Michael Lardon

Keep things simple so you don’t clutter the mind with extraneous nonsense. Trust your own innate ability; and most important, stay positive and believe in your own God-given ability.

These athletes and exceptional people in other disciplines distinctively know that the difference between success and failure is paper thin. It is this knowledge that drives them to create enough activation energy to transform themselves, and achieve self-actualization and often greatness.

Fear is the natural enemy of the great competitor.

I am here to tell you that the Zone is indeed real; it’s just much different than its popular misconceptions.

I am simply helping them get out of their own way. When they learn to reduce their distractions, increase their focus, trust their innate talent, and access their will, they build confidence and often find the Zone—and win.

Unless we transform our desire into will, we not only cannot find the Zone of life, we cannot achieve self-actualization.

Will is forged when the energy of desire is never released from its goal.

Generally, the quality of our performance is a function of the intensity of our focus.

The beauty of this relationship between attention and anxiety is that it gives us a tool to manage anxiety. If you find yourself becoming anxious, all you have to do is let your attention drift back to the here and now and your anxiety will dissipate.