Episode 256: There Is No Easy Way, But You Can Do It: Building the Mindset To Thrive in Sport (and Life)
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon takes us back to the core values of Purple Patch Fitness to help provide perspective on framing your performance mindset.
The simple fact is, anything worthwhile is inherently difficult. The road to Kona is riddled with adversity. As is spearheading the drive for your team or company’s success. Most of the time, that’s part of the fun. The challenge is the game.
The goal always requires commitment, consistency, and hard work, but as time-starved athletes, you are faced with an optimization challenge. Where do you make the time for family, work, and training? How do you fit the performance journey into your already crowded schedule?
There are many approaches that pitch the “less is more” mindset or “the easy way to (insert goal here).” But there is no shortcut, quick fix, or expert trick. Some approaches promise to help you find harmony and balance, but they miss the mark of your specific challenges and what you are trying to achieve.
“Trying to hide from friction or challenge, and seeking some utopian magic pathway that's bathed in balance, it's nonsense.” (20:25)
Whether you are a time-starved athlete or a busy executive, the foundation Matt lays out will help you apply focus around the strategies and practices that can help you improve performance and develop the capacity to achieve long-term success.
“I'm not trying to diminish the challenge. Instead, what I'm doing is developing you and equipping you with tools to be able to respond to any challenge.” (28:06)
Using the lens of the athlete and the executive, Matt explains how to leverage proven tactics and approaches to maximize the return on your hard work to deliver long-term sustainable performance in sport and life.
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Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 3:10 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:19 - 5:21 - Matt's News-ings
05:36 - 10:20 - Word of the Week
10:27 - 30:11 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 256: There Is No Easy Way, But You Can Do It: Building the Mindset To Thrive in Sport (and Life)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:17.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:24.8 | Just before we get going with the show, I want to explain that a purple patch we |
| 0:29.2 | leverage the insights and recommendations from the team inside tracker. |
| 0:32.6 | By assessing biometrics and allowing focus on the aspects that directly lead to improved health, |
| 0:39.7 | energy, focus and performance in sport. This is not a shortcut. And that's important. And that's |
| 0:46.0 | why? Because there is no shortcut. Your success in health and sports rely on developing great |
| 0:53.0 | performance strategies and practices. |
| 0:55.0 | But the insights and recommendations that we get from InsightTracker allow a little bit of clarity. |
| 1:01.0 | Allow us to actually focus on the things that are going to yield change and improvements. |
| 1:06.0 | It is an opportunity in addition to all of that to create a platform of measurable results for your efforts. |
| 1:13.4 | And this is powerful. And so when you combine InsideTracker with your own approach and program, |
| 1:20.1 | all on the journey to performance, that is when you can amplify results. And I recommend |
| 1:25.1 | you embrace it too. We have. It's's very easy all you have to do is head to |
| 1:29.0 | inside tracker.com slash purple patch and you can enter the code purple patch pro 20 and very |
| 1:35.3 | generously you get 20% of everything at the store now this is a good one today so I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 1:55.2 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:59.3 | And today, I hope, is a show that you'll remember. |
| 2:03.3 | If you're motivated and you're driven, you're a time-starved athlete who is seeking performance gains, |
| 2:07.1 | then I believe that the message today provides |
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