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In The unison — body, mind, and spirit. To causes self-doubt, which will hinder

get to that point, coaches get the player creativity and can lead to dejection and
ZONE to practice every move mindfully. The depression. Confidence is an arousal

great coaches pay attention to every emotion where you believe in yourself
detail of what the athlete does, whether and your abilities, and you can take
it’s their skating, shooting ability, or steps to build it by:
ice awareness. If a player mindfully
• Trusting yourself. Believe that you
practices to perfect the details, then in can learn, grow, and accomplish your
a game, he or she has the best chance
goals.
to perform at their highest ability.
With Justin Roethlingshoefer
emotions, but don’t condemn yourself. On the golf course, I have been • Leaving your comfort zone. Taking
O wn Your Life If you feel terrible about something teamed up with a group to complete risks and trying new things will show
you that you are capable of more than
within one or more pillars, reevaluate
One of the hardest things we and move on once you have determined a foursome. Because we didn’t know you realize.
do in life is keeping all our balls in the what to do. If it’s in your past, learn each other, the first guy pulled out his
air at once. Even before reading about driver and said, “This is the first time • Accepting praise. Be comfortable
from it and apply those lessons to your with well-deserved praise, as people
the eight pillars of High Performance life. If it’s something you’re dealing I’ve played in twenty years. I used
Living, you probably felt like you to be okay at it but forgive me if I’m notice positive changes in you.
with now, using the tools will help Refusing praise is not the same thing
had to do twenty things. While HPL you deal with it in a healthier way rusty.” Boom! He hits the ball straight
might seem more of the same, I have and to draw you closer to that High down the middle of the fairway for 250 as humility.
structured the program so that it yards. This tells me he must have been • Being humble. Being humble
Performance Life of fulfillment.
enables you to manage your life better. a good golfer back in the day because sounds out of place on a list of ways
The key to making High Performance It’s okay to forgive yourself for his mind and body remembered how to to improve your confidence. We often
Living work for you is concentrating things you feel you’ve screwed up; in hit a golf ball from that long ago. mistake the concept of humility for
on your eight pillars and making sure fact, it’s necessary to move forward. I That is exactly the state of being humiliation, but they’re quite different.
your approach to each of them is firmly have met plenty of people who forgive I want you to achieve with High It means honestly recognizing our
connected to your values. When you others for things they did but can’t do Performance Living. You can develop limitations as well as our positive
do this, you are streamlining your life the same for themselves. When that it by mindfully embracing your pillars attributes. Being humble means you
because you will begin to associate happens, you are putting yourself in a and focusing on what you have to can understand where you need to
those different balls you are juggling circular trap from which it’s difficult to do to improve them in your life. In improve, and you are willing to learn.
with particular pillars. Doing so will escape. Forgiving yourself is one of the essence, you’re accomplishing your
is
confidence
Accompanying
help you have a deeper understanding most freeing actions you can ever do. own muscle memory by exercising the tenacity you conjure up within
of each pillar within your own life. The If you’ve read the whole series, you mindfulness. You are conditioning
best way you can implement HPL is to know enough about my life to realize yourself to consider your work with yourself that makes it easier to stick
with High Performance Living.
consciously practice it. if I didn’t forgive myself, I would be your pillars a natural part of your life,
stuck in a dark place. You will also see When we find ourselves confronted
Conscious practice requires continually reevaluating where you’re with large or difficult tasks, we often
that since High Performance Living
mindfulness. Mindfulness is a means interacting closely with others, at with each pillar. feel overwhelmed. It is precisely at
conscious choice of living in the such times when we need to cultivate
you have to afford that same non- One last thing I want to talk about
present, guided by value-based judgment to them. is that as you come to implement tenacity. So how do you do it? Here are
decisions and exercising non-judgment High Performance Living, share it some suggestions:
on others. It’s a state of being, where In the gym, for example, you have with others. Wouldn’t it be better,
• Begin with the end in mind. Before
your fundamental core values define to practice the fundamentals, the basic more productive, and enjoyable if you you begin a pillar, understand what it
your mindset, guide your decisions, movement patterns over and over interacted with others living a High
align your intentions and actions, again. As a coach, you want the athlete Performance Life? is you’re doing, why you’re doing it,
and what it’ll look like when you’ve
and result in serving, supporting, and to have the basics down pat. From the
championing the success of others. fundamentals, a player can grow in the The more you implement High accomplished it.
different skills necessary to excel in Performance Living into your lifestyle, • Break down each pillar into small
You have to be conscious of what hockey. the more opportunity you will have to
you’re doing while applying your core cultivate your confidence. There’s a goals that add up to what you want to
values. To achieve High Performance The name for performing something delicate balance between confidence ultimately accomplish.
Living, you have to be fully engaged over and over again without thinking is and conceit. Overconfidence can • Set goals and be sure to tell
in all its phases. An important concept “muscle memory”. First, it’s not only lead to arrogance and that causes someone you trust about your goals.
of mindfulness is the non-judgment the muscle you’re conditioning but individuals to view themselves as This puts you on the hook.
piece. Yes, you have to evaluate the entire body and mind. In hockey, being superior or more important than
yourself regarding each pillar and your every part of the body has to work in other people. But, a lack of confidence Continued on page 42