653: Training Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance with Dr. Ellen Reed
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ellen Reed reveals how to build mental toughness by training your brain to be more solution-focused.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The biological reason why we underperform
2) Three simple questions to your build mental toughness
3) How to beat out stress in 60 seconds
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— ABOUT ELLEN —
Dr. Ellen Reed has been a top performance coach for more than ten years, working with Dr. Jason Selk. In addition to helping others reach high-levels of success, she has a well-established career as a professional dancer. With her background in academia and the performing arts, she helps athletes, students, and business leaders reach their peak performance by developing mental toughness.
Dr. Reed received her PhD. in experimental psychology, with a focus on memory and cognition, from St. Louis University.
• Ellen’s book: Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance with Jason Selk
• Ellen’s website: RelentlessSolutionFocus.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Website: JasonSelk.com
• Book: 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins by Jason Selk
• Book: The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin
• Book: Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance by Jason Selk
• Poem: “The Guest House” by Rumi
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 653 with Dr. Ellen Reed. |
| 0:24.0 | Ellen shares some super simple practices that you could use to build mental toughness. |
| 0:29.0 | Mental toughness, self confidence, to get ahead of stress, pressure, underperformance. |
| 0:34.0 | It's so much good stuff. |
| 0:35.0 | So you'll learn one, the biological reason why we underperform. |
| 0:38.0 | Two, three simple questions to build your mental toughness. |
| 0:42.0 | And three, how to beat stress in just 60 seconds. |
| 0:45.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to addos we've referenced, |
| 0:48.0 | please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep653. |
| 0:53.0 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out some of our cool stuff, |
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| 1:31.0 | Good stuff at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:33.0 | Now here's good stuff about Ellen. |
| 1:35.0 | Dr. Ellen Reed has been a top performance coach for more than 10 years. |
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