Taking Action

We discuss all things recovery.

It’s helpful to think about two types of fatigue, mental and physical. They impact us differently and we need to consider recovery for each of them.

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Being coachable, in essence, is wanting to learn, taking ownership of the advice you receive and put it into practice.

We talk though our 8 traits that helps in being coachable. We talk about our experiences both being coaches and being coached ourselves.

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We’re doing something a little bit different this episode.

Christie talks through her journey from party-goer, non-trainer to athlete qualifying for significant competitions.

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A comparison mindset is when you are caught up comparing yourself, your situation, or your environment to other people’s. It’s about evaluating your people’s situations in the context of yourself.

It’s a natural human behaviour that has definite value to helping us progress, but of course, it can be made more extreme due to how the world is today. Especially in social media and the context feedback loop.

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It’s very difficult to achieve a big goal without a plan.

We discuss how to approach setting up an action plan, setting milestones, being accountable, getting the right support around you and more.

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We discuss growth and fixed mindsets.

We cover what they are, where we see them, how to identify them, how we can build them, language to listen out for, and much more.

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We’re leading on from last episode’s topic of goal setting to talk about habits.

When you’re thinking about what you to might want to achieve or change, it’s important to look at if your habits are serving you. If you don’t address your habits, it’s so easy to drift into autopilot and end up not contributing to your goals.

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We talk about all things goal setting, what it is, how you can do it, and what the purpose of it is.

It’s important to remember why you want to achieve your goals and keeping them meaningful. It’s easy to set arbitrary goals, but losing the why can quickly lead to losing motivation and not achieving their goals.

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Welcome to Taking Action! The podcast focused on optimising performance through simple actions

Hosted by Louis, a high-performance coach for athletes, and Christie, a mindset and performance coach.

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