How to get over your fear of failure, and excel with confidence and joy

The Money Show's Stephen Grootes is joined by Ian Mann, MD of Gateways Business Consultants.

Every week The Money Show interviews the author or reviewer of a new or trending business book.

This week Stephen Grootes talked to regular reviewer Ian Mann, MD of Gateways Business Consultants.

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

It's written by performance coach Jim Murphy, who works on mental skills with some of the top athletes in the world.

It shares how learning this inner excellence '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 thing about this book is it's really got very little to do with sport other than it uses sport as background and that Murphy was a sportsman who played for the Chicago Cubs."

"He now trains sports people, but only at Olympic level... It's about developing yourself, and the business translation is obvious."

"He posits that in the Western world we've become obsessed with 'affluenza' which he says is very easy to contract.

"It makes us think that if we're successful we're entitled... You've got to be trying all the time to get more but it's not that you want more, it's that you want more than somebody else has got... and he explains how the best sports people he works with are very different to that."

 "Murphy talks about how we've got to try and find what's going to really make us happy, for example when you watch little kids and they get good at playing recorder or at running they really run and they really play, and really enjoy it."

"As you get older you move from doing something because it's fun to 'I have to', 'I have to be the best', 'I have to beat others'... and that's a transition and actually takes your eye off the ball."

"The interesting thing, he says, is that if there's an Olympic runner who came second but did his personal best, does that mean he failed? He says there's no such thing really as failure, it's just information you're collecting that might be useful."

"Working on yourself is far more valuable to you in business and everywhere else than it is trying to compare yourself with other people."

Ian Mann, MD - Gateways Business Consultants

Description on Amazon:

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).

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

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