High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset

Many of us have gifts that we are not expressing to their fullest. We may not have reflected about what is unique about us, or we might have taken our own unique gifts for granted. We may have even overlooked or downplayed them. But when you name your gifts and work to find your Zone of Genius, you gain more excitement and energy to live your life on purpose. Dr. Kamphoff asks us to consider "What is in your Zone of Genius? How can you spend more time in that zone?" When you make the choice to do just that, you thrive. You spend more time doing what you love and what you were uniquely designed to do. This Week's Power Phrase: "I own my unique skills and talents. I engage in what I love." Quote of the Week: "Hard work doesn't feel like hard work when you are doing what you love." —Unknown

Today on the podcast we discuss expectations. Expectations can place pressure on us without even realizing it. To be our best more often, we want to stay focused on excellence, not perfection. We are at our best without expectations when we are focused on the process (the small things we need to do) and our mind is in the present (not the future where expectations live). Today, to be the best you that you can be – do your best and have fun. These two expectations will free you from pressure. Power Phrase this Week: "I do my best and have fun!" Quote of the Week: "Expect nothing, appreciate everything." Anonymous

Your inner critic is your disempowering inner voice that can sounds scared, angry, or judgmental. We want to be aware of our inner critic to reduce it. We all have an inner critic inside of us. Remember our inner critic tends to lie to us. We want to respond to our inner critic with challenging it, and choose a more empowering and truthful statement to tell ourselves instead. Quote of the Week: "Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." Brene Brown This Week's Power Phrase: "I talk to myself powerfully instead of listening to my inner critic."

Regularly practicing gratitude is powerful because it has a lasting impact when doing it regularly. Gratitude is connected to better health, more optimism and resilience. Remember, you can shift your focus at any time to what is good and what you are gratitude for in the situation. Choose to take the perspective of a resilient person and draw the good from a difficulty. Quote of the Week: "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."—Oprah Winfrey Power Phrase of the Week: "I choose to intentionally practice gratitude daily. I focus on what I am grateful for to stay fueled and excited for my life."

Dr. Adam Naylor leads the Performance Psychology division of Integrated Mental Health Services for Deloitte and is a mental performance coach for Telos Sport Performance Consulting. He has spent over two decades serving as a mental performance consultant to high performance leaders and competitors – an expert in emotions and mindsets that allow people to thrive and connect well with teams. His clients have stood on Olympic podiums, hoisted the Stanley Cup, competed in tennis's Grand Slams, won NCAA championships, thrived in international soccer competition, led corporations large and small, and more. He has published and presented widely on topics ranging from self-regulation under stress to the social-environmental factors that shape performance through the psycho-social development of leaders. In this interview, Adam and I discuss: 4 tips to operate under stress and thrive Why the mental game is tough to implement How acceptance allows you to perform confidently HIGH PERFORMANCE MINDSET SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: www.cindrakamphoff.com/487 FB COMMUNITY FOR THE HPM PODCAST: https://www.facebook.com/groups/highperformancemindsetcommunity FOLLOW CINDRA ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/cindrakamphoff/ FOLLOW CINDRA ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/mentally_strong TO FIND MORE ABOUT ADAM: Telos SPC (telos-spc.com) Love the show? Rate and review the show for Cindra to mention you on the next episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-performance-mindset-learn-from-world-class-leaders/id1034819901

In order to reduce overthinking, self-doubt, fear – all of our inner limits – it all starts with self-awareness. Your self-awareness is having an understanding of yourself, your emotions, and what drives you. Cindra challenges you this week to notice yourself – how are you feeling/thinking about, and use the PCR strategy that she discusses to keep increasing your own awareness of yourself. This Week's Power Phrase: "I choose to lead the hardest person first—myself. This Week's Quote of the Week: "Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad." Author Debbie Ford

Think about a time that you were in flow. What did your flow zone feel like? What led to that feeling? What were you doing? Dr. Cindra shares with us three things we can do to get in the flow more often. Flow is like a muscle—the more you train and experience flow, the easier it will be to reach your flow zone. Power Phrase of the Week: "I find my flow and do what I love." Quote of the Week: "This is how memories are made….by going with the flow." Amanda Bynes

High performers don't hope their thinking will work for them; they make their thinking work for them. They are intentional and purposeful with their daily self-talk. They condition their minds each and every day which helps overcome self-doubt. In this episode, Cindra shares two ways to address self-doubt to be intentional with your self-talk. This Week's Power Phrase: "I level up my thoughts to level up my life." This Week's Quote of the Week: "Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential." Brian Tracy

We can all train our mind like a professional athlete, and we should. When we do, we get to our goal quicker and think and act like a high performer. To give ourselves the best chance of success, we can work to have a short-term memory of mistakes, focus on the right thing at the right time, and see adversity as helping us get to where we want to go. This Week's Power Phrase: "I train my focus each day to help me reach my goals." Quote of the Week: "The sky has no limits. Neither should you." Usain Bolt

Everyone is a leader. As a leader, you are leading yourself and leading others towards a common goal or purpose. You will not be effective at leading others until you're first effective at leading yourself. In this episode, Dr. Cindra talks about how we can each lead ourselves more intentionally. This Week's Power Phrase: "I show up in this world with intention." This Week's Quote: "To lead yourself, use your head. To lead others, use your heart." John Maxwell