Description
"No other person has had more influence on my thirty-six years of coaching than Jerry Lynch."-Missy Foote, Head women's lacrosse coach, Middlebury College
#1 New Release in Coaching Hockey, Tennis, and Eastern Philosophy
The Competitive Buddha is about mastery, leadership, spirituality, and the Kobe Bryant Mamba Mentality. Discover how people from all parts of the world have brought together the Buddha and athletics for greater fun, enjoyment, and pleasure during their performances.
Connect spirituality to sports. Learn what you need to keep, what you need to discard, and what you need to add to your mental, emotional, and spiritual skill set as an athlete, coach, leader, parent, CEO, or any other performer in life. Understand how Buddhism can help you to be better prepared for sports and life, and how sports and life can teach you about Buddhism.
On the court, field, and beyond. Dr. Lynch is an avid runner and biker and he has coached athletes at the high school and AAU level. He earned his doctorate in psychology at Penn State University and has done extensive post-doctoral work in the area of philosophy, Taoist and Buddhist thought, comparative religions, leadership development, and performance enhancement. Dr. Jerry Lynch demonstrates how certain timeless core Buddha values inspire you to embrace and navigate unchartered waters and understand the Buddha-mind and the Kobe Bryant Mamba Mentality.
Become a master coach of your own life. When it comes to leadership and coaching, The Competitive Buddha teaches how the best coaches today use the ancient methods for our modern times. Learn specific strategies and techniques for implementing this special way to guide and lead.
The Competitive Buddha teaches:
- Leadership Skills
- How to use Buddhism as an approach to competition
- How to master athletics and life
Readers who enjoyed Win the Day, Mamba Mentality, or Relentless Optimism will love The Competitive Buddha.
Way of Champions Marketing ResourcesWebsite WayofChampions.com Conference Annual WOC Transformative Coaching Conference. Every Summer we attract 200+ coaches from more than 5 continents. Everyone receives a copies of my books 1) Win The Day 2) Way of the Champion 3) The Competitive Buddha Podcast 35,000 listeners/month on the Way of Champions podcast. https://changingthegameproject.com/136-steve-kerr/ https://changingthegameproject.com/158-quin-snyder/ https://changingthegameproject.com/151-kevin-kirk/ Webinar Conducted 5X/year https://changingthegameproject.mykajabi.com/6-week-mentorship-registration Current Webinar got 274 paying coaches including equal number of book sales. Guest Spots Frequent guest on national podcasts...at least 2 per month where books are talked about and sold. Friends and Colleagues who actively support, endorse and use Jerry's books and teachings Phil Jackson, 11 time NBA championship coach Steve Kerr, 8 time NBA championships as coach and athlete (Golden State Warriors) Michael Murphy, Author of Golf in the Kingdom George Mumford, Author of The Mindful Athlete Quin Snyder, Head Coach of NBA Utah Jazz Anson Dorrance, Head Coach of Carolina soccer, 22 National Championships. Tara Vanderveer, Head Coach, Women's basketball at Stanford University, 2 time National Champions Cindy Timchal, Winningest lacrosse head coach of all time. 8 National Championships Jim Thompson, Author, CEO and founder of PCA ( Positive Coaching Alliance) Matias Almeyda, Head coach of Major League Pro Soccer, S.J.Earthquakes Over a period of 31 years, Jerry's books have guided teams to 115 championships at the Professional, Collegiate and High School levels of athletics. His work continues to thrive because the message is craved by so many during these challenging times.
About the Author
Jerry Lynch first learned about extraordinary performance and excellence as a nationally ranked competitive athlete sponsored by Nike, running world class times from 5,000 meters to the marathon, winning a National Championship and many other races against athletes half his age. He took what he learned about himself and life from his competitive days and parlayed it into a dynamic successful career helping athletes and coaches in all sports to use his Buddha performance and leadership strategies to up their game and discover the best version of themselves. His most recent book, The Competitive Buddha, is emblematic of his journey of excellence and will serve as a guide for anyone who wishes to join the journey. To give a clearer sense about his professional life as an author, leader, coach and mentor, Jerry combines Eastern thought, Native American tradition, Christian mysticism and western psychology to help create focus, mental talent, spiritual dexterity, inspiration and empowerment not only for competitive events but to learn self-awareness, confidence and how to be the best version of yourself each day. Dr. Lynch has been recognized as one of the top five in his profession nationwide. He has worked with teams, coaches and athletes in the NBA, Pro Lacrosse, National Soccer League, with men's and women's basketball, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, golf and other sports at the universities of North Carolina, Duke, Maryland, California, Syracuse, Stanford, Harvard and Middlebury. In the past 30 years alone, he has been part of 55 Final Four and 39 National Championship teams at the collegiate and professional levels. Jerry is a dynamic, entertaining, inspirational, provocative, and humorous teacher and speaker with topics on leadership, coaching, team culture building, winning the relationship game, and core value development. Some of his presentations include Keynote Talks at the New Zealand National Academy of Sport, Der Deutsche Schmerztog in Germany, the U.S. National Field Hockey Coaches convention, the Ironman Sports Medicine Conference in Hawaii, the USA Lacrosse National Convention and the NIKE/China Leadership Summit in Lanai, Hawaii. Dr. Lynch has had extensive media interview coverage with CBS, NBC, and PBS national television, The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Baltimore Sun, Outside Magazine and over 100 national radio broadcasts, podcasts and webinars. He co-hosts, with John O'Sullivan, the Way of Champions podcast, one of the top rated podcasts in the world for coaches. Jerry has a doctorate in psychology from Penn State University, and has done extensive post-doctoral work in the area of philosophy, Taoist and Buddhist thought, comparative religions, leadership development, performance enhancement. He is the author of 14 books in as many as 10 languages on coaching, leadership, spirituality of sport, warrior spirit, peak performance, and sports psychology. Dr. Lynch is the founder and director of WAY OF CHAMPIONS, a human growth and performance consulting group geared toward helping others master the inner mental and spiritual game for sports, business and life. Steve Kerr is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. He is an eight-time NBA champion, having won five titles as a player as well as three with the Warriors as a head coach.
Book Information
ISBN 9781642505894
Author Dr. Jerry Lynch
Format Hardback
Page Count 236
Imprint Mango Media
Publisher Mango Media
