The Reload with Sean Hansen

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, addresses an inquiry from the leadership community on LinkedIn.  That is, when it comes to organizational change, how do people react to and lead through it?  As part of this inquiry, Sean looks at some of the key neurological structures in the human brain and why those structures impact the ways in which people respond to organizational change.  Moreover, how those responses in turn can be addressed by leaders.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Resources mentioned:

• https://www.thoughtco.com/limbic-system-anatomy-373200

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, connects with something a trainer at his gym said regarding one of the trainer's client's -- you have to love the process before you can achieve big wins.

Too frequently we look for shortcuts when it comes to achieving success.  But that robs us of the motivation to stick with the pursuit of mastery, which is what distinguishes us from the competition and allows us to harness real success.  Today's discussion explores the path to mastery and how we can keep ourselves on that path despite the frustrations we feel and lack of affirmation that we may be experiencing.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Resources mentioned:

•  Grit by Angela Duckworth
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Wikipedia page
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Measure What Matters by John E. Doerr

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, shares thoughts for those who are dealing with PTSD and possible suicidal ideation.  As a combat veteran who has experienced his own bouts with PTSD, this episode is a raw look at some of the factors that influence those who are struggling.  Moreover, Sean incorporates a discussion about how it's easy for us to take our pain and suffering too seriously.

Left unchecked, we can become overly precious about our pain, which creates ever deeper and darker spirals.  How is it that we might bring a certain degree of lightness into the situation so that we don't over emphasize the negative?

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Resources:

• The Body Keeps the Score  by Bessel van der Kolk
• The Pod Pro Cover to chill one's mattress
• ChiliSleep bed cooling products
• Ōura ring for tracking sleep and recovery
• Whoop band for tracking sleep and recovery
• InsightTimer meditation app

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, explores the hedonic treadmill.  The ability to adapt is critical.  But, when it comes to our sense of fulfillment and happiness, constant adaptation leads to a never-ending dissatisfaction with what we have that leaves us feeling like our lives are deprived.

There are ways to combat this sensation and to reclaim one's sense of happiness with the things and conditions that already exist.  You don't have to endlessly run on the punishing hedonic treadmill.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Resources mentioned:

•  https://positivepsychology.com/hedonic-treadmill/ - interesting article laying out the history of the hedonic treadmill and the progression of the research around it 
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dopamine - the fundamental function of dopamine
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/consumed/201408/adapt-or-perish - adapt or perish article
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-science-success/201208/how-keep-happiness-fading - how to keep happiness from fading
• Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, looks at creating an abundance focus.  We have a finite amount of time, energy, and attention.  Yet, we expend so much of those things pursuing wealth and material possession.  Is that how we want to using the one resource that we can never get more of -- time.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Resources mentioned:

•  Bronnie Ware's website on the 5 Regrets of the Dying
• Forbes article exploring whether money buys happiness
•  Daniel Kahneman-Angus Deaton study on money not buying more happiness
•   Matthew A. Killingsworth study potentially refuting the Kahneman-Deaton study's findings that more money does not buy more happiness

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, dives into a topic that was requested by one of his colleagues who works with clients that are continually engaged in worst case scenario thinking.  While worst case scenario thinking, or contingency mindset, can offer useful functions, there are a number of drawbacks that keep people from operating at their best.

Join Sean as he walks through the part of the brain that helps inform this mindset as well as some of the advantages and disadvantages of this way of thinking.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Resources mentioned:

• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• PsychologyDiscussion.net - explanation on function of the Reticular Activation System
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Mindset by Carol Dweck

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, sits down with Micah Shanser, a board certified therapist in Neurofeedback and principal at Amazing Brains Performance Centers.  Amazing Brains' primary mission is to use brain training and modulation to help people connect with higher levels of performance and fulfillment. 

During this wide ranging conversation, Sean and Micah explore flow state and how various activities from meditation to combat can trigger different brain activity and neurological states.  These states affect how effectively we perform in different settings.  Thanks to Micah's extensive knowledge in Neurofeedback and Neuromodulation, you get a front row seat as he discusses ways to hack the brain for relaxation or increased energy depending on what the situation requires.

Resources mentioned:

• Curious about the work that Micah and his team are doing?  Check out AmazingBrains!
• Your Brain on Nature , a powerful wake-up call for those addicted to their devices.
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's exploration of flow states:  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
• Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler, case studies on improving human performance.
• How to Change Your Mind, an excellent book by Michael Pollan on understanding psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted mental therapy.
• Sean's TEDx talk on human connection that Micah referenced.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, looks at various struggles and group dynamics that accompany bringing new blood into the leadership team.  Moreover, if you're part of the "old guard," how you might be making things worse with your preconceived notions and hangups.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, talks out of both sides of his mouth in regard to last week's episode.  Whereas last week was about advancing oneself through outer and inner savagery, this week's discussion navigates the ways in which we create more space and awareness for showing ourselves compassion. 

All too frequently, busy executives and entrepreneurs forgo the tangible benefits of scaling back and taking more time for themselves.  Tangible benefits that would improve the quality of, not just their enjoyment of this life, but their work output and the ways in which they can serve those in their life.  Jump in as we explore some of the ways we can create awareness and pursue a minimum effective dose when it comes to fitness, health, recovery, and relationships that allow us to have greater sustained output.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.  

In today's discussion, performance mindset coach, Sean Hansen, dives into the convoluted concepts of advancing oneself through outer and inner savagery.  We are complete beings, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.  To neglect any one part affects the whole.  In most modern cultures people fail to tap into their strength and power. 

Moreover, they neglect choices that would allow them to connect with real passion in their lives.  Join the interwoven exploration of how we can grow beyond our current limitations by civilizing the "mind" and making savage the "body."

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.

Are you an executive, entrepreneur, or combat veteran looking to overcome subconscious blind spots and limiting messaging to unlock your highest performance?  Feel free to reach out to Sean at Reload Coaching and Consulting.