Francois Hamel - Mental Performance Consultant - MPC

Using principles of deliberate practice to help you improve your game.

What is deliberate practice:

A highly effortful activity, with the explicit goal of improving performance, through specific tasks, to overcome current levels of weakness.

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Allow yourself to be a scientist.

Try things out, make mistakes, create hypotheses and reach conclusions, whether it’s when playing or studying.

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“Why is meditation good?”

“Because it gives us time outside of our minds”

“Why do we need that?”

“Because our mind is the source of our suffering”

- Dr.K (HealthyGamerGG)

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Framing life as the practice of skills

https://bbzpoker.com/process-vs-outcome-to-win-at-poker-or-become-more-skilled-at-poker/

Here are 3 principles that can help you better understand your life and your performances!

https://bbzpoker.com/mental-game-the-3-tenets-of-poker/

Hard to disagree! How can you possibly execute the strategy you've worked hard on learning and retaining when focus is an issue? When tilt creeps in? Anyone playing poker can relate to that. Or for seasoned grinders - when you're suffering burn out? When you've set no long-term goals? When stress shuts down access to your A-game?

Our Mental Performance Coach, Francois Hamel, has poured his expertise into a bundle that helps you clear the mental barriers standing between you and your best possible poker performance. You may just find the sessions within apply to more than just poker too. Take a look on bbzpoker.com and start working on your mental performance today. You'll thank yourself you did!

How to build a routine around your sessions (warm-ups and cooldowns)

https://bbzpoker.com/poker-warm-up-and-cool-down-how-to-build-a-routine-around-your-sessions/

My top 5 books to improve your mental game!

https://bbzpoker.com/top-5-books-to-improve-your-mental-game/

What's up guys, I've put together a diagram of the mental game framework to help you better visualize it. You can follow it as your read on. I hope you find it useful and good luck at the tables over the weekend 👍🏽 - Francois Hamel, BBZ Performance Coach.

The mental game framework is a more elaborate way to show the concept of identity, habits & outcomes (see our previous Mental Game post for more on this or visit BBZPoker.com to start working on mindset right away with the bundle!). 👇🏽

I argue that you have this foundation that makes up who you are i.e. your past experiences or lessons learnt. These lessons are what can lead you to hold certain beliefs and values in your life.

Those 3 pillars help guide your habits/actions, which DIRECTLY influence your performance standards. So whether you're performing to the standards you want to or not - this will inevitably lead to certain outcomes.

▶️ Next, those outcomes will feed back to your past experiences. Think about what you learn from those experiences and how it shapes your beliefs and values that you set in life, or more specifically poker.

▶️ So, the cycle will repeat itself. YOU have a choice. To change some habits based on those learnings and this new perspective on life and poker. How will that influence your performance level, how will it influence your outcomes? Build from there. 💪🏽

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He's live today on Twitch (see our IG story for details!)- here's Performance Coach Francois Hamel describing the mental game framework within three simple aspects!

- Identity
- Habits
- Outcomes.

👉🏽 These are all interconnected and influence each other. If you believe something about yourself (your identity), you will act in accordance with that belief (habits) which will lead to certain outcomes.

If you repeat a certain habit for enough time you will start to believe you are that type of person (habit -> identity).

So, for example; if you start getting sustained success/wins in poker (outcomes) you will start to believe you are a poker player (identity) and you will keep doing what seems to be working i.e study! (habits).

💡 Start with your habits. Look for the outcomes created. Hopefully that can reinforce who you are looking to become; as a poker player or a person - making the journey toward your goals a little easier.

🔥 The Mental Game Bundle is the course you need to build the psychological foundation of your poker game. Created by BBZPoker’s very own Performance Coach, François Hamel, this bundle is a comprehensive resource equipping you with the tools and strategies required to perform at your best on and off the poker table. Over 14 hours of content that will force you to rethink your approach to the game and help you develop the discipline and consistency to take action. This bundle will help you create your own performance philosophy, re-frame how your emotions influence your performance, and build a new mind-set to understand the science and psychology behind Mental Performance. Available at BBZPoker.com

Episode 34 is out! In today's episode, I discuss a strategy used to refocus on your performance when distracted. Are you able to identify when those situations arise? Are you able to refocus accordingly? Tune in to find out how I can help.

Be AGILE: Episode 034 - Refocusing Training your ability to refocus on your performance using RAR (Recognize, Accept, Reconnect).