High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 425: What Would Change Everything for You?

Episode Date: April 23, 2021

This week I encourage you to consider the one goal that if you went after would change everything. Cindra calls this your Ultimate Game-Changer Goal. Then, commit to the next step. Many times we have multiple completing goals.You want to keep the main thing the main thing to focus your attention on what would make the biggest impact for you.     Power Phrase this Week: “I go after my goals with a deep passion and commitment.”  Quote of the Week: “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Steven Covey   

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. Cyndra Kampoff with us this morning. Dr. Kampoff, what would change everything for you? That's our

topic today. You usually start with a quote. This is a quote by Stephen Covey. He said, the main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. Amen, right? How do you start this off with a story for us? Well, I'm going to talk about Warren Buffett, who's one of the most successful investors in the world. And I was reading the story about how he told his airplane pilot about this powerful exercise. And he was telling his pilot to write down the top 25 career goals that he had, and then circle the top five. And you might think that maybe he was going to tell him to prioritize that list or something like that. But he actually said

you should only focus on goals one through five and you should completely walk away from six through 25. And he said that, you know, it's all about focus. You're not going to accomplish 25 things in your life. So the other goals are really just potential distractions. And I thought that was a really powerful thing to consider. And how does this connect with the topic for today? Well, today what we're talking about is helping you think about the main thing, right? What would be the thing that would help you change everything?

And I'm going to encourage you to do something similar where you make a list of all of your goals and your dreams. And that's powerful just because most people don't do that. It helps you get a lot, you know, a lot of clarity on where you're going. But then ask yourself, what's the one thing that you wrote down that would change everything? Like what's the one thing that would move the needle for you or the one goal that would have the biggest impact. And Lisa, we're going to call this your ultimate game changer goal. For example, like in business, let's say you, you know, you owned your own business. Maybe, you know, your ultimate game changer goal is to write a book or develop a new product. Or maybe as an athlete, it's, you know, working to get on this particular team. Or personally, it's maybe,

you know, exercising more, eating right. Or in business, it could be like hiring blank number of new employees, something like that. And the power of this exercise is that many times we have kind of multiple competing goals without even realizing it. So once we have those written down, what do we do? I would say after you have your ultimate game changer goal written down in a specific way, then you want to consider the how. And the how is, you know, the steps you need to move forward. And let's say, for example, it's to write a book. That's maybe your ultimate game changer goal. Maybe, you know, it means, you know, writing at least 30 minutes a day or finding a publisher or outlining the first chapter or maybe even deciding on a topic. So the next thing to do is kind of write down all your thoughts related to this question.

You know, what are all the possible things I could do to achieve my ultimate game changer goal? And then what do you do once, like when you're writing that list? I say as you're writing that list, be an idea generating machine. And kind of what I mean by that is write down all your ideas, even if they seem impossible or even if it's, you know, you're not even sure how to do it. Don't discount any ideas, even if they might, you know, might not seem like it's going to work. Write it down anyway.

And then after you get that done, ask yourself, you know, what's my starting point? What's the next thing I could do today to get closer to achieving this ultimate game changer goal? Do you have a final point for us, Dr. Kampoff? Yeah, Lisa, I would say, you know, I work with a lot of different high level athletes, and I coach business leaders, and the majority of obstacles getting in our own way of just, you know, our potential and ultimately, you know, accomplishing this game changer goal is really internal barriers related to our mindset. So, you know, as you're listening and you're thinking about what's your ultimate game changer goal, I think ask yourself what's, you know, what's the barrier internally that you need to really move past to accomplish that? Because when you go for it, right, it does change everything.

Can you summarize today for us? Yeah, Lisa, I would say, you know, this week I encourage you to consider what's that one goal that you went after would change everything. And today we call that your ultimate game changer goal. And then commit to the next step. What's the next thing you could do or the thing you could do today to get you closer to that? Because many times we have kind of multiple competing goals. And so we want to keep the main thing, the main thing to focus our attention on what matters most to us. I like that. What's the power phrase for this week? I go after my goals with a deep passion and commitment.

Perfect. Where can we get more information about you? Lisa, you can head over to Dr. Sindra, so drcindra.com, and you can find more information about my book, Beyond Grit, or learn more about coaching or my speaking over there as well. Dr. Sindra Kampoff, thank you so much. 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 Thanks, Lisa. 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.