ELITE PERFORMANCE FROM THE WORLD'S BEST (with Dr Brian Hemmings - Elite Level Psychologist in Sport, Business and Academia)

Live Your Full Potential

Welcome to this week's Live Your Full Potential Podcast with Dr Brian Hemmings, hosted by JP De Villiers and Matt Grady. In today's conversation we discuss the role of passion, how the best performers in sport get past the shiny object syndrome, doing the right things consistently, major elite performance research on high performance, creating your environment fo high-performance, continuous improvement and so much more. Dr Brian Hemmings was the lead psychologist to the England golf team for 16 years (1997-2013) delivering high performance strategies with European and World Championship winning teams and individuals at men’s, youth and junior level. During this time he helped develop the mental skills of the best young emerging English golfers including the likes of Danny Willett, Chris Wood, Ross Fisher, Tommy Fleetwood, Andrew Johnston, Tom Lewis, Paul Waring and Eddie Pepperell, along with many Walker Cup players such as R&A World No. 1 Jamie Moul, Neil Raymond and Seniors Tour winner and amateur legend Gary Wolstenhome, MBE. He was most recently Lead Psychologist to the Hong Kong Golf Association. Brian has continued to work with many of these players into their professional careers on the various European tours. He was also the performance psychologist to the English Women’s Golf Association (1998-2001 & 2006-10), and still works with current LET players. Brian is the author of the CD ‘In the Zone: Simple Mental Skills to Improve Your Golf’ and four books, including the best-seller ’Mental Toughness for Golf: The Minds of Winners’. He is a regular presenter around the UK and Ireland on the PGA CPD programme, and has presented at PGA National Conferences in the UK and across Europe. As well as hosting four successful UK golf psychology conferences since 2002, Brian regularly runs Masterclasses in Golf Psychology for psychologists and golf coaches. He has presented internationally in Australia, China, South Korea, Austria, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Hong Kong, India, Latvia and the USA. He has worked as a golf development consultant for the PGAs of Europe on the R&A ‘Working For Golf’ worldwide programme. We hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did hosting Brian. 0:00 Introductions 05:55 Passion & Enthusiasm 10:30 How the best get past the search for the elusive ingredient 11:00 How can you do what you're doing consistently 12:50 Goal setting & Adherence 13:35 Shiny Objects 14:00 Major Research on the Best Performers in Golf - The Behaviours at the top 16:00 Importance of Environment 20:00 Values and the importance of going the distance 25:00 Continuous Improvement 25:35 Opinions 34:00 Zooming in and Zooming Out 42:00 Playing to Win not Playing Not to Lose To learn more about Dr Brian Hemmings, head over to: https://www.golfmind.co.uk/golfmind-team/dr-brian-hemmings/https://www.golfpsychologycoaching.co.uk/about-us/https://uk.linkedin.com/in/brian-hemmings-00380040 To find out more about Mental Performance Coaching and meet the JPDV Performance Team, head over to: https://www.jpdvperformance.com/https://www.jpdvperformance.com/socialmedia