48 Become an Assassin of Effectiveness
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It’s hard to argue with the concept that you will get more out of a project, workout, meeting, or book if you are fully immersed and focused in the endeavor. Being distracted or having your mind elsewhere is hardly a logical path to success and we are all susceptible to becoming distracted, especially with all the competing demands that our big lives tend to bring.
For most of us, the buy-in for presence and focus is there, but the mind is often polluted. Diluting focus will NOT increase productivity in work or sport.
This episode will empower focus in both work and sport with specific strategies to arm you for success. Adopting this game plan will open up a pathway to presence and create a positive impact for maximum effectiveness.
Remember:
“Presence is effectiveness and effectiveness leads to capacity.”
Bad habits simply create bad output and the only way to create capacity and to execute high-quality work is to become an assassin of effectiveness.
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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. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.1 | Dixon, stop looking out of the window, you foolish boy! |
| 0:24.6 | Words that still rattle around in my head with memories of miserable years at high school in Essex, |
| 0:30.6 | resembling a learning environment more aligned to Victorian Britain than the modern day, |
| 0:34.6 | with very little enthusiasm for allowing children to explore, |
| 0:38.8 | learn, grow, or yes, even that dirty word, have fun. I've got to admit it was a trying experience, |
| 0:46.0 | and it's one that I still draw from today as a platform of how not to teach or coach. You see, |
| 0:52.1 | I spent a whole bunch of time at school distracted, less because of |
| 0:57.0 | apathy and more because of fear of failure or getting answers wrong. Now, I've got to admit, |
| 1:03.1 | I was probably a little bit of a shit, but the culture and the environment was not induceive to |
| 1:09.0 | setting up focus. This is Matt Dixon. It's the Purple Patch podcast, |
| 1:13.9 | and today we're going to talk about focus. What does this have to do with performance? We're going |
| 1:19.6 | to discuss focus, presence and effectiveness. But I'm not here to make the case of the requirements |
| 1:26.2 | be focused to create your best product, |
| 1:29.0 | but instead thinking about the framework that is required to set yourself up to be able to be focused. |
| 1:36.6 | It is a foundational approach to performance in setting yourself up for success, whether in work or sport. |
| 1:44.4 | We're going to explore how to do it and, well, the rest, that's going to be up to you. |
| 1:48.6 | But first, let's do that Word of the Week thing. |
| 1:51.2 | We like the way he thinks, serious with a wink. |
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