How to Improve Your Mental Performance

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Mental performance is tied to so many things, and you could start learning it right now. The fundamental pillars of mental performance are sleep, nutrition, exercise and deep relationships - establish that first. Pay attention as you go throughout the day, notice when your confidence is up or down. Notice when your stress levels are up, and what you do about it when it's down. If you want better answers, start asking better questions. You can't change what you're not aware of. Ask questions about your environment. Start with collecting some data on yourself. Just go about your and notice, notice your energy, notice your focus. It absolutely helps your mind.

Justin Su'a calls on more than a decade of working with the world’s top athletes to discuss how to improve your mental performance. Su’a explores the strategies you need to be your best mentally with lessons that resonate well beyond the world of sports — including how to connect and build trust, the relationship between consistency and intensity, the fragility of confidence, the difference between success and talent, how to raise the bar of your own performance, and so much more.

Su'a has spent the past three years as the Head of Mental Performance for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball, where he works with players to optimize their mental performance and perform under enormous pressure. He has also worked for the Boston Red Sox as well as the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, and as the Head of Mental Conditioning Department for the IMG Academy, which develops star athletes of the future. He’s also written two books on the subject of developing mental toughness in adolescents.

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