Darrin Donnelly

The Key to Overcoming Anxiety

“Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.” – Jack Nicklaus, 18-Time Major Golf Champion   Anxiety. Worry. Fear. These are closely tied emotions that cause all kinds of problems for us. They damage our health, weaken our immune systems, and hamper our performance in sports, business, and any number of various mental and physical activities. [...]

Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life

“It’s repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” – Muhammad Ali, 3-Time Heavyweight Boxing Champion   Our inner beliefs shape the way we see the world and determine the direction of our lives. We tend to achieve what we believe we’re capable of [...]

Michael Jordan on How to Deal with Failure

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan, 6-Time NBA Champion and 14-time NBA All-Star   When [...]

Lou Holtz on the Power of Goals

“If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals.” – Lou Holtz, National Champion Football Coach   In the classic bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics, Dr. Maxwell Maltz pointed out that human beings are designed to strive for goals. “When man is functioning as [...]

Enthusiasm is a Choice

“Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.” – Jim Harbaugh, National Champion Football Coach   The way you start your day sets the tone for how your day is going to go. When you wake up in the morning excited about the future and passionate about what you get to do today, you’ll [...]

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden, 10-Time National Champion Basketball Coach   There are many things in life we have no control over. The weather, the economy, our genetics, the family and socioeconomic background we are born into, what other people say and do. These [...]

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