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Sports Motivation Podcast

Todd Durkin: Pro Athlete Trainer, Motivational Speaker, Best-Selling Author, Founder of FitnessQuest10

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Sports, Business

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

I'm beyond blessed to have Todd Durkin on the show today. A true leader fueled by "Inspiring greatness everyday", Todd is a man of many accomplishments. He's trained the best of the best, created one of America's top ten gyms, wrote a best-selling book, and motivates many with his exceptional mindset. Tune in, as we discuss topics such as: the power of environment, making your own choices, counting the short-term wins, maximizing your daily planning, achieving success through risk-taking, and the top characteristics of today's best athletes. If you don't have a pen and pad infront of you, well… I'll wait till you grab a pair.

Episode 121 Time Stamps:

(3:50) With injury, brings purpose

(5:32) Sports don't define you | Win the DAY, not just the game

(9:04) "Everyone has a life worth telling about"

(11:13) Top 3 traits of the elite athlete: Mindset. Work ethic. Focus. | Todd's "The WOW Book: 52 Ways to Motivate Your Mind, Inspire Your Soul & Create WOW in Your Life!"

(16:56) You and your environment | You have CHOICES

(20:02) Todd's system for success: "Annual Roadmap and Strategic Plans" | Writing brings CLARITY; clarity precedes GENIUS

(24:52) Strategic color coding for your schedule/calendar

(27:26) A day in the life of Todd Durkin (habits and tips)

(31:38) Leadership by doing what's right | "A leader of one, a leader of many… If you can't lead one you can't lead any"

(31:50) Reverse psychology (Who's really to blame?)

(37:33) Mirror reflection (Did I do my very best today?) | PRIDE = Personal Responsibility In Daily Efforts

(40:12) 16 inches from your head to your heart (handling bad parental advice)

(43:48) "If you're not scared, you're not playing big enough" (taking risks)

(45:24) A few of Todd's essential reads (links below)

(47:18) How to connect with Todd (links below)

 

 

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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