High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 391: Dream for a Living

Episode Date: December 1, 2020

Your goals and dreams should be just a little scary – meaning a little outside your comfort zone because when you dream big, you grow into who you can become. Most people dream too small or lose the ability to dream because of limiting beliefs or listening to other people’s disbelief. The reason we need goals and dreams are less about checking off a box, but instead about who you can become. Making dreaming for a living part of your daily mindset practice.    This Week’s Power Phrase:  “I dream big to help me reach my best and my potential. I have everything inside me to make my dreams happen.”    To learn more about the Dream for a Living t-shirts as well as other gear, visit www.mentallystronggear.com for FREE SHIPPING and $10 OFF EACH SHIRT.    This Week's Quote of the Week: “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” Christopher Reeve     

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 checking in with Cyndra Campoff this morning. How are you doing, Cyndra?

I'm doing great. How are you, Lisa? I'm excited. I'm excited to find out about this topic today. It's called Dream for a Living, and you usually start with a quote. What is that? This is by Christopher Reed. He said, So many of our dreams are at first seen impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they seem to become inevitable. So what inspired your message today? Well, this weekend, we launched a new clothing line called Mentally Strong Gear, and you can find it at mentallystronggear.com. And we have three t-shirts

with more items to come. And one of the t-shirts is called Dream for a Living, which is the chapter from my book. And it really emphasizes the importance of continuing to dream big because we never outperform our goals and dreams. So why do you tell us to dream big? Well, I love this quote by Ellen Johnson Furlough, and she was the president of Liberia until 2018. And she said, if your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough. And really, to reach our potential, we have to dream just a little bit outside our comfort zone towards something that's just a little bit scary. And the reason we want to do

that is because, you know, everything that we've, well, I would say that discomfort is the price we pay to kind of step into what we can do to step into a meaningful life and experience success. And so when you're dreaming just outside your comfort zone, that means that you're feeling discomfort. Okay, so specifically, why should our dreams be scary? Well, goals and dreams are inside of us, I think for a reason. And they help us step into what we can become. And I think sometimes we might think of goals like we just check off a box. We write it down and we check it off.

But it's more about who we can become when we push towards dreaming big and towards a big vision. And when we dream big, that just helps us reach our full potential because every day we're growing and dreaming for a living, which is really today's message is all about continuing to push yourself to dream big and doing so, you know, every day, every week, every year of our life. So what would you tell us to day, every year of our life. So what would you tell us to do with our goals and our dreams? Well, I would first say we want to just ask ourselves, like, what are our scary dreams? And if we don't have any, you know, can we level up the scariness just one notch, right?

And what I mean by scariness is just being uncomfortable about it. And when you consider what your dreams are, I think what's really important is to write them down, keep a record of them, because when we write them down, our brain works at a subconscious level to make it happen. And then checking on them regularly, when we look at them, remember that they should be, you know, just a little outside of our comfort zone and that's where you're growing. So do you find that most people dream big? Oh, I don't. Oh, okay. dream big oh i don't most people dream small and i think often we like kind of our limiting beliefs get in our own way or or i think sometimes even when we get older we lose our ability to dream maybe we've heard you know that our dreams are too big um or maybe we just start believing what

other people want for us instead of what we really want for ourselves um but when we really push ourselves to dream you know once that's not more than we normally would, that's when we grow. And, you know, dreaming outside of our comfort zone requires us to really, like, consider all the things that are possible for us. So how would you summarize today for us? Lisa, I would say, you know, your dreams and goals should just be a little scary, meaning a little outside your comfort zone, because when you're dreaming big, you grow into who you can become. And most people dream too small.

They lose the ability to dream or they let our limiting beliefs kind of get in our way. But goals are more about who you can become. So I'm going to encourage everyone who's listening to make dreaming for a living part of your daily mindset practice. So I bet that's going to be part of our power phrase. What is our power phrase this week? It is, I dream big to help me reach my best and my potential. I have everything inside me to make my dreams happen.

Now, Cinder, if we want to grab one of those t-shirts that you're talking about or take a look at them, where do we need to go? Yeah, you can go to mentallystronggear.com. And right now there's free shipping and $10 off each t-shirt. Very good. So mentallystronggear.com. Mentallystronggear.com. And right now there's free shipping and $10 off his t-shirt. Very good. Mentallystronggear.com. Mentallystronggear.com. Dr. Sindra Kampoff, thank you so much for your time today. Thanks, Lisa. 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. That's D-R-C-I-N-D-R-A dot com. See you next week.