Maximize Your Potential

Today we look at the 3 needs we all have to lead fulfilling, joyful and full lives.

These are:

Security

Food | Water | Housing | Income

Connection

Love | Appreciation | Friendships

Control

Agency | Choice |Options

We can often feel resentful towards others when they don't live up to our expectations.

Yet, if we haven't made clear agreements they how do they know what our expectations are!?

In today's video, I discuss the difference between an expectation and a clear agreement, and how to work on being better at making those clear agreements.

Where could you be better at making a clear agreement?

What are some expectations that have lead to you being resentful?

“You are not your ideas”

Are you doing something in a particular way because you have tested this is the best way to do that task or because this is the way you have always done it?

It can be easy to conflate our ideas with ourselves, instead here at MYP we teach leaders and coaches to see ideas merely as tools that can be tested, changed, evolved or discarded. When we attach too much meaning and importance to our ideas and beliefs, it hinders us from growth. We can become defensive and protective, rather than allowing ourselves to be challenged and moved by new ideas and concepts.

Instead, we encourage you to move to a “doing the best we can with what we currently know model”. This approach allows you to change course when a better idea or understanding becomes available.

With the advent of social media it has becoming increasingly easier to be able to compare ourselves and our success to that of others (albeit a highly curated and "perfected" glimpse of their lives). This comparison has been shown to negatively impact many of us, with us actually feeling worse once we compare ourselves to what other have or their achievements.

Instead, we encourage you to become more introspective, and compare yourself only to previous versions of yourself. The aim being to becoming the best version of you possible. This is the model we use in both sports and emotional coaching, with a high success rate and more reported individual joy and sense of accomplishment.

Maximize Your Potential’s athlete mentoring program gives you, the athlete, access to a mentor who’s travelled that path to the top both as athlete’s and coaches. We mentor athletes in all sports and of any age 14 and upwards. We use frameworks, techniques, and advice honed from our years of experience to support you in reaching the next level in mental performance, which in turn will lead to physical and competition breakthroughs.

We commit to standing by your side, sharing in your victories and supporting you through the challenges. An independent presence and ear from your coach, parent or teammates. It doesn’t matter if you compete in an individual or team sport, there is always a benefit to having someone facing sport’s challenges with you, from high pressure competition, to selection battles, and talent identification.

Today we look at the various stages we go through when learning a new skill, why recognizing these stages is important as leaders, teachers and coaches. And how to tailor our approach to maximize our teaching effect!

Maximize Your Potential’s Co-founder and CEO, coach Lee Povey talks about his purpose in life and why he does emotional coaching. He also shares what it’s like working with him and explores some of the ways he works with his coaching clients and men’s group participants.

Former International Track Sprint Cyclist Chris Pritchard, talks about his emotional journey of being talent spotted at a late age and then fighting against the system to fulfill his sporting dreams. We appreciate Chris being so open and willing to share the struggles he faced.

Today he runs a very popular cycling news channel that we highly recommended you check out!

Today Lee talks about the importance of being a "fan" of the people we work with as emotional, leadership and performance coaches. We are you biggest supporters, we celebrate in your victories and successes and stand by you during the challenges and tough times.

Lee interviews Ryan about how he has overcome the disappointment of the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics games. Ryan talks about how he used the initial shock and sadness to motivate him to personally change and to seek new ways to feel productive and connected in the time of COVID-19 and beyond!