The Competitive Buddha:

How to Up Your Game in Sports, Leadership and Life

This book is about mastery, leadership, and spirituality. Reading it, you will learn what you need to keep, what you need to discard, and what you need to add to your mental, emotional, and spiritual skill set as an athlete, coach, leader, parent, CEO or any other performer in life to UP YOUR GAME. You will not only learn about how Buddhism can help you to be better prepared for sports and life, but how sports and life can teach you about Buddhism. You will discover how people from all parts of the world have brought together the Buddha and athletics for greater fun, enjoyment and pleasure during their performances. Jerry Lynch demonstrates how certain timeless core Buddha values will inspire you to embrace and navigate the unchartered waters of mastery. You will find the Buddha mind and the Kobe Bryant Mamba Mentality to be quite provocative and very useful.When it comes to leadership and coaching, this book will teach you how the best of the best coaches today use the ancient methods for these modern times, especially when it comes to the concept of Servant Leader. You will learn very specific strategies and techniques to implement this special way to guide and lead and perform your best.

 

 

Win the Day:

Building and Sustaining a Championship Culture

Win the Day lays out the essential core values of championship sports cultures. It is a book to help build, cultivate, and sustain a culture of champions who “Win the Day” by practicing specific core values that we all crave. It leans on the wisdom, teachings, and values of a variety of cultures, such as ancient Chinese and Buddhist thought, Native American tradition, and Western psychology. The book reflects the body of work Jerry Lynch has created over the past 30 years with 115 championship cultures, with practical, easy-to-implement tools, strategies, exercises, and activities that he has successfully used with coaches and athletes in championship cultures. The book also applies the expertise and wisdom of 12 nationally acclaimed Hall of Fame head coaches from the professional and collegiate ranks, through their personal stories, anecdotes, and opinions about crafting their championship cultures.

 

 

Let Them Play:

The Power and Joy of Mindful Parenting  

American youth sports are in crisis: Parents are fighting with referees, coaches, their kids, and one another. Micromanaged kids are losing their passion to play. In Let Them Play sports psychologist and team consultant Dr. Jerry Lynch provides an antidote to parental overinvolvement. Combining psychological insight with spiritual principles from Taoism and Buddhism, Lynch lays out core principles to help parents achieve equanimity and provide healthy direction for their kids. He gives parents strategies and tools taken from his work with national champions to help kids to perform at higher levels, become better team players, and most im- portant, have more fun. Filled with easy-to-implement advice, Let Them Play will empower your athletic child to be mentally strong for sports and life.

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Testimonials

“Having been a parent of athletic kids, I wish I had had a copy of this book to guide me through those challenging times with youth sports.” – Phil Jackson, author and eleven-time NBA world champion coach “This book is my new blueprint for raising my own happy, healthy athletes, and it should be yours too.” – John o’Sullivan, founder of the Changing the Game Project

“Let Them Play will help you to inspire and empower your kids to have more joy, fun, and success not just in sports but in the bigger game of life.” – Anson Dorrance, coach of the twenty-two-time NCAA champion women’s soccer team at University of North Carolina

Coaching with Heart:

Taoist Wisdom to Inspire, Empower, and Lead in Sports & Life 

A new breed of coaches is emerging in the world of athletics—men and women who insist on culti- vating strong, healthy relationships where respect and integrity are forged. These extraordinary leaders have discovered that the way to be a success is not to just to win games but to win relationships, the single most vital aspect to effective coaching in sports. This calls for an intimate dance between coach and team, a give and take where each can teach what needs to be learned in order to fulfill the tasks at hand.

Coaching with Heart is a provocative and practical “game changer” in the shifting landscape of coach- ing in athletics and life. Inside, you will awaken to the power of caring, to the magic of being stronger by being softer, to the value of failure and the need for risk, to the positive effects of a culture of unity and cohesion as you cultivate loyalty and dedication to your system. The book will also demonstrate and teach how the Taoist virtues of respect, trust, compassion, belief, and integrity are essential quali- ties cultivated by every truly successful coach and leader throughout the world.

In this book, Jerry Lynch shares wisdom he has accrued in his thirty-plus years “in the trenches,” where he has had the opportunity to work with, talk to, observe, and learn from some of the most respected and effective coaches of all time, such as Phil Jackson, Pat Summit, Dean Smith, Tara Vanderveer, John Wooden, Bill Walsh, Anson Dorrance, Tony Dungy, Bob Hansen, Cindy Timchal and Missy Foote.

Coaching with Heart will assist you to step outside the box in your leadership endeavors whether as a coach, mentor, teacher, CEO, military officer, church clergy, or parent. It is filled with practical, useable gems that will help you to guide others to practice, play, and live with the heart of a champion.

 

Testimonials

“Jerry is a wise and trusted friend who happens to be one of the nation’s top authorities on leader- ship and coaching in sports. His input has had a very positive influence in helping me and other coaches at Carolina to create environments that inspire athletes to go the distance and reach their potential. This book will definitely make a difference in your coaching as well.”
– Anson Dorrance, Head Women’s soccer coach, University North Carolina, 21 NCAA National Championships—Winningest women’s soccer coach of all time

“Having played for several incredibly dynamic coaches during my career, I embrace Jerry Lynch’s message in Coaching with Heart, a book about inspiration not just in sports but in life, family, goals, and desires. My favorite coaches were the ones who understood Jerry’s ideals and strived to connect with me on a human level. That’s what this book is all about.”
– Steve Kerr, Former 5X NBA World Champion with Bulls and Spurs, NBA TV color commentator and analyst.

 

Spirit of the Dancing Warrior:

Asian Wisdom for Peak Performance in Athletics and Life  

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN INSPIRING, INFLUENCING AND EMPOWERING YOUR SELF AND THOSE YOU COACH AND LEAD?

Here is the perfect book for all coaches,athletes and leaders who wish to deepen and expand their relationship with athletics, business or life. This masterful blend of Eastern thought and Western Psychology will help to open your heart to this special connection between the physical and the spiritual as they relate to performance in all arenas of life.This approach offers a system of practical spiritual training through the use of daily meditation and inspiration that leads to greater awareness,wisdom and simultaneously , greater levels of physical experience. Let your physical life become a conduit for spiritual growth and change as you begin to compete and play with heart on your journey of personal and collective excellence. The spiritual vitamins in this book will supplement your athletic soul,boost your warrior spirit and infuse your physical self with extraordinary vibrancy,excitement and joy. Improve your performance and awareness not only in sport but in all of life.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. From Ordinary to Extraordinary

2. From Mindfulness to Warriorship

3. From Buddha to Bob Marley

4. From God to the Games

5. From Thinking Body to Dancing Mind

6. Gratefulness

7. From Sole to Soul

8. Beginner's Mind

9. From Tao to How

10. Mastery

11. Integrity

12. Simplicity

 

Testimonials

"In this magical book, the authors have brought wisdom from the East down from the lofty clouds by distilling it into 52 Warrior virtues that will inspire and guide you to evolve your life experiences from ordinary to extraordinary."
– Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. author of Bodymind

"This brilliant yet simple book is always within my reach.I rely on it to keep me on track,not just in golf but in all my life. Great stuff".
– Vijay Singh, PGA Tour Champion.

 

THE WAY OF THE CHAMPION:

LESSONS FROM SUN-TZU'S The Art of War and Other Tao Wisdom For Sports and Life - $18.95 

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN CREATING A CULTURE OF CHAMPIONS? THIS IS FOR YOU!

Although this is a perfect book for all coaches in all sports, providing specific, practical material that can be used with an entire team to raise their level of strategy, leadership and winning, it can also be used to benefit individual athlete's performance, taking themselves to the next level.

Martial artists, great warriors, coaches, generals, and successful corporate CEOs effectively use the strategies for winning found in Sun Tzu's Art of War. Author Jerry Lynch, using lessons from The Art of War, as well as other ancient Taoist books such as the I Ching and Tao Te Ching, teaches readers to develop the capacities and qualities that make a champion - such as high self-esteem, courage, fortitude, determination, perseverance, tenacity, self-awareness, integrity, the ability to take risks, and the ability to learn from failure. The emphasis on self-awareness, tactical positioning, and strategic advantage means that practitioners win through inner growth and self-improvement - giving them a universal competitive edge.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. Knowing Your Opponent as well as Self

2. Getting to Manage Emotions

3. Readiness Training

4. Coping with Adversity

5. Virtues of Champions

6. Team Harmony

7. Leadership

8. and much more

 

Testimonials

"In his book, The Way of the Champion, DR. LYNCH IS RIGHT ON TARGET, presenting specific practical exercises for mental toughness, leadership and winning as a champion." –
– Coach Dean Smith, University of North Carolina basketball champions

 

Thinking Body, Dancing Mind:

Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life - $18.95  

1. Is your head preventing you from becoming a winner?

2. Do you suffer from slumps, choking, psych-outs, runaway emotions, negativity or a lack of confidence?

3. Do you perform better in practice than at "game time" when it counts the most?

4. Do you consistently underachieve in your performance arena?

In the tradition of The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings and Timothy Gallwey's revolutionary The Inner Game of Tennis, comes Thinking Body, Dancing Mind.

Jerry Lynch makes Zen principles and strategies for achievement and excellence accessible to people in all walks of life - and shows how to turn these strategies into effective tactics for immediate success in athletics and fitness regardless of level or age.

Here are the secrets of legendary warriors and strategians that have been practiced for more than two thousand years - timeless principles of craft, skill, and timing of will power and indomitable spirit - that result in victory. Thinking Body, Dancing Mind's Taoist teachings about concentration, focus, centering, intuition, and practice are both philosophic and practical. The book provides numerous mental exercises and techniques, ethical guidelines, visualizations, and affirmations, which the author calls TaoSports, that any reader can use to succeed.

This is now a perennial best seller in seven languages and is found in the locker rooms of athletes in the NBA, NFL, NLL, and NCAA collegiate champions and at the high school level of sports as well.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. Fear of Failure

2. Slumps

3. Perfectionism

4. Confidence

5. Balance

6. Goal Setting

7. Mental Tactics

8. Motivation

9. Positive Thinking

10. Unlimited Beliefs

11. Courage

12. and much more 

Testimonials

"This book helped me to get back in touch with my golf game."
– Annika Sorenstam, LPGA Champion

"Thinking Body, Dancing Mind was a life changing kind of book to say nothing about what it did for us athletically."
– The Swiss National Skydiving Champions 

 

Working Out, Working Within:

The Tao on Inner Fitness Through Sports -$18.95  

1. Would you like to be mentally strong and spiritually alive in sports or fitness?

2. Would you like to overcome negative pressure and remain calm during performance?

3. Does your head get in the way of you being your best?

4. Are you in need of a new, exciting approach to the old way of performing in sport or getting in shape?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, this book is for you!

Whether an elite athlete, weekend jogger or exercise fanatic, read this book and see how Zen meets The Zone in Working Out, Working Within, a guide to combining physical fitness and athletics with spiritual awakening. During physical training, we can experience something deeper than just the burn of working out. We can achieve spiritual awareness and know that we are alive and healthy. 

This book offers readers techniques and suggestions to avoid fixating on winning the game, scoring the goal, or building the perfect body. Our personal workouts become tools for personal transcendence as we get to know ourselves, test our limits, gather personal strength, and build physical potency. Working Out, Working Within will nourish and exercise the spirit while showing readers what "ultimate" sports and living really are.

In the words of Phil Jackson, coach of the NBA Los Angeles Lakers pro basketball team, "Anyone who works their body (fitness or sports) will benefit from Jerry's book."

TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. The Power of "I Can"

2. Effortless Effort

3. Risk-taking

4. Goal Setting

5. Simplicity

6. Patience

7. Passion

8. Facing Fear

9. Integrity

10. Modesty

11. Inner Stillness

12. Dancing with the Deer

 

Testimonials

"Brilliant in its simplicity, rich in its content, this book is right on the money for any coach or athlete looking for a complete athletic and fitness experience."
- Bob Hansen, Head Coach, University of California, Santa Cruz
Five Time NCAA Men's Tennis Champions

Becoming a Champion Runner: Competing with the Heart-Mind of a Warrior Without question, a runner's mindset can have a dramatic effect upon performance. In this presentation, Jerry Lynch shares with you mental training tools to assure you that your mindset is one that positively enhances your performance. In a candid discussion with a group of runners, Lynch explores common mental roadblocks that runners experience including confidence in competition, the importance of desire in performing, how to take successful training runs into competition, how to stay mentally strong and positive during a race, the importance of process vs. outcome based goals, overcoming fears that certain opponents present and mental strategies for focus and confidence in competition. In each of these areas, Lynch offers practical mental training solutions to help overcome the specific mental obstacles that you may be experiencing. In addition, Lynch demonstrates a series of activities that reinforce the idea that positive thinking truly does impact an athlete's performance and resolve to compete. This DVD is a must have for the serious runner looking to take his/her running to the next level! 64 minutes. 2008.   Becoming a Champion Runner: Competing with the Heart-Mind of a Warrior DVD - $39.99 Mental Strategies for Physical Injury: A Coach's & Trainer's Guide to Managing Wounded Athletes There are two kinds of athletes: those who are injured and those who will become injured. In the competitive arena, even the smallest injury can be absolutely devastating to an athlete - both physically and mentally. In this presentation, Sport Psychologist Dr. Jerry Lynch is joined by other professionals (coaches and trainers) who are not only charged with asking him the important questions that are on every coach's mind, but who also share their own wide range of experiences with injured athletes within their athletic programs. Lynch's insight and expertise is based on his interactions with thousands of athletes throughout his career. He sheds light on the emotional, mental and psychological components of the injury process in an effort to minimize and cope with the unavoidable injuries that arise. In addition, he shares his suggestions for the treatment of injuries, no only physiologically, but psychologically as well. Lynch, with the help of other professionals, provides you with the tools you need to create a positive, proactive management plan to help an injured athlete heal physically and mentally. 70 minutes. 2008.   Mental Strategies for Physical Injury: A Coach's & Trainer's Guide to Managing Wounded Athletes - $39.99 THE WAY OF THE CHAMPION Series for Coaches and Athletes In this incredible series, Sport Psychologist, athlete, international speaker, corporate consultant, and author Jerry Lynch shares a complete guide predominantly for coaches (and also athletes) to help them help their athletes learn and develop the habits of champions. Lynch's credo is that of developing "A Champion's Soul with a Winner's Heart", and shares concepts and hands-on activities with teams that will afford a coach the blueprint for teaching how to implement and maintain a team culture for accountability and commitment in order to help the team attain its highest potential. Disc #1, "Having the Right Stuff" is the cornerstone of this 5 DVD series that provides the base upon which all of the other presentations are built.   "Jerry Lynch presents specific, practical lessons for mental toughness, leadership and winning as a champion." - Coach Dean Smith, University of North Carolina, National Basketball Champions DISC 1: The Way of the Champion - HAVING THE RIGHT STUFF - $39.95 DISC 2: The Way of the Champion - DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS - $39.95 DISC 3: The Way of the Champion - DEVELOPING STRATEGIC POSITIONING - $39.95 DISC 4: The Way of the Champion - DEVELOPING THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE - $39.95 DISC 5: The Way of the Champion - DEVELOPING TEAM UNITY and LEADERSHIP - $39.95 DISC 1 THE WAY OF THE CHAMPION - Having the Right Stuff Are you looking for a way that helps you structure team meetings more effectively? Would you like to help your athletes to become mentally stronger? Do you want to learn how to inspire your athletes to play their very best? This FIRST DISC in this series will help you to address these desires and enable you to help your athletes develop the "right stuff" of champions. Dr. Lynch teaches how the true nature of a champion lies not only in one's mind but in one's heart as well. "This DVD has really given me the tools and strategies to strengthen my mind. I feel so mentally tough with the RIGHT STUFF." - Rachel T., basketball, Arizona "I really love Jerry's techniques of the CIRCLE, the meditations and mental focusing strategies for my soccer athletes. It adds a new dimension to my coaching." - John B., Soccer coach, Ohio HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS DISC: 1. How to use The Circle as an effective team meeting device 2. Ways to help your team decrease anxiety, regulate emotions, strengthen focus 3. How to help the athletes to be mentally tougher and accelerate learning 4. Ways to teach athletes how self-inspiration can facilitate good performance 5. To understand the concept of readiness as it relates to athletes progression 6. How to help athletes become ready to learn from your coaching DISC 2 THE WAY OF THE CHAMPION - Developing Self-Awareness Are you and your athletes TIRED OF HAVING REGRETS? DO YOU WISH THAT YOUR ATHLETES HAD A BETTER SENSE of THEIR CAPABILITIES? Would you like the ATHELTES TO KNOW what they like least about themselves competitively and how to change those things? Then this, the SECOND DISC in this series, will help you help your athletes to become more self-aware. You will learn how to develop the ability to get on the same page with your athletes in order to have greater influence with them, thus creating a stronger environment of trust and respect for you as a coach. Knowing yourself as a person and athlete is more important than knowing your opponent. This DVD on self-awareness deals with the athletes looking at themselves to maximize their potential. "Jerry Lynch is a friend who has given me information to help myself help my athletes." - Phil Jackson, Coach of World Champion L.A. Lakers "Once I became more aware of who I was as a coach, I was able to help my athletes, thanks to Jerry's work, to become more aware of themselves for greater results." - Pat M., Softball Coach, Southern California HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS DISC: 7. How to help athletes become more aware of their strengths and weaknesses 8. Ways to help your players get stronger within 9. To teach your athletes how to write their own competitive story and to live it to their fullest 10. How to show athletes how to change their personal dislikes to positive attributes for greater success 11. How to help athletes change self-talk to boost confidence and performance 12. To help athletes compete without regrets DISC 3 THE WAY OF THE CHAMPION - Developing Strategic Positioning Are you interested in having your TEAM BELIEVE that their event is won before it even begins? Does your team get off to a SLOW START and find themselves in the uncomfortable position of playing catch-up? Do your ATHLETES STRUGGLE with taking their game up a few notches? Does your team have a DIFFICULT TIME taking criticism and LEARNING FROM MISTAKES? In this THIRD DISC on Strategic Positioning, Jerry addresses these issues and more. According to Jerry, a major concept in strategic positioning is to understand that competition is a process. Goal driven athletes tend to focus on the result while being oblivious to the day-to-day process. The first activity, "Sending a Message", kicks off this session. When you show up to compete your opponent looks at you and what is seen will often determine the outcome. The purpose of the exercise is to effectively and efficiently send a strong message to your opponent about your intent. Jerry teaches athletes how to ensure their message is sent and received through visualization and affirmation, two critical components of strategic positioning. The next activity is called "Checking In", used within 24 hours after competition. Its purpose is to give the team concrete ideas for improvement. Champions need positive and constructive critique, even after victory. By specifically defining the areas of improvement, athletes and teams can take steps toward improvement and ultimate success. Activity three, "Raising the Bar", is designed to increase the intensity of practices. Athletes focus on what they are willing to start doing that differs from their normal routine. This exercise helps athletes see that the only thing keeping them from dynamic positive change is themselves. HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS DISC: 13. How to pave the road to victory with tactical strategic positioning 14. To prepare your team so that the competition is won before the battle begins 15. How to send your opponent a strong message about your team's intentions 16. How to conduct positive, productive post-game team meetings 17. To help your athletes raise the bar in each practice session and competition DISC 4 THE WAY OF THE CHAMPION - Developing A Competitive Advantage Are you frustrated with your team's LACK OF BELIEF in themselves? Do they FAIL TO DEVELOP or create the CRUCIAL EDGE they need in order to dominate? Do your athletes seem to LACK HEART when they compete? Are they not as consistent as they need to be due to LACK OF MENTAL TOUGHNESS? Then you need THIS DISC on the Competitive Advantage. According to Dr. Lynch, your opponent's greatest advantage is your team's lack of belief in its ability to do its best. In this DVD, Jerry shares his strategies to help you to help your athletes create the crucial edge over the opponent. Learn to understand the important message of self-doubt and confidently face each day of competition. Demonstrating heart is essential every time athletes put their feet on to the playing field. The first activity, "Heart from the Start", done in small group settings, discusses the characteristics of tough teams such as work ethic, composure, resiliency, confidence, aggressiveness, and passion. Jerry teaches athletes how to create mental toughness from the list they've assembled through the practice of meditation and affirmation. "Little Stream, Big River" is the second activity. From little streams come big rivers is a motto for Jerry because of the tiny mountain streams that eventually become a huge, powerful river. Some of the more controllable items include being punctual, mental preparation, rest, diet and hydration, work ethic, intensity and attitude. To cement these mentally, Jerry instructs athletes to use mental tools of meditation, visualization and affirmation. Little things are elements that permit teams to become victorious in the end. The final exercise asks, "What is it that you bring when you are at your best?" Developing a competitive edge is about what we have to do to bring our best to the game. "Dr. Lynch has helped us develop the Competitive Advantage through seven consecutive National Championships." - Cindy Timchal, Coach of Maryland Women's Lacrosse HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS DISC: 18. Get your team to play with more heart and believe in themselves 19. Help your team develop the competitive edge and be more mentally tough on a consistent basis DISC 5 THE WAY OF THE CHAMPION - Developing Team Unity and Leadership Is your team LACKING IN LEADERSHP? Do the ATHELTES FAIL TO UNITE for a common purpose? Does SELFISHNESS INTERFERE with GETTING THE JOB DONE? Do any athletes on your team FEEL UNAPPRECIATED? Is a LACK OF TEAM COHESION causing them to fail? Then you need to view this DISC #5 on Unity and Leadership. All great championship teams have a oneness of unity and purpose, as well as sound leadership throughout the ranks, according to Jerry Lynch. In this disc, Dr. Lynch will help your team to develop and use the right strategies for total team leadership. In addition, he provides several activities you can easily implement with your team in order to create harmony, unity and cohesion throughout. "Because of Dr. Lynch's techniques and wisdom, I have been able to develop a culture of excellence with my program. His approach to creating a family atmosphere with the athletes is easy to execute and beneficial to results." - Andrew P., Coach, Oregon "Brilliant in its simplicity and rich in content. Dr. Lynch helped us to win 5 National Titles." - Bob Hansen, Coach, University of California, Santa Cruz HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS DISC: 20. To identify and implement the essential qualities of true leaders 21. How to develop a strong, unified bond with your team 22. To create common goals and purposes among your athletes 23. How to eliminate defeating behaviors and increase those that enhance team unity 24. To conduct strong team building exercises used by champion collegiate and professional teams coached by Dr. Lynch 25. How to help athletes learn how to trust the process