Max Out

Joined today by Katina Mountanos, founder of the super popular blog On Adulting. Katina is a mindset coach and author of the new book On Adulting: How Millennials and any human can work less, live more, and bend the rules for good. We’ll take a deep dive today into the real purpose of life, overcoming imposter syndrome, and living life on our terms.

Max Out Insights:

• Purpose is the central motivation aim of your life. This is the game changer who gets you up at morning and influences your decisions, behaviour and gives meaning to life. Ask yourself the questions you’ll be hearing throughout the podcast and dedicate some time to finding your purpose in life.

• Time to rest is such an important part of maintaining productivity and creativity at a high-level. Make sure you follow Katina’s advice and schedule time to reflect and spend on you. Recharge your energies and maximize your way of living life.

• How your day starts talk more about you than you think. It’s the most important hours and the ones who have the biggest impact on your mood, happiness, drive, creativity… set yourself for success and implement rituals that will keep you productive and hold you accountable.

Max Out Quotes:

• “When we schedule joy into our life, it completely changes our brains.”

• “The best thing you can do for your creativity and productivity is taking time to rest and to focus on yourself.”

• “Schedule time alone and really use that time to know yourself.”

• “Make an extra effort to build morning rituals as those are the steps that will set you up for the day ahead.”

Connect with Katina: Feel free to reach-out any questions to her through Instagram @onadulting and her website www.onadulting.com

Tyler Ransom is the star of the 2020 documentary In The Shed that has received a perfect 5.0 stars from over 100 reviews on Amazon. Struggling with a debilitating kidney illness since he was a little kid, Tyler has learned lessons from Mixed Martial Arts and jazz music to become, as he calls it, chronically positive. In this episode, we dive deep into dealing with pain, finding your voice, and becoming more positive!

Max Out Ideas:

Find the activities you love and spend most of your time doing them

Going into what feels uncomfortable is what helps you grow

The people around you will influence your thoughts and happiness, so are you intentional about them?

Study yourself and your own life instead of that of your favorite celebrity

Max Out Quotes:

“Think of a weakness you have and work towards making it a strength.”

I am joined by the founder of Yoga Medicine, Tiffany Cruikshank. Tiffany is an international yoga teacher and wellness expert known for fusing the two worlds of eastern and western medicine together to help professional athletes, celebrities, and normal people alike create more vibrant lives.

Max Out Insights:

• Approach Yoga with a purpose and intention in mind. That could be something general like whatever you have going on today or a deeper transformational approach by going deeper.

• Notice our capacity to not have to interpret and judge, be in a neutral zone in which allows us to have a less reactive and less emotional stance, so we can see more clearly and navigate without being torn by the emotions.

• Relax and take it easy focusing on the breathing and wellbeing, things that allow you to do whatever it is that you’re doing in a better way with a higher physical capacity.

• Practice active recovery, there’s such a big difference between recovering and lying on the couch. Actively facilitate your mind and body to get you back on your full power.

Max Out Quotes:

• “Our body is always in constant change and movement, yoga allows us to take control of the steering wheel.’

• “Learning to relax and take it easy is a fundamental aspect of athletics and Yoga.”

• “Frequency is more important than duration.”

• “Find something simple that you enjoy, you’ll be way more likely to repeat it.”

• “The things you can repeat more frequently have a more profound impact long-term than the rest.”

Connect with Tiffany:

Check-out how to take your daily concentration, health and mental being to another level with https://yogamedicine.com/

Joined today by Dr. Paul Napper, a peak performance psychologist that helps business leaders level up their game. He’s the author of the phenomenal book The Power of Agency, and that’s exactly what we’ll talk about today: How to conquer obstacles, make effective decisions, and live life on your terms!

Max Out Insights:

There are so many different aspects that align and come together to shape our decisions. We make decisions with our whole body, that’s why you should work on your limiting beliefs, emotions, physical and mental health.

What we choose to believe has massive impact on how we go through life. Pause, reflect and update your beliefs.

When we operate with beliefs that are inaccurate and outdated it oftentimes causes us trouble. Agency is important to try and acknowledge what’s real and what’s not.

Agency is essential to feel control in life. Believe in your capacity to influence your thoughts and behaviour.

Max Out Quotes:

“As individuals, we need to learn how to best adapt.”

“Our capacity to reflect is vital to our level of agency. Create your space to reflect, get outside and take yourself into natural environments that promote greater reflection”

“We all need to operate with beliefs and assumptions that help us navigate through our lives.”

“What we choose to believe in life, influences how we live life.”

”Deliberate effectively and think critically before taking action in your life.”

Connect with Paul: Through www.powerofagency.com/ you can find the book and more content to expose yourself to the idea of Agency and how to develop it in your own life.

I am joined by one of my personal heroes, pro runner Max King. Max has won World Championships in Mountain Running, Ultra Running, and the Warrior Dash and is the current American Record Holder over 100km. We`ll dive into mental toughness, favourite workouts, and keeping things fun.

Max Out Insights:

• “He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities” – Reserve time for yourself and recharge. There are infinite benefits for concentrated rest of your body, mind and soul.

• Engage in conversations, read books and surround yourself with what you want to be and achieve. Immersion is a powerful tool to develop and grow.

• Failure forces us to analyse the purpose of our ambitions and identify any obstacles that come our way. Remind yourself that failure is not a setback to achieve your goals.

Max Out Quotes:

• “Take care of yourself and learn how to do it properly.”

• “Your legs will take you further than you think they can.”

• “With success, always comes failure.”

Connect with Max:

Make sure to jump into his website www.maxkingtrc.com and check-out his quality content on Instagram @maxkingor

Honoured to be joined today by one of the world`s leading scholars in human development and creating a life of purpose, Dr. William Damon. William is a Professor of Education at Stanford University as well as Director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence. He has been named as one of the 50 most influential psychologists in the world, and his work on purpose, morality, and parenting has received raving reviews from scientists and practitioners alike.

Max Out Insights:

• Take time to sit and write your goals and ambitions, get a clear vision of what you want to achieve and be. With poorly thought goals or therefore lack of any goals your future becomes muddled, work frustrating and creativity dies in the process.

• We make mistakes, don’t beat yourself but learn from the mistakes. The most important life lessons we will ever learn will be from the bad decisions we make.

• Adding self-reflection to your daily routine is a great way to build your self-awareness. Through this practice, we are able to look at ourselves with interest and curiosity, digging deep into the questions of our very being.

• The means that you accomplish something is just as important as the ends that you’re trying to achieve.

Max Out Quotes:

• “Purpose is a long-term goal that reflects the commitment.”

• “A purpose has to have consequence to the world beyond the self.”

• “Keep a sense of perspective and be open minded.”

• “Take joy in all the small moments.”

Connect with William:

Check out his Bibliography for an amazing fountain of knowledge and the events and publication page on Stanford COA.

I am absolutely honoured to talk to WWE Hall of Fame Wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page. DDP had one of the most unlikely journeys to becoming a Top wrestler ever, but his positivity, work ethic, and energy have brought him to the top over and over again. As a world-renowned fitness guru and founder of DDP Yoga as well as author of the incredible book Positively Unstoppable, DDP will help you own your life.

Max Out Insights:

• Failure allows a person to acknowledge and take responsibility for their actions. It helps a person embrace their imperfections and find ways to correct them.

• Write and visualize everything you want to achieve; it forces you to get clear on what it is that you want to accomplish.

• Use the people telling what you can’t do as fuel to push you forward.

• You are never too old to start chasing a new dream. Work hard, stay consistent and be patient.

• When you live your own life, you get to create your own reality.

Max Out Quotes:

• “Work ethic equals dreams.”

• “There’s only one person that has to believe in you and that’s you.”

• “Just don’t think it, ink it.”

• “It’s the hard that makes it great.”

• “The story you tell yourself is everything.”

Connect with DDP:

Check out the DDP Yoga Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DDPYOGA , YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/Dallapage and Instagram @ddpyoga

You can also connect directly to DDP through his personal page https://www.facebook.com/officialddp/ and Instagram @diamonddallaspage

I am joined by one of the greatest athletes alive, Olympic Champion and 4x World Champion in Figure Skating, Scott Hamilton. From 1981-1984, Scott dominated his sport and won every single competition, which led, amongst others, to his induction in the Olympic Hall of Fame and an Emmy Award nomination. Scott also survived multiple rounds of cancer and now spends his time helping others get through life’s toughest challenges.

Max Out Insights:

• Have accountability and be willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from your choices, behaviours and actions. You can only experience major breakthroughs when you’re honest to yourself.

• Use the love you have in your life for your career, activities or people around you to push you forward and recharge you, make it that you’re driven by love, make it your fuel.

• A positive attitude helps you stand and cope against the daily struggles of life. Brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. It’s a way of life that makes you brighter, more successful and happier.

• Find something in what you do that you love and hold that close.

• Provide value beyond expected in your professional and personal life. Help, educate, empower and take action.

• You can face rejection, but there’s always something else and it’s up to you to go there and find it.

• Always express gratitude and practice it. Gratitude is what turns what we have into enough, and more. It is what keeps us going through the rough times.

Max Out Quotes:

• “We don’t control the number of days we have on this earth; we only control what we do with them.”

• “If you crave something exciting and unique, put 120% effort into it while you’re having the best time of your life.”

• “The only disability is a bad attitude.”

• “While there’s air in your lungs, there’s life in your body.”

• “Every story can have a happy ending.”

• “it’s not always what happens, it’s how you respond to it.”

• “Figure out where you’re weak and get strong.”

Connect with Scott:

Check out his 30-day challenge in https://liveyourdays.com/#sign-up and his website https://liveyourdays.com/about/

I am honoured to speak with John Addison, CEO of Addison Leadership Group. For 16 years, he was Co-CEO of Primerica, a financial service business with over 100,000 representatives, before embarking on his own entrepreneurial journey and teaching thousands of people around the world how to become the leaders and humans they want to be.

Max Out Insights:

• If you want to be the best, you must learn from the best. They’ll have the experience and expertise of past failures intertwined with passion and endless drive for what they do.

• Always be yourself. Adapt all your learnings to your own style and develop who you are, but always be you.

• Failure is a crucial step to achieving success, it’s part of the whole process. It’s a tool that helps us refine our path and allow us to learn what works and what does not.

• All successful companies revolve around human needs. It’s a people’s business, not a financial business. It’s all about learning how to deal with people and practicing it.

• When you’re a leader you need people’s skills, ability to connect, communicate and move people. If you develop an ability to inspire, help and provide trust you can accomplish amazing things.

• Capitalize on the areas you excel at. Focusing only on weakness, you will only grow in the areas where you have identified a problem. When too much of your focus goes toward problems, you cripple your ability to fully make use of your strengths.

• Work on your inner tranquillity and use it to generate peaceful power. Great leaders calm things down and your state of mind dictates if you’re moving your organization in the right direction or not.

Max Out Quotes:

• “Take the best, leave the rest and turn what you learned into you.”

• “You have to be true to yourself, work on yourself and be the best you that you can be.”

• “We have to find within us the strength, compassion and power to do great things.”

• “When you are the person responsible for moving an organization or a group forward, you got to figure out how to compromise.”

• “The greatest ability is likeability.”

• “My biggest definition of success is that you are happy.”

• “If you’re waiting on circumstances to be happy, you never will.”

• “A peaceful mind and core generate power.”

• “Great leaders calm things down.”

• “You make much better decisions when you’re calm.”

• “Get up everyday and find a reason to be happy.”

Connect with John:

You can find in his website all contact and social media info. https://johnaddisonleadership.com/

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I am joined today by Janet McKee, CEO of SanaView. Janet is a Certified High-Performance Coach and wellness expert, and has been awarded membership into the National Association of Experts, Writers, and Speakers. She’s the best-selling author of Stressless Success, and that's what we’ll talk about today: How to build a life of passion, purpose, and prosperity.

Max Out Insight:

• Our greatest struggles are also our greatest gifts, because they allow us to grow and later contribute. – The key is to pause and accept the challenge, realize that you’ve faced challenges before that helped you grow and become wise, wonder what this new challenge has to teach you.

• To achieve success, you don’t need to stress, fight hard and be full of anxiety. These are walls of resistance that block solutions, opportunities and ideas. – Learn that the opposite is actually the truth, take actions out of elevated and expanded feelings.

• When we take control of the energy and emotion of how we feel, we take back control of our lives. We’re driven by how we feel.

• Take care of yourself, good self-care and wellness is key to high-energy, clear thinking and a successful life. Build the foundations every day, visualize the days ahead and your goals, step into excitement, joy and whatever it is that pushes you forward.

• What is something I can do to be better? – There’s always something tiny that you can shift in the right direction, these small steps are going to have a massive impact on your day and ability to generate influence on the world. Be aware of the energy that you’re generating from within you and what can you do to create a better energy.

Max Out Quotes:

• “We have more power within us, than we ever knew.”

• “What happens around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us.”

• “It’s far easier to shift the way you feel, than it is to control your thoughts.”

• “It’s about shifting where you are now with what you have now. The rest will come.”

Connect with Janet:

To learn more about the book, getting access to free resources and contacting Janet visit her website https://www.janetmckee.com/

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