Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life

Want More Joy and Confidence? Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how the mindset of some of the best performers and leaders on the planet allowed them to have freedom and confidence when so much was out of their control. Whether you’re an athlete or entrepreneur, single mother or father of five, you’ll find exercises, techniques and tools in this book that will improve every area of your life. Your life will take on new meaning as you move beyond the pursuit of happiness to a life of purpose and fulfillment. Jim Murphy's complete program of proven mental techniques is based on the powerful principles of love, wisdom, and courage, that came from over six years of full-time research and writing (after his masters degree in Coaching Science). “I read the first version of Inner Excellence six times. I recommend all my clients read it.” – Matt Killen, PGA Tour coach to Justin Thomas, Tiger Woods and many others INNER EXCELLENCE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO: DEVELOP SELF-MASTERY—and let go of what you can’t control OVERCOME ANXIETY—and build powerful mental habits REMOVE MENTAL BLOCKS—and get out of your own way TRAIN YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND—and release limiting beliefs As professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization, Jim’s sense of worth and identity revolved around his performance. He was obsessed with fame but also afraid of failure, and that fear in his heart made him struggle under the pressure to perform. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he saw the same pattern over and over again: athletes had lost their joy and passion for life as the fear of failure engulfed their lives. This book will share with you how some of the best athletes in the world have learned Inner Excellence, how it propelled them to extraordinary performance even when they were filled with doubt and uncertainty, and how you can excel in the same way in your life. The insights and exercises within will help you achieve higher levels of performance than you ever thought possible—and bring incredible peace and confidence. “Inner Excellence changed how I see the world, how I think, and how I play golf.” - Vaughn Taylor, three-time PGA Tour winner Jim Murphy is a Performance Coach (mental skills) to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. The majority of his clients achieved the best year of their career their first year working with Jim (or their best year in the previous five years) Praise for Inner Excellence Preface Presuppositions (Assumptions) Introduction 1 Maslow and the Maserati The Pursuit of More 2 Where the Wild Things Are Pride and Fear and the Center of the Universe 3 The Greatest Opponents You’ll Ever Face The Critic, Monkey Mind, and the Trickster 4 The Daring and the Twilight Three Pillars of Extraordinary Performance 5 Code of the Samurai How a group of warriors mastered their ego 6 Change Your State, Change Your Life How to Control Your Emotions 7 The World Is Flat How to Develop Beliefs in Line with your Dreams 8 A Clear and Present Beauty The Five Most Powerful Ways to Be Fully Present 9 Unstoppable How to Overcome Mental Blocks, Fears and Phobias 10 The Hero and the Goat: How to Have Poise Under Pressure 11 Maslow, Michael Jordan, and the Navy Seals Three Hallmarks of Extraordinary Leaders Conclusion A New Way of Life About the author Inner Excellence FAQs Appendix A 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Step-by step training manual for mental skills to develop mental toughness, train your subconscious mind, overcome mental blocks, and develop empowering habits. Adapted from back cover