Get Ready For Exams Pt: 2

At this time of year I like to share the same skills that would be coached in sports and coach them to young people. Why? Because they have as much if not greater impact outside of the sporting arena or business arena.

Share this with someone who is getting ready for exams in the next few weeks or months. Very often you can get ready but not be mentally ready.

Stop calling it REVISION. Most students don't like revision. Athletes train and practice. So do dancers, actors and actresses. Train, Train, Train. Treat this period like a project.

Stop calling them teachers. Call them coaches!

Share with someone who you know who is getting ready for them.

Jamie

The Next 100 Days

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We are on 102nd day of the year!
“The motivation of human spirit is very easy to witness but very hard to calculate.” Which is why we marvel at people in all walks of life who tend to display the courage of overcoming challenges professionally and personally.
HUMAN NATURE: It’s human nature to want to quit when it hurts. But in all aspects of sport and life you find people who endure the THUNDERBOLTS, the SLUMPS, the MISTAKES and the 2nd Place finishes. Which is why Lee Westwood is such a remarkable story.

How does an individual who had been as high as 5th in the world then dropped off the planet rediscover his form in only five years to be back in the top four in the world?

I worked with Lee personally during that period of doubt. We worked on a few aspects not just his game. The skills are just a small part of the big picture. That’s the obvious place to look. Skills. What is driving you at the core is fundamental to lighting that fire again whether your team or in yourself.

I will be revealing in an upcoming webinar one of the concepts that we used that can be applied to sports, business or life that when Lee was 250th in the world helped him rediscover how to light the fire.


TALENT FILTRATION: Could you have the past 5 months of Tiger’s life and perform at that level playing badly (by his standards at the weekend) and finish in the top 5? If you are in a slump and you quit you have wasted time. If it’s worth doing stick with it and come out on the other side.

The system wants you to STOP. I call it Talent Filtration. Why? Because those who come out the other side become scarce. They have greater learning and experience. Think of exams, college, tests, becoming a lawyer or doctor or an elite athlete. It gets tougher the closer you are to your goal…why? The system wants to filter out those who can’t stick with it. The army do it too. It happens in all walks of life.

The slump isn’t permanent….it doesn’t always stay cold and bleak…the seasons do change. It’s spring…. a new government, policies or even leader eventually….(let’s not go there).

QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND: A friend commented on the Nike Tiger advert aired at the weekend and said “When we can easily lose touch with mentors and it can be easy to forget the lessons they taught us.” Which of your mentors or coaches professionally and personally could trigger new thoughts and ideas for the next 100 days.
When did you last call them?

NO BIG SECRET: The mental game and the trained brain philosophy have a foundation in Eastern disciplines. Check out my friend Jayne Storey at www.chipowergolf.com as she can teach you how to develop the same skill that Tiger was talking about and relate it to your sport or business. His background is one of following Eastern disciplines. His Mother’s culture of Buddhism influenced his thinking many years ago. He said in an earlier interview this last week that he was going to get back to some basics. One of those basics was meditation.


Talk Soon,

Jamie