Category Archives: Inner Game of Tennis

Revitalize Your Work – What to Do When You’re Stuck

In his brilliant book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ Tim Gallwey first showed a new way to look at this:
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Pete Carroll Coaching Style

On offense, Carroll is known for using an aggressive, nonconservative play-calling that is open to trick plays as well as “going for it” on 4th down instead of punting the ball away Continue reading

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Myles Downey The School of Coaching

Then, having read “The Inner Game of Tennis,” by Tim Gallwey, he began to work as a coach, initially in sport and then in business. Continue reading

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Teaching Tennis the Traditional Way

His name was Tim Gallwey. I knew I had to have a lesson from this man, and I was determined to go to the ends of the earth to find him. As it turned out, he was right there in my hometown of Los Angeles.
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Sense of Self-Worth

During the match, he was torn between wanting to win a new racket and not wanting to beat his father. Continue reading

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Top 5 Books for Entrepreneurs from 2009

The Inner Game of Tennis is listed in the Knowledge is Social blog as one of the 5 top books for entrepreneurs in 2009. Continue reading

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Want Prosperity? Quit Trying So Hard

I read about Tim Gallwey many years ago in Reader’s Digest. He wrote Zen-like books about sports: Inner Tennis, Inner Golf, and my favorite, Inner Skiing. He could have written Inner Whittling, but it doesn’t matter. He used sports as a vehicle to teach about not being so damn self-critical and letting your mind be free to achieve, allowing your body to follow. Continue reading

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Mud Ball Golf and Mind Over Matter

But, the coach Fred Shoemaker had been to see was not a famous Golf coach – but a Tennis coach Continue reading

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Interview with Tim Gallwey

In the 1970’s, Tim Gallwey wrote what is still one of the most crucial books for deeply understanding adult learning and change. He eloquently unlocked significant mysteries, mysteries with which most organizations and individuals unfortunately still struggle. Continue reading

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Training Your Mind Can Turn Your Life Around

Tennis Coach Timothy Gallwey has argued for years that you will do better at learning even a sport such as tennis if you become conscious of how your mind naturally learns. Continue reading

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