Focused on Fire: The Athletes Guide to Mental Training and Kicking Butt

Focused and On Fire: TheAthletes Guide to Mental Training and Kicking Butt is a fresh, smart book written for athletesandcoaches and parents love it, too. Lisa Mitzel portrays an authentic view of anathlete's inner journey in all sports, including baseball, track, golf, andgymnastics. She provides excellent tools, mindsets, and reflects on commondoubts and how to build confidence. Lisa brings light to the inspiration we allneed to confront battles and finally reach our goals. Included are core mentalskills, simple exercises, true inspiring stories, and fun illustrations thatenhance Lisa's powerful messages. Readers will learn self-awareness,higher-mind thinking, and the practice of believing that anything's possible.

Lisa Mitzel is a mentaltraining expert and the author-illustrator of the inspiring new book, Focusedand On Fire: The Athletes Guide to Mental Training & Kicking Butt.Shes touring nationally, bringing enthusiasm and fun mental training clinicsto many groups and teams. Lisa is also a gymnastics coach, and a former HeadCoach at Stanford University; she took her team to their first ever top-10finish at the NCAA National Championships. As a Division I college gymnast atthe University of Utah, Lisa was a crowd favorite and became an NCAA NationalFloor Champion, 6-Time All-American, member of 4 NCAA National ChampionshipTeams, and later, inducted into the University of Utah Athletics Hall of Fame.She is a 2-Time JO National Champion, and an Elite gymnast, placing top 25 atUSA Championships. Traveling across the country, Lisa has spoken at manyuniversities, including Harvard, Stanford, San Jose State, and Denver University.She teaches personal awareness, how to manage thoughts and feelings to win insports, overcome physical and mental struggles, and click in to emotionalintelligence for confidence and safety. Published in Routledge Handbook ofApplied Sport Psychology, she has a BA in Psychology and MFA in Writing. Hersecond book is for coaches, parents, and sports leaders, due out summer, 2018.