High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 129: 10 Practices of the World's Best

Episode Date: August 29, 2017

 “Nothing will work unless you do. Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being.” – John Wooden In this episode, Cindra reveals her Top 10 Practices of the World’s Best which is the structure of her new book, Beyond Grit: Ten Powerful Practices to Gain the High-Performance Edge. You can get a free download and PDF of the 10 Practices and take part in the Beyond Grit Workshop at beyondgrit.com. Summary: High performers work to develop 10 key practices that help you overcome the odds, live with purpose, and live a big life that you were intended to live. They go after their big dreams, stay gritty, but master their mindset so they can getting out your own way. Power Phrase Monday: I master my mindset. I own my dreams. I think and act like the world’s best.

Welcome to High Performance Mindset with Dr. Sindra Kampoff. Do you want to reach your full potential, live a life of passion, go after your dreams? Each week we bring you strategies and interviews to help you ignite your mindset. Let's bring on Sindra. It's time for High Performance Mindset today with Dr. Sindra Kampoff in studio with us. Good morning, Sindra. Good morning. It's great to be here. Good to have you in today. It's an exciting week for you, I know, and we're going I know. I'm geeked out about Thursday. I know. We're going to talk a whole bunch more about that big book release party here in the Mankato area coming up. Before that, we're going to get into today's topic.

And this is it, right? This is your bread and butter. This is what you have been working on. This is Sindra's Thing, the top 10 practices of the world's best. And so we always start, as usual, with a good quote that goes of the world's best. And so we always start as usual with a good quote that goes along with today's topic. So we'll let you go. Nothing will work unless you do. Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of being by John Wooden. All right. And this all coincides with, I've seen many posts on this already, a workshop that you have going on right now, a video as a matter of fact. Yeah, so there's several free videos that you can actually go to and find.

It's at beyondgrit.com and they have PDFs. The PDF that we're going to talk about today is actually on there. And so I thought I'd give you a snapshot today of the 10 practices of the world's best and just give you a little bit more information about what that actually means and how you can apply it. All right, these top practices of high performers, which you call the world's best. And this will give you a little bit more information about what that actually means and how you can apply it. All right, these top practices of high performers, which you call the world's best. So tell us a little bit more about that. So as my research as a professor,

I found that the top performers in sport, business, or life, they all have the same mental habits. So the way you can kind of think about it is like great minds really do think alike. And for all of these people, they master the high performance mindset where they're working to be at their best purposely every day. So it's like purposely pursuing excellence. And when we do this, we're more consistent, we can succeed above and beyond the standard and we become gritty.

Gritty is what we're all after, I think, whether you know it or not. So why do we want to develop these practices? When you develop them, you become mentally strong. So you can take control of your thoughts and your actions and really your destiny. So you can grab a hold of the goals that you really want, no matter what's going on, and you can overcome the odds. I think by using these 10 practices, you also realize that you can tackle any kind of difficulties with gratitude. And these problems that you have become puzzles. So nothing is too hard or impossible.

And you might think like, you know, mastering your mindset is like riding a bike. That once you do it, you're always going to be great at it. But instead, it takes constant nurturing. And it becomes, you know, something that you just have to ongoingly work to master. And that's why I call them practices. Okay, I was going to say you do call them practices over something like habits or traits. So why is that? Yeah, I've thought a lot about this. Like, what do I want to call it? And I call it practices

because it's something that you do have to, you know, continue to work on and it requires ongoing attention. And these practices really represent what I would describe as the psychological profile that leads to mastery or greatness. That's what we want. That's what we're searching for. Differentiates the world's best from the average. And I've seen this in my own clients, NFL pro bowlers, leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs. They take effort to master and that's why they're called practices.

That makes sense. Yeah. I love that you have a PDF print off for us. And we're talking about the practices. You've got 10 practices. Why don't you tell us what they are? So the top 10 practices of the world's best are the world's best are gritty. They are clear on their purpose. They become a master of their thoughts.

They know themselves to master themselves. They dominate the controllables. They own the moment. They choose empowering emotions. And they own who they are. They live and let go and they choose their courage zone. My book actually coming out on Thursday is called Beyond Grit because the first practice is grit. And it's, you know, you want to cultivate your grit, but there's nine more traits. And I think if you just only focus on one, then you get in your own way and lots of other ways. So many other facets.

Which one's your favorite to talk about? Probably mastering your thoughts. Okay. And I would say that because really what I mean by mastering your thoughts is the world's best are intentional with their self-talk. They talk to themselves, not listen, which is something we've talked about on here before. And they work to have powerful and positive and possibility-oriented thoughts. And it's my favorite to talk about because I think that a lot of people really struggle with it.

And we can be our own worst enemy, right? Like we're the only person that gets in our way. So that's why it's one of my favorites because I think people are searching for what am I supposed to do with this six inches between my ears? And what am I supposed to do with my thoughts? So what do you think that most people struggle with, according to, I mean, falling into one of these 10? Yeah, I would say probably own the moment. And so what I mean by own the moment, yeah, for sure, is just saying present moment focused and, you know, recognizing you can't control the past or the future. And so it's really important to let go of the past and learn from it, but work to stay in the moment.

And I think that's actually when we're at our best is when we work to be in the moment. And our mind isn't designed for peak performance or happiness. And so that's why mastering your thoughts and working to stay in the moment is so important because you can easily kind of live in the past or the future.

All right, so I talked about this PDF. Where do folks get this PDF? So you can go to beyondgrit.com and that's actually where the videos are All right. So I talked about this PDF. Where do folks get this PDF? So you can go to beyondgrit.com and that's actually where the videos are at right now. And then you can download this pretty sweet looking top 10 practices of high performers.

A lot of people actually have that. I was like, this would be a good one laminated and hung up somewhere. Absolutely. Yeah. A lot of people have it by their computer or somewhere that they can see it

every day just to kind of check in, see where they're at and what they need to work on today. I am having a moment here where I'm realizing after listening to podcasts, when you're interviewing the world's best at what they do and you ask them in your podcast, you're always asking them what is the one thing they think they are good at in this list of 10. Many of the times they say, oh, I'm gritty. I'm gritty. I'm definitely gritty. Most of the time I think they do that. And then I just realized, well, of course, lots of people are gritty. Now they got to get working on all the other stuff, right? Yeah. There's very few that come in and say, well, I do this. But then you always ask them, which one do you think you could work on? And then there's one

in there somewhere, but yeah. And most people realize that they are not perfect at all of these 10. I'm not every single day. Right. So that's why it's like continuously working on your mindset. That's why it's a practice. That's why it's a practice.

Exactly. All right. So how do we, this is awesome and it's great. People, I hope people will go and download this.

This is something teachers could hang up in the classroom. Employers can hang up at work. You could hang up in the bathroom next to your mirror if you want to and just read through them every morning.

And it's right there for download from the website. So how do we summarize all of this today? And then we'll get into the book stuff. So high performers, those people who are working to reach their greater potential, they work to develop these 10 key practices that will help them overcome the odds, live with purpose, and live the big life that you were intended to do. They go after their big dreams, stay gritty, and master their mindset along the way. Nice. And then we always have a power phrase to wrap up with here, and we have another one for you today.

I master my mindset. I own my dreams. I think and act like the world's best. All right. And speaking of dreams, dream come true. On Thursday, the book will finally be released to the public here in Mankato. Give us the details on book release and where it's at. So I'd love for people to come to the Verizon Center this Thursday night.

The party is from 530 to 730 with a short program at 615. There'll be lots of fun. And we're just going to celebrate because this did take a long time to complete. And I'm so proud of how easy it is to read and how user friendly it is and just how I know it will help people's lives. Thank you for letting us be along on the ride. Do people just show

up then or would you like them to RSVP or how is this going to work out for Thursday? It would be great if they would RSVP so you can just go to beyondgrit.com slash party. So beyondgrit.com slash party and then we know that you're coming. We would love people who listen regularly to come and check it out. All right.

We can purchase the book while we're there, I hope. Yes. Yeah. Of course. Yeah, I will have some copies. Awesome. She'll sign it for you, too. For sure.

Hopefully that never gets old. Yeah. All right. Well, amongst all of that, beyondgrit.com slash party and the PDF download. If we want to follow along and listen to the podcast and get those videos we talked about today, what's the best way for us to keep up with Dr. Sindra Kampoff? So you can head over to beyondgrit.com for the videos we talked about today and the 10 practices of the world's best, the PDF.

And then if you'd like to listen to the podcast, you can go to drsindra.com. Awesome. Well, thank you very much for coming in today. Congratulations. Looking forward to hearing all about Thursday. I know Lisa's going to go. I have a station event that I'll have to get to, but I'll be thinking about you and watching along on social media. I know it'll be awesome. It'll be awesome. It will be great. Yes. Cindra with us today. Dr. Cindra Kampoff, High Performance Mindset, Monday mornings right here on The Country Club on Minnesota 93. Thank you for listening to High Performance Mindset.

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