Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success [9780063210097]

Overview

Proven strategies for unleashing our innate strengths, avoiding burnout, and discovering enduring success by a world-renowned psychologist and mindfulness performance expert who has helped superstars such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant transform their careers.

“George helped me understand the art of mindfulness: to be neither distracted or focused, rigid or flexible, passive or aggressive. I learned just to be.” — Kobe Bryant

We all strive to find the flow state, when our skills, expertise, and mindset are aligned and we can perform, unimpeded, at the highest level. George Mumford calls this being “unlocked”—a state anyone can achieve at any time. A psychologist trained in the field of mindfulness and a leading personal development expert, Mumford has decades of experience in sports psychology helping a wide range of individuals—from CEOs and NBA superstars to the chronically underrepresented, those experiencing homeless and fighting addiction—contend with the challenges and opportunities inherent in life. Inside, Mumford shares potent lessons for success, including:

• Nonjudgmental awareness is required for change
• Mindfulness can transform pressure to fuel performance
• Small steps lead to major breakthroughs

Chock full of tangible insights, unexpected ancient wisdom, and inspiring stories from his clients and his own life—from his darkest moments of addiction recovery and inner turmoil to training some of the best athletes in the world—Unlocked is the culmination of Mumford’s life’s work; it helps us discover our gifts. To sustain success no matter the game or the stakes. To step into the power within us and embrace the freedom of being unlocked.