Kerry Spackman - Winners Bible: Rewire your Brain for Permanent Change

YOUVE PROBABLY READ PLENTY OF BOOKS WHICH PROMISED TO TURN YOU INTO A HAPPY, RICH AND SUCCESSFUL PERSON. BOOKS FILLED WITH BRILLIANT IDEAS THAT WERE FINALLY GOING TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE. AS YOU TURNED EACH PAGE YOU NO DOUBT TICKED OFF ALL YOUR MISTAKES AND REHEARSED THE CLEVER PHRASES THAT WERE GOING TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. THIS TIME YOU WERE DEFINITELY GOING TO IMPROVE.

However, if youre like most people, youll find a year later not much has actually changed in your life. After all, how many people who read books about how to make millions of dollars actually become millionaires overnight? Sure, each new book teaches you fresh ideas and you do make incremental improvements in your life, but somehow its never quite enough. Youve improved a bit but you havent been transformed into a Winner or a champion. And so you continue to muddle by until one day you see another book with a catchy title and the cycle is repeated again. Sound familiar?

Well, the good news is the problem isnt with you its with the books! Those books werent good enough for the long list of motor racing champions, Olympic champions, world champions and business people Ive coached and so its not surprising theyre not enough for you either. Those elite athletes and business people had also tried psychologists, psychotherapists and read hundreds of self-help and psychology books without any real benefit. They didnt want any more empty theory. What they desperately needed was something that actually worked in the heat of competition and in their daily lives. Something that not only helped them become better performers, but more importantly helped them to become better people and to enjoy their life more. This book grew out of that need.

I didnt wake up with a clever idea and set out to write The Winners Bible. I only started writing it because my clients kept telling me they wanted a single book which contained ALL the Tools theyd ever need in one place. They wanted practical, worked examples to use in their lives rather than just a book full of good ideas. They wanted techniques that had been tested and proven to work in the real world. The end result has been so successful that one racing driver proudly told me hed used his Winners Bible every single day for a whole year. Even though he had a shelf full of self-improvement books by his bed, the only book he reached for each morning was his Winners Bible .

THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE

To see why other books failed to change your life lets imagine someone has written a book with the catchy title: The 7 Steps To Beating Federer And Winning Wimbledon .

The first problem with a title like this is the inevitable gap between the ideas in the book and your ability to put those ideas into practice. For example, suppose Rule 1 says:

Always hit the ball where Federer cant reach it.

This is certainly a great rule and youd definitely win Wimbledon if you were able to do that. Unfortunately, knowing what to do and being able to do it are two entirely different things. The chances are, if you played Federer you wouldnt even get close to his serve, let alone be able to place your own return out of his reach. And thats the problem!

Most books tell you what you should do but not how you can acquire the mental and emotional Skills necessary to make it all happen in your daily life. For example, they might tell you to be positive and list all the benefits of being positive. But what are the step-by-step actions that will actually give you a positive approach to life even after you have been dealt a bad hand?

Going back to our tennis analogy, if you want to place the ball where Federer cant reach it you need to have a cracking return. And this means a lot of work. Your coach will video your swing and analyse it in great detail. Hell tell you how to alter your stance, your grip and your action. Then youll have to practise his suggestions thousands of times until they become automatic. Youll need to master a huge amount of detail before you can hit the ball out of Federers reach. This mastery is only achieved by combining the correct techniques and rules with plenty of discipline and effort. And the same is true in your life. Youre going to have to do a lot more than just wake up each day and recite seven phrases as if they were some magic mantras that will transform your life. If you think otherwise, then you might as well put this book down now.

Fortunately, The Winners Bible contains step-by-step instructions rather than just Goals that are forever out of your reach. Each instruction has practical things for you to do. These instructions have been proven in the cut and thrust of international competition and in everyday life. Theyre only in this book because they work. You will find you take personal responsibility for each item and you will make them happen.

YOUR DESIGNER PROGRAM AND YOUR PERSONAL WINNERS BIBLE

The second problem is that no matter how good the rules are, youre never going to win Wimbledon unless you have the right physical attributes. No sixty-five-year-old has ever won Wimbledon and neither has anyone who was only five feet tall ever won the gold medal in the Olympic high-jump. Put simply, any manual which is going to turn you into a Winner must take into account the cold hard facts of who you are.

It is absolutely vital you understand at the outset how unique you are.

Lets start with your brain. Because your brain is wired differently to everyone elses, you literally see and smell the world in your own unique way. No two people see and smell a rose in exactly the same way because how your brain processes information from your eyes and nose is different to every other person. Similarly, your genes affect how food tastes which explains why I cant stand beetroot but my friend loves it. Even which foods are good for us and which foods are bad for us is unique to each person. An extreme example would be bananas they are a great source of potassium for some people, but are so toxic to others that they will die if they eat a single mouthful. On top of all this there are also differences in your History, experiences, emotions, dreams, fears and thoughts.

You are so much more different to anyone else than you think. And so any program worth following ought to be custom-designed with your unique factors in mind. Winning is not a one size fits all business. Athletes have programs that are tailored to their unique make-up and so it is not surprising that in the much more complex game of life youll need a personally tailored program too. Just because a famous and successful person used a particular mental technique to help them increase their performance doesnt necessarily mean the same technique will work for you.

The Winners Bible will help you identify your own unique Strengths and Weaknesses. You will see yourself more clearly than you have ever seen yourself before. Armed with this information you will then be shown how to construct your own twenty-page Personal Winners Bible . This will be a small plastic folder which contains pictures and bullet points that are tailored specifically to have maximum mental and emotional impact just for you. It will be quick and easy to construct.

Youll then end up with two books:

THE WINNERS BIBLE

This is the book you are reading now. It is a resource and an instruction book. It will help you construct your own Personal Winners Bible .

YOUR OWN PERSONAL WINNERS BIBLE

This is the small folder you will construct yourself. It will have your name and photo on the front cover. You will use your Personal Winners Bible EVERY DAY. Because it has a maximum of twenty pages of pictures and bullet points, youll be able to scan through it in a few minutes. But those pages will have more effect on you than any other book because they are tailored specifically for you. The images will connect directly with your emotions in a way words alone never will. Each day you will be charged up and refocused.