Archive for the ‘Baseball Coaching’ Category


How to GO DEEP More Than Pujols

  For the past few weeks I’ve been going deep into player’s heads at a much more profound level than I ever have. It’s amazing. I feel like the mental game Albert Pujols. As players (and some enlightened coaches) take The Hanson I get to see how they think at levels I’d only imagined before. [...]

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Winning Baseball Vibes: Dr. Tom’s Birthday

Winning baseball and business and girls and everything else is all about energy.  Better vibes = better success. I was given this video as a present for my birthday today by an old school mate and thought I’d share it here. I was in Red Square (Moscow) back in 1984 — didn’t feel anything like [...]

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Baseball Training: How Not to Think

This clip is a couple of days old but still relevant. It’s the Red Sox Tim Wakefield bemoaning their late season slump. Of course he’s bummed because they just lost a game — no problem with that. But listen to what he says to the question at about the :56 second mark. “I don’t know.” [...]

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Baseball Training: The Really Big Leagues

Well, here’s one that might seem out of left field, but I really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. Fiona Apple is an amazing artist and here she reveals a great deal about where she’s coming from. One thing I know about elite performers is that they relate to their craft differently [...]

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Ode to U.S. Women’s Soccer

I want to take this moment to acknowledge the US Women’s Soccer team. They made such a great run at it. But sometimes you’re on the wrong end of magic. I saw it as being the “other team” in a sports movie. You know how there’s one team the story revolves around and then they [...]

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Best Game Ever? Here’s the case for it…

I’d rank the U.S. victory on Saturday over Brazil in Women’s World Cup Soccer amongst the top 5 most exciting events I’ve watched on TV. For sure Top 5 loudest yells I’ve made watching TV. When we scored the lastest goal in the history of the World Cup it was one of those moments where [...]

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Baseball Coaching: How to Play Loose and Confident

I get great feedback on PLAY BIG daily. Here’s a good one: ———– Dr. Tom: Thanks for taking the time to make sure the book got to me. I had it for a week before we went to the state tournament and was able to use the visualization and really stress the A.B.C ( in [...]

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Baseball Training: LaRussa’s 3 Keys To Success Are __________

Great stuff in today’s Tampa paper on Tampa boy-made-good Tony LaRussa’s visit with the Cardinals. So here’re a few gems from the Big League’s third winningest manager of all-time: * RELENTLESS: “You ask any coach, especially in baseball where your challenge is to be ready to compete every day. You’ve got to have a relentless [...]

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