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From Dr. John F. Murray (September, 2009)
Sports psychology
is a great source of inspiration and I love helping people improve,
whether in a clinical situation calling for psychotherapy, stress
management or better life adjustment, or a performance situation where
the goal is to compete better and win more in business or sports. As
far as sports, I was lucky to grow up in South Florida in the early
70s, and my passion intensified listening to Don Shula’s wisdom as
legendary coach of the Miami Dolphins. My dream at age 10 was to bat
4th for the Yankees and quarterback the Miami Dolphins to a Super Bowl
win. Dreams have become reality as I’ve coached and played tennis
worldwide, worked with many pro athletes and teams as a sports
performance psychologist, helped NFL quarterbacks overcome slumps,
coached tennis at major tournaments like the Australian Open, trained
athletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, worked at UFC 100 in Las Vegas with mma fighters, and developed a unique
system for including mental performance in the scoring of a football
game – the Mental Performance Index or MPI – that has almost perfectly
estimated the relative performance of teams in the past 6 Super Bowls.
I’m absolutely convinced that solid mental training is a necessary and
huge key to success, and an often overlooked advantage. If you just
want to cope better with life, a family situation or a relationship,
psychology can help too, and the performance psychology focus is an
extremely positive approach and quest for more success that many enjoy.
My
overwhelming goal is to help my clients become the best they can become
in whatever they are doing. Many are still not aware of the
huge benefits available to training the mind properly. As such, one of
my passions is to spread the exciting truth that taking care of
thoughts, feelings, actions and sensations professionally is the key to
so much more success as well as a solid solution to many of the
problems that exist in sports and other competitive areas. Take a free mental
test and I will personally evaluate it for you. Sign up for a free
newsletter and you will hear from me at least monthly with other
periodic updates. Call or email now so that we can start making you the best you can become! This is for both teams and individuals, in business and sports, and in anything that demands you be your best. johnfmuray@mindspring.com
561-596-9898.
– John F Murray, September, 2009
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World Audience Publishers and Dr. Murray Reach Agreement to Publish The Mental Performance Index : Ranking the Best Teams in Super Bowl History"
This book was long coming. MPI Ratings conducted throughout the NFL playoffs for years served as a superb pilot test of the accuracy and reliability of this whole new way of looking at American football, and other sports too! Finally, the mental aspects of performance are quantified, and the total performance is standardized across decades, allowing us to now rank order all the teams that ever played the Super Bowl in terms of overall performance. Finding out which team is best will be fascinating. Even better, each Super Bowl will now offer two challenges: to be the best team that year, but to also be the best team in Super Bowl history on the MPI! Sportscasting legend and Hall of Famer Lesley Visser will write the epilogue. |
Audio Mental Tips Begun at
Chicago Radio Show Site Helping Many!
You are getting ready for an extremely important sporting event and would like to be more focused and confident. How about a last second boost by listening to a 2-minute audio summarizing the keys to success on that mental skill? Many are tuning in and traffic is booming. The audios appear weekly with the most recent one on Kiki Vale's radio show site. Enjoy and prosper! |
What a Run for Hall of Famer Lesley Visser!
As if being the only female inducted into the pro football Hall of Fame or being voted the top female sportscaster in history was not enough, Visser just padded her resume more by becoming the first woman ever to serve as a TV analyst during an NFL game when she was the CBS color analyst during the final game of the preseason between the Dolphins and Saints in the Louisiana Superdome.
What's really exciting to this sports psychologist is that Lesley will be putting her stamp on history when she writes the epilogue for the upcoming book: "The Mental Performance Index: Ranking the Best Teams in Super Bowl History!" Pictured above is her 1992 football card. Talk about major impact!
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Jeff DeForrest and Lesley Visser Interview Dr. Murray on Fox Sports Radio
Sports psychology was the theme all week as many interesting events happened. You can hear the replay of this 15 minute interview now. Pictured about is DeForrest, a very well known, popular, and funny South Florida voice.
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 Hall of Fame QB Warren Moon hid his Psychology for Years, but NO MORE!
One of the greatest quarterbacks of all time just admitted that he was sneaking into his psychologist's office for years to avoid being seen while he was playing some of the best football in history. Did psychology hurt Moon? Let's continue to do our part to eradicate silly stigmas associated with mental health care and sports psychology.
If a Hall of Fame QB can do it, so can those who are not quite as good! Talking is tough and those who fail to seek help are weak. Congrats Warren! And while we are on the subject, another Hall of Fame quarterback, Joe Namath, recently spoke about how hard it is to really focus well in football. If Namath had trouble staying focused, can you imagine the needs for those who are not Hall of Fame talents? Dr. John F. Murray recently wrote an article about staying focused in football. |
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 Dr. Murray Writes Editorial about How Sports Psychology Shoots itself in the Foot by Perverting Confidentiality
In this editorial speaking up against the practice of many of his own colleagues, Dr. Murray argues that the advancement of the field and needed provision of mental coaching and counseling services to so many is being needlessly hindered.
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