Chapter 5

The Executive Athlete’s “Stress for Success” System

The room is filling up with people. You’ve checked your notes, your slides, the air conditioning, the microphone and sound system, and just about everything else you can think of. Everything is ready. Then, you start to worry about what could go wrong. You start thinking about things that can get screwed up. What if the bulb in the projector goes out? What if the microphone cuts off? What if I forget what I’m supposed to say? What if I drop my notes or lose my place? And the list goes on. If giving the speech wasn’t stressful enough, you’ve just created another mountain out of a molehill. You unintentionally created stress that can debilitate and hurt your performance. As your stress ...

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