Special Report For Athletically-Minded, Successful Male Executives

NOTICE: For Athletically Minded, Successful Male Executives Only.

Great Results/Less Effort

Up until now you had to choose

How to Make 2009 Your 'Career Year' by Producing Great Results With Ease

"How to Blow Your Performance Through the Roof ... with Ease and Satisfaction" 

  

The 7 Keys to Great Results with Less Effort

Hall of Famers' Secrets You Can Use to Crush Your 2009 Goals and Have a "Career Year"... even in THIS economy

Yes, You Can Get Great Results, With Ease, and Feel Good About Yourself All at the Same Time... Just like you Did on Those Magical Times on the Playing Field

Makes 2009 Your Career Year

From: Tom Hanson, Ph.D., Tampa, FL
 

Dear Athletically Minded, Successful Business Man:

Remember that feeling of totally crushing a drive on the golf course -- a monster straight and huge?

Or when the baseball jumped off your bat and into orbit back in high school or college?

Or when you had a peak moment in any sport (or sexual activity)?

Did you put a out a max effort to create those results?

Not likely.

More likely they felt nearly effortless.  Easy.  Flowing.

So you got great results with less effort...and no doubt you felt great about yourself.   You truely enjoyed the moment.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could translate that formula to your business performance?

Great results (rip through your goals)
Less effort (even a sense of ease!) and
Feel great (as opposed to stressed out, overwhelmed, fat, out of balance, guilty, like you're still not enough, or even that you're somehow a fake).


And wouldn't it be nice if you could apply this formula to reach other goals, too, like:

Fitness and weight loss goals
Relationship goals
Life adventure goals


If any of those interest you, please keep reading.

I'm Dr. Tom Hanson, and...

For the Last 25 Years I've Been Preparing Myself to Write You This Letter

I earned my Ph.D. specializing in sport psychology, interviewed great athletes like Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Pete Rose, Carl Yaztrzemski and many others.

I wrote a best-selling book on mental toughness, got tenure as a sports performance professor (then left that security to pursue a dream), consulted full time with the New York Yankees (dream), built a highly successful executive coaching business and, most importantly, manifested  a great wife and the two best kids ever. 

Along the way I've had highs when I made my dreams come true (coaching in the Yankee Stadium clubhouse, speaking to Microsoft execs, becoming a best selling business book author)...

And lows when life kicked me in the ass (e.g., being diagnosed as clinically depressed at one point in the late '90s).

So for 25 years I've been learning from and coaching high-end professionals, and (more importantly) attempting to live a life consistent with what I've learned.

In a moment I'm going to share some highlights of what I learned with you, but so we don't waste each other's time, here's who this report is for:

This Report is for Your If...

You're a man and in the business world;
You played sports, or at least love sports;
You know what winning feels like, you love that feeling, and you want more of it;
You love to compete, and you know that to win you must prepare, you must condition your body and mind for the battle;
You're always looking to improve -- you've taken seminars, read "Good to Great" and are fired up (or want to be) about reaching higher goals;
You're open minded -- you'll consider new ideas if they will help you get what you want;
You know winning isn't enough: you want to feel great (be fulfilled and satisfied) in addition to hitting your goals.


Still with me?  Let's go...

The 7 Keys to Great Results With Less Effort

Blowing Your Performance Through the Roof With Ease and Satisfaction

Key #1: Desire

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She wants him so badly
Knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page...

Its no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov

-- The Police 

No suprise to you here, I hope.  The top quality for success is desire.

Not talent, not luck, desire.

When we want something so badly it makes us shake and cough we'll do everything in our power to get it.

Desire gives us energy and directs our focus.

When we have energy and focus we take action.

Hank Aaron told me his incredible focus in his final years stemmed from his desire to give a black man a voice in the world by beating the great White Babe Ruth's home run record.

That desire gave him energy and directed his focus.

Napoleon Hill, in the self-help classic "Think and Grow Rich" interviewed scores of the most successful businessmen in the first half of the 20th century, starting with Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world.

The book is the keystone modern study of greatness.

The number one success quality he found in his research?  Desire.

With desire, action comes naturally, easily, and doesn't feel like work.

Desire includes both what you want to DO, and who you want to be.

But there are two problems people have with desire...

Desire Problem #1: Most people lack real desire.

(Perhaps you work with a few people like this.)

Since there isn't a fire burning inside them, they don't produce great results in the world.

People rarely realize desire as their performance issue.

For example, a salesman was having trouble attracting new customers and said: "I think I need to learn a whole new sales system."

Coaching question: "What if I told you I'd chop off your son's arm if you didn't get a new client this week. Do you think you'd get a new client?"

Desire Problem #2: People who lack desire don't think they can do anything about it.

"Either you have desire or you don't" is their approach. So they wait around hoping a random "desire storm" hits them and infuses them with passion.

That's a colossal waste of time.

Desire can be cultivated. Easily. Quickly. Powerfully.

And regardless of your performance level now, fueling your inner fire will put your performance through the roof.

Read on to find out how.

Key #2: Energy

I've already mentioned that desire fuels energy, but energy so big it merits its own spotlight.

Without energy nothing happens.

With abundant energy, results are produced with ease.

Einstein, voted best mind of the 20th century, focused on energy because he deemed it the most important thing to study he could think of.

Bring to mind someone you think is a great performer from sports or business, and I can assure you that person has great energy.

And not just "a lot" of energy -- like Richard Simmons energy.

Yes greats are fit and have a high quantity of energy, but they also have a high quality of energy.

Their energy "burns clean" -- meaning they are fueled by passion rather than fear and values like integrity and compassion and excellence rather than selfishness

"Clean burning" fuel makes producing great results happen with ease.

So I'm not just talking about diet and exercise.  Having great energy includes clarity on who you are, on your purpose, and on your values.

Top performers deliberately improve the strength, quality, resilence, flexibility, balance and control of their energy.

How?  See below.

Key #3: Relentless Focus on a Clear Target

Hall-of-Fame-level performers have clear targets.

Unlike lesser performers who have vague ideas and multiple ambitions, greats know what they are shooting at.

"See the ball, hit the ball," Pete Rose told me, "that's about it."

He set the all time record for most hits in the history of Major League Baseball, all by relentlessly focusing on a clear target.

"I set goals," you may say.

Great; maybe you do follow the principles of goal setting.

But the key is in the goal getting!

The greats I've interviewed and studied burn their goals into their systems.  They turn their bodies and minds into heat-seeking missles for their goals.

Goals must be conditioned in your body.  Just like doing one set of curls doesn't give you beach-ready guns, simply setting goals doesn't arm you for success.

Repeatedly "emotionalizing" your goals, using the same training principles you use to condition your body when you're in the gym, is an often missed key to producing great results with less effort.  

More on that below...

Key #4: Removal of Obstacles

Great results with less effort means you move freely. 

With no resistence. 

You may have external challenges, but inside you are totally freed up.

(Think of a time in sports when you had a big challenge but overcame it with an effortless effort.)

People who feel they need to struggle to succeed usually think their biggest obstacles are external or physical:  "I'm too short, don't have enough money, don't know the right people, aren't good looking enough," etc.

But in my experience, virtually without fail, the biggest obstacles to success are internal: our own thoughts and emotions.

Specifically, the greatest barrior (and booster) to performance is your self-image.  That is, who you believe yourself to be.

You can't outperform your self-image.  You can't perform better than your subconscious mind is comfortable performing.

As crazy as it sounds, I'll bet the reason you don't have a higher net worth, a tighter waistline, or a more fullfilling life is that you've got unconscious, limiting beliefs in your head that are holding you back. 

and you may not be comfortable getting great results easily! 

I often coach people who have no fear of success, but do believe it has to be hard. 

Do you

feel guilty when you take a vacation?

You've got a governer inside you

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What is your self-image?  Look around you. 

Your bank account tells you how much money you are comfortable having.

Your scale tells you what your self-image is for your fitness level

Your sense of peace tells you how happy you feel you should be

 

Getting in better shape and making more money and moving up the ladder are primarily a function of your self-image.

So for most people, making more money, getting more fit, and living a more fun, adventurous, fulfilling life is much more a function of expanding their self-image (removing the negative beliefs that are running the show in your unconscious mind) than it is learning some new sales or fitness techniques.

How do you do expand your self-image?

Read on...

Key #5: Practice

In the new book "Outliers:  The Story of Success" Malcolm Gladwell cites the well-accepted idea that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to gain world class expertise.

Yes, he writes, the John and Paul were very talented, but the Beatles spent a couple of years playing at bars in Hamburg Germany in the late 1950's where they played 7 to 8 hours a night without a break!

That's serious practice.  They conditioned themselves for success.  

In fact, Gladwell poo-poos the idea of talent, citing that 

But you can't just "put in your time." 

Another key distinction that seperates the Tiger Woodses from from What'sHisNames is called "deliberate practice."1. Focus on technique as opposed to outcome.
2. Set specific goals.
3. Get good, prompt feedback, and use it.

You can blow your performance through the roof by adopting a set of daily "practices" that condition your mind and body for success.

What are those practices? 

Read on...

Key #6: A Mastermind Group

 

 

Key #7: Taking Massive Action

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Personal Optimizer:  Personal Best