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Put your Fulcrum in the right place and it doesn't matter what size or how much weight is on your Lever.

We've really got to work on our ability to stay bored and not chase after what we are told is the next best thing.

10% of life is what happens to us. 90% is how we react to what happens to us.

And A Lot of Patience.

Roger was involved in an accident in high school that left him blind. What can you learn from Roger?

A good one will make average athletes play like champions. A weak one will make talented athletes play average.

Is what you desire within your budget?

Changing "have to" to "get to" doesn't always work.

We often hear this question being asked to separate those who will win versus lose. Why does asking this question really mean though?

Some wish it did. Don't be one of those individuals.

I started watching a show with my son a couple days ago and there was a sequence of events that I didn't agree with.

What would you have done in this scenario?

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In order to continue to raise our level of performance the mind and the body must level up together.

Are you looking to be great at being consistent, or consistently being great?

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You don't need one more thing.

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It's OK to look/feel stupid every once in a while. Most folks do not care whether you achieve your goals or not.

No it wasn't.

Motivation. Inspiration. Excitement. Commitment.

Imposter Syndrome.

Can you own your defeats?

Here we go...

Things are constantly changing so get with the program.

Simply Accepting what happens to us is not enough.

What kind of Expectations do you have in regards to your Performance?

That's it. That's the question. Now go listen to the rest of the episode.

Amazon can deliver lots of things. But it can't deliver everything.

You can't get better if you're trying to protect yourself from Failure.

What you Believe shapes your life. Period.

If you are truly working on improving your Mindset then these 2 things need to be happening.

If you're not doing anything to keep up your Mental Health then you really shouldn't expect things to go well.

What if you don't get anything?

How an individual responds when they are no longer in a position to win says much about their desire to be successful.

In this episode we explore what will make the motivational phrases we so quickly throw around effective.

You should be experiencing very difficult moments in your training and racing. Moments where you act in a way that backs up what you have said about wanting to be successful. You say you want to win, but are you acting like it?

When you Fail it goes largely unnoticed by the folks around you.

Most folks that die while climbing Mt. Everest do so on the way down.

Here's an example of how self-talk can help you through a performance and a beneficial way to think about how self-talk works.

We need to cultivate creating space between the presentation of a stimulus and our response/reaction.

Many of us are not schizophrenics but it might be useful if we saw ourselves more like a schizophrenic than not...

The upbringing of an elephant can teach us quite a bit about the role that our Beliefs can play in our Behaviors.

Why do some athletes show so much promise but never live up to the expectations that they, and others, have for them?

A run through of the races I got to participate in while I was in Belgium.

Results are the product of doing what you should do versus what you want to do.

Would you be surprised that even elite performers have periods where they lack Confidence?

You cannot focus on the past and the present at the same time. Where you choose to place your focus will lead towards consistency or inconsistency.

The self-fulfilling prophecy exists and works. Listen to find out why.

I had a very interesting bike ride yesterday. It wasn't ideal but it was reality...and the way I dealt with it really made me better.

The Destination is always 2 miles away for every mile travelled.

Successful individuals are Intrinsically motivated.

Your most satisfying performances will be the ones where you take the most risk. Note: satisfying performances are not always necessarily the ones we like the most.

Most of your journey towards reaching your goal will be spent on a Plateau. If you can't spend the required time on the Plateau then you will not see your goals become reality. Unfortunately our society does not encourage us to hang in there when we are in the difficult season of being on a Plateau.

We put the work in and remain consistent so we can be successful right? What can happen when that success comes about?

You cannot feed your Ego and Progress towards your Full Potential at the same time. One eats while the other starves.

Resisting the Urge to Quit is a skill that successful endurance athletes possess. It is NOT however a toughness or grit thing, it is very simply focusing on the right thing when you are faced with these urges during your training and competitions.

Your Mind can either work for you or against you.

Many of us claim to Believe in certain things about ourselves and/or the world around us. How do we know if we truly Believe in these things?

What is Mental Toughness? Is it a Genetic Trait? Can it be improved? How so?

Nothing stays the same. How does that make you feel? In this episode I discuss how the principle of Impermanence can work for you.

When we don't achieve a goal or perform at an expected standard we often go to the body and see what went wrong. This is a cycle many athletes repeat over and over until they finally think to themselves that perhaps the mind has something to do with falling short of their goals and expectations. A lack of mental fitness cannot overcome being physically fit to achieve your goals.

Let's dispel a false belief...it doesn't take Extraordinary people to do Extraordonary things.

Studies that have larger samples sizes by and large give us better information and data. This is NOT true however when we are looking to see what things we should be doing in order to become the best version of ourselves.

The process of Building Mental Fitness is hard and never ending.

We have the ability to choose one thought over another. Now that's freedom!

Are you leveling up your Habits? What does the leveling up of our Habits prove is going on within us?

In the words of Carl Jung, what we resist persists.

Success is achieved by being Consistent Over Time. We all need to ingrain this truth deeply into our Minds as we enter the New Year and look to execute on instilling new and better Habits.

2022 will be your best year yet in terms of your performance. How can I make such a bold statement for some of you?

The Price we must pay for Success is equal for everyone.

There are more things we have no control over than things we do have control over. Allowing this universal fact to sink into our psyche can unlock the level of performance you've always thought possible but never achieved.

Your Habits are the Compound Interest of your Self-improvement. -James Clear

The goal of a Habit is to solve a problem or obstacle that we face on a consistent basis.

Hacks are Gimmicks

Identity- your repetitive beingness. Sounds a lot like our habits doesn't it?

We do what we do because of what we believe about ourselves