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Mental Strength: Do you think fast?

Posted on September 1, 2010 by msadmin

In the 1930′s a Northwestern grad student in the psychology department, E.F. “Al” Wonderlic, invented the test that came to be known as the Wonderlic.

Each year, nearly 3 million job applicants in every line of work take the Wonderlic.

NFL combine athletes must take it as well.

The Wonderlic is a timed IQ test, consisting of 50 questions, ranging form easy, to hard, and must be completed in 12 minutes.

Each question equals one point.

What’s good?

Well, the average scores in some professions look like this:

Chemist: 31

Programmer: 29  Read more... (420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

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Soccer Players Learn to Use Their Head

Posted on November 15, 2009 by msadmin

The Mental Strength Training Center announced today the release of a Sport Psychology and mental skills training program for Soccer players and coaches.

To help soccer players, coaches and parents of soccer athletes become better teammates, leaders and athletes, the Mental Strength Training Center, working with world class Mental Skills coach and Indiana University Professor Dr. Gary Sailes, created the MENTAL STRENGTH TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SOCCER, a 2-phase training program contained on two CD’s.  Read more... (315 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

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Five Traits of a World Class Competitor

Posted on October 31, 2009 by mentalstrength

… While I was at the first round of Davis Cup Tennis play in Carson, California, I was struck with inspiration.

I felt compelled to share with you my opinions on world-class athletes, how I think you can benefit, and where we plan to take the Mental Strength Training Center in the coming months.

As I watched Andre Agassi play Ivan Ljubicic and Andy Roddick battle Mario Ancic from Croatia on center court of the Home Depot Training Center, I thought to myself, “Boy, I can do that, I can hit that hard, can move like that and can probably even hit it harder in some cases.”  Read more... (779 words, 1 image, estimated 3:07 mins reading time)

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Handling Distractions, Part 1

Posted on October 24, 2009 by mentalstrength

I always laughed at golfers that couldn’t swing a club unless EVERYONE could hear a pin drop.

That just ain’t realistic.

Then, these same athletes would get mad and frustrated — literally ruining their entire day.

You see, noise and distractions are the norm and the perfect conditions are rare.

Lots of things can cause you to get distracted.

Maybe you are losing to someone that everyone thinks you should beat…

Or, maybe the young baseball team is making too much noise on the adjoining field…  Read more... (265 words, 1 image, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

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Right now, or…?

Posted on October 24, 2009 by mentalstrength

I’ll never forget getting matched up against a taller, faster, more powerful tennis player in a third round match, many years ago.

He was better than I.

He knew it. And I knew it.

Although, somehow I won the first set 6-1 and was up in the second 4-1. Only needing two more games to get into the next round.

Looking back, I’m not quite sure how this happened.

I must have been intensely focused on what I was doing.

You see, at any given time, you can either be focusing on what you are doing right now, whole-heartedly…  Read more... (307 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

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Mental Strength: If It Is To Be …

Posted on October 20, 2009 by mentalstrength

I turned on the radio yesterday, as I sometimes do in the car when I am out of CD and audio cassette programs.

A political talk show was on.

The guest was a psychologist. He was on because he was diagnosing 100,000 people suffering from ‘post traumatic wrongful-election distress syndrome.’

No Joke.

Now, whether you are part of the blue party, green party, or purple party, it’s unimportant for this purpose, really.

What is important is the attitude that is expressed:

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Helplessness, or that someoneis coming to the rescue.
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Mental Strength Tip: Confidence Equals Concentration

Posted on October 19, 2009 by mentalstrength

I interviewed a world-renowned sport psychologist a few days ago, Dr. Alan Goldberg.

Dr. Goldberg worked with the UConn Huskies basketball team in 1999 when they won the National Championship over Duke.

Needless to say he knows his stuff.

Dr. Goldberg suggested that your confidence is determined by what you are concentrating on.

For example…

Do you see the distractions in the stands?

Does your mind wander from place to place; looking at the guys walking around the stadium or checking out the cute girls courtside?

Or, do you think about the way you double-faulted on that last big point?  Read more... (288 words, 2 images, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

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About MentalStrength.com

Posted on October 19, 2009 by mentalstrength

Mental Strength

We are in business for one reason – to use the latest, cutting edge strategies and resources to help you gain more control over your life; including your relationships, career, athletic performance and ultimately gain peace-of-mind.

People we serve are coaches, competitive athletes, business executives, entrepreneurs and business owners – proactive people that know that to get more out of life, one must set goals they are passionate about and aggressively go after them – while simultaneously balancing all parts of life: health, family, spiritual business, financial and most of all fun – we firmly believe that life must be fun!  Read more... (370 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

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