Olympic athletes can function so well under the extreme pressure of the Games because they train for years! They learn to put together all their resources, physical as well as mental and psychological. Physical excellence alone doesn't set apart winners from non-winners. All things being equal, those who have the greater mental strength and mastery of their emotions win.

There is a strong connection between our mental state and our performance. Training in intense concentration, mental strength, mood management, mind over matter, and crisis management can help athletes to perform at their highest potential. Since we all need these qualities, here a few of the basic principles needed to trigger your ideal performance state, creating success for yourself in whatever arena you are performing in... be it business, sports, raising children or whatever.

So let's get started with our training!

It's very important to monitor our personal energy states when we perform and be able to trigger High Positive Energy states such as enthusiasm, joy, excitement, laughter, awe, etc. during performances. You then must be able to go to Low Positive energy states such as rest, relaxation, quietly playing, etc. afterwards to recover. Negative energy dissipates your concentration and works against you.

Thinking and Visualizing is also extremely important. Decide precisely what you want to accomplish. Make a clear mental picture and at least twice a day, go somewhere private, clear your mind and think about your goal, visualizing it as if it is already happening. If you can meditate, use this time to internalize these pictures and you won't believe how quickly your thoughts can become your reality.

Focus on your best moves, your power moves. Top performers constantly focus on their power moves rather than on the outcome. This concentrates their powers for excellent performance. The experience of "flow," a state of perfect mind-body unison during performance, results from intense concentration on the task at hand and suspension of the outcome.

Reduce your general level of stress. Learn deep breathing, controlled breathing, and muscle relaxation exercises. You probably have noticed athletes doing just that as they wait for their turn to compete. Aerobic and anaerobic exercises to maintain peak energy and clear thinking should be added to the mix along with some good deep diaphragmatic breathing as well as plenty of sleep.

Prepare for the task by doing both "mental practice" and actual practice. Mental practice consists of visualizing a perfect performance in detail. When you combine the two type of practices in the preparatory period, you can attain a greater mastery of the task.

Picture the whole sequence of actions in your mind, before you start. Master artists visualize a whole picture, in their mind's eve before they pick up a brush. Mentally trained athletes visualize the whole sequence of their intended feat before they actually perform it.

Work on each of these areas for the next 4 weeks, tracking and assessing your progress, and you'll have placed yourself in training for the most important event ever. Your Life! There are also some very powerful self-help programs such as Stop Begging! Start Manifesting which can help with this process.

Remember, for you as with the Olympic athletes, there really isn't such a thing as luck. Your success is due to your own self help motivation and efforts.

Your Success Happens Because of Your Own Olympic Efforts!