Confident mind : a battle-tested guide to unshakable performance

Table of Contents: Introduction: What Confidence Is and Isn't 1. Accepting What You Cannot Change 2. Building Your Bank Account #1: Filtering Your Past for Valuable Deposits 3. Building Your Bank Account #2: Constructive Thinking in the Present 4. Building Your Bank Account #3:Envisioning Your Ideal Future 5. Protecting Your Confidence Every Day, No Matter What 6. Deciding to Be Different 7. Entering the Arena with Confidence 8. Playing a Confident Game from Start to Finish 9. Ensuring the Next First Victory: Reflect, Plan, and Commit-or What? So What? and Now What?

The book is a complete guide to self-belief for professionals in any field: how to understand it, how to build it, how to protect it, and how to apply it when your performance matters. The author works with the cream of the US military to prepare them mentally for leadership and for action and also trains top sportsmen and women to develop the self-belief essential for world-class performance. In this process, the author shows how to make positive use of nervousness, what acquiring a success cycle involves, and why self-assurance, like all skills, requires constant practice. Drawing on the latest research, and packed with real-life examples, this is a supremely practical - and inspirational - guide to achieving bullet-proof confidence.