Tools and practices to help you and your team train the heart, mind, and body for extraordinary performance and the best possible life.
Inner Excellence captures Jim's central discovery that the heart is the key to extraordinary performance under pressure. It’s an in-depth system to train the heart, mind, and body so you can meet moments with greater freedom, focus, and courage.
Recognize what is happening within you. Separate the situation from the story you add to it. Face your fears. Return your attention to what you can do now.
Launching soonJim joins Oprah to explore what becomes possible when fear, ego, and results no longer rule us.
Photo Credits: UTAMoments of ImpactA.J. Brown reached for Inner Excellence during a Superbowl wildcard game to refocus, lock in, and return to the moment.
I still remember where I was when I was first handed Inner Excellence. I was at a golf tournament in Arizona. I read the book in three days and won the event. I've read it four more times since then.
MissionsTwice a year, join Jim and YWAM Homes of Hope for an Inner Excellence house-building retreat.
I have read hundreds of leadership books and this is by far the most inspiring, with tools to create the change necessary to live out loud and chase what matters.
The power of Inner Excellence is the awareness it brings to one's life.
WatchFeel fully alive by pursuing a meaningful mission beyond yourself.
Inner Excellence shows how training the heart, mind, and body can change the way we meet pressure. Shaped by Jim’s work with athletes and leaders, the book offers a grounded approach to becoming fully engaged, acting with love, wisdom, and courage, and finding freedom that does not depend on results.
Begin with Inner Excellence, a #1 New York Times bestseller, for Jim's broad training system for the heart, mind, and body, including tools and exercises for performance and daily life.
Read The Best Possible Life if your central questions concern Christian faith, relationship with God, and finding deep contentment amid difficult circumstances.
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The in-depth training system, a #1 New York Times bestseller for mastering your inner mind for peak performance. It's built on love, wisdom, and courage, and used by world champions, Olympic athletes, and Fortune 500 executives.
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Featured · The Knowledge Project7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under FireThe seven principles Jim's athletes and executives use to perform with peace under the highest pressure.
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