"You imagine who you wanna be, then you go out and you do, and as an end result you will have..."

David Karasek is an Olympian and former Swiss swimming champion.

Today he is a mental performance coach, currently reaching many top professional athletes through his Tribe of Athletes coaching business.

On the HPL#26 David and I spoke about the role of visualisation in developing long term success, especially using confidence as the most important tool in seeing your future self achieving what you want.

In this episode you will learn:

1. How to programme your subconscious mind using conscious mental visualisation,

2. How you can use cultivated emotions to battle external setbacks that demotivate you,

3. How to cultivate confidence as the link between your dream and its achievement.

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"I don't know anybody...who's done anything significant who has not connected with their people ."

Joey Mongalo, together with a team of other great coaches, has been at the heart of the revival at the Bulls in South African rugby. Having started his career as a junior player there and then venturing into the corporate world, he was fortunate to have been lured back into the game by a former mentor.

Now specialising as a defensive coach in one of club rugby's most talented coaching units (and rising commercial sports power), Joey is also growing as an academic in the field of organisational psychology, particularly leadership.

On the HPL#25 he shares his experiences, research and personal views from his career as championship winning coach and leadership student.

We especially discussed how understanding the context of the team and their culture is vital for successful leadership as well as the importance of diversity for success.

If you are a leader (or consider yourself to be), then the lessons from this talk can serve as a useful toolset for building high performing teams.

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#leadership

SHOW NOTES

Trillion Dollar Coach

The One Thing

How can men still be men in a modern society that wants them to feel ashamed of their true nature?

Based on the principles of his Princes to Kings and Momentum programmes, Dylan Roos talks to Andri about taking ownership of your own path as a young man, one that can help you answer the question of 'what does it mean to be a real man?'.

We discuss the importance of responsibility and mentorship in overcoming the stumbling blocks that sidetrack men from finding their true purpose and identity in life. 

Fake role models, addictions and pent up emotions are the roots of growing anxiety and depression in young men, which disempower them from leading meaningful lives.

Tune in to find out how Dylan is overcoming these obstacles and what other young men can do from an early age to avoid the traps of the modern world.

Are you really doing what you what you are passionate about?

You can choose where you want to be, even if it takes a bit of time.

On Part 2 Jack Birtwhislte tells us how to make the change in our life if we feel we are a passenger in our own career.

Applying a high performance system used by professional sportsmen, you can start making the career choices that you really want.

You have more control than you think, if you would only stop worrying about what you can't control.

Being successful is something you can choose and to do so you need to develop an intentional system for high performance.

Jack Birtwhistle is the Performance Skills Coach at Connacht Rugby Club in Ireland and is passionate about helping serious performers choose to be the best versions of themselves.

In this episode you will learn how to design the high performance framework he uses with his professional players, which you can also use in any area of your life.

Show Notes:

Paul Dolan - Happiness by Design

"We are not what we do." - Nic Groom (Professional rugby player @ Edinburgh Rugby Club)

How often do you feel your profession will define you?

And that professional value lies in going all-in on what you do?

In the HPL#22 'Groomie' recounts his road to professional rugby through the disappointments and perspective changes that came with not making the team. 

Nic gives some great insights on how to take an outside view of your professional life and how to put your career in it's place, by building interests that can complement your career, but also help provide some healthy distraction.

We also spoke about shifting from the mindset of being the 'outcome of your effort' by not worrying about results but rather fixating on your behaviours and sticking to the process.

Would you think that better performance would require you to spend less time in your head?

Most sport psychologists talk about mindset, mental strength, headsmart. But what if the best performers don't even operate in the mental space when they perform in the moment?

The HPL#21 I welcomes Riki Cribb (Mental coach of the Brumbies Rugby team in Australia) for one of the most fascinating discussions on the show thus far.

We discuss the value of forgetting about your goals, not caring too much when on the big stage and just being present in each moment.

Sounds counterintuitive for high performance? Tune in to find out why these are crucial tools when stepping into the zone, whether you perform on the sports field, in the office or at home.

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Show notes: 

Flow

Riki Cribb on Instagram

Brumbies Rugby

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of questions you ask."- Emile van Biljon (HPL#16) 

Do you want to end 2021 feeling like you achieved everything you wanted? I believe if you ask yourselves the right questions now you might be able to trigger the changes that will get you there.

In part 2 of the HPL#20 I ask myself (and you) 9 questions aimed at making 2021 a year you can be proud of. A year with structure and intent and action that is inspired by your own personal vision.

In this episode you will give yourselves the answers on the following:

1. What is my vision for this year?

2. How will I streamline my lifestyle to focus on my vision?

3. How will I realise a bit of my vision every day through my behaviours?

Show notes:

James Clear - Atomic Habits

Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit

How will you remember the batsh*t crazy year that was 2020? Did you manage to find some areas of growth or was it all downhill?

I'm done talking about 2020 and it's problems! Although I'd like to touch on how it was one of my best years in the past decade.

Through the perspective of what I learnt from my first 13 guests on the HPL podcast, this episode will explore some of the golden threads that the guests on the show in 2020 helped me to discover.

I believe there are a very few number of big lessons in living a high performance life that, if pursued with real dedication and focus, can hugely change your life.

I noticed the consistency in what my high performance guests spoke about and how the above simple lessons shine through in every one of their chats.

Dive in for some nuggets of high performance, lessons I learnt from the guests on my show in 2020.

We all have big achievements waiting for us that often feel impossible to reach. Wouldn't you want to feel as if you are living a life where your daily actions are truly moving you closer to those big life goals?

In HPL#19 high performance coach Sarah Arnold Hall shares her plan for building a life that is aimed at achieving your impossible goals.

*Sarah is living an incredible life inspired by the legacy of her father Rob, who achieved the 'impossible' of completing the Seven Summits challenge, which includes climbing to the summit of Mount Everest. From his story she realised the power of reaching a series of smaller goals en route to chasing the massive ones we often fear.

Sarah is based in Wellington, New Zealand and has built a coaching business that stretches across the globe. In our conversation we dig into a practical plan that will help you to:

1. Make your goals massive and inspiring,

2. Create the most important behaviours that will drive you on the right course,

3. Use your mindset as a tool to motivate your behaviour, and

4. Build a system of accountability that will keep you on track.

*DISCLAIMER: In my introduction I referred to Sarah being a qualified Psychologist - this is not 100% accurate. Although she studied psychology, she didn't complete her professional qualification as she changed direction to become a high performance coach. This was an error on my part!

Show notes:

Sarah's website

Sarah's Instagram Post about becoming an astronaut

Clarens, Free State, South Africa

Seven Summits challenge

Grant Cardone

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Rob Hall