S2E14 Oh Yes...What I Learned from Apolo Ohno
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
How can you win at the highest levels, even when the going gets tough? In this episode, Brian reflects on what he learned about success from Olympian Apolo Ohno and shares how anyone can apply the same principles to really achieve, no matter what.
YOU WILL LEARN:
•How to detach and get up on the balcony.
•Why you should reward yourself on the process, not the prize.
•Why rest and recovery are vital to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
S2E13 Unleash Your Inner Olympian – an Interview with Apolo Ohno
“The E-Myth Revisited,” by Michael E. Gerber
Martin Buser, Iditarod Race
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Detach. Get up on the balcony. It's good for business, it's good for life, it's good for everything.” – Brian Buffini
“One of the key ingredients to avoid burnout is celebration.” – Brian Buffini
“Just like your taste buds can mature, your goals can mature and you become more sophisticated in your approach.” – Brian Buffini
“Go hard, rest and recover.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, a podcast dedicated to helping you live your best one. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's your host, Brian Baphini. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, the top of the morning, Tia, and welcome to It's a Good Life. I'm your host, Brian Baphini. |
| 0:19.0 | Really excited to be with you today. I hope you enjoyed our previous episode, which was an interview with Apollo Ono. |
| 0:26.0 | I just think it's always inspiring to be around people who have pursued whatever their calling is at the very highest level. |
| 0:35.0 | Failed, overcome, and then ultimately won. |
| 0:39.0 | There's so much to learn. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm not going to spend too much time with you today on this, but I'm going to share with you some things that I took from that episode that I have applied. |
| 0:48.0 | That episode was previously recorded almost a couple of years ago, and in the replay of it, and listening to it again, it really affected me. |
| 0:57.0 | I found some great insight that has helped me. I thought I would share that with you guys and see what it means to you. |
| 1:06.0 | Three things that I took from Apollo's interview. |
| 1:11.0 | One is something I believe that's extremely helpful right now. |
| 1:15.0 | He talked about that it was time on occasion to detach. |
| 1:20.0 | Detach, and then he had the phrase, get up on the balcony. |
| 1:24.0 | Now, getting up on the balcony, some people will in business talk about, you need a 40,000-foot view of things, which is a cool term, but it's also very disconnected. |
| 1:36.0 | I like the idea of getting up on the balcony. |
| 1:39.0 | First, you have to detach from where you're at, detach from what you're doing, even detach from who you're doing it with. |
| 1:46.0 | It also means detach from the routines you're in, the habits you're in. |
| 1:50.0 | For example, I'll do this from time to time while I take a weekend, and I won't bring my phone. |
| 1:57.0 | Now, where I'm going, if Beverly's not with me, I will, obviously, here's the hotel I'm staying at, here's what I'm doing. |
| 2:04.0 | Here's a phone number, if there's an emergency, whatever else, so I can rest at night, right? I'm a responsible husband and father, and business owner, something crisis happens, they know how to get a hold of me. |
| 2:13.0 | The thing is, the thought of that is what has me married to my phone all the time. |
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