Miscellaneous
In these first 3 episodes, I have been focusing on how athletes explain and rationalize their results to themselves in their mind, and how that affects their mindset and successes in the future. Today I’m going to talk you through the concept of Permanence or what’s referred to in psychology as the locus of stability. Then I’m going to bring together all three concepts to show you how you can create a 3-step process for looking at outcomes, to developing a better mindset. We’ll go through an example of how you can break down an outcome, and create an action plan to overcome whatever obstacle or outcome you are facing. When I say Permanence, what I mean is when you look at an outcome, how you perceive it will affect your future? Do you see this either consciously or unconsciously as permanent, or is it temporary? When we look at the greatest athletes and performers out there, they share a few characteristics in the way they perceive events in their lives, and this goes for both positive and negatively perceived events: 1. They are very specific in the way that they describe the situation to themselves, they are detail oriented; 2. They recognize what they have control over, and only focus on that; and 3. They see outcomes as temporary, and they recognize that change is always possible. From this way of looking at outcomes, they create a really simple way to see a path out. That is what is the real key to all of this, but without the detail, feeling of control and belief that it is temporary it is almost impossible to feel like you can overcome something. In this episode, I will go through a way to use these three concepts as steps to reframe an outcome and create an empowering path forward. If you take anything away from today’s episode I hope that you understand the importance of getting really clear with ourselves when we explain outcomes to others and ourselves. I hope that you start to catch yourself when you talk about or think about things as permanent when they aren’t, and start to focus on the temporary and the controllable. Thank you so much for listening, I hope that you subscribe to this podcast and like and share it. My goal with this podcast is to give you little mindset snippets, tools and experiences to help open up the conversation about mindset and how it affects our performances and everyday lives. Be sure to tune into episode 4, where I’ll be taking you through my own personal story as a former athlete. You’ll learn about my background, my athletic career, and how I got into mindset coaching.