The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery: A Story About Mastering The Mental Game and Winning In Life

by Brian M. Cain

it’s a trainable skillset.”

“We can all use more patience,

“Learning to stay patient in adversity is part of a mindset and you build that skill through meditation,

Staying patient is a practice that you must train like any skill or anything that you have learned today about training an elite mindset.

you must be able to keep your head when all others around you are losing theirs.

You don’t rise to the occasion; you sink to your levels of training and habits,”

you have to look forward more than you look backwards,”

“The past is a platform for learning, while the future is a fortress of unlimited possibilities.

You must stay hungry and you must keep growing, not because you have to but because you want to; and when you keep growing, life keeps getting better and harder, which is GOOD.

They just want to learn more because they know that learning is what helps them to keep winning.”

“Winners get more opportunities in life. They get more attention. They get more fame and they get more fortune,”

“The key is to always keep a learner’s perspective ahead of a winner’s perspective or you won’t keep winning.

It’s also key to know that to WIN is to focus on What...

“Remember, you can do anything, but you can’t do everything.

Excellence is a race with no finish line.

“Day by day we get better in every way.”

“Nobody ever has or ever will escape the destiny of their decisions.

The decisions we make today can affect generations yet unborn.”

the decision I needed to make to get off the treadmill of life, live more intentionally, be where my feet were, and the decision to be a better person.

“Remember, success is something that you attract by becoming a successful person.

Dominate the Day is a total commitment to and focus on the moment and what you are doing.

“He will ask you to put your left hand in, because your left hand is closer to your heart. Coach Shay believes that how you do anything is how you do everything, and if you are going to do anything you must put your heart into it.

We are consistent and intentional about everything we do,

have an elite mindset and a growth mindset. We believe that an elite and growth mindset is at the foundation of player development and one of our greatest skillsets.

We are never going to eliminate yellow and red lights; we just want to get better at managing them and work to be in green as much as we can.

“We teach that you have to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance, and that you have very little control of what goes on around you, but total control of how you choose to respond to it.

a day without service is a day not lived.

The difference is that mental imagery is specifically experiencing yourself doing a certain action like playing or coaching football, while doing meditation is about quieting and clearing your mind.