2. Our experience and quality of life depends on our level of consciousness, awareness, and understanding

3. We improve our skills through training and practice. Beyond that there are no external mental tool, system, or model that exists to attain long-term success or personal contentment

4. Only when an athlete feels a sense of cooperation and love for himself, his teammates, his coach will he be mentally prepared to compete to the fullest extent possible.

5. Children yearn to produce not consume. They grow by learning to lead and the patience to listen.

6. Forcing effort or judging behavior thwarts creativity and stiles free will. Simplicity, creativity, and passion are the central themes to still power.

7. An athlete’s state of mind determines is life experience.

8. The more we tend to control our effort the more we get in the way

9. The zone is minimal thinking or analyzing; it is a heavenly experience; it is not bound; it is not intellectual ; the zone feels easy, unbound, and simple

10. When athletes play with freedom, they don’t think, they know. They don’t focus they feel. They don’t grind; they allow. Everything is an asset; no matter what occurs, the player cannot fail. Never force, let go.

11. Turnarounds are the result of personal revelation

12. Quit down and try to discern the contrasts between still power and willpower

13. What you say to a player is far less important that the state of mind when you say it. To engage someone you must operate from a high level of consciousness

14. Love will provide all the direction you need

15. Compulsion is the feeling you’re looking in the wrong direction. Determination is ok, but compulsion is futile.

16. Syd Banks said, “Thought is the creative agent we use to direct us through life; a divine gift, which shapes our reality as it quality changes moment to moment.” The Quality of our thoughts are constantly changing, and with it, so too are our feelings about the circumstances within a competition. Trying to deal with negative thoughts only gives the thoughts power. Everyone’s reality is created by their thinking. No matter what the challenge, you do not know the final outcome. It is important to be aware of the value of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions throughout the competition. Look to the state of mind of your players. Do what feels right to help the person raise his or her state of well-being. Insightful coaches and players never forget that remarkable performance is right around the corner.

17. The reward may be the initial dream. The journey begins because the person feels they must do it. They act because they want to and reach out because they need to; they do it because it feels right.

18. Workers become more imaginative and efficient at performing a task if there isn’t a reward or goal on the other end. Winning has no ability to regulate your happiness or what you think about yourself.

19. When you are walking through the negative cycle of worry remember it is a place of illusion. Don’t give yourself away to illusion. Faith will take hold and the anxious thoughts will fade away and making a winning attitude possible.

20. Pain removal is possible by losing yourself in the process. When you conserving injury, you far less likely to acquire an injury.

21. When we allow ourselves to quiet then the answers seem obvious.