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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
A Mental Structure
Practice
Prepare
Perform
Progress
Passion with Precision
Practice – Introduction
Chapter 1
You Have The Talent...
Talent in Abundance
Soccer Mindset
No-One Really Knows
Your Talent, Your Decision
Chapter 2
Profile the Next Level
Becoming the Best
The Breakdown
The Nitty-Gritty
Technical
Tactical
Physical
Psychological and Social
Think About It
Chapter 3
Your Training Script
Premiership Goalkeeper
A Young Defender
An Ageing Midfielder
You Have the Power…
Chapter 4
Intentional Training
Intentional Excellence
Intentional Practice
Interesting
Intense
Internalised
Integrated
Practice with Intention
Chapter 5
How Rachel Created Race Tracks
A Girl Called Ray
Your Inner World: Your Brain
The Road to Excellence
Hungry Connections
Chapter 6
Reach for Ronaldo, Stretch for Smith
Seeing Possibility
The Imagination of a Champion
Practice Pep Talk
Prepare – Introduction
Chapter 7
Raising the Bars
The Fragility of Feeling
Your Personal Playstation Bars
Finding Your Bar Markers
Confidence Markers Examples
Energy Markers Examples
Making Your Choices
Raising Your Bars
Chapter 8
Getting into Process
Your Relationship with Football
The Process
Scripting Your Process
Simplifying Your Script
Throw in an Animal
And Your Role Model
A Script for an Oscar
Chapter 9
Your First Controller
Your Controllers
Your Body Controller
Power Poses
The Mind Body Link
Controlling your Script
Chapter 10
Your Second Controller
The Talk of a Champion
Your Thinking and Your Self-Talk
Your Inner Audio Player
A Controller Combo
Chapter 11
Your Inner Batteries
Your Inner Movie
Picture Perfect
Build your Bars
Load your Script
Power up Your Controllers
Picture Creation
Chapter 12
How Marley is learning to Mentally Contrast
A Different Way of Thinking
What Am I Going To Do?
A Brutal Competitor
The Marley in You
Prepare Pep Talk
Perform – Introduction
Chapter 13
A Matchday Mindset
Wonderful Doing Woeful
The Feeling of Winning
The Feeling of Losing
Relaxation Marks the Spot
Make Your Routine, Routine
Two Hour Countdown
Your Physical Warm Up
The Final Ten
Chapter 14
ANA and the ANTs
A Brain Called ANA
ANTs
The Squashing Process
In Soccer Tough, I gave you a simple way to squash ANTs, and here I’m going to reinforce my SPOT STOP SHIFT principle of dealing with your inner bugs. It’s simple, it’s quick, and it’s effective.
SPOT – STOP – SHIFT
STOP
SHIFT
Confident Shifting
Helpful Shifting
The Quick and the Dead
Chapter 15
BLR Ronaldo
Yala
Eleven Heaven
Fun, Freedom and Focus
Chapter 16
Playing 80/20
The Molaison Memory
Two Brains, Two States of Play
The Unconscious/Conscious Sweet-spot
Xavi
Consciously Unconscious
Check-Ins
Pressure Play
Chapter 17
Nervenstaerke
Managing Yourself
Start with the Negative
Process Control
Stick to Your Routine
Use Your Controllers
Stick to Your Script
Squash the Killer ANTs
Commit to Front Foot Football
Perform Pep Talk
Progress – Introduction
Chapter 18
Your One True Vision
The Soccer Image Scale
Your Soccer Image Scale
Chapter 19
Going Dark and Being Tough
Going Dark
Tough on Process
Performance Second
Leaving Dark
Tough on Training
Tough on Championship habits
Chapter 20
The Body That Rayan Builds
The Story of Ray and Yannick
Focus
Inner Pictures
Bodily Confidence and the Confidence to Play
Persistence
Improving your Soccer Image
No Other Option
Chapter 21
To Remember, To Dream
A Footballer….
Chapter 22
The Power of Yet!
The Change that Yet Makes
TAPP Mastery
Trust
Accept
Patience
Practice
Progress Pep Talk
Conclusion – Some Feedback
Other Books from Dan Abrahams
Other Books from Bennion Kearny
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