Dre Baldwin
Do you play confidently and balls out in meaningless pickup games but then play like a bum in the real games and tryouts?
You've been working on your game. You know what you're capable of; you've done it over and over again in practice, scrimmages, and games against your friends. Then game time comes, and...nothing.
Your performance does not reflect the same person who put in all that time. You're not doing any of your moves. You
...You've learned in Basketball: The 4 Essential Mental Game Tools what mental game tools you need to compete at the highest level of basketball. Now it's time to address your physical game, specifically the game-specific skills you'll need to play basketball at your best.
Players who lack complete skill sets all eventually run into a wall where their lack of skill costs them by way of a missed or lost opportunity, playing time, maybe even
...Worrying is for the weak. Worry is the habit of fearful people who seek something to stress about. Worry is misused energy that creates exactly what it focuses on.
Focus on fear, stress, anxiety and unwanted outcomes, you get it. Worry is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The worrier thinks something bad might happen. He focuses on the possibility thus creating stress. The stress manifests itself physically. The worrier has trouble breathing,
...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
...The mental game is the most important game you'll ever play.
If you didn't know, you're already playing it. Hopefully, you knew that. It's hard to win a game you don't even know you're playing.
This book is a primer to start your all-star career in the mental game.
Here, you'll get 100 disciplines for your mental game that you can start using in the very spot you're sitting. Yes - right now. No waiting or preparation needed.
...Using Which Position Should I Play?, you will know:
In basketball, unlike hockey, soccer, and baseball, any player can do anything. Score in the post. Dribble. Shoot the ball. Guard whomever has the ball on the opposition. Unlike a soccer midfielder,
...If you read my first book, Buy a Game, you know what happened: I finally made the team my senior year, and the rest is history. I walked on in college, got recruited to another college after my freshman season, and played nine years of professional basketball in eight countries.
During this process, in 2006, I began publishing videos to a new site called YouTube. Over the course of more than 7,000 videos, many players asked questions about
...It's happened to me, too. A lack of connections has cost me opportunities.
Knowing the right people - who knew and liked me - has helped me many times as well.
It seems random, but what if we could get some control over these occurrences?
What if you could develop and strategically use skills for connecting with people? What if you could then leverage those connections to advance your interests while helping others?
This
...10) Basketball, The 4 Essential Mental Game Tools: The Key Mindsets You Need To Dominate On The Court
Have you ever seen a basketball player who possessed a solid skill set for the game - ball handling, scoring, a good feel for how to play - but mentally had nothing at all?
This is the player who could dominate... if he had the mind to. He could be the top scorer, shut down opponents on D, and be the main difference between winning and losing for his team.
But... that's the problem: something in his mental game is just... missing.
As
...11) Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life
12) Ask Yourself a Better Question: Change Your Questions, Change Your Thoughts, and Change Your Life
The questions we ask ourselves determine our lives. Our thoughts are nothing more than a continuous question-and-answer session we have with ourselves. Our lives - material, emotional, spiritual, and financial - are a direct reflection of our thoughts. Eighty-five percent of these thoughts are both habitual and unconscious. Meaning, we are asking and answering the exact same questions every day, usually in the same way over and over again.
If
...Some of you are super-talented. And if you listen to this show, you're probably a hard worker (at least better than average). Still, there's only so much that one person can do — and even then, just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should be doing it.
Life is one big competition. Yes, there is abundance, and yes, everyone can "win" in their own way, but there are times when somebody's gonna be #1 and no one else can be.
If you're going to be that #1 guy/gal, you can't be friendly and nice— the dog needs to come out. Today, learn what that means and how to do it.