How to turn your pain into real purpose and motivation (Throwback)
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We are taught that pain is bad, and our trauma "shouldn't have happened". What if I told you that your trauma and pain can actually be the things that make you come alive? What if I told you that you can and should be motivated and locked in EVERY DAY? This can only happen if you stop repressing and denying your pain, and instead incorporate it into your mission. In this episode I show you how.
Time Stamps:
(1:22) What's your trauma?
(4:31) Examples of the greats...
(5:32) You have to generate the right energy to overcome your pain
(6:55) You and your DORMANT ENERGY
(7:42) Use PERSPECTIVE; stop referring to your pain/traumas as "bad"
(9:49) ACCEPT your pain, and channel it
(10:56) A father story, Pt. 1: School-life was rough... but I learned a lot.
(15:59) A father story, Pt. 2: What happened post-NFL, and a very important Fourth of July family moment.
(19:19) A father story, Pt. 3: My reality check, after retiring the desire to please my father.
(22:42) My purpose is to teach people how to take control.
(27:32) Here are my steps for you
(28:03) Step 1: IDENTIFY what the PAIN is.
(30:07) Step 2: Be AWARE of your INSECURITIES.
(31:13) Step 3: Turn these INSECURITIES INTO ANGER.
(34:21) Step 4: Find a TARGET for your anger.
(36:40) Step 5: Find a VEHICLE to express this anger into ACTION.
(40:37) Step 6: REINFORCE the anger OFTEN and when NECESSARY.
(41:50) Questions for you to reflect on after listening...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you try to get right, then you listen to my dad. |
| 0:03.0 | He's a beast. |
| 0:05.0 | And if you don't want to listen to him, okay, okay, you don't want to get successful. |
| 0:11.0 | If you ain't trying to dominate, man, they go listen to something else. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome, athletes, top performers, and all those looking to gain that killer instinct, that edge you need |
| 0:22.4 | to dominate in any environment. This is the Sports Motivation podcast, and I'm your host, |
| 0:28.1 | Nees Showbo. I play ball and succeeded at the highest levels, and I'm now committed to showing |
| 0:34.3 | you how you can accomplish the ambitious goals and visions that you have. |
| 0:39.3 | This podcast is designed to teach you a high-level strategy, not just fluff and hype. |
| 0:44.7 | This will cut to the core if you let it. And by taking action on the practical and next-level |
| 0:50.1 | advice I share, you will see results. Expect that. |
| 0:55.5 | Expect to be more confident. |
| 0:57.2 | Expect to be more focused. |
| 0:59.1 | Expect to be more decisive. |
| 1:01.1 | And expect to be more fearless. |
| 1:04.9 | Expect to become the leader your vision needs you to become. |
| 1:06.3 | So listen up. |
| 1:07.1 | Take notes. |
| 1:08.7 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:34.2 | Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbobo it's another episode man listen man everyone's been through pain everyone's been through trauma um and unfortunately a lot of people go through their lives never |
| 1:42.1 | having really number one even diagnosed or |
| 1:45.5 | understood you know what their pain or trauma really is some people have been through really |
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