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Games are made up of structured but unpredictable situations, with rules and variables and competition, and they produce wins and losses. This description fits life at least as well as it fits tennis. Even the terminology of tennis matches many of the most pivotal and defining words of life: love, faults, serve, receive, winners, challenges, holds.

New York Times #1 bestselling author and tennis champion Richard Eyre shares thirty principles that will help you enjoy both games more—and play both games better. Since both are largely psychological exercises, our success (and our happiness) in both the game of life and the game of tennis depends greatly on our attitude, and Tennis and Life teaches readers how to alter our attitudes and thus improve our performance in both games.

Richard and Linda Eyre are New York Times #1 bestselling authors whose writing career has spanned four decades and whose books have sold in the millions. They have appeared on virtually all major national talk shows, including Oprah and Today, and have seen their books translated into a dozen languages.

THE WARM UP (a dozen unique ways in which tennis mirrors life)

PART ONE: SINGLES

First Set

1. Long Range Perspective
2. Receiving
3 Confidence and Intimidation
4. Break Back
5. Praise not Criticism
6. Right makes Might
7. Don’t miss short
8. Start Strong
9. Go For It
10. Loosen Things Up
11. Take Yourself Lightly
12. Don’t Stall too Soon
13. Transform your Anger
14. Get a Little Coaching now and then
15. Outlast your Opponents (live long)
16. The Art of Rejoicing (Celebration)
17. Goal: Winners
18. Winners and Risk
19. Big Days
20. Stewardship
21. Serendipity

Second Set

22. Matches are not Practices
23. Four points to win
24. Start well, End well
25. Intermediate goals
26. If you’re losing, change your game plan
27. Moving Forward
28. Find the Angles
29. “This is what I live for”
30. Make mistakes
31. Visualize and practice
32. Game Plan
33. Enjoy getting old
34. The sensual game
35. Music and poetry
36. Watch and perceive
37. Be still; Mantras and meditation
38. Joy and the art of celebration (rejoicing)
39. Love
40. There are always two goals
41. Pizzazz and Élan
42. Forget yourself by serving
43. The speed of going slow
44. Lightning and waves
45. “Moments”
46. Grunts and sighs
47. Anticipate—predict but be unpredictable
48. Switching on and off—zoning and auto pilot
49. Relishing big points
50. Mind games, confidence and selective memory
51. Good . . . the enemy of best

PART TWO: DOUBLES

Take someone with you
Encouragement, accolade, and affirmation
Create each other
Specialization
Mutual confidence
Communication
Oneness

THE SHOWER (three methods of implementation)

i.    Implementation by shifting focus and concentration
ii.   Implementation by self-programing
iii. Implementation by extra-centeredness

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Tennis and Life 30 Winning Lessons for the Two Greatest Games

Tennis and Life 30 Winning Lessons for the Two Greatest Games

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