Wyatt Vincent is a Junior at Nixa High School who has committed to play baseball at Missouri State. He also plays football and basketball for Nixa High School.

Doing something that is tough on a daily basis is one of the best ways to build discipline. Discipline is one of the behavior skills that the most elite people share in common. Do the HARD.

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Courtney Cronin is one of two women to have a show on ESPN with her name in it. Find out how she has climbed to the top so fast. Courtney is a rock star in the making.

Show Notes

9:10 LeBron vs Jordan Discussion

27:40 Be where your feet are

30:18 The role of women in journalism and where we need to be going

39:55 Benefits of reading

41:54 Favorite Book

45:33 Benefits of golf as it relates to football coaching

48:10 Fake it till you make it

Brain Science 101

Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2

Our thoughts affect our emotions > our emotions affect our physiological response > our physiological response is what ultimately drives our behavior and, therefore, our performance.

How you manage your thoughts is what ultimately drives your performance.

thoughts emotions physiological response performance/results

2 questions to ask yourself when presented with a negative thought. Is it true?

Is it helpful?

Some stats

•47% of time your mind is not where your feet are •60-70k thoughts a day

•74-80% negative

•3 sec – average time we hold a thought

•706 hours – avg time spent on social media in a year •4.5 months a year in working hrs, 8 hr work days

•2700 hrs of tv

•2617 x day we touch our phone, top 10% 5400 x a day •47% of people have issues with anxiety, depression, etc. •ave person 11 hours & 6 minutes on digital media a day •10,000 hrs of video games by age of 21

other thoughts

Mindsets determine how we show up for life, moment by moment. Thoughts are mental reps for your brain.

A mindset is a patterned way of thinking: thoughts that we have repeated so often that they are woven into our very brain matter. (affirmations) (i am/we are)

Negative mindsets do exist.

Neuroplasticity – new pathways, neural connections can be made until the day we die. Championship mindsets can be learned and can be built.

It’s time to hit the Reset button. Our Factory Setting was on Happiness.

Then we begin to be buried on the rocks of illusions, fears, job issues, and false beliefs just to name a few.

It is time to remove the rocks and reset our setting to Happiness.

Happiness is when your perception of your events are equal to or greater than your expectations.

Things To Remember:

You are the Boss, you get to choose your thoughts.

Spell passionate backwards to change your thoughts, lol.

Your brain produces thoughts to serve you, it they do not kick them to the curb.

The brain can only focus on 1 thought at a time, remember the spelling of the sentence backwards and counting smiley faces. Can't do it.

Everything can be seen as both good or bad. Remember the example of myself getting fired but years later it was a great blessing. The cup can always be half full.

Happy List

I am Happy when ____________________________________ ___________________________________________________

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Don't forget your homework!

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The Learning Leader Podcast by Ryan Hawk is one of the best podcast on Leadership and Excellence in the world. Find the link to his show below:

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Show Notes

2:25 - Behavior skills of the elite

8:21 - Grateful for the competition with Big Ben

13:25 - Unlearning what playing QB taught (Zero Sum Game)

23:50 - What do you want your kids to catch from watching you?

32:45 - Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

44:59 - Systems used for success..

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Ryan Hawks 10 Commandment of Excellence

1. WHO 1st - Your life will be measurably better or worse based on WHO you’re with. Life can be a series of transactions or you can build relationships. Transactions can give you short-term success, but great relationships make for a great life.

2. Have a bias for action - We are who we are in practice, not in theory. The world is full of talkers. Be a doer.

3. Wake up early - It's hard. Some days it sucks and you don't feel like it. Do it anyway. The people who put a dent in the world usually choose to do hard things.

4. Push your edges - Excellence happens as you expand your current zone of comfort and competency. Take the improv class, do the triathlon, push beyond your current capabilities. That's where you grow.

5. Interested > Interesting - Ask more questions than you answer. The opposite of judgment is curiosity. Lead with curiosity.

6. Leaders can't be energy neutral. You're either adding energy to the room or taking it. Be additive. Lift a room with your attitude, optimism, and presence.

7. Move your body - Push yourself physically. You get one body. If it fails you, nothing else will matter. Do whatever you can to take care of it.

8. Read books - For $20, you can peer inside the heart and soul of someone who dedicated their life to a topic. It's the greatest bargain in history. I've yet to meet an excellent leader who doesn't read a lot.

9. Lead with trust - You don't have to earn it. You have it. I've found giving trust before it's earned attracts the type of people I want to be with.

10. Never waste an opportunity to be generous - Praise others, write thank you notes, speak kindly behind someone's back. Tell their loved ones how awesome they are. Be a good gift giver. You'll grow to love the feeling of giving more than receiving.

11. Be grateful - Leave people, places and things better than you found them.

12. Be the hero, not the victim - Take ownership of your success and failure. Don't blame others.

Nobody wants to hang out with excuse makers or complainers.

13. Be a self-regulatory learner - Reflect. Pause to think. The Wright Brothers would walk out on the

sand dunes and watch birds. They mimicked their wings with their arms and thought deeply

about how to keep their flying machine afloat.

14. Value excellence - Set high standards for yourself... And work to consistently exceed them. Try

to surround yourself with others who do the same.

15. Choose extra work - The minimum requirements are table stakes. Choose to do more. I've rarely

met someone who leaves a dent in the world that doesn't choose extra work. Extra work =

Passion

16. Be easy to work with - Be responsive. Be proactive. Be kind. Think of what's needed before it's

asked. Do it. Be the type of person that others want to work with. Make it easy on them.

Episode 8: Overcoming Adversity and Finding Joy with Chance Potts by John Perry

Joy Conditioning is a term first used by Dr. Wendi Suzuki. It is mindfully scheduling times to experience joy for our minds much like we schedule exercise for our body. Learn more by following Dr. Wendi Suzuki.

Episode 6: The Yoda of High School Football Coaches, Chris Yeager by John Perry

The apple watch comes with an exercise

ring that will not close without activity. My guess is it works off your heart rate and may not be

100% accurate but I know from tracking for 365 days that it works just fine.

January, I closed my exercise ring once, February twice, and March three times. After a visit to

Birmingham, Al with Chris Yeager, I returned home on April 11 and missed 10 days the rest of

the year. Yes, I closed 256 rings since that trip and lost 80 lbs.

The small daily habit (1%) of intentionally walking 30 minutes a day is life changing. In the

process, my wife jumped on board, not at first. She has lost 45 lbs. and we love our time

together each day. It gives us an opportunity to spend 30 quality minutes together no matter

how busy the day or week is. Some days we just talk, some days we listen to a podcast or

Christian music and we pray together at the end of each walk! She has caught the ring bug.

She wants to close them daily or she is not a happy camper. And yes, she has left the house at

10:00 pm to walk up the street because she was 2 minutes short of the 30 required for that

apple watch to say the all-important words, “You have closed your exercise ring.”

I would coach you to start with 14 min and 24 seconds every day (1% of a 24-hr. day) - rain,

snow, sleet or shine. Will be easy! Once you establish the habit of doing it, you will naturally

increase.

We do interval jog/walk just to get our heart rate up more, since the 30-minute walk has

become pretty easy. Start small. Small things turn into big things.

The equation that changed my life and can change yours. This is the basics of E+R=O.

We do not control the Events in our life nor do we control the Outcomes (if we did control the outcomes,

why are we not all in Hawaii right now sipping on drinks with little umbrellas in them), but we do control

how we Respond to the Events in our life. And the better we respond, the more influence we can have

over the Outcomes that we want to achieve.

What does it look like in life?

Let's say a careless driver pulls out in front of you. You have 2 choices at that point. Respond with

discipline (intentional, on purpose, skillful) or with default (impulsive, resistant, on autopilot). Let's go

down both roads. Without thought (default) we become upset, blood pressure rises, driving skills drop,

emotions rise and our outcome is driving that is more at risk of accident. Let's say we Respond with

discipline and say to ourselves, I am going to give them a pass, they didn't see me or they may be in a

rush to get to hospital to see a loved one. The outcome is no big emotional change, the heart rate stays

steady, and focus is still on driving safely. Our chance of an accident is less.

The R Factor has 6 steps (which we will go into more detail later) which step 1 is PAUSE. Pause so

you can respond with discipline and thought. Our impulsive responses are not always the best. Anyone

ever said something to one of your children that you wish you could take back, sure you have - we all

have. Learning to pause and think about the outcome you wish to have helps us respond with more

intent and can help our chances of having a more positive outcome.

Applying E+R=O is a lifetime event. Work, athletics, family, etc are a constant flow of events. We will

never be perfect but this equation will help us be better. Lets practice a better R today!

For more information on the R Factor. Follow Brian Kight on twitter @tbriankight or on instagram

@tbriankight and visit his website www.tbriankight.com He is the master of E+R=O. You can sign up for

his Daily Discipline email at [email protected] it is fabulous.