Wisdom Wednesday: The Top 10 Things I learned from The Premier Mindset, Part 2

I don’t have control over what thoughts enter my brain, only that I have the control to choose which I FOCUS on.

1. Intrinsic Motivation is a natural extension of my vision, passion and values. Post your values and your passions where you can clearly see them. You are more likely to act accordingly.

2. Everyone could use their own personal highlight reel.

3. You can improve your performance by up to 20% by just using imagery.

4. Emotions will happen. You can’t control them, but you can control how you react to them.

5. You can’t just feel confident. But by physically doing things you do when you are confident will help you find it.

6. Find what your peak performance level is and then learn how to get there.

7. Mindfulness- allowing yourself to be frustrated at times and then focus on growing.

8. Your goals should look like a pyramid- process goals on the bottom, performance goals in the middle, and outcome goal on the top.

9. It’s true what they say 90% mental and 10% physical.

This week we will be diving into 2-4.

2. Intrinsic Motivation is a natural extension of my vision, passion and values. Post your values and your passions where you can clearly see them. You are more likely to act accordingly. One thing I have learned through many leadership seminars and books is that your core values will change as you change. There is no shame in that. I have also learned that you can’t have too many core values. Choosing your top 1-2 and making decisions based upon them will far help out your confidence. Also, choosing your core values upon what you think you should have vs what you actually feel is the most important thing for you is wrong. I have dug into these core values over and over again and have recently change them based upon these principles. Posting them in a place (my locker) in which you will always see them has been essential for helping my intrinsic motivation and positive mindset while training.

3. Everyone could use their own personal highlight reel.

4. You can improve your performance by up to 20% by just using imagery. Mind Blown

Imagery can help you alot… like more than you know. It can lead to a 20% increase in performance. You can learn new skills, regain skills over time, prepare performance rituals, develop strategies and plans, reduce competitive anxiety, phsyc yourself up, manage stress and rehab from an injury by literally using your brain. Your brain is a very underutilized muscles but training it can drastically change your life. Becoming aware of your senses: smell, sight, taste, feel, sound, kinesthetic sense, emotion, focus and behaviors can improve your imagery skills. Have you ever stopped to use these emotions before your practice or compete? -Here are the things I noticed before a competition: Smell- sweat and chalk, musty air. Sight- clear and vivid in my lane, everything else was blurry and unimportant. Taste- slightly sugary from my performance drink and then it went to cotton mouth. Feel- My clothes felt snug, more snug than I would usually like, my right foot was rubbing against the inside of my shoe a bit, my hands felt chalky and there was adequate friction between them and my leather grips. Sound- a strange silence with cheers and voices in the background. I couldn’t even hear the music playing over the heartbeat in my head. My kinesthetic sense was a bit off for me. I could tell where my body was in space but I could tell that I was not as sharp as normal. The positions I was working to get in weren’t as exact as usual. I drew my focus to those body positions and mentally thought about hitting those when I felt off. Emotion - this was a bit flat. I wasn’t as excited and I need to be for a peak performance. My physical fatigue was playing too much of a factor. Focus- drew it back to the things I could control. Where did I want my body position, how much did I want to push, keeping my sight in my lane and focusing on me and what my body was doing, not what others were doing.