I Learned in Kindergarten . Jeffrey Bond offered a simple concept that could be added to Fulgham s book to help you in your pursuit of excellence. I would suggest that if you want to improve your volleyball performance you may need to start doing the things you know you haven't been doing. For volleyball players, it may be to start writing your goals, sharing them with your coach and tracking your progress and success. For coaches, this may mean incorporating specific mental skills such as breathing techniques or visualization skills into your training sessions.
Many coaches talk about the importance of mental skills but do very little about it.
The title of the presentation is Maintaining Peak Performance Through Emotional Management . To help you in your pursuit of excellence I will report my findings from this conference in next month's column. In the meantime you may want to think about what you know and start practicing. The achievement of that dream was not sufficient, for Jamie, as for many extraordinary athletes in other endeavours. His journey, set to begin January 1999, will be an epic adventure.