How to become unfazed by pressure
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
You're at the free throw line with one second left. Your team is down by one, and you're down to your last shot. Who wins: you, or your nerves? Pressure can make you scared, weak, and timid (if ignored). It can break you down, and you'll want to quit. In today's episode, I take you through the fire to target your biggest pressure points and conquer them.
Episode 106 Time Stamps:
(2:55) How PRESSURE makes us really feel
(3:11) We have a need for certainty
(5:03) Defining the goal | To be o.k. with "the unknown"
(7:31) Step 1: Be knowledgeable about your sport. Know your role.
(9:04) Step 2: Get familiar with your strengths and double down on all of them. Train consistently.
(9:25) Step 3: Get familiar with all your liabilities and your weaknesses. Mitigate them.
(10:00) Step 4: Set up your week around your training schedule to work on SELF.
(11:17) Step 5: Put yourself in tough situations.
(12:01) Step 6: Record. Adjust. Repeat.
(13:15) Exercise: "THROUGH THE FIRE"
(16:00) Post-observations from my "Through the Fire" exercise
(18:01) High intensity every day = TOP LEVEL PREPARATION | Tim Grover's "Relentless"
(20:26) Same routine, same routine, same routine! | John Calipari's "Success is the Only Option"
(22:06) Example story: Soil, tree, broccoli, beans
(23:05) Train yourself! | How to be a BEAST
DISCOVER
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Could you benefit from building supreme confidence? What would change for you if you played your best when under pressure? |
| 0:05.9 | What's it costing you to not have the confidence, the poise, and skill to execute when your team needs you most? |
| 0:12.0 | I've created an exclusive training video designed just for you. I outlined the three critical keys to building unshakable supreme confidence and dominating under pressure. |
| 0:21.7 | You'll also find out how you can apply these to your career today so that you can start to speed |
| 0:25.9 | up your results and follow a predictable system to get you to your goals. |
| 0:30.1 | Go to I'm not you.com forward slash dominate under pressure. |
| 0:34.3 | You can go ahead and access that free training in less than two minutes. |
| 0:36.9 | You'll be learning exactly what I teach my high performance professional athletes and clients about what it |
| 0:41.8 | takes to dominate. Again, I'm not you.com for slash dominate under pressure. |
| 0:48.8 | If you try to get right, then you listen to my dad. He's a beast. |
| 0:59.8 | And if you don't want to listen to him, okay, okay, you don't want to get successful. |
| 1:03.6 | If you ain't trying to dominate, man, they go listen to something else. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome, athletes, top performers, and all those looking to gain that killer instinct, |
| 1:11.6 | that edge you need to dominate in any environment. |
| 1:13.4 | This is the Sports Motivation podcast, and I'm your host, Niyu Shobo. |
| 1:18.6 | I play ball and succeeded at the highest levels, and I'm now committed to showing you |
| 1:23.6 | how you can accomplish the ambitious goals and visions that you have. |
| 1:28.3 | This podcast is designed to teach you high-level strategy, not just fluff and hype. |
| 1:33.7 | This will cut to the core if you let it. |
| 1:36.0 | And by taking action on the practical and next-level advice I share, you will see results. |
| 1:41.9 | Expect that. |
| 1:43.2 | Expect to be more confident. Expect to be more focused. Expect to be more confident. |
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