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The first research-based program to offer concise, clear ways to realize your best performance.
As a therapist, physician, and mental coach, Dr. Michael Lardon has dedicated his career to helping athletes understand and better achieve peak performance. In Finding Your Zone, he shares with readers what he’s discovered about reaching the state in which “thoughts and actions are occurring in complete synchronicity,” and how this state is accessible to all, not just the few.
In ten key lessons—illustrated by personal anecdotes from his clients—Lardon teaches readers how to access the zone not only in sports but in all aspects of their lives, by understanding how to:
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Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life
Good book, well written. I’m a competitive skeet shooting and some of his tips regarding focus were very helpful.
Rating: 3 / 5
“Finding Your Zone” certainly hit the right zone with me. As a former athlete and current business executive, I found the insights and suggestions provided by Dr. Lardon to be valuable and quite thought provoking. I also find it most interesting to see how Dr. Lardon was able to go well beyond the simple sports anecdotes that we find in so many books of this type. Instead he expands these stories and applies them to our thinking process in a manner that is understandable and easy reading for the non-docter community. My only real question is when does Dr Lardon’s next book come out……I’ll be interested to see how he follows up on this excellent first effort.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is easy to read. It lays out what needs to be done to get into the optimal state of mind in which to do your best. Michael Lardon uses concise examples to illustrate his points, which seem to be:
* Trust and believe in your dreams;
* Prepare fully (practise a lot);
* Transform desire (expressed through dreams) into will (by harnessing direction and goals to desire);
* Keep everything as simple as possible;
* Focus on process not product goals (avoid “monkey mind” where there is a lot of distraction and not much directed effort);
* Approach emotions from different perspectives to keep things in context (”know-mind awareness);
* Be intrinsically motivated, with extrinsic (especially material) motivation only to supplement the ‘pure’ intrinsic motivation;
* Take action;
* Build self-confidence by a) looking to what you’ve done well before, b) seeing yourself do what others are doing, c) modelling behaviours of others, and d) accepting the faith others express in you.
I found the book enjoyable and intriguing, but to me it just hints at what to do to achieve the zone. This is a 162 page essay about what Lardon has observed is common to those who can get into the zone, not how to get there.
For a complemntary book that is essentially the equivalent of a gym programme for the mind, I recommend “10 Minute Toughness: The mental training programe for winning before the game begins” by Jason Selk.
Rating: 4 / 5
Good gift for an athlete.Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life
Rating: 5 / 5
As a professional artist and teacher I found Mike Lardon’s book both inspirational and very helpful in getting into that most important zone while painting. It also gave me insight into how to relax before an audience. It changed my approach to many aspects of my life.
Grace Schlesier
Rating: 5 / 5