Baseball Coaching Excellence
Today I’ll highlight one of the members of my Baseball Confidence Gym. He’s a baseball coaching expert.
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For the many new people getting these tips, the Confidence Gym is a monthly membership program with an elite group of action oriented players, coaches and parents.
Each month they receive a CD with specific, how-to-win-the-mental-game and-make-your-dreams-come-true exercises, along with other benefits.
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Dave Hilton was the #1 overall draft choice in 1971.
He played in pro ball for 12 years, 4 in the Big Leagues, totalling more than 3000 games.
Since 1984, Dave has worked in professional baseball as a field manager, hitting instructor, pitching coach, and infield and baserunning coordinator, all in pro ball.
He’s coached more than another 3,000 games.
He now runs the Arizona School of Baseball www.ArizonaSchoolOfBaseball.com (worth a look to see his approach and free report).
**After more than 6,000 professional games and more than 20 years of teaching lessons, doesn’t he know it all?**
A few days ago Dave signed up for the Baseball Confidence Gym for the next TWO years.
I’d written him and other current Gym members and shared my vision for where I’m going with the Gym. Despite getting an overall “9″ from the members on a 1-10 scale for how likely they are to recommend the current Gym to others, I’m upgrading it significantly.
I’ll save the details for later, because I want to focus on Dave.
He wrote me the following note…
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Hi Tom,
I wanted to comment on your vision for the site. I think it is extraordinary and will be a tremendous value for the baseball community.
I mean that in the broadest sense of the word. As you have expressed consistently, the skills that athletes learn in order to manage their emotions under pressure are the same skills needed to navigate the adult pressures of life.
I can see that it will be a resource like no other.
Addressing baseball skills at the highest level, in all the ways that you have mentioned, and imparting as well what I’ve come to believe is “the” essential life skill.
I am very excited about what you’re doing and commend it in the highest degree.
I subscribed to your site at the first opportunity a few days ago, recognizing the quality of what you intend to offer. I plan to make it known to my circle of influence here in Arizona and I wish you the very best in your endeavor.
Sincerely,
Dave Hilton
(used with permission)
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Dave is a Learner. He’s constantly looking for ways to get better; for ways to help young players get better.
He’s heavily into tapping and is pushing the boundaries of performance learning.
He asks more questions than anyone else in my current teleseminar.
As someone said (I didn’t learn his name): “Blessed are the Learners, for they shall enjoy a richer, more enjoyable life… And dominate the Knowers.”
I’m laughing at myself for the learning I’ve done this year. I’ve had major breakthroughs in my ability to help players and coaches (and executives).
My laughter is at how much fun it is. And how excited I am.
I’ve gone “tap happy.”
And I’ve got another whole set of powerful, powerful tools waiting for me to learn that I’ve only scratched the surface of.
2008 is off to a great start and will blow away ‘07.
Now there is a faint voice in the back of my head (it has a Minnesota accent, so I’m pretty sure it’s from my
childhood) that says “Tom, you’re sounding pretty boastful and hype-ee, I think you should go back and edit some of what you just wrote so you don’t upset anyone, or have them think you are arrogant.”
Well, I’m not going to. That’s how I feel. And who is going to listen to a mental game coach who isn’t excited about what he’s doing?
What is the little voice in your head saying? How are your limiting beliefs holding you back?
If you’re like most, you don’t know the answer to that question. Your limiting beliefs are invisible to you.
For the most part, though, we can look around at our lives and reverse engineer what our beliefs about ourselves are.
The way to break through those beliefs is to be a Learner.
Like Dave Hilton.
So I hope you’re excited about what you’ve got coming up. I hope you’re learning and growing the way you want to be.
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
p.s. One option for you to crank up your excitement is to join Dave and well over a 100 others in the Baseball Confidence Gym.
As another recent renewal guy said:
“Tom, this is one of the best investments I make all year!
Keep it up, the mission is on. Thanks, Tony”
There are only two more days to get this month’s CD, which teaches a breakthrough method for breaking through your limiting beliefs and replacing them with powerful new ones.
Read more and sign up here: Baseball Confidence Gym.
Baseball’s master Skill Is…
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Big Deal Today: Complimentary Teleseminar on EFT — You’ll play with or against this weapon this year; details below
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As USC put it to Illinois in the second half of the Rose Bowl yesterday, the commentator said:
“Now not only does the defense get broken down physically, more importantly they start to lose it emotionally.”
Emotions run the show.
Like it or not, we most of the time act consistent with how we feel.
Feeling good leads to certain actions; feeling bad leads to certain actions.
Of course, as humans, we can choose to act counter to how we feel.
Courage is feeling fear but taking action any way.
But regardless of how long you’ve been in sport you’ve felt that “beaten” feeling (that my Illini felt) long before a contest is over.
I’ve felt it in rugby where the other team had momentum, I felt tired, and just wanted to put in my time until it was over.
One day I was playing rugby in England vs. a club from Newcastle.
I was like a zombie. My body was there but there was nobody home inside.
It felt physical, but if we’d been ahead by 3 or 4 scores instead of behind by that margin I know I’d've felt much more energized.
I’ve felt it in baseball. Haven’t you? Whether baseball coaching or playing? That pit-in-the-stomach feeling that you’re going to lose.
Or strike out.
Or get hit hard.
Or make an error.
Commentators talk about it as momentum.
What if there was a way to quickly and easily get rid of negative emotions?
What if you could wave some wand and repeat a magic spell and have your negative emotions go away?
Well, I’ll teach you that in today’s complimentary teleseminar.
4pm Eastern. Call in or listen on the computer.
Can’t make it live? No problem, the same link I give you to attend the call live will hold a reply for you for the next few days.
But don’t wait around…at 4:50p.m. I’ll make a special announcement with an expiration of Thursday night.
I will take you step-by-step through the technique that will sweep the game in the next few years.
Today you can choose to be on the front end of it.
You can read about it in the new Collegiate Baseball News.
So click to this link now … while you’re there ask me your most important question about the mental game of baseball and if time permits I’ll respond to it this afternoon.
EVENT: Free Emotional Freedom Training Seminar DATE & TIME:
Wednesday, January 2nd at 4:00pm Eastern FORMAT: Simulcast!
(Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice) TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
p.s. Effectively managing emotions is the master skill of baseball performance — and all other aspects of life.
There’s little I’d wish more for for my son than the ability to do things he doesn’t feel like doing (that would be good to do) and NOT do things he does feel like doing (that would be good to NOT do).
One who can do that will have a good life.
Today I’ll share the best tool I’ve ever seen for learning to do just that.