Imagine you have worked on your skillset for many hours throughout your life and you have developed what you perceive to be an accurate awareness of your abilities. Imagine having spent most waking hours thinking about or listening to music since the age of about five years old. Imagine that your obsession with a particular ...
Mindset and Skillset Collide Down Under For a Cathartic Breakthrough At The Rock… After nearly 20 hours of travel, I found myself in a small charter plane preparing to land on a one-way airstrip in the middle of nowhere. Desolate, yet serene, Ayers Rock consists of a big rock and a hotel in the Australian ...
[ylwm_vimeo height=”375″ width=”550″]113184485[/ylwm_vimeo] As with top professional athletes and successful entrepreneurs, most RockStars find success by preparing or rehearsing for every game or event as if it’s a live performance and every live performance as if it’s their last. It’s the nexus between persistence and success, fueled by the desire to always Play Full ...
How to Feel Like the First Time…after 400 times The term MOJO has been bantered about from magical charms and supernatural powers to emanating charisma and instilling confidence. In the world of stars, celebrities and debutants, MOJO also involves discovering one’s purpose and sustaining real passion for that purpose. I grew up thinking that one ...
Drummer Stewart Copeland told a story about The Police’s first arena gig, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Selling out the show wasn’t the problem—it was adjusting from the small stage to a massive arena with a dispersed audience, strange acoustics, a cold space…and a drummer’s worst nightmare: a broken bass drum head ...
Excerpt from CONQUERING LIFE’S STAGE FRIGHT One of my worst anxieties comes from the fact that anything could derail or distract me at any time. Since unexpected events are among the most potent means of stimulating physiological stress reactions, many performers adopt rigid preparation schedules, ordering their lives on the day of a show so ...
In his book, Strengths Finder 2.0, Tom Rath wrote, “People who do have the opportunity to focus on their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life.” When you are confronting a presentation, communication ...
Understand Your Fear Jerry Seinfeld has a quote: “According to most studies, people’s No. 1 fear is public speaking. No. 2 is death. Death is No. 2. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” Have you ...
I have a viewpoint that I like to do things for the highest good of all concerned- as opposed to just ‘my’ concern. This applies to performance as it relates to a team, band, company, family or any group beyond a solo performance. It is our responsibility to have clarity not only for ourselves, but ...
If you’ve ever seen P!NK perform, she creates really extraordinary, physically straining shows, if only for the sake of confronting her own limitations, despite an unyielding moratorium on lip syncing. No matter how crazy she gets with her mystifying upside down spins in the silks or acrobatic drops 40 feet above the stage, she’ll only ...
An excerpt from CONQUERING LIFE’S STAGE FRIGHT: Victoria Recaño, an Emmy award-winning presenter, best known as correspondent and host of The Insider. She recently filmed a soliloquy in a movie—and blanked. “I was freaking out. I’ve never had that happen. I had no idea what the line was. It blows your whole confidence, and suddenly ...
NFL free agent Clint Stitser relies on strict visualization techniques that not only enable him to focus as a pro athlete, but as the head of his residential real estate business. “For me it’s an outcome-based obsession (clarity about the goal). I build a tunnel to my target. I walk the field anytime I have ...
