Success for the Athletic-Minded Man
Jim Harshaw, Jr.
Clarity. Focus. Consistency. Hallmarks of championship athletes. And hallmarks of the most successful men in business and life. How can you claim those traits in your life now? You want to make lots of money, have a great marriage, and be a dedicated father while crushing fitness goals along the way but maybe you feel like you're always shortchanging at least one area. Or maybe you feel like you want to be more consistent. More focuses. Maybe you just need a clear vision for what your future looks like— a clear goal to pursue. Jim Harshaw is an NCAA Division I All-American wrestler and former Division I head coach. And he's an executive performance coach who will help you create the plan to unlock your potential. He coaches motivated men to gain clarity, focus, and consistency in business and life using a unique framework inspired by world-class performers so that they can lead meaningful lives of purpose and impact. "Success for the Athletic Minded Man" is a podcast dedicated to the driven, professional, athletic-minded man in the pursuit of excellence. Each episode dives into success habits for men who balance the rigors of professional development with the challenges of excelling in their personal life. Our conversations explore how men can apply the principles of peak performance in sports to everyday life. Listen as he discusses strategies for mastering goal setting, consistency, work-life balance, and health. We dissect the high-performance habits of athletes as they relate to helping men achieve clarity, focus, and consistency. Through interviews with elite athletes and coaches as well as thought leaders, we unpack athletic life lessons tailored to you, the athletic-minded man. "Success for the Athletic Man" is not just a podcast—it’s a resource for any man eager to thrive in business and life.
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Aug 16, 2021 • 29min
#313 How to Leverage Two Laws of Persuasion Psychology To Trick Yourself Into Doing What You Don’t Want To Do
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Conformity, consistency, and all the proper behaviors in between Do you find yourself struggling to... Work out consistently?Eat healthy?Get to bed on time?Have that difficult conversation?Find time to read? If so, this week’s episode of the Success Through Failure podcast will provide you the cheatsheet on how to trick yourself into doing the things you don’t want to do using two laws of psychology. Everything that you’re going to hear is already present in your life. You’ve surely encountered it through sports, your business, or your relationships. The question now is: are you utilizing these tools to get yourself to perform at a higher level? Or are they actually holding you back from reaching your next level? Listen to this episode, jot down your takeaways, and start taking advantage of persuasion psychology with these simple tips and tricks to boost your chances of reaching success despite— or even because of— failure. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Aug 9, 2021 • 49min
#312 The Comfort Crisis and What To Do About It With Michael Easter
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY When does comfort become a crisis? Do we really want EVERYTHING to be easy? Michael Easter is the author of The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self as well as a writer and editor for Men's Health and Outside magazines, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a leading voice on how humans can integrate modern science and evolutionary wisdom for improved health, meaning, and performance in life and at work. He travels the globe to embed himself with brilliant but often overlooked scientists, thinkers, and people living at the extremes and shares the best of his findings and experiences in books, articles, and other media. Michael’s work has appeared in over 60 countries and has been endorsed by some of the world’s largest magazines, past directors of the CIA and Navy SEALs, gold medal-winning Olympians, leading physicians, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Buddhist and environmental leaders, and more. In this episode of Success Through Failure, Michael will shed light on why we need “fundamental discomforts” in our lives in order to unleash our full potential. Like what F3 Founder Dave Redding said, maybe deep in the hearts of men, we don’t want everything to be so easy. Listen now and let’s go deep into the science of comforts and discomforts with Michael Easter. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode—as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode—at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Aug 2, 2021 • 40min
#311 Suffering, Affirmations, and the Value of Absurdly Hard Goals: Inside the Mind of Ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Finding your thing. Named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 50 marathons in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days. He’s run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole. His list of competitive achievements includes winning the World’s Toughest Footrace, the Badwater Ultramarathon, and winning the 4 Deserts Challenge— racing in the hottest, driest, windiest, and coldest places on earth. An ESPN ESPY winner and 3-time recipient of Competitor magazine's Endurance Athlete of the Year award, Dean has served as a US Athlete Ambassador in overseas sports diplomacy envoys to Central Asia and South America. He’s twice carried the Olympic Torch and is a recipient of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award. A NY Times best-selling author, Dean is a frequent speaker and panelist at many running and sporting events worldwide. This is not a podcast about running, but of life, inspired action, success, and failure. Hit that play button and check out my interview with the amazing Dean Karnazes. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode—as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode—at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Jul 26, 2021 • 34min
#310 Should I Crush It Every Day? Or Get Off the War Path? How to Create Balanced Success
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY What does it take to be successful? Should you crush it or get off the war path? Gurus and successful people like Elon Musk often attribute success to crushing it and working ALL. THE. TIME; on changing the world with your personal life on the line. Their success is admirable. Ask yourself this... is that the kind of life you envision yourself living? Are you willing to lose yourself and your family and what’s truly important to you in the process? Yes, it’s true that having a successful business and making a lot of money is important, but truth be told, you just simply can’t be “in season” 24/7. This is the single-minded focus that got me onto the podium at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. Single-minded focus won’t help me focus on my wife, my kids, my health and my business. This requires a different kind of focus. There is more to life than hustling to fill your bank account with billions of dollars! It’s possible to enjoy a life with balanced success in your relationships, self, health, and wealth. I am living it right now. In this episode, let me share with you how I achieved my dream life while making an impact on the world without having to sacrifice the things that give me purpose and what it took for me to achieve it. Tune in now and let me help you get the clarity to reveal your own path to success. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Jul 19, 2021 • 45min
#309 A True Story of Overcoming the Unthinkable: How to Override Limiting Beliefs with John Register
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY “HURDLE adversity. AMPUTATE fear. EMBRACE a championship mindset to WIN life’s medals.” —John Register John Register is a two-time Paralympian, Paralympic Games Silver Medalist, Persian Gulf War veteran, and TEDx Motivational Speaker. He embraced a “new normal” in becoming an amputee following a misstep over a hurdle while training for the 1996 Olympic Games. An Oak Park, Ill. native, John discovered how to “amputate his fear of disability” and founded the US Olympic Committee Military Sport Program in the early 2000s. He has launched a book titled, 10 Stories to Impact Any Leader: Journal Your Way to Leadership Success, as business leaders return to work with their staff amid stressful circumstances surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic and the recent unrest in our cities. Register teaches others through his “Hurdling Adversity” speeches and podcasts to “amputate their fear and embrace their new normal.” He finds that “it is the personal stories that inspire teams more profoundly with greater impact.” If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Jul 12, 2021 • 25min
#308 How Masterminds Work and How to Start Your Own
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Reach new heights with masterminds! Imagine if you had a cabinet, like a president, who can give you sound advice for all of your tough decisions in life. Or imagine if you had trusted advisors who you could confide in and say, “I need your help,” and get feedback on how to handle your dilemmas. You can! In this episode, I explain not only why but the exact steps on how to create a mastermind group to help you find clarity and solve your biggest challenges. Mastermind groups sound like a fancy new concept but they aren’t. Masterminds are everywhere. A bible study is a mastermind. Alcoholics Anonymous is a mastermind. Basically, any gathering of like-minded people who help each other achieve their goals is a mastermind group. And if you’re still not part of one, this is your sign to build your own. In this episode, I’m going to answer your questions about forming a mastermind group: how and why you should start one, how to invite people, how to run a meeting, and more! Hit that play button now and discover the value of mastermind groups so you can start gathering and meeting amazing people just like you! If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Jul 5, 2021 • 48min
#307 Jack Canfield on How Exactly to Use Visualization and the Law of Attraction to Create Breakthrough Success
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY The power of visualization Jack Canfield, known as America's #1 Success Coach, is a bestselling author, professional speaker, trainer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the Canfield Training Group, which trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders to accelerate the achievement of their personal and professional goals. Jack is the co-author of more than two hundred books, including, The Success Principles™, How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers and has sold more than 500 million copies in 47 languages around the world. He holds a Guinness World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List. Jack is also a featured teacher in the movie The Secret. Jack joins us in this episode where he talks about the power of visualization, the role of failure in his success, and more. Listen now. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Jun 28, 2021 • 22min
#306 14 Tactics Guaranteed to Help You Return from Vacation and Holidays Energized Instead of Exhausted, Driven Not Drained
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Make the most of your vacation Do you have a hard time getting back into "work mode" after you go on vacation? Have you ever felt like you needed a vacation from your vacation before going back to work? In this episode, we're going to talk about 14 ways to make the most of your vacation, holidays, and time off so that you feel refreshed, energized, and ready to perform better than ever! So many times I've come back from a getaway and I'm just not ready to return to the work hustle. Either I've not been in a good mindset or I don’t have a system to get back to work that would allow me to be excited and energized— or if I did, the tactics did not work! And that’s the magic of success through failure! Looking back on what has worked for me and others in the past, I gathered the most effective methods and created a framework that you can apply to your life so you’re ready to bounce back to normal from that oh-so-fun vacation or holiday without feeling drained. Tune in now. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Jun 21, 2021 • 40min
#305 The Power of Fear: Unlocking the Neuroscience of Fear so You Can Unleash Your Potential with Patrick Sweeney
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Fear is FuelInc. Magazine called Patrick Sweeney one of the most interesting men alive. He's a millionaire entrepreneur, world record holder, former Olympic-level athlete, and angel investor (Slack, Y Combinator, Instacart). But before all that, he was terrified of everything. He didn't have confidence or self-esteem. But after battling one of the rarest forms of leukemia at 35, he decided to choose courage. He spent six years with 36 of the world’s top neuroscientists to learn the most cutting-edge science to reprogram the human brain for purpose, passion, and peak performance. He cracked the code on using fear and flow to maximize anyone’s potential. And he shared this knowledge in the #5 Wall Street Journal Best-seller, Fear is Fuel. In this episode, Patrick takes us through his journey of leaving his fears behind to choose courage and how you too can stop being afraid so you can find your confidence to unleash your full potential. Stop living in fear. Take that first step. Tune in now. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
Jun 14, 2021 • 31min
#304 Prepared for Anything: 7 Lessons In Leadership, Teamwork, Communication, and Decision-Making from the Pathfinder Retreat
Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Pathfinder Retreat After months of preparation, 12 amazing individuals raised the bar during our first-ever Pathfinder Retreat held in Princeton, New Jersey. Pathfinders are the graduates of my coaching program which is called Reveal Your Path. They signed up for this retreat because they wanted to go deeper; they wanted to connect with the people who share the same vision as they do. And that we did! It was a weekend full of adventure, wisdom, and learning— shared by their fellow Pathfinders and special guests, Dr. Josh Spodek and Dr. Nate Zinsser. In this episode, I am sharing with you the most life-changing lessons my clients took home with them. My goal for this episode is for you to gain the clarity and focus from these takeaways that all of the attendees benefited from. Let me take you to that hot, fun, and transformational day and let’s dive into the seven lessons from this retreat that you can apply to your personal and professional life. Tune in now. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.
