A crucial—but often overlooked—step in accomplishing a major goal is to take time each day to visualize the positive outcome you hope to experience. Too many of us ignore the awesome power of visualization. We blow it off as a time-waster, nothing more than mindless daydreaming or wishful thinking. But ignoring the power of positive [...]
Darrin Donnelly
Great achievers in any field have long recognized the extreme importance of confidence. Confidence is the belief you have in your own ability. The size of your confidence determines the size of your success. The more confident you are, the more success you will tend to have. You will never perform higher than your confidence [...]
I’m currently working on Book No. 5 in the Sports for the Soul series. It’s a book that deals with the inner battle against fear that we all must deal with on a daily basis. Researching this book has brought me to many different perspectives on how best to deal with the fear that holds [...]
Bill Snyder was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015, an extremely rare honor for a still-active coach. His success on the field—engineering the greatest turnaround in college football history at Kansas State—makes him clearly deserving of this honor. However, a great coach’s legacy goes beyond wins and losses on the field. [...]
The more I study successful coaches, the more I recognize the one common philosophy shared by so many of history’s greatest winners: they made a conscious effort to NOT talk about winning. From John Wooden to Nick Saban, these great coaches concluded that because their players couldn’t always control the final score, talking too much [...]
I write a lot about the positive emotions of optimism, grit, courage, and faith—essential factors that drive any person, team, or organization to success and happiness. One powerful emotion that isn’t often thought of as “positive” is anger. I think this is because we tend to associate “positive thinking” with happy-go-lucky people who are smiling [...]
