E42 - Kevin Sinfield: How to inspire through your actions
The High Performance Podcast
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Sinfield is the current Leeds Rhinos Director of Rugby after returning to the club where he became a legend. Kevin won seven Grand Finals, two Challenge Cups, three World Club Challenges and three League Leaders Shields in his time with the Rhinos.
Kevin played 521 games for the club, finishing with 3,968 points including 1,832 goals. Since leaving the Rhinos, he took up the position as Rugby Director with the Rugby Football League and was a key part of the World Cup management team that took England back to the World Cup Final in December 2017.
In 2020 Kevin set the challenge to run 7 marathons in 7 days hoping to raise £77,777 in honour of his best Rob Burrow, who wore the No 7 shirt. He raised more than £2.5 million to help his friend’s family and the fight against MND.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, thanks for joining us for this week's High Performance Podcast. If you've not |
| 0:05.5 | heard the pod before, welcome along. It's all about myself and Professor Damian Hughes, |
| 0:10.7 | having conversations with people who have achieved incredible things with simply one |
| 0:15.2 | aim. For you to learn the lessons from their life so you can apply it to your life and |
| 0:19.6 | hopefully along the way, all of us will get lifted up and all of us will have the opportunity |
| 0:24.9 | to live a more high performance life. Damian and I love having the conversations. We both |
| 0:29.5 | learn as much as you every time we speak to our guests and this week's guest is an absolute |
| 0:34.6 | hero for so many reasons. Here's what you can expect. We all have the ability to choose and |
| 0:41.6 | we all have its link closer with your attitude and how you go about your day to day stuff but |
| 0:46.4 | we always have the ability to choose how we attack things, how we go about things and we have |
| 0:51.9 | to remind ourselves of that from time to time, especially during those tough situations and |
| 0:56.4 | there's something I use when I'm really struggling at and I call it, everybody's got a pack of |
| 1:01.0 | playing cards and there's four Aces in it. Well I always think you've got an Aces in your pocket, |
| 1:06.0 | no matter what happens and you can play that Aces at any time and that Aces you can give to people |
| 1:11.6 | and basically attitude, care and enjoyment and if at any moment you're struggling a little bit, |
| 1:17.2 | play that Aces card, remind yourself you have the choice, remind yourself, you care about yourself |
| 1:22.6 | and the people you're working with and put smile on first and very very quickly you can turn it around. |
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