Sports has a lot of answer for, in a good way. Coaching clearly has its foundations in the many sports arenas and as we bid farewell to the winter Olympics, this tradition of sporting excellence leads me to think about the Olympian mindset. That overwhelming desire to be not just the best in the sport, or the best in your team, or division, but in the whole wide world.
It is an amazing achievement and a dream for many to hold an Olympic medal….especially the coveted gold. These amazing athletes go above and beyond not only in their discipline and physical training but also in their mental preparation. So, what is the difference between a good athlete and someone who is an Olympian.
As an Olympic athlete and they may not know in a logical way why they can tip the scales from good to exceptional but with some modelling skills then you help to identify their strategy and replicate it! Not necessarily in the sport but imagine having an Olympic mind set as a manager, a sales person, a teacher, how about beating an Olympic parent?
All top athletes know about “the Zone” that magical, elusive area where the mind and body click and start working at a level of synch as close to perfection as they can hope. So – have you ever experienced that perfect few moments when everything just slips into that state of flow? That momentary excellence? That is the zone!
Ok, so we cannot maintain that perfect state all the time, there are so many variables after all, the things within are control are the WAY we think. We choose to live our life based on what we think about, so why not choose to live more in this peak performance state?
Much of how effective we can be at these critical zone moments comes fr0m the inner preparation, the mental rehearsal that we do before the actual even. Great athletes, actors, business people….they all have this in common.
Training, practice, preparing fully in the mind triggers tiny muscles throughout the body. Watch someone engrossed and playing on a video game. I was often laughed at for swerving my entire body in and out of corners in racing games. For that moment my belied and focus was so in the game that my body was responding to my mental preparation, it was a state of flow…or amusement depending on your point of view 
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