Focus and Flow - Optimal Performance Services

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle

OPZ: The Optimal Performance Zone
“Empower Your Mind, Energize Your Soul, and Let your Greatness Emerge”
Services for Athletes, Speakers, Students, Performing Artists, Writers and More

What leads to optimal or peak performance? What will give you that elusive “it”?
What will place you among those who really live their true greatness?

Skill mastery, raw talent, and desire are necessary…but they are not enough!

To reach the next level,
To get that competitive edge,
To perform and produce consistently at your absolute best,
you need strategies and techniques to enter the
Optimal Performance Zone!
(OPZ: that place where you are so fully immersed in the present moment,so totally
engaged in what you are doing, so intensely connected to the deepest essence of who
you are, that you become one with your sport, craft, or task.)

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Is your Mind Empowered? Is your Soul Energized?
It is well known that a strong physiological core is foundational to developing physical
strength and enhancing physical well-being. Physiologically, your core is the set of
abdominal and back muscles that provide the foundation for your body to move and
function optimally. Well, you also have a mental-emotional-spiritual core that provides
the foundation for your mind and soul to be expressed optimally through your sport or
craft. A strong mental-emotional-spiritual core empowers your mind and energizes
your soul allowing you to perform or produce in the OPZ!

An “Empowered Mind-Energized Soul” provides the foundation that
enables you to manifest your maximum potential.

What is an “Empowered Mind-Energized Soul”?
It is the state of active manifestation of the core and essence of who you are,
expressed with excellence and passion through a directed activity, and characterized by
focused immersion in each moment of the experience.

The mind represents an integration of mental, emotional, and spiritual energy. The
stronger the mind, the greater the expression of both our God-given gifts and learned
skills. An Empowered Mind is what must be activated to sustain consistent optimal
performance. It is the mentality necessary to do and be your highest and best.
The fundamental characteristic of an empowered mind is FOCUS.

You can think of the Energized Soul as the fire within. It is the authentic and most
intense expression of what is most uniquely you that is manifested through your sport or
craft. When your soul is energized, your performance emerges from the deepest
essence of who you are. Our highest and best can only emerge when our soul is
liberated and allowed full expression through total engagement and immersion in the
present moment.
The fundamental characteristic of an energized soul is FLOW.

The Focus and Flow approach to mental training and performance
enhancement is based on the knowledge that entering and staying in the
OPZ can only happen with an “Empowered Mind-Energized Soul”.

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THE FOCUS AND FLOW APPROACH
TO MENTAL TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT
Consultation and Programs based on "THE OPZ CORE 17"

Featuring the "Get Your Mind Right" Mental Training Program
for Young and Early Career Athletes

What does Focus and Flow OPZ training involve?
The general OPZ Core 17 training approach is an adaptable program that integrates
time-tested peak performance strategies (including meditation, visualization, and a
variety of mental techniques) with a unique approach that focuses on connecting to and
activating the soul and essence of who you are. Sessions can be conducted in-person,
by telephone, virtually, or in a combination of these modalities.

What are "The OPZ Core 17"?
The Core 17 are the fundamental principles that guide the "Focus and Flow" approach
to mental training and performance enhancement. Mastering the Core 17 allows you to
enter and sustain your Optimal Performance Zone.
The principles are: Care, Clarity, Commitment, Confidence, Character, Critique,
Cultivation, Concentration, Consistency, Community, Challenge, Coping, Cheer, Control,
Consciousness, Connection, and Creativity.
Click Here for More Information about the Core 17 training principles

Who is it for?
OPZ Core 17 Training was originally developed with athletes and students. However it
is also effective for anyone whose activities involve performance or production
pressure. This includes speakers, writers, musicians, actors, dancers, and more. It is
useful not only for those who are called to perform or produce, but also for those who
train others (e.g., coaches, instructors, etc.), as well as for anyone who wants to use the
power of the mind for achievement and success.

What are the results?
The ultimate result of successful Core 17 training is consistent utilization of
effective techniques and your enhanced self-knowledge to manifest greatness
when called upon. Successful training can result in increased consistency of
performance at your highest and best. By accessing your increased self- knowledge
and practicing techniques that strengthen your mental-emotional-spiritual core,
successful program completion enables you to shift into your power. When that shift
happens- when your mind is empowered (focus) and your soul is energized (flow), you
are able to optimize the learning, mastery, and performance of your craft to your
highest potential.

Basic Program Description
The program is always adapted for the needs of the individual or group by picking
the most relevant principles for training, selecting techniques that are the best
"fit" for the client, and delivering the program via the modality (e.g., in-person,
telephone, virtually) chosen by the client. The program can be delivered in as few
as 3 sessions (assessment and training that focuses on just one of the OPZ Core
17) or in as many sessions as needed by the client. The basic program is 20
sessions. Optional observation of practice or competition, phone interview with
coaches, and follow-up services are also available.

Contact me for more info and find out how the the "Focus and Flow" Core 17 approach to
performance enhancement can help you.
Dr. Shelly Harrell: (310) 568-1464
dr.shelly@focusandflow.org

Dr. Shelly P. Harrell
Psychologist / Consultant / Life Coach

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
-Corita Kent