Fight Your Fear and Win: Seven Skills for Performing Your Best Under Pressure--At Work, In Sports, On Stage
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0767906268
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
As a former Green Beret, Don Greene knows a lot about keeping it together in extreme situations. Today he is one of the most sought-after stress coaches in the United States, having helped achievers from Wall Street to Hollywood maximize their talent when it mattered the most. This book presents the key techniques and strategies that make Greene's program one of the most effective of its kind.
Optimizing performance under fire begins with centering. This proven process, which can take less than a minute to complete, banishes panic. Just ask the news anchors, attorneys, even SWAT team members whom Greene has trained. Beginning with a self-survey of response to pressure and fear of failure, Fight Your Fear and Win offers a customized step-by-step program of mental and physical exercises that help readers deliver their best, even in make-or-break career moments.
Whatever the pressure situation -- from sales calls to casting calls, courtroom presentations to merger negotiations -- Fight Your Fear and Win offers new hope for anyone seeking more confidence in the competitive world.
mouth, consciously keeping the exhale slow and even. When you’ve mastered this, practice breathing abdominally in a sitting position, with your hands relaxed in your lap. Once you’re able to do this, stand with your feet shoulder width apart, arms hanging relaxed at your sides. What you’re looking for is a position where you’re balanced and able to relax. It may help to hang your head or rest your chin on your chest. Before learning to center, it’s important to have mastered this breathing
If the way we handled those previous difficulties proved unsuccessful, then, just when we need a shot of confidence most, we’re infused with the rhetoric of failure. So when it would be most beneficial for you to recall a stunning marketing success, you instead play the tape in your head when you got turned down cold. Jeff Hull was prone to just this kind of debilitating feedback. Soon after we began working on his outlook, he joined a Silicon Valley start-up which sold the hubs and switchers
Laughter acts just like the switch on the tape player that cuts off the tape and ejects it. What happens when you do these exercises can be self-revelatory . . . and unpleasant. Once you lift the veil, you might be truly offended by what a load of crap and abuse you’ve been heaping on yourself. Keep a sense of humor. Or just say, in the midst of the melodrama you’re hearing, “That’s interesting.” Don’t get caught up in it. Get some distance. Laughter can give you that perspective. Change
advantage of, used, ready to scream, disappointed, full of knots, ready to pull the plug—but get it down to one clear statement. Don’t accuse; say, “I feel . . .” Avoid making insinuations about others. Instead of, “You’re being totally unprofessional,” George said, “I feel it’s unfair to the students.” 3. Finish by stating exactly what you would like to happen. George planned ahead of time to say, “I would like you to resolve whatever issues you may have with each other face-to-face instead
“correction.” Ed’s stocks shot up as investors fled from fledgling Internet stocks to blue-chip heavyweights. Morale on the trading floor went up. But so did the number of mistakes the traders made. Eager to make up for the previous three months, they either got out of positions prematurely or failed to bail out quickly enough. They were skittish. Prone to second-guessing themselves. Doubting of their instincts, forgetful of their training. To get an extra 20 percent out of this group, Ed