'Visualise your goals and achieve your potential.'
Easy-to-follow and extremely effective, Win will change the way you think about all aspects of your life.
From well-known personality and rugby commentator Brent Pope and psychotherapist and mental skills coach Jason Brennan, Win: Proven Strategies for Success in Sports, Life and Mental Health examines the mindset behind the psychology of winning and how the mental skills applied in sports can be adapted for success in everyday life.
From dealing with failure, to managing stress and anxiety, to changing your definition of winning - and with interviews from some of the world's most high-profile sports stars including Ronan O'Gara, Bernard Brogan, Conrad Smith, Dean Rock, AP McCoy, Sonia O'Sullivan, Gary O'Donovan and Paul O'Donovan, Dan Carter and many others - Win looks at how you can gain confidence, achieve your goals and build lifelong inner mental strength and resilience - today.
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From well-known personality and rugby commentator Brent Pope and psychotherapist and mental skills coach Jason Brennan, Win: Proven Strategies for Success in Sports, Life and Mental Health examines the mindset behind the psychology of winning and how the mental skills applied in sports can be adapted for success in everyday life.
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| Introduction |
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| Authors' Note |
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Chapter One What Are Mental Skills? |
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Chapter Two The Mental Skills We Need to Win: in Sport, Business, Life |
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Chapter Three Winning: What Does It Mean? |
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Chapter Four Working to Win in a Team |
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Part 2 Managing Roadblocks |
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Chapter Five Dealing with Mental Blocks |
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Chapter Six What to Do with Fear |
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Chapter Seven When Fear Becomes Panic |
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Chapter Eight Rethinking Fear |
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Part 3 Building for Success |
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Chapter Ten Handling Pressure During Performance |
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Chapter Eleven Managing Pain and Fatigue |
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Chapter Twelve Supporting Your Team During Performance |
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Part 4 Try, Fail, Try, Succeed |
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Chapter Thirteen Handling Setbacks: Illness, Injury and Downtime |
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Chapter Fourteen Handling Setbacks: Losses, Lapses and Disappointments |
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Part 5 The Strength to Win |
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Chapter Fifteen Dealing with Depression and Anxiety |
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293 | (24) |
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Chapter Sixteen Resilience |
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Chapter Seventeen Driving Happiness |
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331 | (6) |
| Glossary of Mental Skills |
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337 | (26) |
| Tips for Getting a Good Night's Sleep |
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| Useful Resources |
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| Acknowledgements |
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Brent Pope (Author) Brent Pope is a well-known New Zealand rugby analyst and sports personality who has been living and working in Ireland for many years.
Jason Brennan (Author) Jason Brennan is a psychotherapist, counsellor and mental skills coach from Ireland who lived and worked in Wellington, New Zealand. During his time there he worked with a number of All Black players and the Super Rugby team The Hurricanes. He still works with New Zealand's national women's cricket team, the White Ferns, as well as with soccer, netball and tennis. He is a regular speaker on stress management for businesses.
