The world is full of excellent business books, but who has time to read them?
As a high performance business coach, I’m always looking at ways to help entrepreneurs like you to get ahead, so I thought it would be a great idea to summarize some of these books for you.
This week we take a look at The Champion’s Mind, by Jim Afremow.
It’s actually a sports psychology book, but so much of it is super relevant for entrepreneurs.
Afremow suggests we monitor ourselves each day with a Mental Score Card – evaluating our mental performance. That way we are far more likely to be running our business at the highest level.
I’ve done a quick video summary of Jim’s excellent book here:
There are many good techniques in the book, but two I want to focus on here are:
1. Ideal intensity level
2. Monitoring enjoyment
Let’s look at ideal intensity level first. Afremow argues that we each have a perfect level of intensity, not too stressed and not too relaxed. We need to evaluate what that is (out of 10) and aim each day to stay at that level all day.
It’s such a simple idea but to me it’s a very wise area to pay attention to.
The next concept is monitoring enjoyment. We are all ambitious and think frequently about our financial goals, but surely an additional goal should be to enjoy what we are doing? (In my experience many entrepreneurs do badly in this area.)
Placing a high importance on daily enjoyment (and monitoring that) is a smart way to live. At the end of our lives we will no doubt wish we had more fun, so let’s start focusing on that now, beginning today.
To see the other excellent mind techniques Jim Afremow suggests we evaluate daily, watch my short book review here:
Strong mental performance is crucial for CEOs and entrepreneurs. In my view using using a daily Mental Score Card makes a huge amount of sense.
