The BSFT Show

Can you push for success and stay grounded at the same time?Most people think high performance means hustle, grind, and burnout or that being “present” means slowing down and letting life pass by.Truth is, you don’t have to choose between peace and performance.Here’s how to be a Present High Performer. Calm, clear, and ready to dominate life.➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak➡️ DENT Goals Video: https://youtu.be/5XNf3oGhsGo🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow🔸 Youtube → https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflow---🧠 ABOUT DAVEDave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Wellness and Performance Specialist with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.---📌 Subscribe for more insights on how to build a calm mind, strong body, and perform when it matters most.---Timestamps:00:00 The Dilemma of High Performance and Presence00:14 The Myth of Hustle Culture01:31 Finding Balance: The Present High Performer04:30 The Power of Goals and Vision05:43 Developing Essential Skills06:05 The Role of Self and Esteem06:23 Leveraging Resources for Success07:12 Identity and Goals09:42 Mastering Body, Mind, Food, and Time10:07 Practical Exercises for Self-Awareness12:46 Daily Practices for Success14:00 Embracing the Present High Performer

Learning how to learn is the most underrated skill when it comes to developing new skills, developing self awareness, or literally learning anything!These are the 4 fundamental stages we have to move through when learning.➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow🔸 Podcast → https://tinyurl.com/thebsftshow🧠 ABOUT DAVEDave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Wellness and Performance Specialist with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.📌 Subscribe for more insights on how to build a calm mind, strong body, and perform when it matters most.

The truth? No one actually knows what they’re doing.

Not the people on stage. Not the “experts” online. Not even the ones who look like they’ve got it all together.

There are however a couple of things that winners do differently.

So here are 2 things to help you plan out your next moves so you can win.

➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS

🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow

🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow

🔸 Youtube → https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflow

If you prefer visuals and want to see how this model maps out, you can watch the episode on YT

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🧠 ABOUT DAVE

Dave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Wellness and Performance Specialist with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Why No One Knows What They're Doing

01:13 Here’s a quick story: Winging It in America

04:00 Framework for Success: Principles and Protocols

06:20 Questioning Beliefs and Systems

07:31 Conclusion: Trajectory and Traction

If you’re stuck starting and stopping, the problem isn’t motivation — it’s your system. In this video, I’ll show you the 4 stages that move you from scattered to locked in.

➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS

🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow

🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow

🔸 Youtube → https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflow

If you prefer visuals and want to see how this model maps out, you can watch the episode on Youtube

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🧠 ABOUT DAVE

Dave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Wellness and Performance Specialist with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction: The Importance of Systems

00:42 Identifying Personal Strengths and Weaknesses

01:09 Stages of System Development

02:04 Understanding the Start-Stop Stage

04:18 Transitioning to the Step Stage

06:03 Achieving Flexibility in the Shift Stage

08:24 Reaching the Set Stage: Peak Performance

10:34 Applying System Development to All Areas of Life

11:27 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Understanding these 4 areas of life, how they play out in every situation and where your blindspots are will revolutionise your relationships, career, health and performance forever.

🎯 Take the free BSFT Matrix quiz here → https://bsft-health-test.scoreapp.com

➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS

Quadrants Image - https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1CEUhwx9c9caEMBg2foJp76hpmh1Ei_sl

Wilber's level of intelligence - https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1PhvDu0RH-nmZ_XpWSjLqNlM8vPhRafK1

Native perspective test - https://nativeperspective.scoreapp.com

Books:

Spiral Dynamics - Don Edward Beck & Christopher Cowan

The Evolving Self - Robert Kegan

Integral Psychology - Ken Wilber

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality - Ken Wilber

Figuring out people - Michael Hall

Getting people right - H. Arne Maus

🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow

🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow

🔸 Youtube → https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflow

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🧠 ABOUT DAVE

Dave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Wellness and Performance Specialist with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to Ken Wilber's Integral Theory

01:11 Personal Journey with NLP and Coaching

13:17 Understanding Wilber's Quadrants

21:51 Applying the Quadrants in Real Life

31:43 Understanding Trajectory and Traction

32:15 Free Assessment and Its Benefits

32:44 Principles of Perspective

37:12 The Four Levels of Listening

40:55 Applying Quadrants in Real Life

44:04 Ken Wilber's Stages of Consciousness

57:26 Identity Compass and Cognitive Intentions

01:03:51 Conclusion and Next Steps

When you understand that nutritional mastery happens in stages rather than a good or bad binary, everything changes…

We all say it…

“Just a little treat.”

Or the opposite… “I can’t eat that, it’s not in my plan.”

Neither is wrong. They’re just different stages of how we deal with food.

Nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s not about chasing the “perfect” diet, it’s about knowing yourself and making food work for your life.

🎯 Take the free BSFT Matrix quiz here → https://bsft-health-test.scoreapp.com

➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS

The Trigger Tracker → https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1dh_NXYpt9ZzuIREOySOGx3TAf6waoz5X

Ayla Health → https://aylahealth.com.au/

🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow

🔸IG Kate Freeman → @‌kfnutrition

🔸 IG Alice Jane → @‌aliceejane

🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow

🔸 Youtube → https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflow

*If you prefer visuals and want to see how this model maps out, you can watch the episode on YT

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🧠 ABOUT DAVE

Dave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Wellness and Performance Specialist with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Why most people struggle with nutrition

00:23 - The three main stages of nutritional mastery

01:22 - A mother making a healthier choice

04:14 - Simple, Sustainable, Specific: The three main stages

05:18 - Love and education

07:00 - Emotional ties to food and the importance of choice

07:38 - How to build simple, sustainable, and specific habits

08:18 - Free assessment: The BSFT Matrix

08:49 - Principle 1: You earn what you learn (pay to be taught, not just told)

09:47 - Principle 2: Food grew from the ground or had a mum

10:56 - Principle 3: Guilt is not a macronutrient: Marketing myths

11:40 - Food holds no emotion: Addressing emotional eating

13:45 - Making conscious choices, not just “good” or “bad”

14:52 - Living in the sustainable space: Flexibility and flow

15:48 - Three practical steps: Protein, carb, fat at every meal

16:25 - Real food most meals: The 90% rule

16:45 - The trigger tracker: Building awareness of food triggers

17:39 - Recommended resources: Alice Lemus, AYLA Health, RP

18:34 - Own your nutrition, earn what you learn

Growth happens in predictable stages.

They often operate out of your awareness and you can’t skip them.

The good news is there are a bunch of great minds who have mapped out these stages from multiple different perspectives.

One of those minds is Ken Wilber.

Here’s how he has influenced my work in Self Mastery and how you can gauge where you’re at and what to do next.

🎯 Take the free BSFT Matrix quiz here → https://bsft-health-test.scoreapp.com

➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS

Rheiti test → https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/rheti/

BSFT Matrix test → https://bsft-health-test.scoreapp.com

Native Perspective → https://nativeperspective.scoreapp.com

Identity Compass → https://identitycompass.com/-en.html

🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow

🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow

🔸 Youtube → https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflow

If you're visual ad want to see how it maps out, you can watch the episode on YT

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🧠 ABOUT DAVE

Dave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur and Coach with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:24 Core Memories and Personal Growth

04:23 Stages of Development

18:12 Principles of Self-Understanding

23:43 Assessment Tools and Practices

29:28 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

People focus on doing the “right” technique.

But if you really want long-term progress, it’s not about memorising movements, it’s about building them. Body intelligence is the ability to know, from the inside, if you’re moving well.

It’s the awareness that tells you:

Am I stable?

Am I using the right muscles?

Am I adapting to what my body needs today?

I’ve used this framework with 10,000+ clients over 20 years and it's part of the BSFTMatrix on how to be safe, strong & sexy (and avoid the all-or-nothing trap).

🎯 Take the free BSFT Matrix quiz here → https://bsft-health-test.scoreapp.com

➡️ Join a Peak info session: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS

🔸Howard Gardner – Multiple Intelligences Theory (Background on Kinesthetic Intelligence) : https://multipleintelligences.org/

🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow

🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow

🔸 Youtube→ https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflow

If you're visual and want to see how it maps out, you can watch the episode on YT

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🧠 ABOUT DAVE

Dave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur and Coach with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to Kinesthetic Intelligence

01:15 The Safe, Strong, Sexy Framework

01:58 Understanding Safe Movement

03:51 Building Stronger Relationships with Your Body

06:08 Achieving Peak Performance

06:48 Avoiding the All-or-Nothing Mentality

08:14 Conclusion and Further Resources

You might hit big numbers in the gym, but will that strength show up when it counts? We walk the BSFT Matrix and clearly map what to actually work on so you can be present, perform and dominate life.🎯 Take the free BSFT Matrix quiz here → https://bsft-health-test.scoreapp.com➡️ Join the BSFT30: https://www.bsft.com.au/bsft30➡️ Join the Peak Program: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

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🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS🔸 Free DENT Worksheet Download → https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1wNE19g-ksmqG5TY9gsZZyWbYcCGOQP7I🔸IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow🔸 Youtube → https://www.youtube.com/@davenixonflowIf you're visual ad want to see how it maps out, you can watch the episode on YT

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🧠 ABOUT DAVEDave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur and Coach with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:00:21 The Gym's Influence on Your Life01:00 Different Gym Models Explained04:03 Gym-Centric vs. Life-Centric Approache09:27 The BSFT Matrix: A Tool for Life-Centric Fitness16:13 Practical Tips for Functional Training18:54 Becoming a life Athlete

Let’s be real—most people,

Wait for someone to fix it.

Follow someone else’s plan.

Hope that this coach, this routine, this time will finally stick.

But here’s the truth:

No one’s coming to save you.

And that’s actually great news.

Because once you take back your responsibility, you get your power back too.

In this episode, we break down the mindset shift I call “Own, Don’t Loan.”

You’ll learn:

👉 The 4 core beliefs that unlock growth

👉 Why procrastination and “self-sabotage” aren’t what you think they are

👉 What radical responsibility really looks like (and how to avoid burnout)

👉 3 practical steps to help you shift from stuck to interdependent - starting today.

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➡️ Join the BSFT30: https://www.bsft.com.au/bsft30

➡️ Join the Peak Program: https://www.bsft.com.au/peak

🔧 RESOURCES & LINKS

🔸Julie Cameron's artist way → https://juliacameronlive.com/books-by-julia/

🔸Co Dependent Cycle → https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1xpffItKkHVG9SjgC5RW9m7FiJG7DWmkv

🔸 IG Dave Nixon → @‌davenixonflow

🔸 Substack → http://www.substack.com/@davenixonflow

🔸 Youtube → https://tinyurl.com/thebsftshow

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🧠 ABOUT DAVE

Dave Nixon is an Author, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur and Coach with over 2 decades hands on experience. He has worked with over 10 thousand people throughout his 20 years in the health and fitness industry. He works with professional athletes, special forces recruits and executives to be present and perform at their peak.

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Timestamps:

00:00 No One's Coming to Save You

00:11 Client Goals: Growth and Efficiency

00:47 Own Don't Loan: Radical Responsibility

04:09 Understanding Codependent Relationships

07:52 Core Beliefs for Personal Growth

11:26 Practical Actions for Immediate Change

14:08 Conclusion: Moving from Loaning to Owning