186: How to Become a Champion, with Jeff Spencer
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Spencer, D.C.
DrJeffSpencer.com
Jeff noticed that the people who should have won didn’t often win.
“The single most important factor is how people perform in pivotal moments.” -Jeff Spencer
“Do you have the readiness for the 3-5 pivotal moments that occur each year that will make or break your career or your life that year?” -Jeff Spencer
“There’s a lot of people who have will and talent that don’t go anywhere.” -Jeff Spencer
“You cannot think your way fast enough to be able to perform with ideal timing. Ideal timing and ideal responses are the direct product of your level of preparation.” -Jeff Spencer
“Most people concentrate on all the things that can go wrong rather than the 1-2 things that have to go right.” -Jeff Spencer
“The natural tendency is to want to be the best at whatever you’re doing. I don’t know if that’s really the best strategy. I think the place that you really start is creating your legacy.” -Jeff Spencer
“Our judgements don’t help us and they don’t give us a free pass about what we need to do in terms of our own legacy and our own way of relating to people.” -Jeff Spencer
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| 0:00.0 | We've talked many times on this show about how to be effective, but how do you become a champion? |
| 0:06.7 | On today's episode, the blueprint for that answer from a former Olympic athlete. |
| 0:12.1 | This is coaching for leaders episode 186. |
| 0:15.6 | Produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:20.6 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:27.0 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:31.6 | This is a weekly show to help leaders improve their communication, strategy, coaching, |
| 0:38.1 | productivity, and personal mastery. And one of the words that comes up for a lot of us is how do we |
| 0:47.2 | become champions, becomes champions for what we're doing, for what we want to |
| 0:52.0 | achieve in the workplace, in our careers, but also on a personal level. |
| 0:57.0 | And that's why I'm really excited to talk to my guest today who has a lot of experience in working through difficult challenges and not |
| 1:06.0 | only is a champion himself but has helped other people to become champions and that is Jeff Spencer. |
| 1:13.0 | Dr. Jeff Spencer was a sprint cyclist on the 1972 U.S. Olympic cycling team. |
| 1:19.0 | He's also been the team doctor to six winning cycling teams in the Tour de France. |
| 1:24.8 | He obviously has a unique insight on what it takes to have the physical and mental capacity |
| 1:30.2 | to keep going despite extremely difficult circumstances and he does a lot of work |
| 1:36.6 | with leaders to help them to become effective and to really build their |
| 1:40.6 | championship status to. Jeff I'm so glad to welcome you to |
| 1:44.2 | coaching for leaders. Well thank you so much Dave and I appreciate your vote of |
| 1:48.0 | competence here. Well I think before we get into some of the strategies you utilize with the people you work with and the |
| 1:55.8 | athletes and business leaders you've worked with over the years. I'm just curious |
| 2:00.4 | about like how did you how did you become an Olympic athlete |
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