It’s one thing to perform optimally for the task at hand, but what does it actually mean to consistently perform your best?
Working with top level athletes and understanding how their belief, thoughts and behaviors affect their performance is what Dr. Stan Beecham is all about.
Dr. Stan Beecham is a sport psychologist and director and founding member of the Leadership Resource Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Since 1998, Beecham has been helping organizations maximize performance and realize the full potential of their human resources. Senior executives utilize Dr. Beecham’s expertise to guide them through the process of selecting and developing high performance teams. In addition to his coaching and consulting engagements at the Leadership Resource Center, he is a professional speaker and writer committed to advancing the science of leadership development.
Today his work with collegiate, Olympic, and professional athletes from many sports has afforded him an insight into the minds of great competitors that only few have had the good fortune to gain.
In his book, ELITE MINDS: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success, Dr. Stan Beecham dives into a a number of concepts that are typical of what he calls Elite Minds. We get into some of these in today’s show, and the mental processes and tactics behind them.
In this episode you’ll learn
- The mindset needed to create a competitive edge.
- How we can conquer fears and reach our higher calling.
- The difference between doing better and doing our best.
- How we can build persistence, embrace the journey, and move forward.
- The psychology that will move us closer to our full potential.
- How to set physical boundaries so we maintain a better work-life balance.
- The ways meditation will alter the activity and chemicals in our brain.
- How the expectation of success can help us get into the flow state.
- Ways we can frame our language to produce better outcomes.
- How to take action on things that we don’t necessarily want to do.
- Strategies to build more love and compassion for ourselves and others.
- How to perform at a higher level by getting out of our own way.
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“If you are loving and diligent, you can do whatever you want.”
~ St. Augustine
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Resources
- Pick up Elite Minds on Amazon.
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