High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 328: What I Learned from Interviewing 20 Mindset Experts in 6 days

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

This Friday April 17th I was set to do a Ted Talk that has been put on hold. I knew I needed to direct my energy to something new. I asked myself, “How can I help? How can I serve?" So I reached out to 20 top experts in mindset and mental performance and put them all in one place for you.  It’s call the High Performance Mindset Summit and it starts Friday!  These top 20 experts include bestselling authors, top mental performance coaches for pro teams, and other influencers on the topic of mindset and how you can deal with adversity and change. When I got done interviewing these 20 experts, my mind was blown. I learned so much. And the best part – I feel more on purpose, clear on my values, and mentally stronger. The summit it designed for you to do the same. The summit is FREE and you can access it at www.HighPerformanceMindsetSummit.com. You will learn strategies to lead yourself and others with grit, how to reduce fear and stay in the present, and other mindset tools to be your best more often. In these week's podcast, I summarize a few key ideas from the interviews. This Week’s Power Phrase: “I am meant to adapt and persevere. I stay mentally strong.”

Hi friends, my name is Dr. Sindra Kampoff, a national leader in the field of sport and performance psychology. Every week I'm on the local radio sharing my top tips on exactly how to develop the mindset of the world's best, so you can accomplish all your dreams. Get ready for a jammed, packed episode focused on practical tips to help you get after your goals and step out of your comfort zone. Let's go. It is a Monday. We're going to check in with Sindra for a little positivity

on a Monday with this kind of weird snow that happened. How are you doing, Sindra? I'm doing great. How are you doing? Well, you know, we're coming off an Easter that was kind of strange. Yes, I know. It was strange for us as well. It was just like it was another day, but it was kind of relaxing. But I was telling you just before we went on the air, my family, we're all kind of a family of introverts. I know it's weird to have this job, but really an introvert at heart. And so none of the people in my house are having a problem with staying home at all.

At all. It's just the way it is. That's good. I'm glad everyone's happy, right? Right, right. So we're going to talk a little bit today about mindset tools to deal with change. And I know there are a lot of people out there where this whole staying at home, this is a big change for them.

They really thrive off of the energy of other people and going to work and seeing coworkers and friends on a regular basis. So that's a big change for them, right? It is a big change. And, you know, I think about how I've responded. And there's been a few tough days for me as well, just because I am so used to getting my energy from other people. So I've had to really adapt as well as everyone else has who's listening. So what has inspired this topic for today? So Friday, I was supposed to do a TED Talk that's put on hold and I knew I needed to direct my energy to something new. And so I was asking myself, like, how can I help? How can I serve? And so I've reached out to 20 top experts in mindset.

And for my last kind of week and a half, two weeks, I've put them all in one place. And it starts on Friday. Instead of a TED Talk, I'm going to do a High Performance Mindset Summit. That's awesome. That's awesome. So, Cinder, what is the focus of this summit going to be? So the focus is really going to be how you can use your mindset to deal with change and adversity. And it was pretty cool. So I interviewed them all

in about six days. And these experts include like bestselling authors, top mental performance coaches for pro teams and other influencers. And I have to say, like at the end, I felt more on purpose, just more clear in my values and mentally stronger. It was cool, like the impact that it had on me. And the summit is really designed to help people do the same. So did the experts talk about how people are feeling right now? What did they talk about? Yeah, many of them talked about just how there's a wide variety of emotions people are experiencing,

like frustration, worry, fear, and even, you know, happiness and gratitude and contentment. And so one of the things they really talked about as I look at the themes of these interviews, they talked about how it's really helpful to name your emotions and label your emotions. And one really interesting thing that many of them talked about is that really these emotions are more like data, where we should see it as more as information, not as a director. Meaning like, see your emotions as, oh, this is how I'm feeling right now, instead of allowing them to dictate what you do next.

So I thought that was a really cool theme. You know, from the file of sometimes letting it dictateating how you feel or what you do. I definitely am guilty of being a little too hard on myself sometimes over, you know, a relatively minor mistake, but, like, if I'm not having a good day and I screw something up here at work, I let it bug me for a long time. Did they shed any light on a topic like that for folks like myself? They did. That was actually one of the other themes. And kind of what they said is, like, especially at this point in time, we should not be hard on ourselves to really show ourselves some self-compassion

and to show compassion to other people. Just given this is a really big adjustment for everyone. And one person said, like, remember that your mindset can never be taken from you. And so instead of beating yourself up, you could really think about what you're grateful for and practice gratitude every day. Like John Gordon, a best-selling author, a Wall Street Journal best-selling author

actually talked about every morning he's been taking a gratitude walk. And I interviewed Ian Canole, he's a sports psychologist at Dartmouth. He said that gratitude is a super weapon. So I've been really trying to practice that since then, too. I've heard it's hard to feel anything, you know, any anger when you're practicing gratitude. So that's a really good strategy.

What were some of the other unique strategies that they kind of described? So a couple I'll talk about. A lot of them talk about, like, powerful questions you could ask yourself. So for example, you know, two years from now, how do you want to remember this time? Do you want to remember it as a time of growth or a time of fear? Another question someone asked is like, what do I want to be on June 1st? So hopefully when everything gets back to not staying at home, right? And then plan your activities and your routines kind of based on how do you want to be on June 1st. I interviewed this woman named Amy Morin, and she's somebody who I wanted to reach out to for a long time.

She wrote one of my favorite books called, like, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do. And she suggested that if you worry a lot right now, to give yourself 15 minutes a day and actually schedule it on your calendar. And then you're not going to worry throughout your day because then you can just say, well, it's not my time to worry. I'm going to worry tomorrow at 10. I like that. I do too. Give it a time to get it all out. Cyndra, how would you summarize today for us?

I'm going to say that, you know, remember that your mindset can't be taken from you. Really, as humans, we're meant to adapt and persevere. And so feel whatever you're feeling right now. Use it as information or data, not as a director of your actions. And we talked about practicing gratitude because it's a superpower.

And you could schedule worrying if that's something you need to do to stay mentally strong. What is today's power phrase? I am meant to adapt and persevere. I stay mentally strong. And can you tell us how people can register for the summit if we want to see it? Yeah. So it's free, which is awesome. And so people can go and just register and you'll get access to these interviews, again, for free. Phenomenal. And so you can head over to highperformancemindsetsummit.com. And that's where you can, what you're going to learn is really strategies to lead yourself with grit and resilience and energy.

We talk about how to reduce fear and stay in the present and lots of other mindset tools like we talked about today. So highperformancemindsetsummit.com. And that's coming up on Friday the 17th. And, Cyndra, how do we get in touch with you if we have any questions or we want to get a hold of Beyond Grit? Yes.

You can just head over to drcyndra.com. So D-R-C-I-N-D-R-A dot com. All right, Cyndra Kampoff. Thank you so much for a little positivity on a Monday. Hey, hang on the line here when we go to break. We'll talk to you after we get off the air, but we will talk to you again next Monday. Talk to you then.

Way to go for finishing another episode of the High Performance Mindset. I'm giving you a virtual fist pump. Holy cow, did that go by way too fast for anyone else? If you want more, remember to subscribe and you can head over to Dr. Sindra for show notes and to join my exclusive community for high performers where you get access to videos about mindset each week. So again, you can head over to Dr. Sindra.

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