208 Develop an IRON Mindset for Work and Life
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
They say sport is a metaphor for life, so today we apply those lessons of IRONMAN athletes to build a pathway for predictable performance in work and in life.
Realize, you don’t need to be an athlete – or even an IRONMAN – to draw the lessons and strategies to apply to your own life. If you want to show up, excel, and thrive, then this is for you. The best IRONMAN athletes develop an IRON MINDSET, but so does anyone chasing high sustainable performance individually or across teams.
Today, we build your toolbox of success and lean into an IRON Mindset. You'll discover:
- The Definition of an IRON Mindset?
"A way of being and doing that enhances their performance predictability and sets them up to be highly adaptable in all areas of life, remain focused, and resistant to fragility."
- The Inescapable Truths about High Performance
There is no easy option. The fragile will wilt and the uncommitted will fall away. But, before you panic, if you remain in the game, carve out consistency, and refuse to falter when adversity does strike, you will emerge. The result will be massively satisfying, and the most valuable aspect will be the lessons and experiences of the journey.
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The Key Elements of an IRON Mindset
- Defining Your Purpose
- Taking Assessment
- Define Your Focus and Craft Your Plan
- Patience
- Planning for Obstacles
The most successful folks in life are adaptable, especially in the IRONMAN journey. No matter how good your planning, expect the unexpected and realize that serious setbacks, distractions, and roadblocks are inevitable. They are going to happen.
Adopting an IRON Mindset isn’t some magical secret recipe that makes life and work performance easy, harmonious, and utopian. On the contrary, nothing worthwhile comes without commitment, hard work, and challenge.
This is not about perfection. Developing an IRON Mindset is about creating sustainable performance across work and life.
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0:00-01:35 Welcome and Episode Introduction
01:35-06:05 Squaddie Update
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.3 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:12.8 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.5 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, |
| 0:23.4 | your host Matt Dixon. And this week, a little performance detour. But I believe an important |
| 0:29.4 | and helpful one. We are going to talk about the journey of an Iron Man, but not to help triathletes. |
| 0:35.9 | Instead, we're going to break down that journey in order for you to build a toolbox of |
| 0:40.6 | strategies to pave a path to sustained high performance in work and life. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, an iron mindset. |
| 0:49.3 | The mindset traits and strategies that facilitate the most successful performances that we see in sport, |
| 0:55.8 | but all of which directly translate to work in life. They say that sport is a metaphor for life, |
| 1:02.3 | or today we apply the lessons of athletes and sport to build a pathway to predictable performance |
| 1:07.6 | across other areas. Now, realize that you don't need to be an athlete, |
| 1:12.7 | and certainly not an Ironman athlete, to draw the lessons and strategies that you can apply to |
| 1:18.2 | your own life. If you want to show up, Excel, thrive in any endeavor, then today's show is |
| 1:25.3 | for you. Build a toolbox of success and lean into an iron mindset. |
| 1:30.8 | We dig in today, but first of all, we need to do a little squaddy update. |
| 1:43.1 | Yes, our important squaddy update this week. It's all about squad and inside tracker. |
| 1:49.7 | You see, since we began our partnership with Inside Tracker, we've asked the team over there to |
| 1:54.9 | anonymously track our Purple Patch athletes, those that followed our programming, but also |
| 2:00.7 | utilized Inside Tracker. We were really interested in what actually... those that followed our programming, but also utilized inside tracker. |
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