Life, Living It and Loving It

Gordon reflects on the book ‘Running With Sherman’ and discusses the lessons we can all take from it in the way we approach getting to the life we love.

Often people get focused on their goals and forget the basics but looking after yourself and making sure others are part of your journey is what makes the difference along with finding what brings you joy and making it part of your life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There is a temptation when aiming big to do everything yourself
• You need to take other people on the journey with you
• Often it’s the things you take for granted that slow you down
• It can be possible to stop doing the basics when you are pushing hard to achieve your goals
• Look to leave others in awe of your achievements but also make sure the basics are in place
• You must make sure your basic needs are being met so there is a good foundation to build your success on
• A winning mentality is key so turn winning into fun for yourself
• When you find something you enjoy you need to try and find ways to be successful and win at it as part of your life
• If you can build things you enjoy into your life you will be closer to living the life you want

 BEST MOMENTS

‘We can’t do everything by ourselves’

‘Sometimes when you are struggling you have to go back and learn ‘basic donkey’

‘Winning needs to be fun’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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Running With Sherman by Christopher McDougall

ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love. 

Gordon is in France and this week talks all about winning and how you can take yourself to the next level

The right mindset will mean that you effectively review and adapt your strategy and ultimately change it if you are not getting the results you want – you need to develop a winning mindset and the belief that you are going to win

Review what you are doing and adapt to make sure you are in a winning position, moving to the next level and living the life you love

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You have to have the right mindset to be successful, with achieving success being at the forefront of your mind all the time
• Sometimes things don’t go the way we want and we give up accepting the loss
• Have a winning mindset and believe you will win at all costs
• You may need to adjust a strategy, review it and if it still isn’t getting results change it
• You may need to do something different to see the results you want
• When something doesn’t work it’s an opportunity to adapt and learn
• Where things aren’t working look at it strategically and in-depth making the changes you need to make it a win
• Having a winning mindset will make you more confident
• Being in a winning mindset means you can overcome the challenges because you know that you can are ultimately going to win and get to the life you love

BEST MOMENTS

‘Sometimes you need to take a step back and do the thinking’

‘When you have  confidence you are more innovative and can think outside the box’

‘When you have a winning mindset you will be more confident’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love. 

Gordon looks at why you should always be on your own journey towards living your dream not someone else’s

It can be easy to look at someone and try to be like them but everyone is individual and you need to do it your way in alignment with your core values and beliefs. Take the best bits of others journeys and adapt them to make it your own to create a plan that moves you to the life you love

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Too many people try to be like someone else
• You can’t replicate someone else’s journey if you do the results will be different
• Take the best parts of a plan and adapt it to make it your own
• You need to follow your own core  values and beliefs work towards
• You need to look at what you want to achieve through your own personal lens
• Play to your own core values and personality
• Set yourself up for success and to achieve what you want
• Use others blueprints as a starting point and adapt them to work for you
• When you see other’s journeys you need to take into account what has gone on in the background that you don’t know about
• To get to your goals and targets think about strengths and weaknesses to make sure you have a plan that gets you to the life you love

BEST MOMENTS

‘You need to be on your own journey’

‘Make sure you look at the processes others are using through your own life filters’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love. 

Gordon is back competing in running events and looking forward to stepping up his training for the 100-mile run he is doing in the next few months and in this episode looks at how you work out what the meaning of life is for you

When you understand what the meaning of life is for you it’s possible to align your decisions and actions to get you to where you want to be. Everyone’s happy place is different but if you can be consistent in living your life aligned with your values and beliefs then you can live the life you love

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If you are trying to impose someone else’s values on your life you won’t be as happy as you could be
• We all have different values and prioritise in different ways
• You need to operate within your values and beliefs
• The answer to ‘what’s the meaning of life’ will change over time throughout your life
• The focus will shift as you get older
• The skill is to do the self-assessment so you can work towards what  your values are at that time in your life
• You need to hold others to their values and beliefs, not yours
• The meaning of life is holding yourself accountable to your beliefs and others to theirs
• To find out what’s important to you take time to review where you are and what you believe
• If people can see people like them doing things they realise they can do it as well
• It’s vital to understand what your core beliefs are and you can do this by delving into the meaning of life for you
• Living in alignment with your values means you can move towards the life you love

BEST MOMENTS

‘Your  meaning of life is very personal but it’s important that you are living your life to your core values, not someone else’s

‘You can align your meaning of life with your decisions and actions’

Your values, your dreams and what you call the meaning of life will change during your life’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love. 

Gordon looks at some of the key elements that are needed to be consistently successful  as the Life, Living It and Loving Podcast moves beyond one hundred episodes

He talks about some of the questions he is most frequently asked as an Extreme Execution coach and discusses what really makes a difference in unlocking the life you love

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Set yourself up for success with the right equipment
• Consistency is key to any success
• Don’t defeat yourself before you’ve got started
• Responding and reacting to feedback is critical if you want to move forward positively
• To do anything with excellence and achieve greatness you have to be single-minded and not be affected by the small things
• We need to recognise each other’s differences and work together as a team
• If you can align the goals of everyone, teamwork becomes a very powerful thing
• Take control of your emotions and manage your reactions and responses
• Focus on the solution to a problem and learn to take away the positives and learning from any  situation
• Set yourself up for success and manage your emotions
• Learn to recognise when you’ve taken on too much and don’t be afraid to dial things back

BEST MOMENTS

‘Schedule time in to do what you need to do’

‘Music is my fallback for anything that happens’

‘You need to have the right kit for the job you are doing’

‘Different people working together is a phenomenal experience’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start living a life, they truly love. 

Fear can manifest itself in a range of different ways in your life and there are  always things that are out of your control but it’s about the response you make that makes the difference

Procrastination can be a sign of fear but if you follow Gordon’s advice and learn to self-reflect and self-assess you can take action and respond in a way that puts you in control and reduces your fear and stress

Whatever you are doing in life you need to be able to give everything to the opportunity in front of you and overcoming your fears will move you closer to the life you love

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Procrastination can be a signal of fear
• We usually put things off because of fear
• Being able to self-assess is crucial in the process of understanding  what your fear is
• When you can acknowledge your fear you can take action
• If you don’t put 100% into something you are l
• Recognising you have a fear means you can take action
• You can work to reduce the fear when you recognise its there
• Ask yourself what you can do to reduce the level of stress
• You need to  give everything to the opportunity in front of you
• Self-assess and recognise what’s happening and then assess what you need to do
• By reducing your fear, you can respond to things more effectively and get to the life you love more quickly

BEST MOMENTS

‘Procrastination can be a sign of fear’

‘Being able to self-assess is a super important skill’

‘By self-assessing, you are able to manage your emotions more effectively’

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start living a life, they truly love. 

How fears manifest in your life and how you respond to them can make the difference between standing still and moving forward to the life you love and in this episode, Gordon looks in detail about how you can lessen the impact of your fears on your life.

When you learn to self-reflect, evaluate, and take action you can work towards controlling your responses to your emotions

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There are things you can’t control but you can control your response to your emotions
• Procrastination can be a sign of a subconscious fear
• Lots of people have a fear of failure and about what other people think about them
• It’s important to be able to self-reflect and review what’s happened
• If you can self-assess and understand what is stopping you from doing something you can take action
• When you acknowledge a fear you can start to understand what it is and evaluate what you need to do to move forward
• By recognising your fears, you can take control of them
• When you recognise a fear you can work to reduce the impact of it
• Spending a significant amount of time planning plan B instead of focusing on the opportunity in front of you can be signal that you need to self-assess and analyse for any underlying fears
• You can reduce the impact of your fears through self-assessment, analysis and taking action to control your responses

BEST MOMENTS

‘We are often not aware of our fears, they are subconscious’

‘It’s phenomenally important to be able to self-assess

‘We sometimes build defences in our minds and procrastination can be one of those defences’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love. 

Gordon shares great content on how you can learn to position yourself for future success by taking control of your emotions

There will always be an initial response to any challenging situation, a potential barrier to moving forward, but if you learn to analyse what you are feeling then you can learn to see past the emotion and move forward to success

This is great advice about how to get the best life, learning and innovating to move to the next level, listen in and get started

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You can feel as if you have reached your limit but you can learn to push past the emotion to achieve more
• Every day in life we come up against false emotions that are a barrier to achieving more
• If you put the emotion aside and look at the facts you can move past it and achieve more
• Fear can be about false expectations appearing real
• Evaluate the evidence in front of you and you can see what you were first scared of is not real
• You can’t control everything so there is no point in worrying about it
• Don’t allow anxiety to rule your life
• You can become locked-into a spiral of negative thoughts
• Things can initially appear to be a challenge but when you look at them in more detail you can find a solution
• By analysing things, you can find a solution and take control back
• Take control back from your emotions and move forward to the next level in your life
• Every failure is an opportunity to learn and move closer to the next level

BEST MOMENTS

‘If you push past in a safe way you can surprise yourself about what you can achieve’

‘By giving in to the fear we can cause what we were worried about to happen’

‘Failures are opportunities to look at new things’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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Extreme Ownership-Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love. 

Gordon is continuing to explore anxiety and how to move forward from it and discusses how when you understand how to lower your own anxiety you can move up to the next level and look at how your personality type may cause anxiety for others

This is a thought-provoking episode that also shares great tips on how to lower anxiety and stress for you and those around you. Listen in and take action to move to the next level

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Anxiety is created through fear of the unknown
• To live a joyous life we need to lower our levels of anxiety
• You can analyse your habits and patterns to identify factors that cause anxiety and then take action to make changes
• You need to lower anxiety and stress about the aspects of your life you can control so that you have the emotional capacity to deal with the unexpected
• Analyse what’s causing you stress and identify whether it’s something within your stress or outside of it
• If it’s something you can control then make the changes that will remove the stress
• Can you respond in a different way and create a different habit and behaviour?
• Be aware of how you create anxiety for others
• When you are with others with the same values and personality type you are likely to get along
• There are different personality types and you need to understand how your personality type can create anxiety in differing personality types
• Ask yourself how you can lower the anxiety for others and when you are able to do this everyone benefits

BEST MOMENTS

‘Identify what is the root cause of your feelings of anxiety’

‘Reduce your own stress and anxiety and then move to the next level and be aware of how you can create anxiety in others’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love. 

Anxiety will always be present because as humans we don’t have the ability to understand everything but you can take action to lower anxiety and increase your resilience when you create a good base with routines and planning

In this episode, Gordon takes an in-depth look at anxiety and shares great advice on how to lower anxiety and stress by taking ownership of the things you can control and your response to situations.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The human mind is finite and life and existence is infinite so there is a mismatch that means anxiety can creep in
• There will always be anxiety because as humans we don’t have the ability to understand everything
• When you recognise that something has an uncertain outcome it can result in feelings of stress and anxiety
• You can reduce your stress and nervousness through evaluating, planning, and changing your habits
• Life is a rollercoaster so we can never predict everything
• If you set yourself up with a good baseline then you will cope better with the unexpected
• You can take ownership of your reaction and response to a situation
• Don’t let your life be controlled by others
• If you take ownership of your response you can move up to the next level
• If you are in control of your own habits then you build resilience that can be used when you face unexpected situations
• Look at where you are causing your own stress and deal with reducing this stress and then look at how others may be causing you stress
• Look at what you need to change and implement to reduce your level of unknown

BEST MOMENTS

‘Having anxiety is part of being human’

‘You can reduce the anxiety through changing your habits’

‘Take ownership of what you can control and learn to not stress about what’s beyond your control’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST  

Welcome to the life, living it and loving it podcast with Extreme Execution Coach Gordon Done. 

We don’t know about you, but we’re fed up of burning ourselves out and living in a state of survival. In this podcast, Gordon talks about his experiences and analyses them in an open and honest approach to discover hints and tips to help us “live a life we love”. 

Join us on the podcast to find the tools, tactics and mindset needed to unlock a life you love today."

Gordon is a certified Extreme Execution Coach who loves working with clients to understand themselves on a deeper level, helping them to optimise their performance and relationships with others so they can stop just surviving and start

living a life, they truly love.