Your game plan for career success—from International Basketball Pro Dre Baldwin No one knows how to turn unrelenting self-belief into hard-and-fast career results better than Dre Baldwin. When everyone and everything was telling him to give up on his goal of playing pro basketball, he got focused on his future, and met the challenge head on. In the end, Baldwin succeeded—making a living playing basketball in leagues around the world—and in these pages, he shares all his secrets. Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Work On Your Game provides the strategy you need to succeed from the inside-out. Dre Baldwin, or “DreAllDay,” as his fans know him, delivers an easy-to-understand four-part model for achieving any goal. It’s based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative—and it’s proven effective. Baldwin takes you through the steps of identifying what’s expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your body and mind for the competitive world of business—and everything is a business. Baldwin’s personal story of beating the odds is both inspiring and instructional. You’ll learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you towards unparalleled achievement.

Your game plan for career success—from International Basketball Pro Dre Baldwin No one knows how to turn unrelenting self-belief into hard-and-fast career results better than Dre Baldwin. When everyone and everything was telling him to give up on his goal of playing pro basketball, he got focused on his future, and met the challenge head on. In the end, Baldwin succeeded—making a living playing basketball in leagues around the world—and in these pages, he shares all his secrets. Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Work On Your Game provides the strategy you need to succeed from the inside-out. Dre Baldwin, or “DreAllDay,” as his fans know him, delivers an easy-to-understand four-part model for achieving any goal. It’s based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative—and it’s proven effective. Baldwin takes you through the steps of identifying what’s expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your body and mind for the competitive world of business—and everything is a business. Baldwin’s personal story of beating the odds is both inspiring and instructional. You’ll learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you towards unparalleled achievement.

Congratulations! You are about to separate yourself as an athlete! I absolutely LOVE helping athletes just like you in preparing both physically and mentally so that you can set yourself up to achieve great success in sport and life. I realized through my own life and in coaching athletes for over 12 years that most athletes have big dreams, goals, and ambitions and are just one step away from making those dreams, goals, and ambitions a reality. Having a dream is usually not the problem; the problem is having the RIGHT game plan and executing the essential action steps to make those dreams a reality. "If You Want Something You've Never Had, You've Got To Do Something You've Never Done ..and Do It Every Day!" Success or failure is not just some big event that happens one day. Michael Jordan did not just wake up one day as the greatest basketball player ever. Dylan Bundy did not just become the top pitching prospect in MLB right out of high school by chance. Alex Rodriguez was not projected as the greatest baseball player ever to now being labeled as a player who chokes in the postseason. Tiger Woods did not go from being projected as the greatest golfer ever to become a fallen star by accident. The Secret to real aTHLETE SuCcess 6 Success and failure are about the things or lack of things that YOU DECIDE to do or not do day-in and day-out. SUCCESS in athle tics or in Life is Simple... It takes ONLY two things! 1. You MUST Create the Winning Mindset so that you can unlock your full potential as an athlete and become dominate in your sport and in life! 2. You MUST have the RIGHT game plan and you MUST execute the RIGHT daily action steps of that game plan every single day. This book will provide you with the RIGHT 27-day game plan so that you can achieve greatness in your athletic career and in life. I will coach you on how to unlock the power of your mind so that you can WIN each and every day and get what you desire as an athlete. You can now play at the next level, start dominating, and become a successful athlete. You can now stop wishing and hoping but rather have a certainty that you WILL succeed. How do I know? Because I did exactly that! Utilizing the same 27-day game plan that you have right here, I was able to pull myself out of a deep personal tragedy and create lasting success in my life. With this same game plan, I was able to land my first job as the Director of Strength & Conditioning at the NCAA Division I level before I even graduated from college. With this same game plan, I was able to open my dream sports performance facility, Dynamic Sports Development, and over the last 12 years have been fortunate and blessed to train some of the top athletes in the entire world. By implementing this same game plan at the age of 29, I was named Tulsa's Young Entrepreneur of the Year, was selected as one of Oklahoma's 30 under 30 Entrepreneurs, and was also selected as one of Oklahoma's 40 under 40 Entrepreneurs. Inspiration 7 With this same game plan, I have been able to assist athletes of all levels achieve greatness in their respective sports and in life. Is this luck? Heck no! I tell you this because if I - an Italian kid from the Jersey shore with no success background -can do it, then you can too! If this same game plan has helped thousands of athletes achieve greatness in their sports and in their lives, then it will work for you as well! This book is short, simple, and everything you need to know to be successful as an athlete and in life. The Secret to REAL Athlete Success will not work for you unless you work it. This one book has the potential to absolutely Take Your Game to the Next Level and set you up to WIN. Are You Ready? If so, then I have just one more question for you... If you want something you've never had, you've got to....

PRO MINDSET FOR ATHLETES: Dominate In and Out of Your Sport Success * Strategy * Motivation * Performance * Strength These are just a few topics you will find in the Pro Mindset For Athletes book series Have you always been a nervous competitor? Have you spent months or years trying to reach the top level and felt like a failure along the way? Are you stuck in the vicious cycle of sucking at winning and feeling happy? In today's world, dominating in sports on and off the field is harder than ever. The innovative and empowering tools outlined in this book solve your external and internal athletic problems in a new and easy-to-use way. The Pro Mindset For Athletes series is designed to resolve your daily confidence questions in a concise and easy-to-read manner. This series is designed for athletes and teams who suffer from mental and emotional management issues found in every sport. Stress, pressure, anxiety and doubt find their way into the lives of athletes seeking validation from their next win, teams finishing a long season of losses, and coaches hoping to keep their position for one more year. Sports has a culture of external reward with little time devoted to internal development. Knowing that sports is 99% mental does little for your progress. On average, less than 1% of practice time is typically spent on consistent mental training in athletic teams. Pro Mindset For Athletes: Mental and Emotional Health Tools To Dominate In and Out of Your Sport gives you the foundation you need for your competitive success through: - Tried and true cognitive science-based methods that make the athletic process simple and fun. - Unique winning methods that involve no additional hours spent in practice. - Simple strategies for preventing and defeating mental blocks. - Uncovers the #1 way to actually feel confident and win with satisfaction (hint: it has nothing to do with a gold medals) - Shows you how simple and fast creating unstoppable power can actually be. (take this one out) Follow the advice in this book and your next "big" goal in sports will feel surprisingly small. Pro Mindset For Athletes helps you envision the future you want and how to achieve it from the inside out. This is mindset training like you have never experienced before.

Buddha Can Improve Your Sports Performance and Life “No other person has had more influence on my thirty-six years of coaching than Jerry Lynch.”—Missy Foote, Head women's lacrosse coach, Middlebury College #1 New Release in Coaching Hockey, Tennis The Competitive Buddha is about mastery, leadership, spirituality, and the Kobe Bryant Mamba Mentality. Discover how people from all parts of the world have brought together the Buddha and athletics for greater fun, enjoyment, and pleasure during their performances. Connect spirituality to sports. Learn what you need to keep, what you need to discard, and what you need to add to your mental, emotional, and spiritual skill set as an athlete, coach, leader, parent, CEO, or any other performer in life. Understand how Buddhism can help you to be better prepared for sports and life, and how sports and life can teach you about Buddhism. On the court, field, and beyond. Dr. Lynch is an avid runner and biker and he has coached athletes at the high school and AAU level. He earned his doctorate in psychology at Penn State University and has done extensive post-doctoral work in the area of philosophy, Taoist and Buddhist thought, comparative religions, leadership development, and performance enhancement. Dr. Jerry Lynch demonstrates how certain timeless core Buddha values inspire you to embrace and navigate unchartered waters and understand the Buddha-mind and the Kobe Bryant Mamba Mentality. Become a master coach of your own life. When it comes to leadership and coaching, The Competitive Buddha teaches how the best coaches today use the ancient methods for our modern times. Learn specific strategies and techniques for implementing this special way to guide and lead. The Competitive Buddha teaches: • Leadership Skills • How to use Buddhism as an approach to competition • How to master athletics and life Readers who enjoyed Win the Day, Mamba Mentality, or Relentless Optimism will love The Competitive Buddha.

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Conversation is simple and easy. We share things with others, and others share things with us. It doesn't always work out this simply, of course, but this is who we are at our cores. Humans are social creatures; we share. Verbal communication played a significant role in all your biggest life achievements. The sexiest guy or girl you've dated. The most money you ever made. The happiest you've ever been. Didn't all of these come, in whole or in part, from some amount of conversation? Who are your best friends? Your closest relatives? And how did they become so close and important to you? From conversation! So, knowing how important conversation is, why do so many of us struggle with it? We think too damn much. About?-What the other person might think of us. -How we might sound stupid. -If this is a dumb question. -Possibly being turned down for something. -The fear of the unknown. Eliminate these fears, and conversation is easy. These fears are mostly based in a lack of knowledge. A lack of knowledge in how to start a conversation and how to keep conversation flowing. But you picked up this book. So that fear will be gone very soon. ***Verbal communication is the skill which keeps humans at the top of the food chain. Without it, we would be prey to the many bigger, stronger and faster animals we see on National Geographic. The most successful people we know (of) are the best communicators. They're the people who can best get their point across. The ones who are good at persuasion. People can make people feel things - happiness, anger, sadness, motivation. The best communicators make their every communication feel like a personal conversation with you. True or not true? Since you agree, would you also agree that an improvement in your conversational skills would boost your success in life? Good. You have the perfect tool for doing so. This book shares 25 great conversation starters guaranteed to get people talking. These questions will make your conversation companion think and talk more. These are not the usual stereotypical, boring questions bad conversationalists use all the time, such as Where are you from? Or, What do you do? These are pattern-interrupting ways to get a person deep in thought and talking. Why is this important? Questions that make people think get their attention. Attention and time are the most valuable currencies we deal in. The more you can talk with someone, the better you can learn how to help him or her. Helping people creates value, and we will pay high prices for value. Unique, thought-provoking conversation makes people remember you. I doubt you want to be a forgotten person. These conversation starters facilitate further conversation, which you can leverage to get your point across, build rapport, learn about others, win friends and influence people. To this point, what about this book has you most excited? Why is that? ***Each chapter is headed with the conversation starter itself, and then a simple background on the value of the question, written in italics. Then I'll give more context into what results to expect from question and what to listen for. I'll share a few Follow Up questions to use, based on the answers you get. It's important you learn to weave the follow-ups into conversation, and not sound like an interviewer or news reporter with a memorized script you're reciting. At the end of each chapter you'll get a Best Used tip of best times to employ each question and why. Warning: Do not use these conversation starters as a memorized, systematic way of talking to people. Learn them all and learn to use them together and independently as needed. The more you go over each, you will develop a feel for when and how to use each. Let's get started and not waste time. There are people to meet and connections to make.