Vigor Life Podcast

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Vigor Life Podcast episodes

March 07, 2018 EP049: Why No Tactic Or Strategy Will Ever Work In Your Life Or Business Until You Change This
The majority of the online space is made up of brands, businesses and people pitching you the best method, tactic and strategy to help you change your body, build your business, generate more leads, improve your health, or whatever else you’re looking for. It’s not that the methods and strategies they're sharing don’t matter. They just won’t work unless you don’t change your belief system first.
After working with 1,000’s of clients both in the world of fitness and in the world of business, along with studying behavior change and the science and biology of belief, I wanted to share some insights that will help you breakthrough the most important part of a successful transformation – your mindset.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
=> How to change your internal stories so that they better facilitate your goals
=> Why millennials are more likely to achieve their goals than the older generation (over 60) and how this affects you
=> How cynicism becomes a self-protective behavior from past failures and why it might be the things that's holding you back from achieving success
=> What Zappos, Flight and the 4-Minute Mile have in common and the key to your superpowers
=> The 4 dead giveaways that determine whether your beliefs are holding you back
=> Why you’re not great at building relationships and the change you can make to your limiting beliefs that will fix this
=> How to tell is social media is having a negative impact on your life
=> How to upgrade your beliefs and change the trajectory of your life
=> Why having the resources to do something may actually make you worse at your job/career
=> Why your past doesn't equal the future UNLESS you make this ONE change
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Luka Hocevar YouTube: Subscribe Now => https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ29YcBh-g6onRujX3wD_XA?view_as=subscriber
Book: Best Year Ever - A 5 Step Plan For Achieving Your Most Important Goals by Michael Hyatt => https://www.amazon.com/Your-Best-Year-Ever/dp/0801075890/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520022898&sr=8-1&keywords=best+year+ever
Luka Hocevar Instagram: Follow => https://www.instagram.com/lukahocevar/
39 min
February 13, 2018 EP048: A Different Approach To Happiness and How To Make Your Days Better While Getting More Done In The Process

At the end of the day we’re all seeking more happiness. In this episode I share the secret to how you can significantly increase your happiness level, while teaching you how to become more productive and successful at the same time.

If you struggle to find happiness in your day-to-day life and would like to increase your productivity so that you can drive your career further and create more impact and profit, this is the episode for you.

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

* The truth about success and why the traditional teachings of it are making us miserable
* Why success and happiness are not on the same line and how to put on a different lens so you can have both
* Why you can search for happiness and how to actually achieve it
* How to optimize your life and happiness with a simple exercise that will help you focus on the things that make you happy and eliminate the things that don't
* The happiness equation that will explain why you may be unhappy and how to change it
* Thoughts vs. reality and suffering vs. pain, two concepts you must understand to help you change your present
* The 5 states of thought and how to shift yourself to the ones that are aligned with what you want to feel and achieve
* The 6 grand illusions and the 7 deadly blind spots and how they alter your reality and keep you unhappy
* How thinking about life like a Super Mario game will turn your anxiety into excitement and help you take on challenges rather than run from them

LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Luka’s YouTube Channel (subscribe)
Book: Solve For Happy -Engineer Your Path To Joy (Mo Gawdat)
Vigor Life Podcast (subscribe)
Luka Hocevar's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukahocevar/

Thanks so much for joining me this week. Have some feedback that you’d like to share? Leave me a review on iTunes.
1 hr 7 min
February 13, 2018 EP048: A Different Approach To Happiness and How To Make Your Days Better and Get More Done
At the end of the day we’re all seeking more happiness. In this episode I share the secret to how you can significantly increase your happiness level, while teaching you how to become more productive and successful at the same time.
If you struggle to find happiness in your day-to-day life and would like to increase your productivity so that you can drive your career further and create more impact and profit, this is the episode for you.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
=> The truth about success and why the traditional teachings of it are making us miserable
=> Why success and happiness are not on the same line and how to put on a different lens so you can have both
=> Why you can search for happiness and how to actually achieve it
=> How to optimize your life and happiness with a simple exercise that will help you focus on the things that make you happy and eliminate the things that don't
=> The happiness equation that will explain why you may be unhappy and how to change it
=> Thoughts vs. reality and suffering vs. pain, two concepts you must understand to help you change your present
=> The 5 states of thought and how to shift yourself to the ones that are aligned with what you want to feel and achieve
=> The 6 grand illusions and the 7 deadly blind spots and how they alter your reality and keep you unhappy
=> How thinking about life like a Super Mario game will turn your anxiety into excitement and help you take on challenges rather than run from them
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Luka’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ29YcBh-g6onRujX3wD_XA?view_as=subscriber
Book: Solve For Happy -Engineer Your Path To Joy (Mo Gawdat): https://www.amazon.com/Solve-Happy-Engineer-Your-Path/dp/1501157582/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518510398&sr=8-1&keywords=solve+for+happy
Vigor Life Podcast (iTunes): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vigor-life-podcast/id1180256583?mt=2
Luka Hocevar Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukahocevar/
1 hr 7 min
January 10, 2018 EP047: 8 Ways To Communicate Better And Supercharge Your Business, Relationships and Life
No matter what you do for work, there's a good chance you have to communicate with people... at some point, or another. How well you do that determines not only your success at what you do, but also the quality of your relationships and connections outside of your workplace.
Having a framework for how you can improve the way you communicate with people might be the game changer that you need to make substantial improvements in your life. In this episode, I give you that blueprint, and discuss seven rules that will help you improve your conversation and listening skills.
I think you will be surprised by amazing conversation can be when you have these skills.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
=> 7 rules that will help you improve your conversation and listening skills
Why we’re not listening to each other and why it's creating a divide in how we behave (I'll teach you how to fix this so that you can become more connected to people)
=> Why conversational competence is the missing link and single most overlooked skill in the 21st century
=> The myths and truths about what makes conversation great
=> The 4 stages that most people go through to improve their communication skills, and how to apply them to your life
=> The reason why quality human relationships are so important to us and why life sucks when you don’t have great relationships (and how to fix it)
=> The #1 rule for having a great conversation and connecting with people
=> Why going into every conversation wanting to find out something awesome about the other person will in fact help you find out something awesome about the other person
=> The power of “I don’t know” and why you should be using it more
=> Why building rapport is important but discover why you shouldn’t equate your experiences with others (it’s not about YOU)
=> Why conversations are not a promotional opportunity!
=> THE most important skill you can develop and the reason why I like to talk more than listen
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Luka Hocevar's YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/ST8X9N
Vigor Life Podcast: https://goo.gl/hcB0Oy
30 min
November 06, 2017 EP046: 10 Big Ideas On Leading Teams, Influencing People and Building Relationships
Would you like to improve your leadership and influence skills so that you can be better at guiding, motivating and building a team?
In this episode I talk about the 10 big ideas that are the foundation to success in a position of leadership and influence.
I’ve devoted a lot of time to learning how to become the best leader possible in the last 5 years – hiring coaches, reading 100’s of books and taking countless courses. Here are some of the most important things that I have learned that you must apply to win friends, influence people and lead successful teams.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
=> The 5 things that the world's leading doctors have found influence our happiness and how to apply that to yourself and the people around you
=> Why leadership is a learnable skill and the daily practices you can start doing to master it
=> The one thing you must NOT do if you want to avoid repelling people from wanting to be around you
=> Why you should admit your mistakes immediately and how this will build trust and put you in a position of leadership
=> How giving people a reputation to live up to is a secret weapon that not enough leaders use with their teams
=> The often unknown skill of radical candor, and why it's so powerful and how to employ it with people in your life to help them grow
=> The three things that you must remember ALWAYS if you want to build powerful relationships
=> The number one mistake that leaders of teams make that causes them to lose respect and staff productivity and how to fix it
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Book: How To Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie): https://goo.gl/K1s7CV
Book: Radical Candor - Be A Kick Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity: https://goo.gl/osrTdt
38 min
October 25, 2017 EP045: How To Get Better Results With Your Clients and Unique Tools From The Coaches Toolbox
Frequently I dig through my notes (that date back years) and find myself getting more "aha" moments from those old notes than I do from anything new that I've learned.
Last week I stumbled across an old 5-year journal that housed some coaching secrets that I rarely discuss. One of those secrets is the solution to the common bottleneck that many coaches run into when it comes to getting their clients continued results with training and nutrition.
In this episode I also reveal some of the things that I’ve learned from the masters that have not only helped me get results for my clients, but also help myself.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN:
=> Why you and your clients aren’t making “bad choices” but are stuck in a thought pattern that is leading you and clients away from their goals – I will teach you how to stop this behavior
=> The reason all your fitness and nutrition knowledge won’t help if you don’t understand this one concept then eliminate it from your client's perception
=> How to help your clients get rid of their biggest roadblocks
=> The first thing you have to do before becoming the most effective coach in any area – this one will surprise you
=> How time can be a threat to people when there’s no expectations set, and why the unknown leads to anxiety; which then leads to _________
=> Why sentence stemming is my secret exercise to help unlock breakthroughs for my clients
=> What you can do with your clients fears to help them overcome them—so that you can get them results they never had before
=> The coaching super power that most coaches lack, and how I stumbled upon a little known secret to develop it
=> The judgement check test that will help you see if you’re doing the things that you hate to your clients
=> The mistake you’re making that is costing your clients their results and how to address it so that no client ever leaves you again
=> How to make every training session finish on a memorable moment
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance: http://www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Book: You Are Not Your Brain - The 4 Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life (Jeffrey Schwartz): https://goo.gl/eBHmtc
Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VigorGroundFitness/
Book: Conversations with God: https://goo.gl/NMQm5D
Vigor Life Podcast on iTunes: https://goo.gl/hcB0Oy
43 min
October 17, 2017 EP044: 11 Ways To Pattern Interrupt Yourself To Success
How do you feel about interruptions? I think we can agree they’re not the best... unless they’re interruptions to your habits and aren't taking you away from your goals and results.
In this episode I share eleven pattern interrupts that you can use throughout your day, week, or month to shift you away from your current patterns and mindsets — that aren’t helping you succeed — to new ones that will steer you towards your goals, desires and dreams.
These are actionable strategies that you can use RIGHT NOW. Choose the best ones for you and start making positive changes in your life.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
=> How I used pattern interrupts to change the trajectory of my life
=> 4 ways you can change your morning and turn it from stress and anxiety to clarity and power – this will allow you to walk out of your door every morning ready to dominate your day
=> How to create your own “change” university with a simple 20-minute morning ritual
=> The strategy that I use to disrupt myself out of stress, anger or anxiety in 3 simple steps that takes less than 60 seconds
=> Why meditation is a powerful tool, but doesn’t work all of the time. And what I do when I need to pattern interrupts fast
=> A very short intense workouts that will kick you into a different gear when you're having a tough day
=> The 10 questions that you can ask yourself after meditation that will help refocus you to your goals and give you power
=> How to analyze your environments and change the way you feel and perform with some small changes
=> How to use my simple "Positive Focus" strategy when you're feeling down so that you can shift your thinking away from negative thoughts
=> How I got double the work done after playing PacMan and how you can use this technique to supercharge your results
=> The secret you don’t know about going to events that is even more powerful than the information or the people
=> How traveling can be the catalyst to finally doing things you’ve been afraid to do but know you want to
=> Why I went crazy and threw out 60% of my belongings so that I could breakthrough to the next level of life and business success
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Book: The Dark Side Of The Light Chasers (Debbie Ford) - Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance and Dreams: https://goo.gl/U1tK9t
Book: The Right Questions: Ten Essential Questions To Guide You To An Extraordinary Life (Debbie Ford): https://goo.gl/ScFvds
Book: The Gift Of Fear And Other Survival Signals That Can Save Your Life (Gavin De Becker): https://goo.gl/o7n3eA
Warrior Week: www.WakeUpWarrior.com
41 min
September 20, 2017 EP043: 4 Motivational Secrets To Overcome Resistance And Get Out Of Your Own Way
In a lot of ways we are our own worst enemy. We self-sabotage. We procrastinate. We put roadblocks in our own way, and we make excuses for our behavior to make us feel better ourselves when things don't go our way.
We all do it, but why? And is there something we can do about it?
The simple answer is yes, and in this episode I get into how so that you can get out of your own way and finally make things happen for yourself.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
1. The reason you don’t do the things you know you need to and why you must have these 4 tools in your arsenal to change your self-defeating behavior... for good
2. How Craig was able to find a way to overcome his challenges, training and toughness to become part of the Special Operations Force team—and how you can use his strategy to win when times get hard
3. The “opposite rule” and how embracing it will help you stop quitting so that you don't have to start from ground zero ever again
4. How to break the underlying patterns that are taking you away from your goals
5. How to face your fears and go after everything that you’ve ever wanted in your life
6. How to turn your fears into your strength and how I used this strategy to get over my debilitating fear of public speaking
7. Why your feelings are false, how they’re messing up your results, and how you change can the behavior
8. The question that will put a stop to your bad habits and help you focus on your actions so that you can drive your life towards what's most important
9. The one thing that connects all of the healthiest cultures in the world and how it can help you improve your health, business and personal life
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness and Business Summit: www.VigorGroundSummit.com
Book: Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: https://goo.gl/6CJPqt
Aubrey Marcus Podcast: https://goo.gl/EQo4Ku
Take Control of Your Body, Nutrition and Life Seminar: https://goo.gl/C9GAFs
Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Book: The War of Art: https://goo.gl/jRSq8C
Book: Turning Pro - Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work: https://goo.gl/j4UZpD
Book: Do The Work - Overcome Resistance and Get Out Of Your Own Way: https://goo.gl/qPZTPN
46 min
September 12, 2017 EP042: Principles, Strategies and Mindsets for Success In The Fitness Industry
Every time I travel to events and mentorships I learn new things. Sometimes I hear stuff that I’ve heard before but from a different perspective and get an “aha” moment that allows me to take action on it.
Apart from that, the relationship building and connecting with other high level fitness professionals and entrepreneurs is priceless.
Combining the above always gets me fired up, inspired and always leaves me with a book full of notes that I am ready to take action on.
Recently I was at my 10th Perform Better Summit in a row followed by the two12 event in Denver, put on by my friend Adam Bornstein. In this episode I share my insights, but also really crack down on what it takes to be successful in fitness business (or any other business for that matter).
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
=> The 3 reasons I travel to events and why you must too so that you can becomes the best coach, leader and successful business owner
=> Why going to an event to get “tons of tactics and strategies” can be detrimental to your success
=> The missing ingredient in your personal success and why you're still not seeing it
=> The 3 types of happiness and how you can integrate learning and connecting with other people to supercharge your success
=> Why obsession is necessary when working to become the best in the world at something
=> The top skill-sets the best coaches in the world have and why they're the one’s you NEED TO build
=> The future of the fitness industry and how you will be able to stand out
=> Why fitness is NOT saturated and the _______ strategy that will always win
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness and Business Summit: www.VigorGroundSummit.com
Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Precision Nutrition: www.PrecisionNutrition.com
Perform Better Summit: www.PerformBetter.com
Two12 Event: https://two12.io
Jason Ferruggia - Renegade Radio: hhttps://goo.gl/GQiak9
1 hr 1 min
August 30, 2017 EP041: What Works and Doesn’t Work When It Comes To Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching with Cody McBroom

At Vigor, the most common questions that we receive are centered around nutrition, lifestyle and habit change.

Taking control of your daily (potentially bad) habits is one of the hardest things to do – which is why we have decided to host regular podcasts where we dive deep into the kind of coaching we provide for our clients here at Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance. The same coaching that has allowed us to help thousands of clients breakthrough and change their body for the long-term.

In these podcasts we are going to focus on everything from nutrition choices and mindset frameworks, to coaching questions, our methods and strategies.

Our goal with these podcasts is to help people, potentially like yourself, make positive changes to their nutrition and lifestyle. We also want to help coaches looking for advice on how they can improve their coaching practices.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

* The principles that make up the foundation of coaching, and why understanding them can help you change in any area of your life
* Why your nutrition “special situation” is a real life example of human diversity, and the simple steps that will help you breakthrough your plateau
* The reason why many of your health and medical issues can be rectified with lifestyle and nutrition changes
* Why worrying about “special scenarios” can distract you from moving the “big rocks” that will help you get where you want
* The fundamental skillsets and habits that all the people that are lean and healthy stick to... which are surprisingly simple concepts
* Why “fad diets” have become so popular and how we get our clients to choose what's right for them
* Why asking better questions of yourself and your clients is one of the key secrets to better health and coaching
* The Super 7 Readiness questions that we use to help us discover what our clients coaching needs are so that we can coach them better
* The 4-steps to identifying the behaviors clients take on for success
* The A-B-C list for how you can discover which foods your clients will want to eat to achieve their goals, and the training program that will compliment their nutrition program
* Why humans always tend to find the negative in situations and how to change that, both in yourself and with your clients... and how this is a key skillset when it comes to nutrition success
* The habits that your health and fitness icons follow, and how to apply them to your life
* The strategy that will add 30-minutes of productivity to your day and how it can make a huge difference in your life
* The best post-workout nutrition for athletes wanting to stay lean and build muscle

LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Vigor Ground Fitness and Business Summit: https://vigorgroundsummit.com/joinus
Luka Hocevar YouTube Channel [SUBSCRIBE HERE]
Vigor Life Podcast on iTunes [SUBSCRIBE HERE]
Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance: www.VigorGroundFitness.com
Mind Vs Muscle Podcast [SUBSCRIBE HERE]
Boom Boom Performance: www.BoomBoomPerformance.com

Thanks so much for joining me this week. Have some feedback that you’d like to share? Leave me a review on iTunes.
1 hr 17 min

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Luka Hocevar is the owner of the nationally renowned Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance gym in Seattle and founding father of Vigor Move & Live in Slovenia, featured in Men's Health, Stack Magazine, Onnit Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, and on CBS.