September 19th, 2008
I believe one of the things that brings people to their feet in standing ovations night after night is the passion I put into my performances. I was lucky that I was brought up to put passion into whatever I did. Not just will and discipline - but passion. Something completely different and in a class of it’s own.
I meet thousands of people every week who shake my hand and tell me how lucky I am to make money doing something I love to do. The fact is, I make money doing many things I love from performing on big concert stages to personal coaching helping people achieve super strength and life-long dreams. For these things I am truly grateful for Sure.
Many of the people who shake my hand coming out of the theaters wish they had found something in their lives that gave them so much passion. I know - because they tell me.
I was fortunate to have incredible parents who not only gave me direction and discipline but also instilled in me that passion is something you should seek and develop every day - and that passion should show in your work and on your face no matter what you did. It should inspire both you and people around you. To me that is why I say passion is what gives you strength in all you do.
Unfortunately, passion is something people wait for instead of going after it. Many act as if they’ve missed their opportunity because they’re too old. In reality, passion is something you need to look for deep inside and rekindle every day no matter what age. A fire doesn’t burn without fuel, nor without great coaching.
Every performance I give, I get someone afterwards asking me how they can ignite the passion for their work too. I don’t have a quick and snappy answer unfortunately that can bring about fast change. It does take some coaching and time to help develop.
And this is exactly why I just wanted to drop you a quick email to introduce you to my good friend Steve Little who is an expert in helping people find exactly that in their work and business.
He’s an extraordinary business coach with an impressive track record for helping people find the perfect vocation or business that is genetically matched to their DNA - the kind of match that can most certainly ignite passion for what you do.
He has created a 20 page F R E E report that teaches you the 17 vital steps to finding your perfect business.
I strongly recommend you take 10 minutes right now to read what he has to say. It will change your life and how you look at business.
To Your Strength and Mastery - and Passion! Garin Bader
PS. This is a completely fr*ee report. You don’t even have to sign up to his site to get it. He’s just giving it away. Go here right now and read it. You’ll be glad you did.
PPS. I just filmed the famed Glacier Bay in Alaska and will be putting some footage up for all my subscribers with a special transformational breathing exercise I do before every performance It’ll go up within the next week as soon as it’s edited. The footage is HD too. 
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September 15th, 2008
Here are #12 and #13 of twenty-five reasons I’ve come up with that we fail to master optimal mental focus.
Again, they are not in order of importance. We would enjoy far more frequent successes in our lives if we spent just as much time on mental mastery as we do on physical mastery. There is unbelievable synergy created when they are worked on together in unison. Unfortunately, many never enjoy the vast rewards of this synergy because of these reasons…
To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
12 ) We think that mental focus will miraculously become keener when the game is on. We fool ourselves with that adage that we work best under pressure and that the eyes of a crowd or adrenaline will somehow sharpen our mental lenses purely by the “magic of the moment”.
Granted, many of us have done some of our best work under pressure. Deadlines can be a good motivator. But, they don’t always bring us optimal inspiration nor our best performances. To rely on keen mental focus because of the pressure of deadlines is courting disaster more than it’s courting inspiration.
Although we may have given some of our best performances under pressure, we shouldn’t depend on that and it’s reckless to do so. Those that have been practicing 2-4 years for the Gold in the Olympics know that their competition have also been rehearsing under every condition and way ahead of schedule in order to win. They’re certainly not depending on the Olympic Torch to give them last minute inspirations and newfound abilities. To wait until the last minute for inspiration that may or may not come is certainly not preparing yourself to stay within your optimal mental focus zone.
Certainly miraculous things often will occur when the synergy of a crowd, adrenaline, and other factors are present, but to not prepare ahead of time in every aspect to the best of our ability is to be hoping for the best instead of preparing for the best.
13 ) We haven’t practiced mental focus techniques when our blood sugar is low, when we haven’t eaten, or slept well and are not used to regaining it quickly in those circumstances nor have techniques to help circumvent those conditions in the first place. High stress situations put your body in precarious situations quite often that completely crumble the best mental focus practitioners. So, when your body isn’t feeling up to par in real life competition and/or inevitable high stress situations, the reason our mental focus often spirals out of control is because we haven’t practiced in those kinds of sub-par conditions.
People often say there is not a substitute for experience on the playing field. That may be true in one sense. But what is for certain is that we don’t learn to practice and cope with “bad” physical conditions when we rehearse. Most people always want to feel in the best physical condition before they go out to practice because they feel they should achieve optimal performance every time or simply hate feeling uncomfortable.
The fact is, in performance and in the heat of the game, nothing is usually perfect and far from being comfortable. Your body is usually feeling stress long before your mind even recognizes it. So, if you haven’t rehearsed when your body isn’t feel well for whatever reason, those conditions will completely throw you off your best performance.
I feel you can create your own “experience” every day by rehearsing every scenario you may ever encounter - including those days where your body isn’t feeling it’s best. Having the attitude that every day is a good day of learning even if your body is feeling like crap, will bring you mastery much faster and you’ll gain experience at a much faster rate than most of your competitors.
Murphy’s Law is usually present in stressful conditions and we must practice to retain the keenest of mental focus when Murphy comes visiting. For some reason he always has a pass to get into every situation! He’s never invited but Always seems to show up for those that don’t expect him. “Bad” conditions are normal circumstances that occur in competition and unfortunately most of us practice mental focus to operate under the best conditions - which rarely happens in the field of competition or performance.
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September 1st, 2008
Here are eleven out of twenty-five reasons I’ve come up with that we fail to master optimal mental focus. They are not in order of importance. We would enjoy far more frequent successes in our lives if we spent just as much time on mental mastery as we do on physical mastery. There is unbelievable synergy created when they are worked on together in unison. Unfortunately, many never enjoy the vast rewards of this snynergy because of these reasons…
11 Good Reasons We Fail to Master Mental Focus…..
1) We spend hours training our bodies and usually schedule no more than a few minutes with mental focus techniques - if even that. We brush our teeth regularly without trying to come up with excuses not too. And yet, we often do it without any self-negotiating for a lot longer than we spend in trying to master seeing our successes in our minds with complete clarity and conviction.
2) We know mental focus is necessary for peak performance but still spend little time trying to learn and incorporate new ideas into our training that may work better for us. Just like anything else, what may seem like small adjustments actually translate into huge returns if you’re willing to experiment and be vigilant to those small degrees that either improve or degrade your performance. Think of how a golf club amplifies a bad stroke - mastering small adjustments is a never-ending quest for the master to know how to activate the best stroke for the situation. Likewise, you want to spend time tweaking and mastering “small details” consistently as well.
3) We spend a lot of time talking about mental focus training and reading books about it, but too little time in actually applying what we know or have learned. Knowledge is not mastery in itself - applying knowledge to action regularly puts us on the road to mastery faster than anything else. There are enough armchair critics who have little comphrension of how to engage peak performance on the battlefield - fooling themselves into thinking that talking a good game is on the same playing field as one who is engaging it for real with real live action instead of words.
4) We think that mental focus will come automatically once we master our chosen physical activity. The reverse is most often the solution. Unfortunately, we spend countless hours practicing actions with half-assed intentions thinking that mastery of the physical with give us automatic mastery over the mental and end up never realizing the synergy that’s created when you work on the mastery of both of them at the same time.
5) We often waste time stubbornly trying to adopt another’s mental focus techniques instead of modifying things to better fit us or taking the initiative to discover our own methods that’ll work best for us. It’s great to go shopping for designer clothing. But if the look doesn’t fit, either go to a tailor or adjust it yourself to fit perfectly. Some styles you love may fit and look much better on a completely different body type than your own. Let them wear it and find what works best for you.
6) Even though we know this, for lack of imagination, stubbornness, or courage to find our own way, we keep trying to make our current visualizations translate well into physical actions regardless of their poor performance record. Eventually because of unpredictable outcomes and continual failures, many begin regarding visualization training as trivial and give it little emphasis or time.
7) We don’t exactly know how to translate mental focus techniques into physical action - so we end up thinking too much in our heads or spending too much time in our bodies instead of seeing everything all at once like an eagles eyesight - seeing the entire valley while also soaring down honing in on the bristling hairs behind a fleeing rabbit’s ears. When you can see, hear, and feel detail and everything perspective all at once, you’re in a zone that’ll generate peak performance consistently.
8 ) We surmise that mental focus is a stationary destination and that we must remain in its zone no matter what - instead of realizing our mental focus should be a fluid lens that can quickly adapt to inevitable fluctuating circumstances. Mastering mental focus means being able to adapt to a huge palette of energies and movement that we may encounter.
9) When the stakes are high, we often focus on calming the mind down and the slower thought processes bleed out to the muscles and nervous system often resulting in sluggish body mechanics - which in turn leads to more stress because it often prompts more disatrous results because of a disconnect of mind and body moving together as one.
10) We fail to master mental focus because we spend the majority of our time mentally rehearsing optimal performances we desire in third person instead of seeing and feeling them in first person. By not really believing deep down that the masterful mental movies we’re seeing are really being performed by us, that displacement of real belief inevitably puts your brain at a disadvantage because in real live action scenarios it’s always judging your performance with that perfect one you see in your optimal mental pictures. When your brain hasn’t been conditioned to fully believe you possess the same masterful actions you see in your imagination, then your brain continually lags behind your actions instead of leading it. That’s why there’ll always be conflict between intentions and actions unless we change our thoughts and feelings to be congruent.
Your brain doesn’t know the difference between an imagined event or a real one. You’re much more likely to stay in the mental focus and peak performance zone when you’ve trained your brain to be in the actual skin of that successful athlete or performer you see in your mind at all times - feeling and reacting to every exhilarating action.
11) We don’t visualize our successful outcomes infused with the highest intensity of empowering emotions and then wonder why we can’t get optimal focus when we’re in the thick of the game or performance. Without every fiber of our being engaged in rehearsal at all times, how can we expect unwavering mental focus? In performance when our actions are being scrutinized by all, emotions suddenly flair up in force. The added surges of emotional electrical firestorms that could have been harnassed for supreme mental focus and optimal power end up throwing us off our game. Knowing all shades of what emotions and thoughts empower you help foil the ones you known definitely don’t aid you. That’s one of the reasons why rehearsing with full-on genuine emotions can empower maximum mental focus.
Many times we get rattled too easily by the emotional brainstorms that occur naturally when andrenaline is present and pumping through our veins hard and fast. Adrenaline can help give us super strength, speed, and keen mental focus. But we must learn to harness it and be able to call it up when we need it. How is adrenaline activated? Usually directly by high emotional engagement. We need neglect to train our mental focus to go with the flow under extreme pressures. Enough said?
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