After completing Step One: ANALYZE, the next step in Creating Your Mental Game Toolbox is to PICK YOUR TOOLS. You've written down specifically what you want, whether you want to solve a problem or improve performance (or both), what you've tried and what your success payoff is. Now it's time to figure out what tools can help you do it.
How do you pick tools? Working as a US Navy Hospital Corpsman in a Naval Hospital Emergency Room, I quickly learned the benefits of using the right tools for the job (and the consequences of using the wrong ones). Pick your tools based on what you want to accomplish.
Do you want confidence, motivation or focus? Do you want to improve in a sport such as golf or in business or sales? Do you want to break a connection to a bad experience? Do you want to feel relaxed before or during competition? Write this down - it will help you judge the effectiveness of your tools and your results.
There are a lot of Mental Game tools out there and you can learn them from a variety of sources (in all price ranges). Tools include: Progressive Relaxation, Guided Imagery, Self-Hypnosis, Visualization and Anchoring. You can learn these and other tools by reading books and making audio tapes for yourself, you can buy generic and custom-made cds and you can also learn them through my seminars and private sessions.
The key is to find tools that you like enough to actually use. Here's a tip: we process our environment with what we see, hear and feel. Using that in your tools make them more effective.
That brings us to POWER PRACTICE SECRETS, covered in Creating Your Mental Game Toolbox: Step Three
David Kenward - The Mental Coach thementalcoach.com
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