How to Program Your Mind for Success

There is a particular mind state you can assume when playing tennis that will automatically improve your performance and ability.

If you want to get better results and create lasting changes in your game quickly, then it's important that you learn how to program your mind for success. In order to improve your current level of play, you must change some aspect of your game.

Doing the same thing will get the same results.

To get the quickest improvement, there is one singular aspect of your game that you can change, and it's your mind state. There is a very deliberate way to program your thinking to dramatically increase your results. Here's how it works.

To program your mind for success, you need to do three things:

1. Raise your standards

2. Transcend your limiting beliefs

3. Follow a better strategy

Let's examine each now.

Raise Your Standards

Your mind operates much like a Google search. To perform a search on Google, you enter keywords and wait for your results. Similarly, every time you try to analyze the reality around you, you send commands to your brain to create meaning. In other words, you tell it what to search for.

If you say to yourself, “I'll never get better”, then your brain starts thinking of reasons to validate that statement. It comes up with all sorts of useful excuses as to why you won't get better. If you asked your brain... “What would it take for me to get better?”, it will start thinking of solutions for you.

Raising your standards sends your brain on a mission to figure out ways of meeting those standards. So the first step to program your mind for success is to raise your current standards.

To read about the next two steps for programming your mind for success, click here...

Transcend Your Limiting Beliefs

I won't deny that there are certain physical attributes that can give you an advantage when playing tennis. However, the real advantage on the tennis court is the mind. This is because your mental state largely controls your physical state. If you are depressed mentally, you assume a certain posture. If you are confident, you assume another posture.

Consider this limiting belief: “I'll never be a good tennis player because my serve is weak”. As long as you hold this limiting belief to be true, it doesn't matter what you do to try to improve your game.

Deep down, limiting beliefs are much more devastating. For example, consider this one: “I never succeed because I give up to early”. With an attitude like this, of course you will limit your success. So how do you break through your limiting beliefs and program your mind for success? By creating a new strategy.

Follow A Better Strategy

For one week I want you to pay attention to the limiting beliefs you have. Look for universal statements you make in your mind such as “Never/Always/Every/None” and so on. Then, I want you to break these limiting beliefs by looking at them from a new angle.

Let's look at the “I never succeed because I give up too early”.

Here's how to come up with a better strategy. Start asking yourself questions like:

1. Can I think of a time that I didn't give up early? What did I do then that I can do now?

2. Do all people who fail give up to early? Could there be some other reason I have had troubled succeeding in the past?

3. What would it take for me not to give up early?

4. What would my life be like if I always gave up early?

What you're doing here is looking for a new way to handle the problems you face with your game. With these new strategies, you find better solutions to your problems, and find quicker ways to make improvements on the tennis court.

The real secret to programming your mind for success is to give it something better to shoot for, to examine what is currently limiting you from reaching your new standards, and then to look at those limiting beliefs in a new light to handle them with a better strategy.