Why you should be adopting the mindset of an Olympic champion in your business
Jo-Anne Kelleher
Mindset | Motivation | Mastery Empowering Athletes | Elevating Success | Enriching Legacies ADHD Performance Psychology Specialist | Football Psychology Expert | Perform when it matters
There are many similarities between business and sport which is why many trained sport and high-performance psychologists work with entrepreneurs to help them gain success in their businesses.
?If you want to build a thriving business you need an elite athlete mindset.
?These are a few areas to concentrate on:
?Practice like an athlete
?I see so many potential high achievers telling me that they can’t sell or they are not a tech person.
?The thing is the reason is not that you can’t do them, it is just that you just haven’t practiced the skills to make you feel competent.
?Do you think that Andy Murray said to his coach “I can’t do forehands so I’m not going to practice them”?
?No! He would be aware that this is one of the weakest areas of his game and practiced it so that it was at a good enough standard to be world-class.
?Embrace the failures and always practice for success
?Athletes don’t get to where they want to be without a few setbacks. They put in hours learning their sport and training to win but along the way, they will fail.
?This could be an injury or a loss but what they do is see these setbacks and failures as opportunities to reflect on the situation and return stronger than ever.
?In business, fail quickly so that you can start learning what works and what doesn't.?
?Every failure is one step nearer to success.
?You wouldn’t run a marathon without building up your training.
?Most entrepreneurs haven’t run a business before yet they think they can start helping people and it will all click into place and be an overnight success.
?We spend hours thinking we need to get everything just right.
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?It is important to build foundations but take messy and imperfect action. You have to start somewhere. Marathon runners were novices once. They would do 5k,10k, and a half marathon first.
?You will get better in business but aim for small successes first.
?Don’t get hung up on your competition
?If you focus too much on your competition, you will lose sight of your own goals and fail. Athletes will observe their competitors but when it is game time, they are fully focused on their own game and on the prize.
?I always tell my children to look ahead when they are running. Concentrate on where you are going. If they look back, then they are likely to trip and fall.
?This is the same in business. There are enough clients for everyone. Focus on your potential client instead. Do your market research on them, Their pain points may be different from the people who are attracted to your competitor.
?I am not saying to totally ignore them but if you aspire to be as successful as them, learn from them, don’t copy them.
?You are you and that is why your clients work with you!
?Build a team around you
?As solopreneurs, we think that we have to do everything by ourselves. I was like this at the beginning, I would seek out free advice everywhere, get overwhelmed with all the information, and then end up doing nothing.
?I remember listening to a webinar and the lady talking about her community at the end and thinking that she was trying to get my money. I didn’t understand that signing up for a paid membership community would provide so many opportunities to grow. This lady was Carrie Green whom I learned a year later was a successful and inspirational woman and had so much value to share.
?Now I have found an amazing membership that provides me with support, help with my mindset (yet I still work on this too), and a community, and have invested in a high-level mastermind where I am learning the strategy that I need to build my business. I have both the mindset, support, and strategy covered. I don't get it from one place, I have invested in a number of areas to get the right expertise that I need in each area.
?An athlete wouldn’t rely on just one coach to provide them with everything they need. They will have a nutritionist, a physio, a sport psychologist, and a conditioning coach along with the technical coach that we are all aware of, so ask yourself whether you are investing in your mental performance as well as strategy as we need both support to succeed.
?Do you want to perform in your business like an Olympic champion?
?Do you have the strategy but need to work on your mindset to make it happen.
MasterTrainer for advanced educations at Praxiz. Therapist and Coach at Praxiz Academy for Advanced Psychology in Viken /Norway
2 年The inner game is more then important and makes the difference who makes the difference in sport and as Entrepreneur. There are some real important points you are bringing up here. Thank you for sharing. What we also see in both areas - high performance sport and Entrepreneurs is the lack of being able to ballancing this with family and kids. The kids are allready leaving the parents, when the company is finaly stable and finally there is more time for family. Then the guild, remorse and regret is comming up and is often what we see and hear in Therapi and Coaching. Ballancing the entire life at the same time and not spending time on unnecessary meetings or dinnerparties with people we don’t have any relationship to and it gives us nothing in the end, - feeling obliged at the expense of familytime- is the key here and this important muscle may also be trained. ??