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Sports Motivation Podcast

The keys to staying balanced under pressure

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Soccer, Football, Basketball, Crossfit, Mindset, Sports, Psychology, Dominate, Business

4.8755 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I share some critical advide that will help you to gain a level of balance as you struggle and strive towards greatness. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you try to get right, then you listen to my dad.

0:03.5

He's a beast.

0:05.8

And if you don't want to listen to him, okay, okay, you don't want to get successful.

0:11.5

If you ain't trying to dominate, man, they go listen to something else.

0:18.2

Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Niyy Shobo. You hear me talk all the time about being able to dominate under pressure, right? So we talk about pressure, talking about a lot of expectations. You know, some of you are playing ball at the highest level. You got families, you got businesses. Some of you are operating from a business standpoint at the highest

0:37.8

level. Some of you are climbing the ladder trying to get to where you're going to. And you feel

0:42.0

pressure. Pressure is when you got those expectations on you and the consequences of failure

0:47.8

are looming around you. You do not want to fail. You want to succeed.

0:55.8

And that manifests in, you know, the feeling of pressure, right?

0:59.2

So that can be anxiety.

1:02.4

It could be frustration, all types of things.

1:05.4

And so being able to manage this pressure, this is what it's all about.

1:09.9

At the end of the day is how well do you manage pressure? Life itself is pressure. This is what it's all about. At the end of the day is how well do you manage

1:11.9

pressure? Life itself is pressure. It's hard to live. You understand? Because the fear of death is

1:20.7

looming. Death is looming right around the corner. So we're trying to live, man. And we're not just

1:26.0

trying to live. We're trying to dominate. We're trying to accomplish our goals and win at the highest level. And so one of the things that I found to be really important is creating some sort of balance while under pressure. Now, when I say balance, I don't mean, you know, necessarily from an equality standpoint, like everything's balancing perfect.

1:46.0

I mean a feeling of calm under this pressure, right?

1:49.9

A feeling that everything is kind of working together harmoniously to a certain degree

1:54.4

in a way that facilitates you feeling more at peace.

1:58.1

And so what I want to do is share six things that you can do

2:03.2

in order to cultivate that feeling of balance,

2:06.9

that feeling of peace while under pressure.

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