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The Jon Gordon Podcast

Nate Kaeding | Consistency Is The Success

The Jon Gordon Podcast

Jon Gordon

Leadership, Teamwork, Success, Positiveuniversity, Jongordon, Health & Fitness, Positivity, Education, Positiveu, Happiness, Teambuilding

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Being an NFL kicker is one of the most high-pressure jobs in the world. Nate Kaeding knows this from experience, after a very long and successful career kicking for the Chargers. On this episode of Positive University, Jon and Nate discuss how to handle pressure, learn from failure, and focus on being consistent through the process.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today my guest is Nate Cading.

0:12.5

Nate, how you doing?

0:13.5

I'm doing awesome.

0:14.5

Thank you, John.

0:15.5

Hey, it's great to have you on this podcast.

0:16.5

You know, I've always wanted to ask you, your professional field goal kicker in the NFL,

0:22.4

what is your thought process like?

0:24.6

What are you thinking as you go up to have like a big kick games on the line?

0:28.9

You're kicking.

0:29.9

Well, early on, when you're throwing those situations like college, you know, coming

0:33.4

from a high school kid kicking in front of 1500, your first time you're putting those situations

0:38.5

in front of 75,000 and, you know, millions on TV like, holy, holy shit, what am I going

0:42.7

to do?

0:43.7

Sort of thought, you know?

0:44.7

But I think that's really where you learn that that's the biggest delta for improvement

0:48.5

as a field goal kicker is that space between your head and you're out there getting ready

0:51.5

to kick in the big moment you've been trained over the years on, you know, everything from

0:57.1

what happens when the team crosses into field goal range on first down.

1:00.4

What you're doing in your routine on the sideline, what happens on third down and when

1:03.7

you run on the field, what does that process look like?

1:06.3

It's really that, that paradigm of process thinking versus result thing.

1:10.2

If you're sitting up there thinking about, man, if I make this kick, I want to get a

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