Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

by Jason Selk

Overview

From the mental toughness coach of a World Series-winning team―a simple, three-step program to winning in life

People with inborn talent may be good at what they do—but only the mentally tough reach the highest plateaus in their field. Fortunately, mental toughness is something anyone from any walk of life can learn.

Director of mental training for the St. Louis Cardinals and a top-tier executive coach, Dr. Jason Selk is an expert on teaching people how to develop the mental toughness needed to attain their goals. In this book, he shares hands-on daily exercises for breaking old, self-defeating patterns of behavior and replacing them with the can-do attitude and positive behavior that leads to measurable positive results. 

Executive Toughness outlines the steps for attaining high-level success:

•Accountability―truly develop a “no-excuse” mentality

•Focus―significantly increase attention, focus and confidence

•Optimism―recognize and redirect thoughts patterns for increased execution and performance 

 

By incorporating these steps into your daily life, you’ll be on the path to attaining your goals. Once you make these behaviors part of your mental “DNA,” and there will be no turning back! 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260135305
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	07/04/2018
Edition description:	Updated
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jason Selk is one of the premier performance coaches in the United States. He helps numerous well-known professional and Olympic athletes as well as Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 executives and organizations develop the mental toughness necessary for high-level success.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Andy Hill

Preface 

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Mental Toughness: Potentially the Difference Between Life and Death

Foundation of Mental Toughness: What You Want and Who You Are

Chapter 1: Define Your Win: Determine Your Purpose and Priorities

Chapter 2: Turn Up Your Thermostat: Heat Up Your Performance

Developing Executive Toughness Characteristic 1: Accountability: Doing What Needs to Be Done

Chapter 3: The Process of Achievement: Goals That Really Work

Chapter 4: Prioritizing the Priorities: Schedule It or Forget It

Chapter 5: Accountability Through Self-Evaluation: Learn to Look in the Mirror Every Day

Developing Executive Toughness Characteristic 2: Focus: Improving Execution and Consistency

Chapter 6: Preparation: Control Your Emotions, Control Your Performance

Chapter 7: Script Your Way to Focus: Always Say the Right Thing

Chapter 8: The Mental Workout: 100 Seconds a Day Keeps Failure Away

Developing Executive Toughness Characteristic 3: Optimism: Overcoming All Obstacles

Chapter 9: Relentless Solution Focus: The Ultimate Measure of Mental Toughness

Chapter 10: Gable Discipline: Optimism Through Unremitting Action

Conclusion: The Minimum Requirements for Greatness

Notes

Index