Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance

Product Description

From bestselling author and mental toughness expert Jason Selk comes a mind-training regimen for reframing every problem into an opportunity for productive action.

The most common cause of failing to reach our professional and personal goals is hardwired in us: Humans instinctively focus on problems. Over millennia, our very survival relied on our ability to be alert to any potential dangers that could threaten our existence. But today this negativity bias significantly limits our potential and increases stress, pressure, and underperformance. 

The one characteristic all phenomenally successful people share is mental toughness. Mentally tough people are better at making decisions more quickly and with better results. They possess the uncanny ability to control what goes on between their ears. Instead of allowing their minds to focus on their problems when adversity strikes, the most successful people have learned to direct their thoughts in a systematic manner that produces positive emotions and productive actions: they have a Relentless Solution Focus. 

In this book, top performance coach Dr. Jason Selk―former Director of Mental Training for the World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals―and his colleague Dr. Ellen Reed provide the insight, tools, and proven step-by-step framework for you to do the same. When you have Relentless Solution Focus, you think better. Your decisions garner positive results. You take action and follow through―every time. And when you do get off track, you get back on with less effort and less drama. Weakness shrinks and strength grows, creating confidence and momentum, taking you and your team to higher levels of performance and achievement.

From the Publisher

Dr. Jason Selk, one of the nation’s premier performance coaches, has worked with business titans and superstar athletes. As Director of Mental Training for the St. Louis Cardinals, he played an important role in the team’s first World Series victory in over 20 years, in 2006, and their second in 2011. He is the bestselling author of 
Executive Toughness, 10-Minute Toughness, Organize Tomorrow Today, and 
Lead Any Team to Win.

Dr. Ellen Reed has worked side by side with Dr. Selk for 15 years, and has extensive experience in mental training for consistency, accountability, and execution in business, athletics, academics, and the performing arts. She helps business leaders and elite athletes reach their peak performance by developing the mental toughness necessary for success.

From the Back Cover

“Dr. Selk is absolutely correct: having the right frame of mind opens the door to so many positive outcomes in life. Doing the work to develop mental strength is an investment in yourself. He’s right about something else, too: you are worth it.”

—Penny Pennington, Managing Partner, Edward Jones

“RSF has become our operational default system to deal with the unanticipated issues that arise daily.”

—Dan Rivers, Managing Partner, Northwestern Mutual

“I’ve always been a results-oriented leader. I often know what I want done, but do not convey it in a way that translates. The way I try to improve a situation has always been to point out what is wrong. Doing that can certainly be received as negative when it’s not meant to be. RSF helped me think differently, so my message comes across to people in a clearer, more concise, and more positive way.”

—Michael Staenberg, President, The Staenberg Group

“It’s never been more important to not allow problems to consume our thoughts. This is the book the world needs to read to move forward in the best way possible.”

—Maxine Clark, Founder, Build-A-Bear Workshop, and CEO, Clark-Fox Family Foundation

“RSF is a simple technique that yields powerful results.”

—Kelly Hall-Tompkins, award-winning, Grammy-nominated violin soloist; the “Fiddler,” Bartlett Sher Broadway production of
Fiddler on the Roof; and Founder and Executive/Artistic Director, Music Kitchen-Food for the