Don't Endorse That Check

f you are competitive, and I haven't met a good
shooter yet who isn't, I'm betting you know the
value of positive thoughts. They are golden.

Note though, I didn't say positive thinking. As good
as that sounds it's an ideal which I don't believe
exists. The reality is you will have positive and
negative thoughts. What you need to learn is how to
use both to your advantage.

Obviously you want to promote the positive and
constructive thoughts, but what about the negative
ones?

Number one, don't let your pride get involved so you
want to fight and strive against them. That gives
them power, and attracts more negativity. More so,
let them evaporate. Let them go. Let them drift
away. Or think of them as bears, and see a big,
"Don't Feed The Bears" sign in your mind.

Or think of your mind as a bank account, and just
don't endorse any negative checks. Don't let them
be deposited. They won't help your bottom-line.
In fact, they'll lower your balance. And certainly
don't co-sign for any bad loans you're going to be
paying on forever.

Coach Stan Kellner also understands how to use
negative thoughts and experiences as the fuel to
turn you into a positive shooting machine. You
may not understand how that's possible at the
moment, but it is. Find out how for yourself now
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Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Another great way to let go of negative thoughts
is through controlled deep breathing, relaxation, and
visualization. Learn the secrets other cultures have
used for ages today from martial arts and health coach
Karen Van Ness today.

The sooner you act, the quicker you'll become the
positive, confident shooter you've dreamed of being.
Time's a wastin'.

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Make Every Shot Count

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How To Take Out Your Trash

"What we achieve inwardly will change our outward
reality."

- Plutarch, Greek historian and philosopher

Like I said yesterday I believe by the grace of God
our lives and our achievements are built from the
inside-out using constructive thoughts, feelings,
beliefs, and inspired action. We are co-creators.

But we live in a world that's often negative, and have
picked up a lot of junk along the way. Some of it our
own doing, some not. Some we're aware of, but much
more socked away in our subconscious where it
affects what we do automatically. Too much of the
time that means were building up results we really
don't want.

Question is how do we change and become the kind
of builders we want to be? In shooting how do we
become master of the free throw, for instance? One
thing's for sure - the negative stuff doesn't help one
bit.

One way I mentioned yesterday to jetison the
mental riff raff is first to become aware of it, and
then make a conscious effort to drop it. You don't
want to reason with it, analyze it, or do battle
against it. Just let it go.

That's not always enough though. Sometimes
stronger measures are needed.

I have a friend Mike who handles it this way:

"Everytime I catch myself thinking a negative
thought or someone drops bad news in my lap I
immediately say to myself, 'Thanks for sharing
that. CANCEL. CANCEL. CANCEL. And I
smile. Always I smile.""

Or I know of another gent who wore a big thick
rubberband on his wrist for a month. Everytime
he caught himself being negative toward others
or more often toward himself, he'd pull that band
out to about 10 inches and let it go against his
wrist. Hard enough to draw a welt. I think that's
called aversion therapy, but call it what you will it
gets the job done.

Coach Stan Kellner is also a master at helping you
overcome the negativity that comes out in learning
to become a skilled shooter. See for yourself what
Stan calls the secret of the Cybernetic Loop in his
Ultimate Shooting Method DVD.

Give yourself an unfair advantage today by racing
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Shoot For the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. I'm leaving in a minute to go hear Dick Vitale
speak on campus at the University of Florida, and
Midnight Madness is tomorrow night for all the
college teams. I'm getting psyched.

I hope you'll get fired up too and shoot for your
hoops dreams with all your heart this season. Write
and let me know how your shooting is going.

Stan Kellner is also fired up and it shows in his book,
his CD, and his shooting DVD. Grab yourself some
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Life Is An Erector Set

I'm sure you remember some of the toys of your
youth. Some of my favorites were the "Erector"
sets. I had the 1958 "Amusement Park Set" with
hundreds of metal wheels, levers, channels, nuts,
bolts, spacers, etc. I think it even had a couple of
motors. I just looked it up and if I'd saved mine
intact it would be worth $1500 today.

I also had old-fashioned "Alphabet Blocks" when I
was younger, and "Lincoln Logs" later. Since then
the world has given us "Legos", "Geomax", "K'Nex"
and dozens more.

And girls have their dollhouses, Barbies, outfits,
paperdolls, tea sets, etc. They are more into
building people, relationships, and lives, but let's
face it. We all like to build. It's part of our makeup.

"To learn how to make every thought and action
constructive is to master the secret of all
attainment."

Wallace D. Wattles (1860 - 1911)

Wally Wattles was one of the pioneering success
writers in America and while he never played
basketball I think he can still help us all become
better shooters.

Any achievement you ever have will start with a
thought, be nourished by enpowered ideas, feelings,
beliefs, and actions. The key is to learn how to focus
your mental and physical faculties so they both can
contribute toward goals and dreams you have.

If a thought, or feeling, or belief, or action doesn't
help build toward what you're trying to accomplish
though common sense says you should ditch it at
the first opportunity.

As a shooter you should seek to rid yourself of any
thoughts and actions that don't contribute to great
shooting. Start paying attention and soon you will
notice distractive, destructive, hateful, critical,
judgemental, negative thoughts even while you are
practicing and playing. Try letting go of those next
time, and see what a big difference a clear, positive
mind makes.

And you can let Coach Stan Kellner show you how to
build a whole new vocabulary of shooting success.
Learn dozens of powerful thoughts that when
nourished will make you a superstar shooter.

It's time to start building your shooting future today
at:

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Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Go Gators

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

How Imagination Trumps Terrorism

There's a new show on TV this fall called "Jericho".
It's about the people in a small town in Kansas who
see a mushroom cloud over Denver to the west and
find themselves cut off from the outside world not
knowing for sure the breadth of what is going on.
Nuclear terrorism is the implication, and you can
imagine the fear and panic that might arise in the
townspeople.

After they all make it through one crisis in the pilot
but are turning on one another the mayor of the
town needs to maintain order and rally the citizenry.
And the keynote of his message is this:

"Are we going to use our imaginations to solve
problems, or to cause them."

I'm not sure the writers of that show have any idea
how profound a statement that is, but in my mind
and experience it is radically true. You can use your
thoughts and imagination to make situations better,
or to make them worse. Every time. Believe it or
not, you have that kind of power.

When Dr. Maxwell Maltz wrote "Psycho-
Cybernetics" fifty years ago athletes were among
the first to to prove it's ideas true in scientific
studies and on the field of battle, and that is
happening more and more everyday.

As a shooter you have much evidence of the power
of your imagination. You're probably aware one of
the first documented studies of imagination practice
involved freethrow shooting. The group which only
practiced in their imagination had virtually the same
gains as the group which practiced shooting
mechanically everyday.

So I'm probably preaching to the choir on this one,
but if you're not hitting baskets in perfect form in
your mind on a daily basis you have left one of your
most powerful training weapons on the rack.

And that's just a beginning. Let Coach Stan Kellner
show you the vast array of mental tools at your
disposal in his new, "How To Become A Prime-Time
Shooting Machine" DVD. It's available today at:

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Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Shooting hoops is tremendous training in how
to hit targets and goals of all kinds, be they spiritual,
mental, emotional, social, career, economic, health-
related, or physical. If you have the time maybe you
could eventually figure it for yourself and create a
wonderful life.

To help make a life-changing process like that easier
the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation has recently
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Find out how to make the most of your life today at:

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Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.