UNSTOPPABLE: A Mental Training Guide For Fueling Performance

This guided journal is intended for those striving for mastery, combining excellence with personal growth and well-being. It takes you through evidence-based strategies for fueling your performance by combining positive, sport, and performance psychology as well as mindfulness training. In easy-to-understand language, the journal summarizes research that supports each concept.

This interactive book also comes with access to online resources including exercises, videos, printable worksheets and posters, downloadable meditations, guided yoga recovery workouts, and much more!

You might read this book if you are:

A coach. Coaches can learn strategies from sport and positive psychology that can help their athletes improve both individually and as a team.

A team. The whole program can be done in 8-10 weeks to go along with a typical sport season. When this journey to performance improvement is undertaken together as a team, the benefits are magnified as individuals can reinforce and support each other’s newly learned skills and attitudes.

A class.  This book can serve as a guide for a high school or college class on life skills, performance, psychology, mindfulness, and/or leadership.

An athlete. The separate modules of the journal can be read and the associated exercises completed either during or outside a sport season by any athlete who wants to improve their performance and well-being

Not an athlete, but wanting to improve performance and/or well-being. Many of us “perform” on a daily basis, whether it be in the classroom, on the fields, on a stage, in business, or elsewhere. While some sections refer to sport, you can simply replace that with your own performance realm where you strive for excellence.

Anyone! Parents, teachers, anyone wanting to learn more about positive habits, mindset, mindfulness, mental skills, positive psychology, and more. This book is designed for people to go on a personal journey of self-reflection. So, I simply recommend you apply the exercises to yourself and complete as many as you care to. Don’t be just an observer. To get the most out of the journal, engage with it and complete the exercises.

 

What can you get out of this book and program?

• A newfound superpower to choose how you respond to events and challenging situations.
• An understanding of team roles and ways to be a leader.
• An understanding of character strengths and how to use them to maximize your leadership skills and the ability to authentically be yourself.
• Clear mental skills training tips for improved performance.
• A deeper clarification and understanding of your values and goals.
• A perspective that cultivates success and thriving.
• Science-based strategies for implementing new habits, setting goals, cultivating hope and optimism, savoring and feeling gratitude more often, and practicing “deliberately,” among others.
• The development of a mindfulness practice along with a clear understanding of how it can impact you as an athlete and person.
• An appreciation and love for your sport (or performance realm), your abilities, your strengths, and the opportunities you have.
• The impulse to do more for others. Feel good and DO good!
• An enhanced belief in yourself.

Lani Silversides (maiden name Boardman) teaches and coaches at Phillips Academy Andover where she holds the Lumpkin Instructorship in the department of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Sport has long time been a passion for Lani. A 2001 graduate of York High School in York, Maine, Silversides is the second all-time basketball scoring leader (male or female) with 1,413 points and holds school records with 1,111 rebounds and 299 blocks. She was also an all-state soccer goalie and state champion hurdler. She was Maine female athlete of the year in 2001. A 2005 graduate and 4-year basketball player of the University of Vermont, Lani finished her career ranking among the all-time leaders in 10 different categories. She is one of seven players in school history to score over 1,000 points, grab 500 rebounds and hand out 200 assists. As a senior, she earned America East All-Conference Team honors and was named to the America East All-Championship squad. In 2005 she was named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American District I First Team. In 2013, Lani was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in recognition of her contributions as both a coach and player. In 2016 Lani became a Certified Sport Psychology Coach (CSPC) and she developed "The Mental Edge" program at Phillips Academy. The program was designed to introduce students and student-athletes to a variety of mental skills to help them optimize performance. Her business, Mindful Performance, LLC, is to built with the mission to supply young people with tools that promote greater well-being and thriving - in school, on the playing fields, and in their life as a whole. In 2017-2018 Lani and her husband have been on sabbatical from Phillips Academy. Their work has taken them across the world to Australia and New Zealand to train in Positive Education and visit schools incorporating positive education and mindfulness into their K-12 curriculum. Lani is a member of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), The International Positive Education Network, and Up2Us Sports.