The Winning Way

How to win in the mind, "the top two inches"

"The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our own minds". It's not the highest mountain that we conquer, but ourselves, our own mentality. Overcoming perceived limits to reach (attain) the pinnacle of our own minds."

- craig (as inspired by the words of Sir Edmund Hillary, conquerer of Mount Everest (1919-2008)

A collection of Craig's articles on mind management and following on from his book on sport psychology THE WINNING Mind (as well as his other books on his great passion, motor racing)
Starting compiling today "lucky" Friday 13th Jan in the year 2012 and will add as I research further, write and update this e-book.

"Together, one mind, one life at a time, let's see how many people we can impact, encourage, empower, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials...and so become 'ever more champions of life'."

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing and motor racing; all the rest are merely games."

- Ernest Hemingway

"A lot of people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."

- Steve McQueen in the film 'Le Mans' (1971)

"Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest it's a battle of strength
of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display
and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this 'theatre of speed' F1 is a metaphor for life itself"
- craig

"The Zone could simply be a gateway to the divine, one of God's methods of reminding us of His - and our- glorious power. Omnipresence means that power must be everywhere, everytime. Including the racetracks. including today."

- powerful writing by Clyde Brolin in his fascinating book 'Overdrive: Formula One in the Zone'

"If your brain is strong enough and your concentration is good enough, you do the plap time first in your brain ... and then in your car and in your body. That is something the good drivers can do, but only Ayrton Senna made perfect."
- the words of Karl Wendlinger, former German Grand Prix driver

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"I press towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God..."
- Phil 3:14

"As we live and move and have our being from this vision, we create heaven in our own lives... and heaven on earth."

"Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...Put out my hand and touched the face of God."
- superb writing from the poem High Flight, by WWII airman John Gillespie Magee, who died in a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire in 1941

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