Chris Mance II - Mental Skills Coach

To live your best life, you must first become the best version of yourself. However, this raises the question how do you know if you aren’t already the best version of yourself? To put it differently, how often do you ask yourself if you can do better? Moreover, do you even want to do better?

While you may “want” better experiences, things, or relationships, this is far different from “doing” better. Unquestionably, “wanting” and “doing” are different mindsets. In fact, it’s the gap in this difference that dictates how close you are to living your best life and being the best version of yourself.

This means that if you want much more than you are willing to do, then you have a long way to go to being the best version of yourself. Frankly, if this is the case then the easiest way to live your best life is to want less, be grateful for what you have, and accept yourself as a finished product. But I know that if it was that easy there would be no need for mental skills coaches like me.

To be human in the 21st century is to want more than you have and struggle to find the motivation to do more than you feel like doing to get it. This is perfectly normal, and this is why I love doing what I do. To help someone find peace in their struggle to want more and develop the self-motivation to do more is what drives me to show up every day as the best version of myself.

Ultimately, my job as a mental skills coach is to help clients with two things:

• See who they can become when they are the best version of themselves.
• Develop self-motivation as they conquer the process of becoming that person.

My coaching programs are setup to achieve these two specific goals. I support this process by helping clients build mental skills in 1 or more of 10 mental focus areas, based on their needs:

1. Improving mental toughness by directing one’s focus on the process instead of the outcome.
2. Instinctively having positive/neutral thoughts and emotions instead of negative thoughts and emotions.
3. Building one’s confidence by eliminating worries about unrealistic expectations and directing focus on high but attainable expectations.
4. Identifying and having a process to get to one’s optimal level of intensity.
5. Having a meaningful “why” for everything one does.
6. Strategically using feedback to improve one’s approach.
7. Exhibiting self-awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses and then utilizing the strengths to overcome the weaknesses.
8. Establishing a source of self-worth and self-esteem that is task oriented and not ego oriented.
9. Consistent use of routines.
10. Clarifying goals to direct focus on the most important things and avoid distractions.

Contact me here to learn more about how I can help you, an athlete you know, or a team you are on or lead.