Helping Kids Perform

In today’s competitive world, the need to perform has never been greater. Yet, we all – adults and children alike – often are quite effective at mentally sabotaging our own performance! It’s not that we intend to, it’s just that we don’t really understand how our mind¬set actually affects our ability to perform. As a result, we systematically continue to make the same mistakes and our performance suffers. As adults, the unfortunate truth is that we sometimes are the agents responsible for triggering the mental sabotage of children that we are charged to support. We mean to help but in fact, our words and actions damage the mindset that allows them to deliver their best performance. Helping Kids Perform will help you to better understand the mental skills side of the performance equation and show you how you can communicate these principles to your children. It offers a framework that will clarify how the way that we think really influences how we perform, and how mindset can affect health as well. This book examines issues of self-confidence; self-esteem; coping with stress; using imagery to shape performance; controlling focus; and more. The simple tools and proven strategies offered represent a road map for the development of a set of life skills that will empower you and your children to take control of the mental “noise” that has such a powerful influence on our emotions, our behaviors, and our ability to perform.

In today’s competitive world, the need to perform has never been greater. Yet, we all – adults and children alike – often are quite effective at mentally sabotaging our own performance! It’s not that we intend to, it’s just that we don’t really understand how our mind¬set actually affects our ability to perform. As a result, we systematically continue to make the same mistakes and our performance suffers. As adults, the unfortunate truth is that we sometimes are the agents responsible for triggering the mental sabotage of children that we are charged to support. We mean to help but in fact, our words and actions damage the mindset that allows them to deliver their best performance. Helping Kids Perform will help you to better understand the mental skills side of the performance equation and show you how you can communicate these principles to your children. It offers a framework that will clarify how the way that we think really influences how we perform, and how mindset can affect health as well. This book examines issues of self-confidence; self-esteem; coping with stress; using imagery to shape performance; controlling focus; and more. The simple tools and proven strategies offered represent a road map for the development of a set of life skills that will empower you and your children to take control of the mental “noise” that has such a powerful influence on our emotions, our behaviors, and our ability to perform.

Dr. Jacques Dallaire is an internationally-recognized performance expert who received his Doctorate in Exercise Physiology from the University of Alberta in 1979. Over the past forty years, Dr. Dallaire has worked with thousands of individuals from the high-performance sport world and beyond, including law enforcement and other high-risk occupational professions, the entertainment world, and the business community. He splits his time delivering sports team and corporate group performance programs as well as individual, one-on-one programs with high-performance clients. Dr. Dallaire is President of Performance Prime, a North Carolina-based company which he founded, is an author (Performance Thinking), a Founding Member of the International Council of Motorsport Sciences, and in 2997 was inducted into the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame, recognizing the positive impact he has had in the sport of motor racing.