High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 449: Legends are Made with Grit

Episode Date: August 17, 2021

Grit has been described as the number #1 predictor of long-term success. We all need to develop our grit to be successful. To do so, you can consider what are you working towards long-term? What will take years and years of hard work, dedication and sacrifice to develop? And then, remember you will experience plenty of obstacles and setbacks – both external and internal obstacles. The key is to focus on the gains, and find an empowering meaning even in the difficulty.  Power Phrase this Week:” “I am gritty. I am passionate and have a clear vision of the life I am building.” 

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. Cindra Kampoff joining us again this morning. And Cindra, we're talking about legends and how

they're made with grit. You start with a quote for us. This is by Alison Felix. She's the most decorated American track and field athlete of all time. And she said, I lose much more than I win, but I found that I learned more from my losses and that I've gained much more in value in the journey towards a goal than actually achieving that goal. Oh, wow. Towards the journey more than the achievement of the goal. I like this. So how do you want to start today?

Well, I'm going to start with actually Allison's story. So she's 35 years old and the Olympics just concluded. This is her first, her fifth Olympic Games, Lisa. So her first Olympics was 17 years ago. Wow. And she was just like two years removed from pregnancy complications that she says could have taken her life and her daughter's life. And I was watching the 400 meters, which was her last race, her individual race. And she was in fourth and just really summoned this kind of burst of speed to

grab the bronze medal and she said this she said earlier she was looking through some of the videos that she had taped in the hospital with her daughter cammy and she had watched some videos of just her coming back and how it was really really hard and she said that's what she tapped into so this bronze was her her 10th o Olympic medal, which made her the most medals ever won by a woman track athlete ever. Wow. And so you work with a lot of these Olympians, and you worked with Olympians that were in Tokyo. What do you see is a trait of high performers in her response? Well, I think she symbolizes grit, which is really having passion and perseverance towards your very long-term goals, despite all the obstacles. And she talked about how her purpose was different

in these Olympic games. Like she was running for her daughter. She was running for other mothers. She was running because Nike actually cut her compensation by 70% right when she was pregnant. And so she wanted to prove them wrong and she she was running to kind of wear her own shoes because she had just started this brand of a shoe company and so i think her purpose was different and that's what she had overcome really to get this tenth medal so why is grit important for all of us to develop even though we're not olympic runners well grit has been described as the number one predictor of our long-term success. So it's really the determining factor between

giving up and staying committed and passionate about what you're doing. And it's been connected to success in both education and in sport and in business. For example, Lisa, you know, gritty people reach higher levels of leadership in their business. Sales teams who have grit have higher sales performance. And it also kind of chooses, we choose different things, like we're less likely to make harmful choices like internet addiction and gambling and excessive spending when we're gritty. So, Cinder, what is one way that we can, as regular people, develop our grit and keep developing it? Well, that's a great question. You know, and I really say that grit is manifested really by working towards long-term goals,

you know, ones that take years and years to and months and months to achieve. So I'm just going to ask people who are listening, you know, what's a big goal that you're really working towards? You know, what's going to take years and years of hard work and dedication and sacrifice to build? And then are you putting the most important things first in your day to achieve that? And what's another way we can keep developing that grit? Well, we will encounter, you know, plenty of obstacles and setbacks. I think Allison is a great example of that towards reaching our goals. And some of these obstacles are external, like things we can't control.

But Lisa, the thing I've seen is the majority of obstacles are really inside our control. They're more internal blocks and barriers related to our own mindset. So it just shows you that we need to train our mind and that when we experience obstacles outside of our control, we can just ask ourselves, you know, what's the gift? What's the thing I'm learning from this? How is this difficulty happening for me? And when we focus on the gains, we can find a more empowering meaning that can really keep us going and help us stay gritty. I like that. That makes sense. Always a good reminder for us. Do you have a final point? I would say that grit is really described as the number one predictor of our

success. And we need to develop our grit to be successful so we can consider you know what our long-term goals are and then remember that we're going to experience obstacles and step back but we can focus on the gains and find the empowering meaning even in the obstacle cinderella you usually leave us with a power phrase to help get us through the week kind of a mantra something we can repeat to ourselves what is it this week i am gritty and i am passionate i have a clear vision for the life I'm building. If listeners want to get in touch with you or follow along with your social media or what you're doing, what's the best place to do that? They can head over to my website, Dr. Sindra, so D-R-C-I-N-D-R-A.com. And you can find out everything over there. I'm on

most of the social media channels. So you can also just search my name, Sindra Kampoff. Dr. Sindra Kampoff, thank you so much for all your knowledge. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you, 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.

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