An Athlete's Guide to Peak Performance Series: Focus Like a Champion

By Delice Coffey

Do you want to get in the zone and stay there? Focus like a Champion will teach you key concentration skills and ways to eliminate mental distractions. You will learn strategies to help you identify what to focus on and how to stay focused on what is important. The ability to focus is critical. World-class athletes have mastered the power of the zone, and this workbook will teach you how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524610968

Delice Coffey

Delice Coffey, a former athlete, is a Psychologist specializing in sports and clinical psychology, mental game and Life Coaching along with mental health services within the athletic arena. She has been providing her life changing interventions to athletes for over 25 years. During this time, athletes, of all levels, have benefited from her dedication to improving their performance while maintaining life balance and overall well-being. Her expertise and insights have also been drawn upon by the media; appearing on ESPN’s Outside the Lines, as their first female guest, to share her knowledge on mental health issues in the NFL. She also appeared on ESPN’S Sports Center to address NFL issues as well as on ESPN Wisconsin to speak on NBA and Collegiate performance issues. She has been featured in Winning Hoops magazine, made appearances on The Sports City Chefs, L.A. Talk Radio, On Point with Tomi Lahren, The Rudy Dog Show and the first female to appear on the BG3 Sports Show. Delice has also been quoted in various sports related articles, magazines and blogs. Delice is the CEO of Living Well Centre, Inc. and the Executive Director of the Sports Psychology Division in Durham, North Carolina. The system that she created has helped empower and train athletes to be mentally tough, reach their full potential while maintaining life balance. Apart from providing sports and clinical psychology services, Delice is also an author, public speaker and is actively involved in sports related research in New York. She has served as the team psychologist for Union County Xtreme AAU basketball team and consults with professional and semi-professional athletes along with collegiate and high school athletes and teams. Delice is a Certified Mental Game Coach Professional, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and a Reality Therapist. She also holds a Certification in Sport-Fitness Psychology as well as being a Certified Domestic Violence Counselor. Delice love for sports began in Junior High School where she started cheering for the basketball and football teams. In her High School days she was a successful track and field athlete and enjoyed participating in softball. During her college days she was the 1984 ACU-I Table Tennis Champion. Following her graduation, she began exploring and competing in the world of bodybuilding and power lifting. In 1990, she won first place in the heavyweight division and Best Female Poser at the Sandhills Bodybuilding Championship. During her power lifting career she broke 10 North Carolina State records and 1 World Record. Delice competed her first half marathon in 2014 and is currently participating in 5K, 8K and 10K races. This knowledge and personal insight gained from these experiences and achievements were passed on to other athletes when she worked as a personal trainer and Life Coach. This rich background, numerous academic certifications, years of sports psychology experiences and the love for sports and competition make Delice uniquely qualified to successfully teach sport performance related strategies to athletes of all ages and at all levels.

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An Athlete’s Guide to Peak Performance Series

FOCUS LIKE A CHAMPION

by

Delice Coffey, MA, LPA, CBT

Psychologist/Mental Game Coach

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Published by AuthorHouse   08/15/2016

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1    The Art of Zone Like Focus

Chapter 2    Identifying and Eliminating Task-Irrelevant Cues

Chapter 3    Identifying and Utilizing PerformanWce Cues

Chapter 4    Learn to Focus on the Process

Chapter 5    Learning the Three R’s to Focus

Chapter 6    Awareness – Stop the Madness

Chapter 7    Setting Goals to Stay Focus

Chapter 8    Setting Goals the SMART Way

Chapter 9    Immersion of Focus Achieves Peak Performance

Chapter 10    Accessing Your Focus Ability

Chapter 11    How Pre game Routines Improve Focus

Chapter 12    Seeing Is Believing – Using Imagery to Focus

Appendix

Progress Tracker

Services

Workbook Information

Xtreme Body Bar

About the Author

Foreword

If you happen to know Delice Coffey, then all I can say is that you should count yourself lucky. She is a woman with a strong combination of qualities that everybody finds admirable. She is a business lady and a former athlete herself. Delice is an enthusiastic individual who never gives up when faced with a challenge. I met her during a signing that I was doing at the Dallas Cowboy Store. From the time she stepped into the store, I could tell there was something special about her; she oozed confidence as she approached me. After buying one of my autograph photos, she told me about a book that she was working on and wanted to know if she could talk to me about it later. Despite the fact that these words sounded familiar, and often nothing came out of such endeavors, I had a good feeling about this one. We proceeded to chat, and eventually, we exchanged contact information. Since then my journey with Delice has been nothing short of inspiring.

When she called upon me to write a foreword for her book, you can imagine how delighted and honored I felt. As an admirer of her work, I can certainly vouch for this book. This book is the second in a series of five. She launched The Athlete’s Guide to Peak Performance Series- Building Confidences and a Relaxation & Imagery download in 2015 which are also excellent resources for helping athletes. This book is special to me because I hold the contents close to my heart as an athlete. Sometimes I actually wonder why such books never existed while I played for the Dallas Cowboys. The book is amazing and inspirational, and it would have been great to have it during the time that I led the team with 222 tackles or when I made history by becoming the first rookie in Cowboy history to start at middle linebacker; just image how much more I would have done with a book like this. Back then things were really intense, and we excelled off pure raw talent and guts. A book like this would have surely been a God-send.

This self-help book is a real motivator for athletes and is the tool they need to focus more as they avoid the social distractions that exist today. When you focus, you win championships, and this book shows you exactly how to do both. Today’s athletes on all levels can benefit from this book. This is why I highly recommend it to everybody in any sport. This book is a tool for bringing out the champion from within. If you are an athlete that want the cutting edge while maintaining a balance between focus and distractions, then this book is the best thing you could lay your hands on. It teaches you various aspects of mental toughness and mental game preparation as ways to reach your full potential in your sport. The book teaches you how the various aspects of your mentality can be harnessed to help you attain your goals through focus and concentration. Knowing that this is an area that most athletes struggle with, and yet it is a fundamental component in winning and in team work, I would highly recommend this book because it is a goldmine of opportunity and experience for athletes today.

Eugene Lockhart.

Formal NFL player for Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots

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Sports Psychology for Athletes

An Athlete’s Guide to Peak Performance Series.

FOCUS LIKE A CHAMPION

By Sports and Clinical Psychology Expert Delice Coffey, MA, LPA, CBT.

The Athlete’s Guide to Peak Performance Series - FOCUS LIKE A CHAMPION is one of five powerful workbooks designed to help you improve your mental performance and help you reach your full potential in your sport.

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