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		<title>Build a High-Performance Organizational Culture</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re in an environment where everyone is laser-focused, working with passion and excitement and being optimally productive (wouldn’t that be blissful!?). In world-class athletics, we refer to this as the flow state. At times, individual athletes experience it and teams attain it — and it creates optimal performance. In business and sports, you must be in a high-performance environment or culture to achieve ...  the flow state and perform optimally.]]></description>
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		<title>Athletic Focus of a World-Champion Athlete &#8211; Entrepreneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunnel vision the pre-event routine and focus of Jeremy Bloom, a three-time world-champion freestyle skier, NFL football player and successful entrepreneur. Bloom shares how he focused his mind to block out distractions in becoming a world-champion athlete now successful entrepreneur.]]></description>
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		<title>Courage and Confidence (Mindset) of an Olympic Athlete</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Bloom, a three-time world-champion freestyle skier, two-time Olympian, and now successful entrepreneur shares the mindset that helped him Courage and confidence, mental toughness and resilience of world-class Olympic athlete, NFL football player and now entrepreneur Jeremy Bloom. develop wold-class mental toughness.]]></description>
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		<title>Transform Fear Into Success and Be in Peak Performance Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 21:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How world-class athletes, high-performance business leaders and other high performers transmute, or channel, fear into higher levels of performance. Here’s a key to success for all the high-performing teams, organizations and individuals I’ve worked with]]></description>
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		<title>Control Negative Thoughts Under High Performance Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 22:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC North</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s topic is: Controlling Positive Energy - controlling negative thoughts under pressure. World-class athletes and business leaders often need to deal with a series of highly positive, yet stressful situations. Learning to control negative thoughts when the amount of positive challenge is sustained is critical to be a high performer!]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Negative Thoughts by Managing Positive Emotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 22:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC North</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both High performing individuals and high performing teams learn to be mindset maniacs to be successful long term. How do you think these high performers react to continuous high pressure and high-positive energy? … Watch the video below for the answer or read the video summary that will be posted in a few days. Have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Unusual Characteristics of High-Performance Cultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC North</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[High-performing individuals, including world-class athletes and business leaders, are different from average athletes and business leaders. High-performance organizations and workplaces are also different from average businesses. What makes them so dissimilar? Here are nine characteristics of high-performance organizations, teams and cultures, from high-performance psychology.]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity in the Shower … Revealing Shower Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://drtcnorth.com/332/creativity-in-the-shower-%e2%80%a6-revealing-shower-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC North</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity is often spawned by a quiet mind - united with a challenge.]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation &#8211; High Performance Motivation</title>
		<link>http://drtcnorth.com/328/motivation-high-performance-motivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC North</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally, high-performers focus 80% to 100% of their thoughts and actions on what they do want, and average performers focus about 20% on what they want and 80% on moving away from pain (what they don’t want).]]></description>
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		<title>Play to Win and Don’t Be Attached to the Outcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC North</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. North’s Creed … Be present. Tell the truth. Play to win. Don’t be attached to the outcome. The third part of the consultant’s creed was play to win (see the last post). Here’s one aspect of play to win that we didn’t cover: The best way to win is to stay in the present [...]]]></description>
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