As he gently squeezed the golf club taut in his hands, a chaos of voices, stories, and pictures swirled in his mind.

Will I win? Don't miss. Hit the green. Put the ball in the hole. That's all that matters. Nothing else...nothing...else.

"What is wrong with him?" he wondered, looking over as his competitor (in business and today on this course) smiled and gently rubbed his golf club, waiting his turn.

"No one can be that cool, " he reasoned. Soon his body became as taut as his golf club, hands sweating through his gloves, the neck straining, the eyes darting back and forth, from fairway to hands, from fairway to hands...how could he focus?

Stories consume his mind; the same thing happens to people at the moment of action. It's not a lie, it's just the current truth. Star Performers train for this moment, physically as well as mentally, and spiritually.

Then he struck the ball with a last minute, pent up swing, hooking the ball into the rough. "I'm in deep grass," he mumbled, "I should have waited. I should have..."

The next man stepped up, the same height and weight as the first golfer. Yet unlike his competitor, he was striding, confident and focused. He seemed calm, almost comfortable as he quietly stroked a few blades of emerald grass out of his way.

As the first man watched from the left, it seemed like the second golfer just stopped, still. An eternity passed as he looked down the fairway, towards the flag waving in the distance, and the opportunity in front of him.

Centering himself on the ball and the hole down the way, he suddenly remembered Jaren's voice, from The 'Mind Coach^'® Series, and how at moments like this, your truth is revealed: "When the time is right, not a second before, not a second after..."

He inhaled slowly as he raised his club, head down and focused only on the ball in front of him; as the whisper of his exhale left his lips, the club danced in perfect synchronicity with the ball, striking it down the center of the fairway.

I remember that first golfer could hit the ball farther than anyone else. He had the ability to succeed, yet the pressure made him question every decision. Nervous about what had happened on earlier holes and anxious about what lay ahead, he didn't stand a chance.

This is exactly the problem. At the top of any competitive field, everyone has good physical ability. The one who wins is the one who can master the mental game consistently.

The first man might hit the ball right here and there, not every time, intimidated by the outcome. The second man developed a consistent golf game, mostly because he had learned how to get out of his own way and just swing, naturally, and enjoy the learning of each swing.

Whether on the field or in the boardroom, these same skills come up, ready to be put into action. This involves multiple factors:

• One is maintaining a consistent physiology.

• Two is maintaining a consistent internal approach.

• Third is developing a personal performance plan.

• Fourth is developing and maintaining the Maximum Performance State™ (MPS™).

• Fifth is knowing how to motivate yourself to win.

• Sixth is having developed and practiced in advance strategies to deal with any possible adversities that may arise.

• A highly motivated person who has an indomitable will to win may defeat a more skilled opponent on any given day. This happens frequently.

Each person is unique, just like you. When stress, doubt, and worry consume you at the defining moment, you are exposed.

As the 'Mind Coach'^® (more in a bit on that) I helped to sort that out and got the first golfer back on track. I gave him a "mental anchor", his own story, so that he would stay on track, focused on the present. He has stayed that way for over 17 years now.

Now he has fun, his drives fly straight, and he has learned how to hit the green by getting out of his own way, and unlocking his own Truth.

Because that is what golf and even business is about, not winning or losing or even becoming the best in the world...Star Perfomers know it is about discovering your own Truth in every performance, whether on the field or behind the desk.

The 'Mind Coach'^® Series CD's and Manual Will Help You Unlock Your Truth:
The Art and Learning Power of Storytelling

As the performance enhancement expert, I have spent over 20 years working with amateur and professional athletes in groups and one on one, live and over the phone, like I did with the golfer in the first story. I have also helped many top executives find a similar answer to a different challenge; how to be their best when it is called for, by integrating the body, mind, heart, and spirit.

What you will gain from exploring the 'Mind Coach'^® Series I learned directly from athletes and executives worldwide. Here's where I learned this:

• As the highly respected 'Mind Coach'^®, conducting 'Mind Coach'^® Seminars, Trainings and Workshops on performance enhancement and personality typologies.

 

• As the creator of 'Mind Coach'^® Training Materials and Personality Typology Profiles and Evaluation Tools for Performance Enhancement and Personality Analysis in business and athletics.

 

• As a highly respected international Trainer, Author, Metaphysical Teacher and Inspirational Speaker.

• As a professional Behavioral Modeler, known as The Expert on Experts™ and as The Expert on Expertise™.

• As a leading expert in Human Typological Research, the study of human difference.

• By modeling and coaching experts and designing model-based trainings for major firms such as MCI, Avery Dennison and General Motors as well as for US Olympic Teams (Athletes and Coaches) and for a variety of elite experts in business, pro-sports, education, manufacturing, and other fields.

• As one of the first certified NLP Master Modelers and also NLP Master Trainers in the world.

• As a Master Teacher of four healing modalities, a practitioner of two others, and a Feng Shui teacher since the late 1980's.

• As the Founder, Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors for THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND WISDOM FOUNDATION™ INC. whose mission is to create enlightened global leaders and entrepreneurs using innovative learning and educational models, behavioral change technology and new business paradigms.

Click here for my FREE report called "Decoding Expertise: The Art and Science of 'Advanced Behavioral Modeling'™ Technology."

The 'Mind Coach'^® Series ("The Story of Jaren") is a wonderful journey of storytelling. It began years ago as a Trainer when I would write stories for students.

The year 1990 marked a turning point. I began working with Olympic Athletes and Olympic Coaches, first modeling "the elite among the elite"and then training and coaching them. Here is when my storytelling took a decided twist to incorporate yet another new level of meaning to the already metaphor-laden creations.

Let me explain...

• First, there is always so much knowledge to transfer to others and lots of detailed information, especially in our model-based trainings no matter what the field or subject.

• Second, given the fact that we live in a world of ten second attention spans, I wanted a way to keep participants focused and at the same time make certain that the knowledge be assimilated in a fun and effortless manner.

• So I decided to write a different kind of story!

I knew that it would be fun to weave the knowledge into stories that incorporated both the know-how of superior performance experts as well as "ancient wisdom" and practical information and insights about "character- building".

I take you beyond elite performance to even higher levels, ones you may not be reaching even if they are right in front of you.

Now I cannot personally connect with every person looking to improve performance. What I can do is share the almost 20 years of experience in modeling success and help you with The Story of Jaren: Keeper of The 'Clean Heart Grid'®. It begins with your mental approach to competition:

• Competition adds an emotional and mental component that is not experienced in practice. By not focusing attention and not controlling their emotions, inner voice, and mental pictures, athletes can completely take themselves out of competition.

• One of the divers that I worked with failed to make the Olympic team because of a 5 second mental lapse on the final drive in the Olympic Trials. In that 5 seconds, he sabotaged over 15 years of practice and 10 years of training with the best diving coach in the world.

• Two years later this same athlete used the mental and emotional skills that I had taught him to win the Gold Medal in the World Games! The key was mental preparation.

• The moment of action in athletics is similar to moments in business, and in life. Defining moments for a competition, for a career, for a family, all of these bring the pressure to perform.