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“Live the best, be the best.  You are already intelligent and good.”

I replied to a friend’s post regarding humanity (humanitarian first).

These are some additional pragmatic ideas; my thoughts, thinking, and feeling on mental health continuum and prevention, no age barrier over 18, poverty, and homelessness. With discussion we can innovate to build and grow this:

Health Social Responsibility, Social Action, Social Justice:
1. Create a talent/employment pool for people who are higher functioning that have a health diagnosis i.e. mental health, diabetes, cancer, or other to work whenever they can in their field of study, experience, or choice not when the talent pool/employer wants them to work virtually, remote, on-site, in person in defined learning/work sessions of varying skill and time duration living more next level of success/rehabilitation health, wellness, and economic mobility to gain as much independence as possible with their fluid treatment team. This doesn’t mean someone does the good value intelligent work for them that is easy, a challenge or struggle for them. It means they work thru the good value intelligent work with the right coordination, communication, connectivity, and involvement to help and support them to learn the skill(s) required (necessary) succeeding in their next level of living more health, wellness, and economic mobility. Talent pool/employers benefit with the delivery of good value intelligent work and having a role in making a person successful.

“Put some words in them.  Support your team by praising, encouraging, helping, working, and playing together. ” – Raj Gavurla

Whether you are on a team that’s been together for years, worked and played together for a season, recruiting to make new family friends/teammates to join your team, or forming a team, I listen to a coach’s concern in a discussion when they say “I hope they get along” and talk about personalities.  Here’s how to win sustainable better outcomes? 

1. Meet individually and collectively to learn about each other at our own pace

Depending on the purpose there are several customized activities to make this effective and efficient in a specific amount of time at a meet and greet, to learn a specific skill, for relaxation during the week and before a big game, funny during the week or before a big game, to celebrate, just to have a good time, or to help them succeed as a team individually and collectively.   

As you do so keep this in mind, “think before you talk.”  and my quote, “Put some words in them.  Support your team by praising, encouraging, helping, working, and playing together. ” – Raj Gavurla

What’s your performance & productive process?

This could be as easy as having a one on one lunch together so that when you work and play together it’s easier for you to learn, know, feel, see, listen, and use your intuitive instincts.  Although what we are achieving and accomplishing together is important, there are other aspects of life that are also important you might know of or have a resource to support and help your teammate.  It has nothing to do with their technical, clinical, and tactical skills and ability to play soccer, basketball, tennis, table tennis, football, baseball, volleyball, or any other sport.  However, it does effect their productive performance process when they work and play together.   

Another example is when an educator at a hospital system would have refreshments, punch, and play games so we could learn about each other and team relaxation during the week before we trained and evaluated medical students and health professionals with the hands-on education and skills necessary to foster more humanistic, patient-centered care.

What’s your performance and productive process?

2. Learn specific skills from each other

Sometime people hoard skill and knowledge to ostensibly make themself of more value.  This hinders the organization’s teams’ and the individual’s achievement and accomplishments. It’s exciting to be able to add a skill to make your teammate better to make your team better. 

An example, Magic Johnson learned the hook shot from Kareem Abdul Jabbar and used it against the Boston Celtics in game four of the 1987 NBA Finals.   

Most importantly what skill are you learning from your family friend/teammate?

3. Learn to work and play together

Consistently 1. Meet individually and collectively to learn about each other at our own pace and 2. Learn specific skills from each other to work and play together.

If interested in creating and experiencing human performance, life, and organizational development and breakthroughs, I deliver good value programs and services for clients and the people important to them to help them live more, learn to grow skills, create, and innovate.

“The Zone” (Individual) & “The Zone Effect” (Organization/Team/Teammates) Continuum:

“The Zone” & “The Zone Effect” is described as making performance improvements, breakthroughs, records, everything is in slow motion (everything slows down), time stands still (isn’t a deterring factor), distance stands still (isn’t a deterring factor) and your life and performance feels weightless.  Neither is repeatable.  You are growing as a person, interconnected with your life, business, and sport(s); Your “The Zone Effect” Development, Breakthroughs, and Records.

My “The Zone Effect”

I innovated the heading to “The Zone Effect” because as you are succeeding it is benefiting another and others directly and/or indirectly.

I’ve had several. During the holidays, to celebrate Christmas, and the New Year I put up the decorations and select the cards to send specific family.  I don’t delegate this to someone.  It fulfills and enriches me and having family time with my sisters family from Atlanta, GA and Portland, OR, building family team chemistry, and seeing my niece and nephews grow is “wow”.  We threw the football, played spoons, hung out, went to Top Golf, played tennis, saw Star Wars (stupid movie!, God created light, therefore, there is no darkness (dark side), I did like people came, and the guys were in Greenville so we played basketball (unexpected success in my workbook).  I attended a New Year’s Day party for a few hours and went to a business drop in to meet my boss’ family and make family friends.  

Your Most Recent “The Zone Effect”

What development, breakthroughs, and records are important for you to achieve?  Please send me a personal message and I will reply.

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santayana

If interested, for your specific situation contact me at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com to help you and your team succeed.

What makes easier peaceful better outcomes?  There’s no time to think.  Talk to yourself (voice mind, self talk, not out loud) the whole day.  We also talk out loud to another and others.  If you are talking to yourself in a better way today than yesterday you are better today than yesterday.  This can be talking to yourself about something you are accomplishing or something you are helping someone accomplish.

Examples:

1.  This blog post was inspired and motivated to make easier peaceful better outcomes for you to support my work.  Thank you for doing so.  If you are new to my website, there are Free Resources for you to do your research and preparation before contacting me.  Or, if you prefer to have a conversation first then contact me.
2.  Yesterday, I was at a strength and conditioning session and as I was doing an exercise intrusive thoughts occurred, however, I talked to myself saying “count it”, “1, 2, 3, …” (number of quality repetitions), “proud heart” and finished faster than I started.
3. My mom is rehabilitating from a stroke.  I am helping her read out loud in English a book, What Is Electrical Communication? to make it easier for her cognition and comprehension.  My expertise isn’t in rehabilitating stroke patients, however, I know it’s working.  It effects her neuroplasticity, electrophysiology, makes chemical reactions, activates her conscious prefrontal cortex, creates myelin sheath, and she’s learning about something new to her.  This is succeeding to the next level of success the right way for her and I. We repeat the page three times with me telling her to take deep breaths, lower her heart rate, and ask her is it easier between each set?  This is producing benefits such as more vocal clarity, tone of voice, expanding her vocabulary, we pray, hope, live more dreams, goals, mission, and destiny to make easier peaceful better outcomes for her to walk.

Do you know how to make easier peaceful better outcomes by talking to yourself?   If interested, contact me to help you succeed at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

“The Zone” (Individual) & “The Zone Effect” (Organization/Team/Teammates) Continuum:

“The Zone” & “The Zone Effect” is described as making performance improvements, breakthroughs, records, everything is in slow motion (everything slows down), time stands still (isn’t a deterring factor), distance stands still (isn’t a deterring factor) and your life and performance feels weightless.  Neither is repeatable.  You are growing as a person, interconnected with your life, business, and sport(s); Your “The Zone Effect” Development, Breakthroughs, and Records.

My “The Zone Effect”

I innovated the heading to “The Zone Effect” because as you are succeeding it is benefiting another and others directly and/or indirectly.

I’ve had several. It was beautiful to see my soccer family friends/teammates transition onto defense marking a man instead of just running back and control the center of the pitch in the first and second third.  After that we scored four goals in ten minutes not ninety.

Your Most Recent “The Zone Effect”

What development, breakthroughs, and records are important for you to achieve?  Please send me a personal message and I will reply.

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault 

If interested, for your specific situation contact me at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com to help you and your team succeed.

Use These Nice Quotes Daily
by Raj Gavurla to
Upgrade Your Mental Software:

“Peacefulness feels nice for everyone (includes you).”

“Your relaxation feels nice.”

“Your downtime feels nice.”

“Your rest feels nice.”

“Everyone (includes you) needs to feel and visualize living a sustainable robust life.”

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“We are growing as a person; live more.” – Raj Gavurla

In the USA men’s match versus Venezuela and the Women’s World Cup match versus Spain the good goal keepers made elementary mistakes.  Then last night in the USA Men’s match versus Panama the goalie made less of a mistake and since a goal wasn’t scored against the USA no one commented or they didn’t see it as less of a mistake.

To create and experience human performance and life development and breakthroughs after one session with each goal keeper I would know what are the next step(s).  It’s easy to say the goal keepers know not to do that and say it was poor (not so good showing), change players, and inexperience led to the mistakes.  However, in helping and working with athletes in my private confidential session(s) the reason for the mistakes could be more than technical ability and tactical correction.  It would be inappropriate to guess because it could take more than one session to correct.  If this is needed it has to do with discovering and removing mental, emotional, and physical blocks using my human mental performance skills and then strengthening on the pitch with one session.

However, if it is a technical and tactical issue only then looking at the pictures we see the goalies need to be equipped with performance ques.

Performance Ques: 

1. If there is one teammate to pass to within distance then the pass is allowed if no opponent is past midfield.
2. If an opponent is past mid field, and there are two teammates to pass to a pass can be made because the teammate can pass to another teammate to ward off the defender.

However, as you can see in the pictures this wasn’t so, therefore, the goalie need not make the pass.  

Something similar happened in the men’s match versus Panama last night and the teammate’s only option was to quickly kick the ball up field resulting in a turnover.  The goalie could have done better kicking it up field because he had time to read who to play the ball to.

USA men and women are making rewarding progress towards winning the World Cup.  Play soccer the right way for it to happen sooner.

USA men’s soccer is 3-0 in group D in the Gold Cup and the USA women’s soccer plays tomorrow against France in the World Cup.  I’m looking forward to USA men’s soccer playing in the 2022 World Cup.

If interested, for your specific situation contact me at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com to help you and your team.

“The Zone” (Individual) & “The Zone Effect” (Organization/Team/Teammates) Continuum:

“The Zone” & “The Zone Effect” is described as making performance improvements, breakthroughs, records, everything is in slow motion (everything slows down), time stands still (isn’t a deterring factor), distance stands still (isn’t a deterring factor) and your life and performance feels effortless.  Neither is repeatable.  You are growing as a person, interconnected with your life, business, and sport(s); Your “The Zone Effect” Development, Breakthroughs, and Records.

My “The Zone” & “The Zone Effect”

It was fun learning, observing, listening, understanding, and applying the learning from attending the Greenville Triumph Watch Party supporting the USA Women’s World Cup in their match against Sweden at Universal Joint benefiting Meals On Wheels.

Your Most Recent “The Zone” & “The Zone Effect”

What development, breakthroughs, and records are important for you to achieve?  Please send me a personal message and I will reply.

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi

If interested, for your specific situation contact me at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com to help you and your team.