Just Win Today

You don't have to save the world.

You just have to win today.

It's no secret I listen to John Wood on matters
of strength and training. He is one of the most
diligent students of the strength game you'll
find on the planet. He's also a student of what
it takes to be a winner.

I hope he's still not mad the University of
Florida beat out his Wolverines for the right
to play Ohio State for the national title in
football back in January.

I met John at an explosive Matthew Furey
seminar in Tampa about a year and a half
ago and knew right off he had the goods.
John exuded a confident enthusiasm that
was well-grounded and solid as a rock.

And with John there's no hype. Just results,
and what you see is what you get. John's
gone and written something recently I think
you'll want to hear.

And rather than put it in my own words, I
want you to be able to get the full effect of
John's wisdom. If you want to be a winner
on the court and off pay attention to this:

'In NCAA Division I College football, The
University of Michigan is #1 in all time
winning percentage and overall wins --
and its not by accident.

Much of that success is unquestionably due
to talent, but lots of places have just as much,
if not more, talent. The thing is, the other
part is of that success is due to a specific
process, parts of which you can implement
into your own life and that's what I'm going
to let you in on today.

See, we used to have a saying 'Win today', and
it was always used when the going got really
tough - usually during summer 2-a-day practice
sessions, or after a tough loss, or late in the
season when the Big 10 Championship was on
the line, when we were all sore, tired and wanted
to be doing anything else but be there practicing
football.

Win today - It was an attitude thing. If you can
come out and practice with enthusiasm especially
when you dont feel like it, you'll be tough to beat
since every practice is an opportunity to improve.

And thats what its all about - improvement.

So, in order to 'Win The Day' we also had goals
for each practice. They were not particularly
difficult goals to reach, but if we could meet those,
day in and day out, we would win everything in
sight.

These were the little things that always made
the difference in big games like no false-start
penalties or getting at least 2 interceptions per
practice.

Again, very achievable, just have to do them day
in and day out.

As far as your training, or your life, you can do
the very same thing and it will make a
tremendous difference. Before you go to bed at
night, make a list of 3 things you want to
accomplish the next day.

Make them simple and very doable - take out
the trash, put the bills in the mail, etc. You can,
and should, accomplish more than that during
the course of the day, but just be sure those 3
things get done.

Plus, they carry over but don't increase, so if
you did 2 today, tomorrow you would still have
3 - the one you missed and 2 new ones.

You'll be surprised at just how much of a
challenge it can be to do 3 simple tasks each
day but that's why its so effective.

Over and over and over again - a few simple
things, done correctly, always make the
difference.'

So go figure out what will 'Win Today' in your
quest to become a great shooter then go out
and ...

Shoot For The Stars,

Coach Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. John's forte is building hand, wrist, forearm
and grip strength. All things you need to control
a critical rebound, whip out an ankle breaking
crossover, and shoot with a relaxed, consistent
stroke. See what goodies John has to help you out
today at:

http://www.functionalhandstrength.com/

P.S.S. Your season is probably over unless you
play in the NBA, and now is the time to ramp up
your training and see gains in strength, stamina,
quickness, and speed.

I'm sure you're busy like me though and don't
have all day to train. You want to make the most
of your time, and believe it or not you can do
exactly that. And at the same time you can be
confident you are training right with Coach Tony
Alfonso's guide to basketball-specific training
and conditioning.

Don't waste any more of your time. Get Tony's
e-book ASAP at:

http://www.deandelker.com/alfonso_order.html


Copyright 2006,2007 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Coach Dean Delker
8413 SW 4th Place
Gainesville, FL 32607
352-494-6572

dean@deandelker.com
www.deandelker.com

I'd Give My Right Arm For...

My friend Clayton Haslop who is a world-class
violinist told me this little story the other day.

Fritz Kreisler was a legendary Austrian violinist
and composer, one of the most famous of his day
(1965-1962). At the height of his popularity a
woman came backstage after one of his concerts
and enthusiastically gushed at him.

'Sir, I'd give my life to play like that.'

Kreisler responded simply, 'Madam, I did.'

It's true. There's no way around it. If you want to
be one of the greatest of all time at anything, you
WILL devote your life to it. Not forever, but as
long as you want to stay at the top and your body
and soul cooperate. Ask Michael Jordan. Ask
Picasso. Ask Jerry Rice. Ask Wayne Gretsky. Ask
Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith. Ask Larry Bird.

If you want to be among the best shooters on the
planet it's going to take single-minded dedication.

If, however, you want to derive personal pleasure,
a feeling of accomplishment, and personal growth
from playing basketball and especially shooting,
you can give less. And don't feel guilty about that.
Those are all worthy pursuits, and your training
will put you in great stead in any other field you
enter.

Learning to shoot is learning to hit targets.
Learning to hit targets is a learning to hit goals.
And training like that goes to the core of who we
are. It is priceless.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz pointed this out in 'Psycho-
Cybernetics' his classical book on the workings the
mind, success, achievement, and happiness.
When we learn how to work with the internal
tools we've been given by the Creator life WORKS,
and it's not a struggle. In fact, one of the key themes
running through Dr. Maltz' stuff is how what was
once hard can be made easy.

If you want to learn how to find the 'Easy'
button in your life you would do well to study any
of Dr. Maltz' works. There is a new version of the
original book out which I really like. It's updated
and edited by noted direct marketing ace, speaker,
and business coach Dan Kennedy, and it's called,
'The New Psycho-Cybernetics'.

But if you are really serious about wanting to get
the most out of your life there is a 12 week course
in a massive workbook and CD format which gives
you the most comprehensive exposure to what Dr.
Maltz has put in print or the spoken word.

Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. In the 60's Coach Stan Kellner read Psycho-
Cybernetics, and ever since he's been putting it's
powerful ideas in play on the basketball court.
If you want the easy way to take your shooting
to the next level there's nothing else out there
like Stan's "Prime-Time Shooting Machine" DVD.

Give it a spin today unless you don't mind getting
left in somebody else's dust.

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Don't Fall Off Your Chair, Tim

Not only is speed and conditioning Coach Tim
Kauppinen a friend, but he is a dedicated dad who
reads this e-letter regularly. And he has a 6th
grade daughter who plays basketball.

Here's some good news Tim wrote about the other
day:

Dear Dean,

Holy crud.

My 11 year old daughter actually listened to me.
Can you believe it? I know, I know, it may be the
first and last time it ever happens - but you've got
to hear the details.

Last week, on the way home from Madison, my
daughter starting telling me about her basketball
goals for the season (she's a point guard). These
were her top two:

1. Beat Deerfield (the team her team loses to
every year)

2. Score 39 points over the season (I'm not exactly
sure where that number came from)

I thought those were pretty good goals. They were
specific and had a definite time frame - she HAD
heard what I have told her about goal setting.

My daughter continued (and this really made me
swell with pride).

"I have them written down in 3 different places",
she said, "places where I can't help but see them
every day."

Written goals. She was on a roll.

And you know what? By the end of Saturday, she
was already seeing the power of her goal setting.

She played two games in a round robin tournament
on Saturday afternoon. She scored 10 points (she
may need to adjust that 39 for the season goal),
made a number of steals, assists and even blocked a
shot (she's under 5 feet, but is finally listening to me
when I tell her jumping in games is a good idea).

"Boy, was that girl ever mad when I blocked her
shot", she laughed.

Better than all of that - her team beat Deerfield.

Amazing how few people actually have written
goals when they are so simple and powerful a 6th
grader "gets it."

[the other] Coach K

P.S. Here's the secret to getting kids (or anyone
else) to listen to you. First, be sure what you're
telling them is something that works (like hill
sprinting for endurance, flab loss, and strength.
See the proof today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/hill_sprints.html

Second, model the behavior that you want them
to learn. My daughter has seen my written goals
posted around for a couple of years now (fitness,
sprinting, & business goals) - she's seen it work.

What can I add to that.


Shoot for The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

Why I Used To Hate Goals

For much of my life I've never really gotten into
goals. At least not the way achievers talked about
them. I've had vague directions I wanted to go in,
but I was more of a "play it by ear" kind of guy.
Goal setting to me seemed to take the spontaneity
out of living. It made me feel like I was a robot, or
something.

Because of that, I experienced a lot of the coasting
and drifting like I was talking about yesterday.
And yes, I've experienced the pain that comes
from living like that too.

Going with the flow eventually drowns your ambition
and your pleasure. I was living a black-and-white life.

One reason I was so resistant was I only saw goals
objectively. They were something sterile and
intellectual to me. I didn't realize how much joy you
could experience in setting and hitting goals. I just
saw them as mile markers on a hard road. No
wonder I resisted.

Not any more though. I've done a 180 and realize we
are all built-in goal seekers. And if we don't pursure
what we want we'll end up getting what we don't
want, by default.

I'm reading "The New Psycho-Cybernetics" which
is modernized, updated version of the 30 million
selling self-help classic. Dan Kennedy the multi-
millionaire speaker, business consultant, and direct
marketing wizard has done the updating because
the original book helped him overcome stuttering,
and develop the habit of success. I'm seeing things
in a new light, and recommend it highly.

One of the reasons I thought I wasn't goal-oriented
is much of it went on automatically in the
background. When I watch a 12 month old learning
to walk, and I see it clearly, but when I walk now I'm
not conscious of the goal behavior going on inside. It
is though.

As human beings we have the privilege of being able
to set meaningful, satisfying emotional goals - and
then to hit them.

Rick Rosser emailed me last night and was pumped
up about a new personal best in consecutive free
throws. I would be too, and I love hearing about
Rick's success and any of your successes.

He shot 1558 straight freethrows recently , and
now he's even more confident he can work up into
Guinness world-record territory. And as a truck
driver who travels around he's also hit more than
100 consecutive freethrows in 136 different
YMCA's across the land. That's probably a world
record already. You should check on that Rick.

Rick is excited about life, and you will be too
when you start setting some juicy goals that light
your fire.

Remember if you're not moving toward intentional
purposes, goals or dreams you're going to get the
leftovers and the hand-me-downs in life. Then
you're going to whine and complain which will
make it worse, and you're just not going to be
very happy at all.

Shoot For The Stars One Exciting Goal At A Time,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Dan Kennedy was also very instrumental in
compiling and bringing Psycho-Cybernetics to the
masses in a step-by-step workbook format that
anybody can follow and grow from. The course
called "Zero Resistance Living" turned my life
around, and I've I'm just beginning to scratch
the surface of it's possibilities.

Find out how you can live large today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

P.P.S Dr. Maltz was a friend of Salvador Dali who
was the antithesis of the "starving artist". Dali
understood how to live life to the hilt, how to
communicate that joy of living on canvas, and
how to get paid what he was worth.

Tania Gabrielle French carries that same torch in
the field of music today, and she can show you how
to use power-filled words and beautiful music to
rise to new personal heights.

Experience the positive power of music today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/secret_power.html

The Hidden Benefits of Shooting Hoops

I wonder if you realize what you've gotten yourself
into wanting to be a great shooter? It's actually
possible to set yourself up for life.

When you visualize yourself putting the ball in the
hole you are expanding your self-image to new
levels. You are focusing on what you want, and
letting the inner image change. Then the doing
becomes easier.

When you see yourself as a shooter your life can
change.

You will have learned a ton about desire, belief,
confidence, your mind, goals, perserverance, and
I could go on and on. What you learn on the court
you can apply to most anything you do in life, and
come out a winner. That is priceless.

The processes you learn can also make you more
successful in love, relationships, money, career,
spirituality, education, research, business - every
good thing you want.

For instance I'm sure you've heard the phrase 'time
is money'. And that's true up to a point, but really
isn't it ideas that make money. Creativity is a mental
skill, and as you sharpen your mind on the court, and
apply those same skills to the money game you will
have a much brighter future.

The best, most comprehensive mental program I've
ever seen for basketball comes from Coach Stan
Kellner. I was raving about the book yesterday, and
there is a wealth of information there.

It may be the best buy I've ever seen. It sells for $15,
and there are hundreds of powerful ideas to act on.

The same holds for his 'How To Be a Prime-Time
Shooting Machine' DVD. There's nothing else like it
so I've made it easy for you to order it today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. My business and life coach Matt Furey has
the ultimate winners attitude, and he teaches it
through exercise, conditioning, and mental power
programs.

He's also the head honcho at the Psycho-Cybernetics
Foundation where he carries on Dr. Maxwell Maltz'
vision for self-image building. You would do well to
visit Matt's sites and absorb as much as possible from
him. His daily emails are an education in themselves.
Now is the time. Here are the places:

http://www.deandelker.com/matt_furey.html

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

God Bless.

How Not To Hit A Homerun

When I played Little League baseball there was a
big husky kid named Carl M. Carl was a catcher
and a darn good one. An all-star.

Carl had a big weakness at the plate though, and
even at that level most of the pitchers in the league
knew about it.

You see Carl had hit two home runs in his first two
games, and the rest of the season he was addicted
to the long ball. He tried to murder every pitch that
came over the plate and most of them that didn't.

Truth is, most of the time Carl was an easy out.

Truth is you will be too, if you think like Carl.

You should be moving in the direction of your
goals every day, but you don't have to swing for the
fence every time you're at bat. You probably don't
need a grand slam today.

It's more important to do the little things well, and
do them consistently than it is to make the big
score. In fact, it's the little victories along the way
that prepare you for the big pushes when you need
to make them.

If you savor your victories as they come and
celebrate them passionately you will build a winning
attitude, and also be able to handle the inevitable
adversity with power and grace. And you will get
to your long-term goal that much faster.

In his Prime Time Shooting DVD Coach Stan Kellner
says it's more important you learn how to miss a shot
than how to make one.

Think about it. I had to. But if missing puts you in a
big funk it's awfully hard to build any kind of lasting
confidence. And without confidence you are dead
meat.

Learn how to miss shots the right way today with
Coach Stan's Ultimate Shooting Method DVD.
Advance order it now at:

http://www.deandelker.com/kellner_order.html

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Psycho-Cybernetics is the science of steering your
mind and emotions toward productive, useful goals.

What you can learn on one page of Dr. Maxwell Maltz'
'Zero Resistance Living' course can change your life
forever. And there are 555 pages chocked full of
messages that will help you get the best out of your
God-given abilities.

Take the plunge and find out how good it feels
today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

God Bless.