Winning the Mental Game: The Playbook for Building Championship Mindsets

by Amber Selking

Amber Selking’s self-help text Winning the Mental Game forwards clear-cut strategies for improving and maintaining high personal performances.

Eight strategies, or fundamental mental plays, are named in this text. They include steps like becoming self-aware, motivated, and able to push through adversity. Advice for maintaining confidence and managing intense circumstances is shared alongside tips for cultivating attention and emotional control. These strategies end in mental rehearsals and establishing routines—steps that unite the previous plays to establish a consistent trend toward top mental performance.

Genres: Nonfiction

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 11, 2022

Reviews

[Carter Solomon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paula recommended this book. Written by a nd alum / sports mental coach. Some great lessons to be learned about how to be a better athlete mentally.

[Cathi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Has changed the way I approach my everyday life!

I’ve underlined something on almost every page. This book is giving me a game plan to be more intentional about goals and to start believing that I really CAN be who God made me to be.

Run don’t walk and get a copy or two of this book. Amber Selking is a gift to us all - so excited to see years of her hard work and research be manifested into this amazing book.
#champmindsets

[Cory · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some really great exercise is why I have this book 4 stars. I am a sucker for self help books and as I try to learn platform tennis I looked for something to help my mental game written by a woman. The awareness and motivation exercises were outstanding. I loved her WIN philosophy for focusing what’s impossible now and started using it immediately. Self talk is great to control the message we send ourselves.

[Mike Van Hoozer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible Read!

Excellent resource for becoming your best in sports, business, and life! The insights and plays in this playbook will help you become the best version of yourself!

[Glo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have cleared some space in my bookshelf for 'Winning the Mental Game'. I believe it is worth to keep it close to seek guidance in order to cultivate improvement and a more productive mindset.

In this playbook, Dr. Amber Selking provides a well-structured guide with some clues to help recognize and modify negative patterns or unproductive habits, work on awareness, confidence, find motivation, and control attention.

Each of the eight proposed ‘plays’ is accompanied with doable exercises eminently practical, some more promising or elaborate. Additionally, they are complemented with QR links to online videos, podcasts, articles, .... And even if many examples are based on sports people, in my view, it is also addressed to the general public.

Personally, after practicing some tasks for just a few days, I have the impression that it will be useful for self-improvement in the long term.

I would like to thank to Dr. Amber Selking, NetGalley and Amplify Publishing for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

#WinningtheMentalGame #NetGalley

[Jeffrey D Hamilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Im reading it again and again. Lots of wisdom i hope to internalize.

[Joseph J. Falvo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible

Amazing book with tremendous insight and realistic ways to become excellent in life! Follow Amber to be inspired and renewed!

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

she makes some very solid points but some cheesy ones as well. overall, a nice, quick read with easy-to-follow steps to achieve excellence

[Michael Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr Selking provides the reader eight natural steps to higher performance. She considers each step a play. With a background in athletics she gravitated to Sports Psychology. Her own athletic career cut short by injury as one door closes another opens. The eight plays include: Adversity, Motivation, Confidence, Intensity Management, Attentional Control, Emotional Mastery, Mental Rehersal and Routines. In each she provides a short analysis of something she's dealt with in her practice. She than builds that the meaning of the subject, it's applicability to life and an excercise to become better aware and how each step builds upon the previous steps. In each case, the more one practices the better one gets. In her practice she's worked to sports teams across the nation. I think her text would be of value to coaches, teachers, managers and individuals looking to improve themselves or individuals within organizations.