did my dives. Ten dives. if I was actually there. I saw myself on the
board with the same bathing suit.

I started with a front dive, the first one that I had to do at the Olympics, and
I did everything as Everything was the same I saw myself in the pool at the
Olympics doing my dives. If the dive was wrong, I went back and started
over again. It takes a good hour to do perfect imagery of all my dives but
for me it was better than a workout.

…It took me a long time to control my images and perfect my imagery,
maybe a year, doing it everyday. At first I couldn’t see myself, I always saw
everyone else, or I would see my dives wrong all the time. I would get an
image of hurting myself, or tripping on the board, or I would “see”
something done really bad.

However, visualizing is not enough. You need to do it with emotion to create confidence.
Many athletes visualize, but without emotion. Their visualization may help them develop new

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skills, but it won’t give them the unshakable confidence they are seeking. They are not
harnessing the ‘power of positive feeling.’

Emotional visualization is the art of ‘seeing’ the performance you want and connecting
with the positive feelings it evokes in you. As you continue to visualize success with emotion,
you will gain more and more access to your confidence.

Emotional Visualization On Steroids
Today I would like you to take your E.V. to the next level and start practicing emotional
visualization on steroids in order to create a new self-image for yourself as an athlete, because
we are attempting to create a quantum leap in your results and performance this season.

For this, you will need to abandon your logical, “realistic” mind and engage outrageous thinking
and dreaming.

In Do Less, Achieve More, author Chin-ning Chu tells the story of Gary, who completely re-
programmed his thinking about money and success using E.V. in his waking and sleeping
dreams.

Here is Gary’s story:

“Gary came from a working-class family. When he was ten years old, he told his grandparents
that when he grew up, he would have a very large mansion…His brother went directly home and
told what Gary said to his father. When Gary arrived home he received a terrific beating from
his father for being an unrealistic dreamer.

By the time he was 45 years old, due to relocation and job changes, he had bought and sold
many residences, but none had ever come near to the grandeur of the mansion he, as a youth,
had described.

Gary felt frustrated. His small computer business was a good business, grossing over a million
dollars a year, but not good enough to manifest his dream. His net yearly income was only three
hundred thousand dollars.

The desire for having his dream mansion was so strong that he started to dream about
houses…he even dreamed about a gigantic castle in whose living room he could put his
grandfather’s house. But in every dream, the houses were not his…At the end of his dream, he
would have to walk away from his dream home.

Eventually, Gary realized there was a pattern to his dreaming. He saw outrageous houses, but at
the finish he would always realize that he could not afford them. He felt powerless to obtain any
of the magnificent homes.

Then a brilliant spark of intuitive insight came to him. He questioned, “I wonder if I could direct

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my dreams to dream that I CAN afford the house and that I DO make three million dollars a
year?”

Gary started altering his dreams. First, because he was a scientist, he was very realistic and
logical – how could he jump from $300,000 in income to $3,000,000,000? There had to be a way
to jump out of the strictures of reality into the realm of unreality.

Being a scientist provided Gary with the insight that the subatomic particles that make up
matter leap from one realm to the other. In other words, the electron does not move from one
place through space and then land in the new place; it just disappears from one level and
instantaneously reappears at another. Gary thought this could be applied to the macro-world of
human matters.

He discovered that the strata of wealth and social class were akin to different orbits electrons
occupy and that movement between them often came by leaps and bounds rather than steady,
plodding, predictable fashion.

Gary decided to alter the logical nature of his mind. He abandoned his rational mind, his
realism, his limitation thinking and embraced wild outrageousness.

He saw that placing realistic limitations of thinking on life itself was ultimately unrealistic on his
part.

Next, Gary decided to live his dreams while he was awake. Gary discovered that whatever
dreams he wished to experience at night, he had to think and live them in that state during his
waking hours. He no longer let his dreams dictate his own content, because whatever occupires
your thoughts during the day will effect what you dream about at night.

Instead of acknowledging the current reality of his financial situation, he decided to create his
own quantum reality: He would see that he was already earning three million dollars and owned
his dream house.

Gary engaged the battle between his habitual mind of realism and his newly adopted mind of
outrageous quantum thinking. Whether working, playing, or speaking, part of his mind was
always watching the other pat to make sure that whenever his thoughts fell back into his “real”
reality, he would put that old, linear thinking out of his consciousness and reestablish his
thought of quantum reality—that he possessed gorgeous homes everywhere, that he made ten
million dollars.

At first, this exercise was not easy, but he persisted in correcting himself. He believed
throughout this painful struggle of self-correction that one day, somehow, his old mental
patterns would break and just like the electron, out of nowhere, it would collapse and take a
quantum leap for the new realm.

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Eventually Gary’s dreams began to change. He began dreaming he bought a particularly
beautiful house in the town’s finest neighbourhood. Upon awakening, while still lying in bed, the
first thing Gary would do was close his eyes and review his dreams. If the dreams were positive,
filled with confidence and clarity, he would congratulate himself. If the dreams were confused
and powerless, such as having a falling-off-the-cliff dream, he would re-script the nightmare and
replay it in his mind until he was happy with the result. Facing the cliff, he would take off and fly
in skyward-soaring freedom.

Ten months after adopting this strategy, Gary was approached by a business acquaintance who
had invented a new concept for computer information retrieval. Three years after that, their
sales were sixty million dollars.”

EXERCISE - Emotional Visualization on Steroids

Sit in a quiet space where you will not be disturbed. Close your eyes and relax. Focus on
your breathing. Breathe slowly and deeply.

Once you are relaxed, go back to a time in your mind when you felt really confident and
powerful in competition and re-create this emotion in your body. Really touch the energy, joy,
and power that you felt back then.

Now I want you create an outrageous image of yourself as an athlete that is the very
definition of Thinking Big. If it is helpful, see the image of an athlete you admire and look up to
as a model for Thinking Big. See this person’s skills, physique, conditioning, and execution in
your mind’s eye. This is the vision that you are striving for. You are striving for your actions to
be Congruent with this person.

Now I want you to imagine being able to DO everything this person is capable of doing.
Imagine it right down to the last detail: every skill, every strategy, every move. Feel how it feels
to be able to perform at this level. Notice all of the benefits and perks that come with this level
of power and skill in your sport.

Now I want you to travel forward in space and time, and take yourself through an
important event in your sport using these same skills that you just imagined. Put in all of the
detail, all of the strategy, all of the plays. Notice how all of your actions are a complete fit with
the vision you have created for yourself.

Bring yourself to the end of this event, feeling grateful that you have been given this
mind and this body and can achieve your wildest dreams.

Write a few lines on what you experienced during this exercise. What happened to you?
Were you able to recall a situation? What feelings did you have? If you couldn’t summon any
feelings, describe what happened to you emotionally. Feel free to describe your thoughts;
however, please make sure that you also describe the emotions you had during this exercise. If

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you were not able to access any emotions, please record exactly what you did feel. Describe
what did happen.

There are several things that may have happened to you during this exercise. Do not be
concerned if you felt distracted, numb, or even negatively at any point during it. Merely record
your experience.
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GAME FACE is a routing you develop that puts you in the mindset of your competing
persona. Your persona is your athletic alter ego. It’s your Sasha Fierce. It’s bringing
out your sun energy – the force of will. It’s your cocky self. It’s your For The Love Of
The Game attitude. It’s getting yourself in the Ideal Performance State and with the
right energization level so you can be aggressive. It’s concentrating in the NOW.

You are basically saying to yourself, ``What does a superstar act like, think like, talk
like, look like, dress like, warm up like, and believe?” and then imitating her.

GAME FACE brings out your Confident Self by giving you a sense of control in three
ways:

1. You get a better sense of control over your day because you know exactly
what`s going to be happening inside in your mind in the hour leading up to
your event.

2. You will get skilled at psyching yourself up before playing, which is critical
because success at the highest levels of sport is as thin as a razor’s edge. It’s
not the best team or athlete who wins on competition day; it’s the athlete
who performs the best who wins.

3. Your GAME FACE routine will remove your negative beliefs and replace them
with positive ones, healing the `wounds` that make you become unglued
when stressors show up and making you invulnerable to them.

EXERCISE - Your GAME FACE Psych Up Routine
In the space below, put together a 10-30 minute individual GAME FACE routine for
yourself that includes the following components:

1. A physical warm up that activates you
2. At least one affirmation

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3. Emotional visualization planning

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Remember to record this goal in your Athlete’s Journal and evaluate how you did after the
event.

Why Your Competitors Do Not Visualize

Your competitors know about visualization. Some of them even use it. However,
because they don’t understand the concepts I have explained in this lesson, they do not use
visualization for maximum benefit.

When they start to visualize in any depth, negative emotions and thoughts surface.

They begin to see themselves performing poorly, or they have thoughts such as, “What
if my success doesn’t last?” Although this is normal, most athletes conclude that they are not
visualizing correctly, and stop doing it.

You, however, are different. You understand how emotions work and can now be one of
the exceptional athletes who persist in emotional visualization.

Mark Tewksbury is an inspiration in this regard.

When I first started doing this [visualizing], it was frustrating and exhausting. I
would close my eyes and try to picture the race and nothing would come. Sometimes I
felt asleep instead of visualizing. Other times I would try to picture myself visualizing
and all I could see were my competitors. Even worse, sometimes, when I had
successfully pictured myself doing well, I would get in the race and panic when the first
little thing didn’t go according to plan….

Of course, I always tried to picture myself winning. In order to do this I had to
imagine others behind me. Sometimes the thought of winning was very frightening. It
took a long time to train my mind to see myself being the best. At every level of
competition this was the hardest thing to overcome…I was competing internationally
for many years before this became possible.

Mark was visualizing correctly, but his confidence triggered suppressed fear—which is why his
imagery was “frightening” to him. It is critical that you are aware of these pitfalls and gracefully
side-step them on your way to becoming a Confident Champion.

Let’s re-cap today’s Session. You have learned the following:

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• Eliminate The Fear of Making Mistakes. Learn the Code of the Samurai, which is the
psychology of “winning beforehand” – once you know this formula, it will be like child’s
play to take the lead early in competition, putting you in the driver’s seat. This is the
specific method for eliminating the fear of making mistakes so you can start off your
event excited, aggressive, and ready to take the smart chances needed to win.

• Good Nerves, Not Bad Nerves. What do to when you’re overwhelmed with nerves to
become calm and energized, including how to transform “bad” nerves into self-trust and
let go out there.

• Becoming Fearless Before You Compete. You discover how most athletes put massive
pressure on themselves before competing and the most effective strategy for avoiding
this trap to become fearless before you compete.

• Creating A Winning Self-Image Using GAME FACE 2.0. Detailed, step-by-step
instructions on how to set yourself up from the beginning of your event to be a fearless,
confident competitor so it is easy and automatic for you to handle “rough patches” and
sail through the situation.

I’ll talk to you again soon.
You friend,
Lisa B.

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