7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy

Top Performance Coach Jim Murphy reveals how to eliminate fear, master pressure, and unlock elite performance.

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The Three Elements of Inner Excellence

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How to Navigate Failure and Learn From It

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Does Success Equal Happiness?

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Daily Mantras for Success

Jim spent 5 years writing Inner Excellence, the mental toughness manual that shot from obscurity to #1 New York Times bestseller overnight when star athlete A.J. Brown was caught reading it on the sidelines of a NFL playoff game.

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A personal coach to professional baseball players and Olympic athletes, he teaches how extraordinary performance and a meaningful life follow the exact same path.

Tiny Lessons

1. Selflessness is fearless.
2. Presence beats confidence.
3. An easier life is not the best life.
4. Your mind quits long before your body.
5. Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort.
6. You’re only as stable as what you worship.
7. The best performers don’t get tentative after mistakes.
8. There’s no failure, only feedback.
9. Your life is a reflection of your beliefs.
10. Busyness is how we avoid facing ourselves.
11. Money amplifies who you already are.
12. The best life has one foot in joy, one foot in suffering.
13. Don’t build a life you need to escape from.
14. What you really want isn’t success, it’s to feel fully alive.
15. Discomfort is your teacher.
16. Your first step is too big. Make it smaller.
17. Everyone worships something. Choose wisely.
18. Are you running on clean fuel or dirty fuel? Dirty fuel burns hot but costs you inner peace.
19. Extraordinary performance and the best possible life are the same path.
20. The ego promises love through success. It’s lying.
21. Without a clear purpose, you’ll stay busy avoiding yourself.
22. Confidence makes you careless. Presence keeps you sharp.
23. Give 100% of what’s available today, not 100% of perfect.
24. If you build a life you want to escape, you’ve built the wrong life. The more talent you have, the deeper the achievement trap.
25. Perfectionism limits excellence.
26. Self-centeredness is the root cause of fear.
27. You are not your mind.
28. The person with the most control of their inner world has the most power.

Ten Empowering Presuppositions

1. Every circumstance and every person you encounter is here to teach you and help you—it’s all working for your good.
2. Your life is a reflection of your beliefs.
3. Self-centeredness is the root cause of fear.
4. We all have the same deep needs and the same desires.
5. Everyone does the best they can with what they have in their hearts.
6. The map is not the territory.
7. You are not your mind.
8. The problem is not the problem, the problem is the way you’re thinking about it.
9. There is no failure, only feedback.
10. The person with the most control of their inner world has the most power.