Assertiveness

Impact on Performance – The Psychological Transformation

The psychological transformation through mental skills training and its impact on your performance can hit you like a thunderbolt, and that’s not an exaggeration!

The psychological transformation is actually a gradual process, and its full effect will be evident in a few weeks or at best a couple of months.

Let’s look at just a few areas of your game where you will start seeing quick results”

These are just a few ways in which your mental processes are transformed to positively impact your performance.

Goal-directed transformation:

To get the best out of mental skills training, you have to first know what you want from it:

Any training program works much better if it is goal directed.

Reaching the ideal state:

When you go through a transformation, you sometimes reach an “ideal performance state:” This is a mental state where all aspects of your mental skills training come together, and you deliver a superior performance. This may not happen in every match, but it is the endeavor of every grappler and combat athlete to get into this ideal state, and mental preparation is the vehicle that can take you there.

Ideal Performance State – The Zone/Flow II

The ideal performance state is referred to as the zone or flow in sports parlance. The zone or flow is the pinnacle of sporting achievement, when an athlete plays in an effortless manner and yet delivers a top quality faultless performance. Those who have been in that state, call it a magical state where performance is exceptional, spontaneous, automatic, and flowing. An athlete is able to concentrate completely and does not feel any pressure. He or she is sure of his game and technique and goes about executing with precision and timing. The body and mind work in tandem and perform like a well-oiled machine; the only thing is that the grappler is anything but a machine. In the zone, grapplers or combat athletes are cool, collected, and extremely shrewd in their moves and tactics, not machine-like.

Flow, control, effortless moves and countermoves, complete confidence-the match moves smoothly in your favor almost throughout from start to finish.

How do you get into the zone? Three key factors make this happen:

The mental framework of a person in the zone:

Finer aspects of being in the flow:

The experience of being the zone during a match can be a wonderful one, and its magic can be felt by you from the start to the finish of the encounter.

To achieve success, your mind and your body have to work in tandem and your mind has to be free of any negativity. A grappler or combat athlete can achieve peak performances on a more consistent basis by reaching the zone or flow through regular mental preparation and complete focus.

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Imagine telling a significant role model in your life something new and exciting. An idea or event that has stimulated you both mentally and physically. It can be anything from trying out for a dramatic play, joining a sports team, beginning a new career, starting a new marriage, losing weight, developing a new outlook, changing your image, or continuing your education. Instead of receiving an encouraging comment, what you hear instead is: “That’s ridiculous,” “You’re always daydreaming,” or “You’ll never make anything out of yourself.”
Negative statements such as the ones mentioned above can create fear of failure and fear of rejection within a person. This situation can leave an individual on the receiving end feeling helpless. Negative attitudes create barriers toward individual accomplishment. The implicit, or unspoken message, is: “Whatever gave you the idea that you are motivated enough?.”
Do you remember a time when you or a friend finally made the team but the coach left you sitting on the bench? What kinds of feelings did you experience? Humiliation? Insecurity? What will it take for you to get off of the bench and become the athlete, the person, you truly want to become. What’s preventing you from speaking up and letting the coach know that you’re one terrific person, and given the chance you’ll prove just how unstoppable you really can become.
Sitting on the bench, and not asserting yourself, is like being in a play without acting out the part. Do you go through life without getting involved one-hundred percent? Maybe it’s because you believe you might fail, or even succeed, at what you set out to accomplish. Do you set yourself up for failure and sabotage your success by telling yourself that you can’t perform well? Is it possible that you allow unproductive and negative vocabulary to dominate your thoughts? Negative self-talk takes away your motivation and is an inner barrier that must be eliminated.
Here are three ways to overcome fear of success:
1. Continually tell yourself that you welcome challenges. Stand ready and willing to challenge yourself to your maximum capacity. Move forward in your communication by deleting all negative self-talk.
2. Believe that whatever you set out to accomplish, you will give it one-hundred percent. Stop providing excuses to blame yourself, becoming disempowered from achieving your goals and increasing your self-esteem. Believe that your “pride of accomplishment” motivates you to eliminate all the “shoulds,” “oughts,” and “musts,” from your vocabulary.
3. Be the best you can. Continually “see” yourself in an evolving way. Stretch every mental, emotional, and physical fiber within you. Believe and feel that you are one dynamite, ecstatic, and powerful person. Remember, your beliefs impact the way you feel and act.

You think you know what you want. But how do you get it? And do you really want it?
I felt fed up. So, I went to the airport. “Please sell me a ticket to somewhere lovely,” I asked. Yes sir, where specifically? “Oh, somewhere that I’ll feel great and at ease with myself!” Yes, but I need to know where, specifically! “Uh, yeah, look, just sell me ticket to somewhere great, OK?” Well, take this ticket. I’ve always wanted to go there! “Thanks!”
I ended up touring roller coasters throughout the world. The seller’s idea of a dream holiday, but not mine! You see, if you don’t know precisely what you want, and have goals that match your values, you won’t get what you want!
A study of Yale University graduates from 1953-1973 found that the 3% that had written goals achieved more in 20 years than the combined efforts of the other 97%. In other words, they achieved well over 30 times greater success! Successful people — from Donald Trump to Anthony Robbins — know their goals and personal values precisely.
Follow these simple steps to create written goals and start the journey to your dream life.
Figure out your desires
Take a fresh piece of paper and a sit in a quiet room. List everything you want in life. List:
What you want to have or own (e.g. a red Ferrari, a leather sofa, new shoes)
What you want to do (e.g. go on a hot-air balloon ride, lose weight, learn a new language)
How you want to feel (e.g. confident, tolerant, peaceful)
Go crazy! Let yourself go! Don’t worry about making your goals “realistic” — that comes later.
You may find it helps to think of the following areas of your life.
Money & finances
Health & fitness
Fun & adventure
Career & work
Friends & family
Physical environment
Romance & relationships
Personal & spiritual growth
Check the ethics
Now, for each goal, ask yourself, “How many of areas of my life will it improve?” Subtract one for each area it will seriously damage. For example, a new Ferrari might improve Fun & adventure and Physical environment, but will seriously damage Money & finances, so it scores only 1. (If your partner would leave you over this, subtract another one for Romance & relationships!)
Look at your scores. Goals with higher scores provide more value to your life. Goals with lower scores distract you from finding happiness! How many surprises did you have? Did you have any negative scores?
Act!
Choose your three most important goals. Word them positively; as precisely as possible; and in the present as if you’ve already achieved them. For example, instead of, “I want to lose 2 stone,” write, “I fit size 12 jeans.” Instead of, “I don’t want to be shy,” write, “I smile warmly and show genuine interest when meeting new people.”
Now, for each goal, write down one thing that you can do this week to move towards that goal. Write them down on paper. Stick them on your bathroom mirror, inside your purse or wallet, and so on.
Revise your goals every week (some goals will change. Let it happen). You will get “somewhere nice” sooner than you think!
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.— Albert Einstein.