Prime Alert! e-newsletters



Welcome to Prime Sport Alert! This quarterly e-newsletter examines essential issues for athletes and coaches, regardless of your sport, level of ability, or goals.

Prime Sport Alert! explores the psychological and team contributors to success in today’s highly competitive and demanding sports world. The goal of Prime Sport Alert! is to provide you with the deep insights, useful information, and practical tools you need to perform at your highest level consistently and achieve your goals.

Prime Sport Alert! is adopted from Dr. Taylor’s Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals and drawn directly from his more than 30 years of work with professional, Olympic, collegiate, junior-elite, and age-group athletes and coaches in many sports, including tennis, golf, soccer, football, basketball, baseball, triathlon, running, swimming, cycling, ski racing, sailing, equestrian, lacrosse, squash, and fencing.

Dr. Taylor offers some of his newsletters in video format on his YouTube channel. View the video newsletters directly below (click on the YouTube4 icon). To subscribe, click on the YouTube icon above. View the video newsletters from your desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

To receive Prime Sport Alert!, complete the e-newsletter sign-up below. Or receive Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, or RSS alerts by clicking on the icons above right.

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Prime Sport Alert! Archive

YouTube4 1/08: Intro. to Prime Sport
YouTube4 5/08: Prime Sport Pyramid
YouTube4 9/08: Motivation to Succeed
YouTube4 1/09: Five Keys to Prime Confidence
YouTube4 5/09: Interview with Dr. Jim Taylor
YouTube4 9/09: Build Confidence-Part II
YouTube4 1/10: Find Your Prime Intensity
YouTube4 5/10: Psych-up Techniques
YouTube4 9/10: Focus Control
YouTube4 1/11: Overcoming Frustration
5/11: Become an Emotional Master
9/11: 5 Things I Hate to See Athletes Do
1/12: Psychology of Injury
5/12: Prime Training: It’s All about Quality
9/12: Developing Competitive Routines
1/13 Inside the Minds of the World’s Best Athletes
5/13: Threat vs. Challenge in Sports
9/13: Think Now, So You Don’t Have to Think Later
1/14: Results Matter, but to Get Them, Ignore Them
5/14: Mental Training Begins in the Gym
9/14: Why Sport Psych Doesn’t Get Respect
1/15:  3 Goals for Playing Your Best
7/15: Overcoming Performance Slumps
11/15: Fear of Failure: 4-Part Series
4/16: 5 Attitudes for Athletic Success
9/16: Watching Video is Great Mental Training
3/17: Six Phrases That Weigh You Down on Game Day
9/17: Athletic Inspiration Comes From Within
4/18: Regret is the Worst Emotion in Sports
10/18: Being a Well-trained Athlete is Not Enough
4/19: What Athletes Can Learn from George Costanza
11/19: Fun is a Mental Tool for Athletic Success
YouTube4 3/08: Prime Sport Attitude
YouTube4 7/08: Prime Sport Profiling
YouTube4 11/08: Importance of Confidence
YouTube4 3/09: The Making of a Champion
YouTube4 7/09: Build Confidence-Part I
YouTube4 11/09: Intensity in Sports
YouTube4 3/10: Psych-down Techniques
YouTube4 7/10: Understanding Focus
YouTube4 11/10: The Power of Emotions
YouTube4 3/11: Demystifying Sport Psychology
7/11: Get Ready for Your Big Event
11/11: 5 Tips for Quality Training
3/12: Competitive Lessons from the World’s Best
7/12: Why the World’s Best Athletes Use Routines
11/12: The Power of Mental Imagery
3/13: No Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda in Your Sport
7/13: Build a High Performing Team Culture
11/13: Three Steps to Athletic Success
3/14: 5 Lessons from an Athletic Prodigy
7/14: Pay Now or Pay Later
11/14: 3 Essential Mindsets for Athletic Success
4/15: 5 Reasons Athletes Don’t Do Mental Training
9/15: When Should Your Young Athlete Specialize?
1/16: Every Day is a Good Day of Training
6/16: 3 Keys to Making Mental Training Work
12/16: 4 Keys to Athletic Success
6/17: Pink Elephants and Blue Hippos in Sports
12/17: Six Ps for Sports Success
7/18: In Sports, Innovate or Die
1/19: What Mental Training is Really All About
7/19: “Will it Help Me Achieve My Sports Goals?”

NEWS: Due to the time that I am devoting to my blog posts and podcasts, my newsletters will be suspended indefinitely.

NOTES: Be assured that your email address will never be given out or sold. If you would prefer to “opt out” of Prime Sport Alert!, there is an Unsubscribe link at the top of each newsletter.

Prime Family Alert! is adopted from Dr. Taylor’s five parenting books, Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child, Your Children are Under Attack: How Popular Culture is Destroying Your Kids’ Values, and How You Can Protect Them, Your Children are Listening: Nine Messages They Need to Hear From You, Raising Generation Tech: Preparing Your Children for a Media-fueled World, and Raising Young Athletes: Parenting Your Children to Victory in Sports and Life.

Dr. Taylor offers some of his newsletters in video format on his YouTube channel. View the video newsletters directly below (click on the YouTube4 icon). To subscribe, click on the YouTube icon above. View the video newsletters from your desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

To receive Prime Family Alert!, complete the e-newsletter sign-up below. Or receive Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, or RSS alerts by clicking on the icons above right.

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Prime Family Alert! Archive

YouTube3 4/05: Fear of Failure
YouTube3 8/05: Suck it Up
YouTube3 1/06: Raise Good Decision Makers
YouTube3 5/06: Raise Excellent Children
YouTube3 9/06: Stop That Runaway Train!
YouTube3 1/07: Respect Starts at Home
YouTube3 5/07: Sad Misuse of Self-esteem
YouTube3 9/07: Family-value Culture
YouTube4 1/08: Take the Offensive
YouTube4 5/08: Raise Successful Achievers
YouTube4 9/08: Don’t Shut Up Emotions
YouTube4 1/09: Fear of Failure Revisited
YouTube4 5/09: Challenge Your Child
YouTube4 9/09: Don’t Praise Your Children!
YouTube4 1/10: Conditional Love is Good!
YouTube4 5/10: Kids and Summer Activities
YouTube4 9/10: Raise Green Children
YouTube4 1/11: Have Consequences with “Bite”
5/11 Disappointment is Good
9/11: Three Words for Better Parenting
1/12: Fatigue is A Parent’s Worst Enemy
5/12: Message Blockers: What Stops Them?
9/12: Raise Children, Not Consumers
1/13 Technology is Changing the Way Kids Think
5/13: Give Your Kids the Gift of an Unmediated Life
9/13: Your Children Need Sleep
1/14: 5 “Dangerous” Things to Do to Your Children
5/14: Children’s Opportunity Costs with Technology
9/14: Risk Taking for Your Children
1/15: Bad, Ugly, and Good of Social Media
7/15: Teach Your Kids 5 Phrases of Gratitude
11/15: Is Coding Camp a Good Idea?
6/16: Four Reasons Why Your Kids Should Play Sports
12/16: Five Healthy Perspectives to Teach Your Young Athlete
6/17: When Should Your Young Athlete Specialize?
12/17: Values in Youth Sport: Part I
7/18: Teach Your Young Athletes Healthy Values: Part II
1/19: What’s Your Kids’ Sports ROI?
7/19: Rate Yourself as a Sport Parent
11/19: Help Your Young Athletes Feel Safe
6/05: Win the Battles of Will
YouTube3 11/05: Lost Art of Play
YouTube3 3/06: Lost Art of Play
YouTube3 11/06: Raise Compassionate Kids
YouTube3 3/07: Know the Enemy
YouTube3 7/07: Family Values
YouTube4 11/07: Raise a Human Being
YouTube4 3/08: Success Expectations
YouTube4 7/08: Independent Children
YouTube4 11/08: Expect a Lot
YouTube4 3/09: Frustration: Aarrgghh!
YouTube4 7/09: 8 Tips For Dads
YouTube4 11/09: Unconditional Love is Bad!
YouTube4 3/10: Race to Nowhere
YouTube4 7/10: iPhone: Parent Expediency
YouTube4 11/10: Q & A with Dr. Jim
YouTube4 3/11: How NOT to Raise Spoiled Brats
7/11: Your Children are Listening
11/11: Dos for Sports Parents
3/12: Set Your Children’s “Defaults” Early
7/12: How to Raise Good (and Safe) Kids These Days
11/12: Media Teaches Bad Values to Children
3/13: Teach Your Children to Single Task, Not Multitask
7/13: Are We Raising Bad Decision Makers?
11/13: What is Your Kids’ “Diet” of Technology
3/14: Don’t Tell Your Children They’re Competent
7/14: Is Compassion Children’s Most Admirable Quality?
11/14: Kids’ Emotional Reactions to Achievement
4/15: Are You a Free-Range Parent?
9/15: Raise Secure Children
1/16: Values Protect Your Kids from Media’s Unhealthy Messages
4/16: 7 Things You Can Do at the End of a Sports Season
9/16: Do You Want a Gifted or Hard-working Child?
3/17: What Young Athletes Really Need
9/17: Don’ts for Sport Parents
4/18: What to Say to Your Children Before & After Games
10/18: Help Your Young Athletes Feel Safe
4/19: Are You an Over-invested Sport Parent?

NEWS: Due to the time that I am devoting to my blog posts and podcasts, my newsletters will be suspended indefinitely.

NOTES: Be assured that your email address will never be given out or sold. If you would prefer to “opt out” of Prime Family Alert!, there is an Unsubscribe link at the top of each newsletter.

Welcome to Prime Business Alert! This quarterly e-newsletter examines essential issues for business people, regardless of your industry, your responsibilities, or whether you are starting in the mail room or have a corner office.

Prime Business Alert! explores the psychological, interpersonal, leadership, and team contributors to success in today’s highly competitive and demanding corporate world. The goal of Prime Business Alert! is to provide you with the deep insights, useful information, and practical tools you need to perform at your highest level consistently and achieve your goals.

Prime Business Alert! is drawn directly from Dr. Taylor’s work with CEO’s, senior management, and corporate organizations in a wide variety of industries, including finance, technology, and manufacturing, as well as with professional athletes and coaches.

Dr. Taylor offers his newsletters in video format on his YouTube channel. View the video newsletters directly below (click on the YouTube4 icon). To subscribe, click on the YouTube icon above. View the video newsletters from your desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Would you like to have Dr. Taylor consult with or speak to your company? Email him.

Prime Business Alert! Archive

YouTube4 1/08: Intro. to Prime Business
YouTube4 5/08: Prime Business Credo
YouTube4 9/08: Change: Why and How
YouTube4 1/09: Qualities of a Prime Leader
YouTube4 5/09: Smartphone Rules to Live By
YouTube4 9/09: Work/Life Balance: Part I
YouTube4 1/10: Self-knowledge for Success
YouTube4 5/10: Single Tasking
YouTube4 9/10: Ten Laws of Prime Preparation
YouTube4 1/11: Stress Victim or Stress Master?
5/11: Steps to Stress Mastery
9/11: Why Motivational Talks Don’t Work
1/12: Corporate Change is Possible
5/12: Don’t Go “Caveman” in a Crisis
9/12: 8 Dimensions of Crisis Mastery
1/13: Build a High-performing Corporate Culture
5/13: Cognitive Biases are Bad for Business
9/13: Focus: Gateway to Business Success
1/14: 5 Things Great Leaders Do Very Well
5/14: Prime Leadership Begins with Your Mindset
9/14: Leader-as-Decision-Maker
1/15: Be Different for Increased Productivity
YouTube4 3/08: Prime Business Pyramid
YouTube4
7/08: Prime Business Challenge
YouTube4 11/08: Myth of Multitasking
YouTube4 3/09: Prime Leadership Revisited
YouTube4 7/09: Master of Crisis
YouTube4 11/09: Work/Life Balance: Part II
YouTube4 3/10: Motivation to Succeed
YouTube4 7/10: Vision Goal Setting
YouTube4 11/10: Confidence Matters
YouTube4 3/11: Foundation of Stress Mastery
7/11: Change Your Performance Mindset
11/11: Too Much Input, Not Enough “Innerput”
3/12: Crisis: Emotional Threat or Challenge
7/12: Four Emotions to Avoid in a Crisis
11/12: Ego in Business: There is an ‘M’ and ‘E’ in Team
3/13: Real Corporate Change Requires the Six I’s
7/13: New Demands of 21st Century Leadership
11/13: Business Success Means Seeing the Future
3/14: Leader-as-Person: Who You Are is How You Lead
7/14: Leader-as-Performer: Lead the Way to Success
11/14: 6 Steps to Making Tough Business Decisions

The Prime Business Alert! e-newsletter has been suspended indefinitely.


NOTE: Be assured that your email address will never be given out or sold. If you would prefer to “opt out” of Prime Business Alert!, there is an Unsubscribe link at the top of each newsletter.