Train Hard, Play Free: A Father's Mindset Manual for Athletes

A father's mindset manual for athletes. Ten short chapters on competing with discipline, recovering from failure, leading under pressure, and trusting God when the game gets hard. Written from a father to his three children - and to every athlete who has ever felt the weight of a missed swing, a dropped pass, a fall from twenty feet in the air, or a moment when bigger and stronger walked across the line and made them feel small. This is not a coaching textbook. It is not a book of drills. It is a fatherly conversation about the mind you bring to the game - the mind that decides whether one mistake stays for one play or for nine innings. INSIDE: - The Hard Luck Mindset that turns adversity into preparation - The Reset Declarations every athlete should know by heart - The Competitor's Creed - a short code for staying steady when pressure rises - The "Wish Is Waste" principle for moving on from mistakes - Why pressure is privilege, and how the hard produces the hard >Each chapter is anchored in Scripture and built for a ten-minute read. Designed for athletes age ten and up. Read it alone. Read it as a family. Read one chapter on the ride to practice. The game is never just about the game. The next play belongs to you. Volume One of the Hard Luck Mindset Manual.

Pagina's: 102, Paperback, Independently published