This book is useful not only for sporting excellence. The author guides you along very skillfully through clear concepts and sequenced activities to build your mental and bodily capabilities, inner resources, strategies, beliefs and confidence for success and team work. "NLP is not about a selfish search for success at the expense of personal happiness or causing damage to others. It is about achieving higher levels of performance and satisfaction whilst still being entirely true to oneself and, where appropriate, others as well." (p.7) Most of the activities or exercises are useful for learning and doing anything with greater improvement and mastery. The author is sensitive and nuanced in making a fairly comprehensive application of NLP. For those who haven't been able to attend extended NLP workshops, this book is an excellent initiation.