GOTTA TAP! Baseball Coaching at the Next Level
“This week of practice has been amazing! I can’t believe how much fun I had.”
“He’s 110% better. It’s truly amazing.”
“I haven’t had trouble throwing since we spoke.”
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These are just a few comments I heard in the past week from players and parents of players I coach.
I’ll tell you how you can get those results in a moment…
please read to the end…
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I’ve had a successful career. I earned my Ph.D., got tenure as a professor and head baseball coach, wrote Heads-Up Baseball with Ken Ravizza and read last week on a website a guy calling it one of the best baseball books ever written.
I worked with the Rangers, full-time with the Yankees, and great players from youth leagues to the Major Leagues.
Here’s a comment I just got today from a HS coach:
“I’m a former collegiate player and every time I’ve read your stuff, I just get so mad that I didn’t find out about your book and your site when I was playing, because it’s stuff that every player deals with, they just might not know it yet.
“I’ve always just felt that my players know that the mental game is important, they just didn’t know how to work on it. So it’s going to be a great experience giving them that power to unleash the player they know they can be!”
– Blaine Wyninger
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BUT THAT ALL GOT BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER….
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…when I learned to tap.
Two years ago I more than doubled my ability to help players.
Take the guy in the second quote above.
He came in with his parents with an anger problem. If he wasn’t perfect he threw a fit.
Got kicked out of some games for throwing his helmut, bat, and other things.
After one session with him he returned a new player.
Getting out wasn’t fun, but now he authentically has it in his cells that getting out is part of the game.
(That’s as opposed to paying lip service to it — he actually thinks and feels that way.)
Here are some other general benefits that are routine for me now…
* Arm pain eliminated.
* Mechanics changed fast.
* Injury time reduced.
* Anger problem vanished.
* Fear of the ball — gone.
* Disappointment about a loss or error — vanished
* Yips — gone.
* Fun — re-discovered!
And don’t think this isn’t for you if you don’t have a “problem.”
It’s enormously powerful for “tapping in” positive beliefs.
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YOU’RE JUST ONE BELIEF AWAY
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Odds are you are just one belief away from your dreams.
Tapping can eliminate the negative beliefs holding you back and install positive ones like your computer whizz guy can upgrade your home computer’s operating system.
Only faster.
Starting Monday, December 2 I’m leading a 5 session teleseminar teaching you what you need to know about tapping to “Tap into Your Potential.”
It starts just a few hours from now as I write this, but fear not, the recording of tonight’s intro session, like each of the 5 sessions, will be recorded and available for you 24/7.
Download it and take it with you. Listen over and over.
In all sessions you’ll be able to ask questions on the phone or typed in on a web page. I’ll take on all comers in this no holds barred teleseminar. Got an issue? Get it resolved.
Get more than your money’s worth or just ask for a refund.
There’s no question about whether tapping works. There are many variables that can come into play that effect how fast and how profound the benefits are.
But you’ll get past the issue of whether or not it works really fast.
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IS THIS FOR ME?
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I can’t see how you could belong to a group that this wouldn’t help.
If you play — do you want the best way ever to get rid of negative emotions and install positive beliefs (like “I’m certain I’ll succeed”)?
If you coach — do you want to stay centered and focused and confident all game? Do you want ways to get your players to play freely? Let go of a bat AB and be locked in for the next time up?
Lesson teachers — do you want to add the “wow” factor to your lessons?
If you parent — do you want to have fun at your child’s games (or be wracked with nerves)? Do you want to model emotional intelligence? Do you want to be able to help your child move past failure quickly?
If so, this is for you.
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LIMITED TIME OFFER
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I’m making a special offer of just the teleseminar for $97.
(A better deal is available through
www.FreeBaseballConfidence.com if you want my DVD programs and a coaching program and my Hank Aaron interview extremely cheaply also.)
Again, if you don’t think it’s worth more than that, even after the last session, just email me and we’ll refund your $97 (no shipping to eat, either, it’s all digital).
You won’t have to tell me why you want the refund.
Click here to order now risk free:
(If the link works, the offer is still valid.)
Sincerely,
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
P.S. if you’ve read me for awhile you know it took me 3 years from the time I heard of tapping til I “got it.”
If you are interested enough in success in baseball (or less pain and struggle in your life generally, this isn’t just a baseball/softball thing), you’ll eventually learn to tap.
Might be tonight. Might be in 15 years.
I suggest you not wait and kick yourself later.
I’m only keeping this offer open a short time. I’ll sell the recordings for more than what I’m charging to participate.
If it’s now after 9pm Dec 2 you have the benefit of being able to listen to the introductory session immediately.
Note: This isn’t part of Hanson’s Gym; it’s a separate course quickly taking you from beginning to advanced tapping techniques.
You Must Focus on ___________.
“Pay for Results”
I decided on a “pay only if you like it” offer for my youth program whilst reading the paper this morning.
The columnist said “there is surprising agreement in the health care field about what needs to be done to fix health care in this country… shift the focus to paying for results.”
“There is more than enough money around,” said one guy, “we just need to spend it smarter.”
For example, currently doctors get paid more when they do more — so there’s no real incentive other than their own good hearts to actually make people well.
This is a radical shift. It sounds like it should be obvious to focus on results, but it isn’t really common practice.
I read yesterday where in 2003 a study was done that found generic drugs for hypertension were as good or better than name brand drugs costing 20x more.
But the advertising of the name brand drugs won out (by distracting and luring us), and the generics were a distant second in use.
If the focus was on results, a lot of money would be saved (and lost by big pharma).
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Much if not most of my work in corporations centers on getting them more focused on their results.
This can seem hard to believe also. Companies exist to make money. Yes they have other purposes, but their goal is to make money.
So how could they focus on anything else?
What could possibly keep a company from focusing on winning? On making money?
Hmmm. Let’s see….
Well, how about interpersonal conflicts? Also known as politics. (“I want my division to succeed, even if I do it in a way that costs other departments in my own company.”)
Ego.
Individuals wanting the most, wanting what’s best for them (@$@@$ the company).
Fear of success. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment.
Fear of looking bad. Fear of….
I could go on, but that’s a long enough list.
People get pulled off of their focus on results for many, many reasons, mostly personal ego and emotional ones.
When you shine a light on the reasons few stand up to reason, but reason doesn’t run our worlds, emotion does.
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Baseball teams suffer the same illness.
When teams win big, like the Phillies and Rays, don’t you get a sense that they all were focused on winning?
As opposed to being focused on themselves?
Most players will say they focus on winning, but at the core they are really focused on themselves.
Getting into a slump, for example, is very selfish. If you are walking around thinking about how you can’t hit, how is that helping the team?
If your focus was on the team winning you’d be focused on what you need to do to help the team, not on what’s gone wrong for you.
One of my top priorities with athletes and executives I coach is to expand their “comfort zones.”
A comfort zone in this case meaning the level of performance success you are comfortable having.
Very often what holds players and teams back is that high level success is something they aren’t comfortable with.
Big success can mean big pressure.
It can (unconsciously) mean you’ll lose friends, be a show off, hurt others, and take on the weight of high expectations.
So ask your self: “What’s my big goal? What do I want to have happen?”
Then entertain the thought that there is a part of you that wants to protect you from the perceived pitfalls that will come with that level of success.
Shine the light of your awareness onto any reason you can come up with why you’d be holding yourself back.
Awareness itself can be enough to break through it.
But if it were me, I’d tap on it.
Tomorrow I’ll write you about my upcoming tapping class “Tap Your Potential.” I’ll walk you through this process normally reserved for my 1-1 clients.
For now, just do the best you can.
And focus on producing the results you want.
Sincerely,
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
P.S.
Here’s the special link to order the Coaching the Mental Game of Youth Baseball/Softball that gives you 30 days to review the program.
That link also gives you $10 off the regular purchase price.
To read more about the program, go here:
http://baseballconfidence.com/Little_League_Baseball.html
But don’t order from that page. Use the link indicated above.
You’ll need to pay shipping.
If you don’t think the program will produce the results you want, write me and we’ll make arrangements for you where you won’t be charged one dime more.
If I don’t hear from you, you’ll be charged $49 in 30 days.
I asked some current owners of the program how likely they are to recommend the program to others.
Here’s one typical response…
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Dr. Tom, I am struggling with the question ‘how likely are you to recommend this to parents/friends’.
On one hand I think the program is outstanding and is exactly what is needed for my team.
I have many boys who take things very seriously, they think that because they are good that they should hit every pitch, make every play and get out every batter.
They struggle when things do not go well and actually compound the errors.
On the other hand, my competitive side says that I do not want to share this process with other coaches that we might compete with.
I am more than happy (10) to do it with friends, parents and non competing coaches.
In the long run, I guess I will just have to use my emotional intelligence and think of the greater good and say that I would recommend this to everyone.
Thank you, Michael Betz, Plano, TX
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Again, click HERE to read more about the product:
http://baseballconfidence.com/Little_League_Baseball.html
Please forward this email to your youth coaches and parents so they can thank you later.
Thank you.
P.P.S. The best value in (non-youth) mental training is still at www.FreeBaseballConfidence.com
Give the gift of confidence,Tom
Surprising Fix for Overstriding…
The memorial service was Tuesday.
Thank you to all of you who wrote back to me after my email about my fried John passing last week. And to those who thought of him and me whether you wrote or not.
And to those of you who read the email and then thought of yourself and what you want to do with your life before its over. (missed the email I’m talking about? www.BaseballConfidence.com/blog)
THAT’s the Big Leagues of mental training, that issue right there.
Who do you want to be? As a player, coach, parent? When it’s all over, who do you want to have been?
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Desire.
That’s the fuel. Gotta have it if you want to accomplish your dreams.
But what happens when you want it so bad you get in your own way?
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WHAT A LONG STRIDE CAN HIDE
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Wednesday I had a player here for his second lesson with me. He came in the first time as a guy with huge desire…
and huge expectations that he should be perfect.
“I should succeed every time,” said his uncovered unconscious belief, “or I shouldn’t be here at all.”
Tough to play great with that going on, with that program running in the background of your head.
Each time to the plate is a referendum on your personal value.
A recipe for tension and poor focus, a player’s most vicious foes.
He said he hits great in practice but in games his stride is too big and his swing is too long.
In the past I would have talked with him about relaxing and having fun. Actually, I’d have let him tell me about what he’s like when he does play great.
And we’d learn from that and then work on his routine.
Very good stuff.
But not good enough. Not any more. Not when there are better tools. Not when he (and I) are aware of how limited our time is to play here on earth.
So we tapped. And tapped.
We went into his past and cleared things out. We went into the programs that run his performance and re-wrote them.
He tapped on his own afterwards.
“Amazing,” he said as he sat in front of me for the second time weeks later. “At least 100% improvement. I can make an out now and it’s no big deal. It happens to everyone.”
This from a guy who previously would throw a rage fit upon making an out. Several years of behavior changed in one hour.
He moved from 7th to 5th to 2nd in the order.
It doesn’t always go like this, this fast. But it goes.
Consider this: if you walk into your bathroom right now and find the water running in the sink and the sink over flowing, do you first go for a mop or shut off the water?
The stuff in Heads-Up Baseball I see as the mop. Important, but not directly addressing the issue.
Sometimes a mop is all you need.
But tapping gets at the water tap. The source.
We tapped a little on this guy’s over striding in our first session, but not much.
His stride in games is now what he wants it to be. Because the source of the over striding was his internal programming putting pressure on him to succeed.
The source trumps the symptom.
Tapping is a bit weird. But given that you’ve only got so much time on this earth, and much less time to play baseball, I find my clients are more than willing to do something a bit unusual to get the best possible results.
I’ll be teaching a tapping course on the phone starting in December.
The best quality mental training at the best price is all right now at www.FreeBaseballConfidence.com
Get the free program. Then get the ($120)dvds for $30, then sign up for the tapping course (and get my whole Hank Aaron interview for no extra charge as a bonus!).
If you already have the dvds (really great mops) and just want the tapping course, stay tuned, I’ll give you info soon.
Stay focused,
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
p.s. Please feel free to forward this email to 3 people.