Sustain Your Game

High Performance Keys to Manage Stress, Avoid Stagnation, and Beat Burnout

By: Alan Stein Jr., Jon Sternfeld, Rece Davis - introduction

Narrated by: Alan Stein Jr., Rece Davis

A basketball coach turned business consultant shares high-performance secrets and shows how you can build the mental fortitude necessary to stay on top of your game.

What makes the best the best? Ultimately the best are where they are because of the mindset, habits, and rituals they have—both in their respective “arenas,” but also in private, during the unseen hours. Success isn’t something that happens to you. It's something you attract and you create. Successful people do the little things better than everyone else because they know all the big things arise from them. The highest performers in all walks of life have taken full ownership. They got to where they are and have stayed there because they have chosen to establish, tweak and repeat positive habits. They understand that you can’t be selective when it comes to excellence, that how we do anything is how we do everything.

Based on his years as a successful basketball performance coach--training superstars like Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and Kobe Bryant--and a speaker and trainer to major companies like Pepsi and Amex, Alan Stein brings you the keys to lasting, unimaginable success. The secret? Return to the basics. They're simple, but they're not easy. But the truth is that more connected, productive, and influential leaders and teammates find long-lasting success not with big flashy changes, but with the accumulated of the little things.

Sustain Your Game teaches you how to bring your A game to every area of your life. With advice from top CEOs, journalists, social scientists, and more, you'll learn the framework for how to beat stress, stagnation, and burnout. Sustain Your Game will help you be the best in your arena, wherever that may be.

Critic reviews

Praise for Alan Stein, Jr.'s Raise Your Game

"Alan played a huge role in my development on and off the court and his guidance helped me get to where I am today. This book is a must read."—Kevin Durant

"Alan shares what it takes to take your game to the next level. Raise Your Game provides tools, concepts and strategies you can utilize today to enhance your influence and make an immediate impact on your team, culture and organization." —Jon Gordon, bestselling author of Training Camp and The Carpenter

"Alan knows exactly what it takes to Raise Your Game. The stories, principles and strategies he shares in this book apply to basketball, business and everything in between. If you want to be a more influential leader and impactful teammate--you will read this book."—Jay Wright, Head Coach of Villanova University (2016 & 2018 NCAA Champions)

"Raise Your Game shares the principles required to be an impactful leader and an influential teammate. This book looks at what the highest performers in sports and business do consistently to create winning cultures and championship teams. The stories, lessons and practical take-a-ways will help players, coaches, executives and entrepreneurs unlock new levels of performance."—Ric Elias, CEO of Red Ventures

"Whether building a start-up as an entrepreneur, or a developing innovations as an "intrapreneur" at a Fortune 500, the fundamentals of success are the same. It comes down to habits, preparation and mindset. Raise Your Game shares the building blocks used by the world's top athletes, executives, coaches and entrepreneurs to reach unparalleled success and perform at the highest level. I am recommending Raise Your Game as a must-read for all of the entrepreneurs and executives I work with."—Mark French, Serial Entrepreneur (Sports / Entertainment / Media / Technology)

Praise for Alan Stein, Jr.:
"Simply put, Alan Stein is the best in the business. I worked alongside Alan for years and his ability to motivate and inspire is second to none.. His passion inspires everyone he connects with to push their limits. Alan gets results. Period."—Jay Bilas, ESPN

"Alan's first hand experience with elite basketball players provides an unmatched angle on exactly what is needed to help any business or organization thrive. Our entire team was really empowered by his talk."—Angel Roberts, Founder, Love, Peace and Hip Hop

"Alan's talk was an unbelievably motivating way to kick start our company off-site. He was funny, interactive, and engaging, all while driving home extremely important take-a-ways for our team to get better."—Vasu Kulkarni, C.E.O., Krossover

Alan Gifts the World another gem!!

I have read Alan’s other book Raise your Game probably a dozen times, I have had the pleasure of chatting with Alan a few times but this review comes from an overall sense of fulfillment and enjoyment of this book.

In Sustain Your Game, Alan tackles a few different points of contention in personal and professional life. I think he does a perfect job of having the points flow and connect but I especially love the chapters on Burnout.

I am a young professional and a lot of friends and colleagues of mine are in a weird place coming out of Covid-19 Pandemic. Many have a bit of an identity crisis, the chapters on Burnout illustrate a lot of what causes these issues and offers up concrete solutions for mitigating or alleviating them. I was most impressed by how none of these chapters played a blame game. In this genre many books will direct those feelings inward, as a measure of ownership, often discounting or ignoring external causes entirely. I appreciate that Alan tackled it from a place of validating the feelings and offering structured ways to help!

Overall I was just impressed by how the book achieved so much, and so succinctly. At no point did chapters feel like fluff, everything had a purpose and everything was presented perfectly for the points it addressed.

If you’re a coach, parent, teacher, or manager this book is a must read. If you’re not any of those things I’d still recommend this because it accomplishes so much all at once. Thank you Alan as always for your great work! I can’t wait to give a copy to someone else to check out!

another practical gem

so many nuggets in this audiobook that ill have to go back and listen again. very practical concepta and data.

HE DID IT AGAIN!!

Alan Stein’s, “Raise Your Game” was an incredible read in its own right, and this follow up was just as powerful, if not better! As a teacher and a coach there are a plethora of valuable gems he drops throughout the book not only for myself, but to share with others. I have already recommended his books to many friends and will continue to do so!

Powerful book

Alan Stein hit every topic related to finding more fulfillment in life, and creating room for enhancing it! Sound advice on what to do when you encounter tough mental lows. My new favorite book hands down!

Excelent! Full of reality!

A must listen! Allan as always is inspiring!
I always love the sport analogies! go for it