This article takes a different approach to presenting the importance and applications of mental training. Applying mental-skills training to enhance learning and performance requires athletes and students to improve their awareness of what they do to help themselves (mentally, emotionally, physically, and behaviorally), as well as what they do to damage their efforts (engaging in debilitating habits of thinking, feeling, and acting). Once this is established, athletes and students are taught how to engage their own coping skills (or taught new ones if needed) to overcome barriers to performance and learning. This article follows a similar protocol of enhancing awareness first, then providing educational information on the most pertinent and needed mental skills. The objective of this article is to present examples of fundamental mental-skills training methods that coaches may already use. Coaches who are skeptical may become more open-minded when they realize that what they are already doing is mental-skills training. Challenging their belief system in this way enhances awareness of the simple, time-efficient, and economical nature of mental-skills training. Although this article primarily targets coaches, educators at all levels and in all academic disciplines can apply mental-skills' training to help students enhance learning, development, and performance, especially in the areas of anxiety, visualization, confidence enhancement, concentration, communication practices, and goal-directed focus.