

Mental Performance Daily with Brian Cain
BRIAN CAIN
Oftentimes, what separates truly elite performers from everyone else isn’t talent, luck, or connections—it’s preparation. In this podcast, listeners get to hear short, daily messages from one of the leading mental performance coaches in the world, Brian Cain.
For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages, and mental performance tips were reserved for star athletes, corporate executives, and high-profile coaches. Now, they’re available to everyone through this daily podcast, helping you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
For years, these 3-minute daily meditations, motivational messages, and mental performance tips were reserved for star athletes, corporate executives, and high-profile coaches. Now, they’re available to everyone through this daily podcast, helping you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Episodes
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Mar 30, 2022 • 4min
The Checklist Manifesto - Brian's Book Battalion #7
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
https://www.heroic.us/optimize/authors/atul-gawande
(1) Brown M&M’s Why Van Halen doesn’t like them
(2) Your Keystone Initiative Your Big 3 Checklist
https://www.optimize.me/pn/the-checklist-manifesto-atul-gawande#your-keystone-checklist-initiative
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Mar 29, 2022 • 4min
Superhuman By Habit - Brian's Book Battalion #6
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Superhuman by Habit by Tynan.
(1) Consistency -> Is everything.
(2) Don’t Miss a Day -> Seriously. Don’t. -> Never Skip Twice -> Absolutely (!) don’t do that.
(3) Evaluating Progress -> Focus on process more than results. (Measure The Process)
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Mar 28, 2022 • 6min
Mini Habits - Brian's Book Battalion #5
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Mini Habits by Stephen Guise.
(1) Make your habits too small to fail, tiny is mighty
(2) It's what we do daily that compounds over time and makes the biggest difference
(3) Small goals impressive results vs impressive goals and small results
(4) Goals vs. Dreams & The Importance of Systems
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Mar 27, 2022 • 12min
Sunday Meditation
In this Mental Performance Daily Sunday Meditation, Brian recaps the lessons from the week’s episodes so that you can revisit what you learned, embed it into your elite mindset and continue to grow into the best version of yourself through this guided mental imagery practice and meditation.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Mar 26, 2022 • 6min
Don't Do This On A Cruise Ship... or In Life
In this episode Brian shares a story about a young Italian boy and his family traveling on a cruise ship and a costly mistake that they made during the voyage that you might be making in your voyage called life.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Mar 25, 2022 • 4min
The Slight Edge - Brian's Book Battalion #4
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen.
You can listen to The Success Hotline Podcast with Dr. Rob Gilbert here.
Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0jgcS1TQ3qIiq4J1Z8VckP?si=QhWhrGI-QNCglpKceMc8-w&nd=1
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Mar 24, 2022 • 4min
The Compound Effect - Brian's Book Battalion #3
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Link: http://optimize.me/cain
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Link: https://briancain.com/certification
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Link: https://briancain.com/coach-offer
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Link: https://briancain.com/athlete-offer
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/golf-masterclass-registration
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass
Link: https://briancain.com/baseball-mpm-masterclass

Mar 23, 2022 • 4min
Atomic Habits - Brian's Book Battalion #2
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Atomic Habits by James Clear.
You can pick up the Habit Share App Brian talks about here
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Are you a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass

Mar 22, 2022 • 6min
Tiny Habits - Brian's Book Battalion #1
In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg.
You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here.
Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s reading list and be a proud member of The Book Battalion. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Are you a coach? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance
Are you an athlete? Join Brian’s FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes
Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass
Are you a baseball player or coach join? Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass

Mar 21, 2022 • 4min
No Decision Is A Decision
In this episode Brian wraps up his 8 day mini seminar on the “One Week Challenge” with a challenge to you to make a decision and a reminder that your decisions determine your destiny.
Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a free 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak
Be sure to join Brian’s email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to Brian and the forefront of mental performance training.
If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian’s MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November.
Want to take your coaching to the next level? Join Brian Cain and The Coaching Matters Foundation every other monday night for a FREE one hour group coaching session. Join today at BrianCain.com/coaching-matters
Want to get more wisdom in less time? Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute book summaries. FREE when you join here as a member of the Mental Performance Daily Community
If you are a coach, join my FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance at BrianCain.com
If you are an athlete, join my FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for athletes at BrianCain.com
If you are a golfer or golf coach join Brian’s FREE Golf Masterclass at BrianCain.com/golf
If you are a baseball player or coach join Brian’s FREE Baseball Masterclass at BrianCain.com/baseball


