As a leader, how is your mental game?
Consider today’s outstanding athletes, such as those who recently participated in the U.S. Open. It’s impressive to see these leaders excel in their field; they are really amazing! Not unlike today’s outstanding business leaders and managers, they overcome obstacles, deal with set-backs and persevere to the end.
After watching a game or two it’s easy to take their impressive skills for granted. After all, they make it look so easy. And then they make a clear mistake.
Such was the case for one such player: with a single swat, he unintentionally hit a ball at a line judge, and was disqualified.
How can such a well-trained, highly-skilled and disciplined leader make such a mistake?
He got caught in a momentary lapse of un-mindfulness, distracted and fueled by frustration. And it happens to the best of us. We lose our clarity and focus. When this happens, it’s time to develop our mental game.
In Summary
Developing your mental game requires great strategies and purposeful action: building a solid foundation and managing distractions. This article and Article Nuggets explain.
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The complete article includes these important concepts:
- Clarity and focus
- Cognition
- Emotion management
- Executive judgment
- Build your foundation
- Diet
- Exercise
- Meditation
- Beware of distractions
- Energy
- Focus
- Boost your mental game with these questions
- Energy boosters
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And references to the following sources:
Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (BenBella Books, 2019)
Staying Healthy, Harvard Health Publishing (November 2018)
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