WHY MENTAL FITNESS TRAINING?  
Are you recovering from a sports-related injury and just can't seem to get back to previous levels of performance even though you're told that there's nothing apparent holding you back?  
Suddenly lost a critical part of your game and hard work is not producing the results you'd expect?  
Have you been promoted recently and expected to do presentations but you're tongue tied when in front of more than a few people?  
Do you "freeze" and can't recall information in test-taking situations?
Are you feeling stuck, creatively?  Deserted by the Muse?  Ideas not flowing as they once did?
Have you seemed to......
....h i t  a  w a ll ?!?
Whether a personal performance limit is encountered in an athletic, professional, scholastic,  creative or competitive setting - the effect can be unsettling, frustrating or even disturbing.  Mental Fitness Training can be the key to recovering lost or elusive/inconsistent performance capabilities as well as eliminating the barriers to expanding one's personal capabilities.  Read on......
ATHLETIC / COMPETITIVE 

Fitness training for athletes used to be limited to exercise and practice-repetition.   As the concept expanded, inclusion of nutritional considerations became common practice.  More recently, the addition of psychological approaches has proven beneficial to the athlete’s performance.  These advancements in nutrition, biomechanics, and mental training now make it possible for athletes to obtain new levels of performance, and to maintain those levels longer than had ever been imagined.  Consider Mental Fitness training:

When a medical or physical limitation has been ruled out, adequate training and coaching resources are available and utilized - and the limitation persists.  Very often the source of that limitation is a blocking belief, conscious or unconscious, which when identified and eliminated can result in the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings associated with it to likewise disappear.  
When Mental Fitness Training removes the self-limiting elements, former levels of performance can be regained or even surpassed, for example: 
An increased free throw percentage or batting average.
More consistent defensive play in critical situations.
Reduced strike outs (or perhaps more of them, if you're a pitcher).
More critical points off the back-hand shot down the line.
More confidence in picking up the spare or strike when needed.
Yip-free golf & more consistency with your driver, approach shots, putting, etc.

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CAREER AND ACADEMIC

Speed reading and memory retention techniques have given individuals more capabilities to expand personal limits.  The emerging wired-world of information resources likewise provides increasing amounts of data and the means to expand our productivity.  When we are not able to maximize that potential by producing results in critical areas for ourselves, we feel frustrated, confused and sometimes 'less-than..'.  When physical reasons can be ruled out, the source of our frustration may be found in blocking beliefs that may or may not be consciously known.  This may become evident in the following ways:

When you have all the skills necessary, but seem to lack the confidence to take on new tasks or perform newly assigned tasks despite the knowledge that you once were able to do perform that or a similar task at hand and you are starting to think the Peter Principle seems to apply to you......
When you regularly perform well on the job or in the classroom, but despite extensive study still routinely perform poorly in testing situations that can determine promotion, job classification, important grades/ class ranking or college acceptance and you just don't get why it's that way......
With mental Fitness Training, the beliefs that block  personal success are removed.  Think of the possibilities......

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CREATIVITY 

The ability to create.  A character/ personality/ story/ verse.  A painting, sculpture or photo.  A musical composition.  The ability to develop and explore new ideas, concepts, visions and applications.  To work "outside the box".   These activities require the wondrously mysterious and delicate balance between right and left-brain activities that are necessary in order for the creative process to flow.  When this flow is interrupted, and there is no physical reason for the situation, the culprit may be certain blocking beliefs that may or may not be conscious to the individual.  This can be evidenced in several ways:

Ideas seem to be limited to recycled ones previously considered and perhaps pursued in the past.
No ideas come forth, e.g. 'writer's block'.
New projects seem to be approached mechanically & without a 'feel' for an outcome.
There's a hesitation to explore new arenas or applications that seems to have come about suddenly and without apparent explanation or you may have an explanation but still the problem continues. 
You may notice yourself avoiding creative activities or opportunities when you previously would have embraced them. 
Others seem to be "grasping concepts" before you do when in the past you were in the forefront in coming up with new ideas.

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No matter the goal of your performance-focused training, you will be able to operate for extended periods of time in your athletic, professional/ academic or creative "Zone"- focused, relaxed and increasingly successful in your efforts......  

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