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Mental Toughness

What is mental toughness? Mental toughness as the name implies is the development of mental skills. You can develop these mental skills by learning mental principles, concepts, and related knowledge that can be applied to learning tennis and your match play situations.

Therefore, a good working definition for mental toughness would be:

Mental toughness is the accumulation of valuable information that can be utilized at the proper time.

Anyone can become mentally tough, whether they are a beginner or an advanced player. Since the key to mental toughness is thinking and not the physical skills, a beginner can develop the same mental toughness skills as a pro. In fact, I know many beginners and intermediate players who have much better mental skills than advanced players.

On whatever level you play, if you can develop correct mental skills like a mentally tough pro, your game will improve rapidly. You may or may not have the physical skills of a top pro, but you can learn to think like a pro.

Where do you find the correct information to develop mental skills and think like a top pro? Coaches, books, tapes, or trial and error. Yes, there are many good coaches, good books, and good tapes that can teach you mental toughness. I recommend you learn from them, but let me tell you what I can offer you. I have books, tapes, email newsletters, voice mail newsletters, and a web site all working together to teach you one comprehensive organized system that can help you learn and develop mental toughness at a much faster rate.

I am your link to professional thinking. I have been in the trenches for twenty seven years, teaching thousands of players just like yourself to develop mental toughness and the necessary savvy about the game of tennis. I have already done the 'trial and error' method for you! I know what works and what does not. You can go through years of trial and error and hope you figure out what the truth is about the game of tennis and about developing mental toughness, or you can learn from my experience and years of hands on teaching. I know what I am doing.

Mental Toughness is the accumulation of valuable information that can be utilized at the proper time. To become mentally tough you must seek out and learn information that will develop your mental skills. Although many of these mental skills are logical and make sense, few players choose to utilize them. There are three reasons why.

If you play tennis and you can overcome these three obstacles, you can dramatically improve your mental toughness and your tennis game. If you are a beginner, you can improve your ability to learn faster. Let us address these obstacles one at a time.

Take for instance a phrase I teach when players first come to me. That phrase is, the next shot is more important than the last mistake. Most players immediately say "yes, yes, I've got it," but as soon as they experience negatives, mistakes, and failures, that phrase the next shot is more important than the last mistake turns into the last mistake is more important than the next shot! A complete reversal! Correct knowledge is the solution to all three problems above, including handling your emotions

To remedy all three obstacles and offset the control of the emotions over your thinking, I have created the Mental Toughness Sphere. The conflict most players experience on the tennis court is a conflict between the Emotions and the Mentality. Below is a diagram of the Mental Toughness Sphere and its Eight gates.

You work your way from gate one (the Refocus Technique) to gate eight (Mental Toughness) by learning and applying the Knowledge incorporated in the Mental Toughness Sphere. The Mental Toughness Sphere has an abundance of tennis knowledge related to developing mental toughness in all spheres of life. The principles in the sphere are proven and time tested. In fact, over the years pros have used these principles to develop their own mental toughness. I did not create these proven and time tested principles.

I did, however, harness the power of these principles by analyzing them, categorizing them, labeling them, and finally linking them together into one comprehensive organized thinking system that will enable you to develop mental toughness quickly.

You stay in the Mental Toughness Sphere by using the Refocus Technique (gate one) and not allowing your negatives, mistakes, and failures to control your thinking. If you stay in the Mental Toughness Sphere your thinking will control your emotions leading to the correct decision-making process and a relaxed mental attitude.

You move out of the Mental Toughness Sphere by allowing your negatives, mistakes, and failures to control your thinking. When you are out of the Mental Toughness Sphere your emotions will control your thinking leading to an incorrect decision-making process ending in frustration.

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They say tennis is 70% mental, but the emphasis when you learn tennis is always placed on the physical skills. Whether you are a beginner or advanced player you must learn the mental skills. Here is what my system and the Mental Toughness Sphere can do for you:

Whether you are a beginner or a championship player I can help you learn faster, think quicker, and win more! I have already proven my system thousands of times and it works.

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Mental toughness is the accumulation of valuable information to be utilized at the proper time.

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