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115 THE BRIAN CAIN EXPERIENCE | 12 PILLARS OF PEAK PERFORMANCE

PILLAR 8 ATTITUDE

DETERMINES ALTITUDE

38 Ideas For Developing an Amazing Attitude

§ (#1) The FedEx Arrow (#20) Alabama & GSP Get Big § (#2) You Find What You Are Looking For (#21) Reasons Before Results § (#3) Avoid Rectumitis (#22) Penguins Learn To Fly § (#4) Watch Out For Moomba Disease (#23) Who Wins The Battle § (#5) The Life Changing Tram Ride (#24) So What Next ________ § (#6) Turn Have To’s Into Want To’s (#25) Most Powerful 2 Letter Sentence § (#7) Fake It Till You Make It (#26) SOS § (#8) Act Differently Than How You Feel (#27) 48 Hour Rule § (#9) Frustrated or Fascinated (#28) TILT § (#10) Compared To What (#29) Vision Boards § (#11) Attitude of Gratitude Journal (#30) Personal Commercials § (#12) The Perspective Poster (#31) Personal Alarm Clocks § (#13) Don’t Personalize Performance (#32) Mind Movies § (#14) There Are No Pink Elephants (#33) The YES Movement § (#15) The Story of Roger Bannister (#34) How To Reach Your Peak § (#16) Be Aware of Your Self-Talk (#35) Confidence Conditioning § (#17) The Big ABC’s of Confidence (#36) Do You Talk or Listen To Yourself § (#18) Eat That Frog (#37) You DO Confidence § (#19) Arietta’s Ace Card (#38) A Different Look On Confidence


116 PILLAR 8 | ATTITUDE DETERMINES ALTITUDE

(#1) THE FEDEX ARROW

“Attitude is a decision and perspective is a choice. You choose how you see every situation in life. You c your own reality.”

Brian Cain

(#2) YOU FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ___________________________________________________________________________________________

“In life… you most often find what you are looking for. Choose wisely.”

Brian Cain

“When you change how you look at your life, your life changes.”

Brian Cain

(#3) AVOID R ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(#4) WATCH OUT FOR M DISEASE ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Who do you personally know who suffers from these two

deadly diseases?

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(#5) THE LIFE CHANGING TRAIN RIDE Please write out a time where you had a paradigm shift/perspective change when you

received more information. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________

“I have two personas – Superman and Clark Kent. I am as much boyscout as I bounty hunter. I have to act differently than how I feel all the time. I am a huge believer in James-Lange Theory and “fake it till you become it”. Brian Cain was instrumental in helping me to build that mindset.”

Georges St. Pierre UFC Welterweight Champion

(#6) TURN YOUR H TO’s INTO W TO’s & G TO’s

(#7) F IT TILL YOU M IT & F IT TILL YOU F IT

(#8) A DIFFERENTLY THAN HOW YOU F (#9) FRUSTRATED OR F

(#10) COMPARED TO W__________ MENTALITY

(#11) ATTITUDE OF GRATTITUDE JOURNAL

Please write down what you are grateful for in your life.

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(#12) THE P POSTER

Please write out what you would put on your perspective poster to remind you of the COMPARED TO WHAT and ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE MENTALITIES.

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(#13) DON’T P PERFORMANCE

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“Baseball is what I do, not who I am.”

Matthew Purke, 2009 MLB 1st Round Pick “Positive thinking alone won’t get you anything. You must take massive action. Positive thinking is overrated… yet it will bring you more than negative thinking will.”

Brian Cain



(#14) THERE ARE NO P E

VICTIM OF YOUR OWN ILLUSION? “A Bizarre Reality” – Maxim Magazine, 2006 In 1936, a blindfolded prisoner in India was told he was being bled to death. Instead, he was given harmless scratches, and water was dripped into buckets to replicate the sound of blood. As the dripping stopped, somehow his heart did as well. With no direct physical explanation, the cause of death was determined to be psychological torture. This same type of torture was implemented on US soldiers in the Korean War. That war remains with the highest percentage of POW fatalities (1/3) in our history. Men did not have their bodies damaged; rather, the demise of their spirits and hope became the precursor to actual physical death.

“You Can if You Believe You Can” – Reflections on Human Potential Dr. Harold R. McAlindon, Success Unlimited, 1978 • A railway employee in Russia accidentally locked himself in a refrigerator car and was

unable to escape. • He scribbled sentences on the wall of the car. As his body became numb, he became

colder, and he wrote that he was “slowly freezing to death… I can hardly write… these may be my last words.”

• He was found dead but the temperature of the car was 56 degrees because the freezing apparatus was out of order. There was no physical reason for his death.

• He was the victim of the illusion that his own mind had created. His mind convinced his body that he was freezing to death and won.

• Our minds create the future and its possibilities. Realize the power of the mind and never underestimate it.

Mind Matters: “We Make Ourselves Tense” – San Francisco Chronicle, 1989 • Golfer Mac McLendon, before teeing off in Friday’s Master’s Golf Tournament, told his

wife Joan he was playing so badly he was going to hit someone on the course. This was just before his tee shot on the first hole hit her and knocked her unconscious.

• 80% of illnesses in some form are related to negative thinking. Psychologist Linda Rubenstein said: “The perception of health is equally important to the actual state of health. If you think about that… that’s an amazing statement to our thought process.”

• Recognize and accept the fact that we create our own tensions – positive and negative – with our reactions or responses to what happens around us.

• Karl Wallenda’s wife stated when the famous circus man fell to his death in Puerto Rico: “All Karl thought about for 4 straight months prior to that walk was not falling. It was the only time he ever thought that way. He even supervised the installation for the tightrope. He would normally concentrate on walking the rope, not falling.”

• Circumstances and other people do not “make us tense”… we make ourselves tense.



(#15). THE STORY OF SIR ROGER BANNISTER

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(#16) BE AWARE OF YOUR SELF-TALK

WORDS MAKE P … WORDS MAKE L



(#17). THE BIG ABC’S OF CONFIDENCE

A Big B Big C Big

“C is a c . Most people give that away. They think they can only be confident when they have had results. You must choose to be confident before you get results. You must act confident before you feel confident. You must ACT AS IF you have already achieved the results.”

Brian Cain

(#18) EAT THE FIRE – FOLLOW THE FUNdaMENTALS

ACTION

CONFIDENCE = ------------------- FEELING

(#19) A CHANGES EVERYTHING (ACE) ARRIETA



(#20) ALABAMA SOFTBALL LEARNS TO G B !

Are you that bad that you have to feel good to compete at a high level?

________________________________________________________________________________ Are feelings a controllable factor in performance?

________________________________________________________________________________ Share a time that you acted differently than how you felt and it helped you to perform

at a high level. ________________________________________________________________________________



(#20) GSP LEARNS TO GET BIG!

“Every fighter gets nervous before a fight. Not all will admit it. I used to get consumed in the anticipation. Anticipation is worse than participation. You have to learn to act differently than how you feel. When you act the way you want to feel, you will soon feel the way you are acting. If you don’t, at least you don’t tip your opponent or anyone else.”

Georges St. Pierre UFC Welterweight Champion

(#21). R BEFORE R – THE CONFIDENCE RESUME What reasons do you have to believe in yourself that you will get the results you want? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________



(#22) PENGUINS LEARN TO FLY

K – A = 0 KNOWLEDGE – ACTION =

NOTHING

(#23) WHO WINS THE BATTLE OF THE WOLVES INSIDE YOU?

We all talk to ourselves. Please write out what your self-talk is like when you are in the following emotional states:

CALM ________________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENT ________________________________________________________________________ INTENSE ____________________________________________________________________________ HAPPY ______________________________________________________________________________ INSPIRED ___________________________________________________________________________ SAD __________________________________________________________________________________ DEJECTED ___________________________________________________________________________ FOCUSED _____________________________________________________________________________________

(#24) SO WHAT NEXT MENTALITY ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

(#25) MOST POWERFUL 2 LETTER 10 WORD SENTENCE

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“Knowledge is not power. There are a lot of people who have great knowledge and advanced degrees and are miserable with their lives. Knowledge is potential power stored up to be unleashed with massive action. The combination of knowledge and action is what unlocks all doors.”

Brian Cain

(#26) McDONALD’S THEORY & SOS – S O S

What are 2-3 signs of success that you will hang up in the next 48 hours and where will you put them?

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(#27) THE 48-HOUR EXECUTION RULE

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(#28) TILT | T I L T

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(#29) VISION BOARDS – PERSONAL & TEAM What are 2 images that will go on your personal vision board and why?

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“TBT = Thoughts become t , we call it the law of attraction.” Brian Cain

What’s the #1 image that will go on your team vision board and why?

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(#30). PERSONAL COMERCIALS & AUDIOS

If you were to have a personal audio commercial you could listen to in your car every day, what would it contain?

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(#31). PERSONAL ALARM CLOCKS

If you were to have a personal alarm to wake up to every day, what would it contain?

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(#32). MIND MOVIES

If you were to have a personal mind movie, what video clips would it contain?

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(#33). JOIN THE YES MOVEMENT



(#34) HOW TO REACH YOUR PEAK

1. STATE 2. STORY 3. STRATEGY Physiology +/- Mentors Focus Self-talk

What is your physiology like when you are in a peak state?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ What is your focus like when you are in a peak state?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ What is your self-talk like when you are in a peak state?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ What is a story you have told yourself that has helped you get to this point?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ What is a story that you have told yourself that has held you back to this point?

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What is a strategy that you use often that has helped you to this point?

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What is one strategy that you have learned through The Brian Cain Experience that you will implement?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Being positive is about focusing on what you want more than what you want to avoid. On what is vs. what if. It’s being aware of how you talk to yourself.”

Brian Cain

MORE KEYS TO CONFIDENCE

(#35) CONFIDENCE CONDITIONING STATEMENTS | ON PHONE We are constantly talking to ourselves – 800+ words a minute. Words create pictures and set us in a direction by activating our reticular activating system (RAS), the heat-seeking missile that is you. Be sure that you RPF – read picture and feel the statements when you read the on your phone.

(#36) DO YOU TALK TO OR LISTEN TO YOURSELF AT YOUR BEST? Set reminders on your phone. State them in the present, as positive and as if they are already real. EXAMPLES:

“I am a one-pitch warrior that fights to win pitches and plays with HUGE body language at all times.” “I stay present and in the moment amid the distraction by focusing on my breath and my routine.”



“I love the challenge that is what I get to do every day and am at my best when it is the most chaotic. I turn on the cool and breathe when everyone else is turning up the heat and hitting the panic button.” Please write out 3 confidence conditioning statements to help you develop the

mindset you want and put these into the reminders app on your phone; then set them to pop up at a location and/or at a specific time of day.

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(#37) YOU DON’T GET CONFIDENT, YOU DO CONFIDENCE

1. PHYSIOLOGY 2. FOCUS 3. SELF-TALK When you are at your best, what’s your physiology like?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ When you are at your best, what’s your focus like?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ When you are at your best, what’s your self-talk like?

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(#38) A DIFFERENT LOOK ON CONFIDENCE “The experience others call confidence you experience as being at ease, fully yourself and not self-conscious but rather task conscious.”

Augusten Burroughs Author of Running with Scissors

Countless books have been written about how to attain self-confidence and we talk all the time about “working on being more confident.” But maybe we actually don’t have to work at improving our confidence. Instead we can simply focus on the task at hand and become so immersed in it that we have no time to worry about how others are perceiving our work. When we talk to others, we allow ourselves to be so present in that conversation that we don’t concern ourselves with what they are thinking about us. Augusten Burroughs writes about confidence in his book This Is How You Do It: “Confidence has nothing to do with ability. Confidence is not a substance. Confidence isn’t competence. If you want to be more confident, you do not need to add anything more to your personality or your skill level. Because confidence is not the presence of anything at all. Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they’re thinking. Confidence is not something you feel or possess; it’s something others use to describe what they see when they look at you.” Today focus on your work. Focus on your interactions with others so much that you don’t have any time to think about how you’re being perceived. Stop trying to be more confident and just focus more in the present moment. Where do you think confidence comes from?

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THE POWER OF ATTITUDE By Charles Swindoll

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company... a team... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The one thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of attitudes.

For years I have tried to live by the following statement: I cannot always choose what happens to me, but I can always choose what happens in me. Some things in life are beyond my control. Some things are within it. My attitude in the areas beyond my control can be the difference maker. My attitude in the areas that I do control will be the difference maker. In other words, the greatest difference my difference maker can make is within me, not others. That is why your a is your greatest asset or liability. It makes you or breaks you. It lifts you up or brings you down. A positive mental attitude will not let you do a . But it can help you do e better than you would if your attitude were negative.”

John Maxwell Trusted Authority and Author on Leadership

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