Bill Cole
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How Superstars Reach Their Goals: How We Can Reach Ours
Are superstars born or made? Do they have the genius of supreme achievement by an accident of birth, a favorable environment or from their own individual effort? Whatever the reasons, superstars are a different breed. They must succeed and they will succeed. They have an amazing capacity to dream big, strive even bigger and come through against all the odds. Can we learn to become better achievers by looking inside the minds of the big-time peak performers? Let's see what makes them tick and why they are able to achieve so much more and at a higher level than anyone else.
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The Mental Game of Personal Achievement: Reach Your Goals Like the Superachievers
What rating would you give yourself on personal productivity? Do you have a systematic plan for improving your effectiveness in your daily work? Superachieving business people and athletes know what it takes to motivate themselves, maintain focus in the face of obstacles and drive forward to the completion of their vision and dreams.
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The Twenty Most Dangerous Myths About Peak Performance
We all perform in some way every day. In what arenas do you want to perform better? To improve your performance abilities, you need to know, understand, recognize and be able to avoid the myths surrounding performance. Top performers are so fine-tuned in their disciplines that they have seen all the traps, pitfalls and blind alleys about performing, and have devised methods to overcome them to be able to sustain high levels of performance under all adverse conditions. We call these people peak performers. Why are these myths dangerous?
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What Makes Peak-Performing Teams Tick? How Leaders Can Win The Mental Game Of Coaching
Not all teams are created equal. Some teams clearly ARE better than others. They get more done, and with less squabbling. Still, there are instances of teams performing heroically even though they may all dislike each other. Keeping in mind there are various definitions of teams and their purposes, we can paint a fairly clear picture of what we WANT in the ideal team. Here are 17 things we know that peak-performing teams have in common. 1. All teams experience conflict. The successful ones manage it and succeed in spite of it. 2. All teams have weaknesses.
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Manage Your Mind to Manage Your Time: 28 Tips For Working Smarter, Not Harder
Are you working longer hours but getting less done? Are you being asked to do more in less time? Beginning to feel like a hostage at work? Productivity problems can make you feel incredibly stressed--and then you're just spinning your wheels. But there is help. You can use your mind. You can soon be winning the mental game of personal productivity. Peak-performing sales professionals work smarter, not harder. They want to achieve to the maximum in business and then go play. Here's how you can do that too. 1.
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The Mental Game of Success: Winning the Game of Life
Sports champions know how to win and accomplish their dreams. They have learned the secrets of winning and success in sport. The mental game concepts that follow are familiar ones in the sport world. Let's examine these principles and laws of winning in sport and see how we can apply them to our daily lives. Championship sports stars know what these principles mean, honor them and apply them in their training and competitions: 1. Second Effort. Making that extra effort can make the difference between winning and just barely losing.
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The Paradox of Success: Is There A Downside To Winning?
How can being a success possibly be a problem? Don't we all want to be winners? In fact, there are potentially negative consequences in achieving our goals and in being known as a successful person. Let's take a look at this paradoxical phenomenon and formulate some strategies to deal with the inevitable challenges that surround anyone who strives for success. What are some of the paradoxes of playing the success game? 1. In order to succeed big, you could become a workaholic, a very common downside. 2.
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How's Your Mental Fitness? Take This Quiz and Find Out
How fit do you consider yourself? You can be fit in any number of arenas--financial, health, physical, etc. You consult doctors, financial planners, chiropractors, CPA's, tax analysts, bankers, stock brokers, nutritionists, tennis pros, golf pros, physical therapists, fitness trainers and anyone else who might be able to help you raise your particular fitness quotient. But have you ever thought about the level of your mental fitness?
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What's a Mental Game Coach?
Tiger Woods has one. So does Andre Agassi. Almost every college pro team, major league pro sports team and Olympic team has one. Virtually every pro golfer and pro tennis player has one. What do they have? A Mental Game Coach. These top sports stars are smart. They're good already. Even great. Some are all-stars and superstars. Why do "they" have a mind coach? They want to maintain their excellence. And, they want to get better.
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The Art Of Leadership: Beyond The Nuts And Bolts Of Managing
"Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."rn--Henry Ward Beecher "The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver."rn--John Naisbitt Volumes have been written about the MBA-driven attributes of top business leaders. You know these traits. These are the button-down, rigorously mandated strictures of executive leadership that every "proper" leader shall possess. Many companies train their executives in the firm's laws of leadership.
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