High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 413: 3 Powerful Questions to Connect to Your Potential

Episode Date: March 10, 2021

In this episode, Dr. Kamphoff talks about how the World’s Best are on constant pursuit of their potential. Your potential is unlimited and endless. You can connect with your potential by considering what is getting in your way of your unlimited potential, getting clarity on what your next level of your potential looks like, and by identifying and addressing the limiting beliefs that are getting in your way.  Power Phrase this Week: “I am in search of my unlimited potential. I am bound by no one or nothing!”  Quote of the Week: “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson    

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. Dr. Cinder Kampoff joining us and we're talking about, Cinder, three powerful questions to connect to your potential. You usually start with a quote for us. This is a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. He said, the only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. So potential, what exactly are

we talking about today? So we're talking about this idea of potential. And you know, it's a really interesting concept in the word. When you look up the definition in a dictionary, Lisa, it says like existing impossibility capable of development into actuality. And so I want people just to think about like, what is your potential? You know, and really potential is unlimited. It's endless. And I feel like when I felt like I've reached my potential, I know I have more potential. So why is it so important for us to think about our potential?

Well, potential is really about finding what is inside you. I really like this quote by Eckhart Tolle. And he said, you do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that's already within you. And, you know, I think discovering your potential is really about connecting with your authentic self and not trying to be someone else. And it's, you know, really about looking deep inside you instead of looking at for other people's approval. And discovering your potential is really about your commitment to being your best self. So what is the first powerful question that will help us connect with our potential? So I'd ask people to think about what is given in your way of your unlimited potential. And when people, I've asked people that question, they sometimes say, well, maybe it's a lack of a clear

direction of where I want to go, or what my potential is, or maybe not taking enough action, or doing something over and over again that's not working. Sometimes even they say it's our limiting beliefs, you know, beliefs that we can't make a change, or we're not good enough, or smart enough. And we really have to be careful what we're saying to ourselves, because we're really always listening to what we say to ourselves. So if what is getting in your way of your unlimited potential is the first question, what's the second powerful question? The next question would be, what does your life look like at the next level? And this idea of like, what is the next level to you? And when you answer that question, it gives you a good glimpse at your potential. So maybe for you, you know,

at the next level is more fulfillment or more happiness or more connection with those that you love or maybe a stronger ability to go after your goals. And I'm going to encourage people to picture this life at the next level in your mind first. You know, elite athletes do this all the time, where they imagine, you know, great results before it happens. And thinking about what your life

looks like at the next level and imagining it is a great way to connect with your potential. Cinder, what's the third question? So the last question is, you know, what are two or so limiting beliefs that you need to overcome to reach your potential. And Lisa, I'm thinking about my work as a mental performance and executive coach here. And I think that limiting beliefs are one of the top barriers to people's potentials. And, you know, beliefs are just generalizations that we make. And I think we need to remember that we can control what we believe.

You know, most of our thinking is just automatic and habitual. And we're really the only person that controls what we believe. And so the key is to write those limiting beliefs down. You know, we all have these limiting beliefs. And then decide what you want to believe instead. And start conditioning yourself to believe these new beliefs that are getting in your way of your unlimited potential. How do you summarize potential for us today? So, Lisa, I'd say, you know, the world's best are in pursuit of their potential,

and your potential is unlimited, it's endless, and you can connect with your potential by considering, you know, what's getting in your way of your unlimited potential, you know, getting clarity on what that next level of your potential looks like, and by identifying and addressing these limited beliefs that are getting in our way. All right, you leave us with a power phrase every week that's going to help us through.

Yes, it's this one. I am in search of my unlimited potential. I am bound by no one or nothing. That is pretty powerful on a Monday to get you through, Cyndra Kampoff. If we want more information on this, want to connect with you or read your book or see the work that you do, where do we go? You can head over to Dr. Cinder, so D-R-C-I-N-D-R-A.com, and you can find more about the High Performance Mindset podcast or my Beyond Grit book and academy over there.

Three questions to connect to your potential with Dr. Cinder Kampoff today. Cinder, good to have you on. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me, 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. Cinder 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. Sindhra.

That's D-R-C-I-N-D-R-A dot com. See you next week.