In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking discusses Play #4 of the Mental Performance Playbook and how to find your optimal zone. Dr. Selking talks about how we can reach our optimal zone when we trust our preparation. When we identify our optimal zone, we can manage our intensity and deliver consistent high performance. We can use adrenaline to get in the zone, show up where it matters, and win our mental game. 

About Building Championship Mindsets

Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence. 

As a leader in the field of sport and performance psychology, Dr. Amber Selking has been fiercely devoted to optimizing human performance in people and systems throughout her entire career.

Dr. Selking is the founder of Selking Performance Group, a leading performance consulting practice that helps individuals, companies, and sports teams achieve sustainable results. She has served as the Mental Performance Coach for the Notre Dame Football team and as the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development for Lippert, a global, publicly-traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our World. She has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.

Dr. Selking holds a Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and an undergraduate degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before an injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

Championship Mindset Training | MidWeek Mental Rep

• What are you doing leading up to your moment? Is it helping you be in the zone that you need to be in when you need to be there? Use the idea of a pre-routine to get into that zone.

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “I firmly believe that people want to be good and do good in the world. But, oftentimes the barrier to get there is how they think. Their beliefs about themselves or about their abilities in the world.” - Dr. Amber Selking [01:51]
• “If we can learn to tap into and truly win our mental game, I believe that not only are we going to enjoy life more, have more fun in the process, but the world is gonna be a better place along the way.” -Dr. Amber Selking [02:10]
• “Whether you’re standing on a football field, in a board room or before the love of your life, how you show up matters and you don’t need to leave that up to chance.” -Dr. Amber Selking [10:18]
• “Regardless of what is going on around us, regardless of the butterflies, we might feel. Listen, you’re still going to feel the butterflies, you’re still gonna have adrenaline searing through your body. I don’t want any of that to stop. I just want us to know how to use it, direct it, get in that zone and be our best. Because it matters.” [11:54]

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Additional Links:

Email Amber to book an engagement or become a podcast partner at drselking@selkingperformance.com

Selking Performance Group (SPG) Website: www.selkingperformance.com

Follow SPG on Twitter: @ChampMindsets

Check us out on Instagram: @champmindsets

Like SPG on Facebook: Selking Performance Group

Check out our EBooks! "A Dream Come True: the Buzz on Greatness" “Winner's Circle" 

Check out Dr. Selking’s TEDxTalk entitled, “Think Like a Champion Today” to learn more about the power of your mind to drive excellence in all areas of your life!

TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[01:20] Play #4: Intensity Management

[03:20] Client story

[09:58] Finding your optimal zone

[11:02] This week’s Championship Mindset Training 

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Please rate and review us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and engagement will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on social media, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.

Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence. 

As a leader in the field of sport and performance psychology, Dr. Amber Selking has been fiercely devoted to optimizing human performance in people and systems throughout her entire career.

Dr. Selking is the founder of Selking Performance Group, a leading performance consulting practice that helps individuals, companies, and sports teams achieve sustainable results. She has served as the Mental Performance Coach for the Notre Dame Football team and as the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development for Lippert, a global, publicly traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our World. She has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.

Dr. Selking holds a PhD in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and an undergraduate degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

Championship Mindset Training | MidWeek Mental Rep

• Where do I need to remind myself of how prepared I actually am? What is the physical, technical, mental, and tactical preparation that I have done to prepare myself for this moment? Write it down and choose confidence. 

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “We can build confidence. We can train confidence. We can enhance confidence.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [02:16]
• “That’s what adversity wants to do. It wants you to forget in the moment of execution what you have done and why you are meant for that moment.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [12:02]
• “External circumstances are real. They impact us. They change us. But they shouldn’t control us.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [13:05]
• “It matters that we are choosing confidence because we are prepared. We are ready for this moment and it is our opportunity to bring our best selves to the world.”  [16:56]

Please get on iTunes to rate us and write a review for us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and your rates and reviews will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and any other social media that you use, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.

Additional Links:

Email Amber to book an engagement or become a podcast partner at drselking@selkingperformance.com

Selking Performance Group (SPG) Website: www.selkingperformance.com

Follow SPG on Twitter: @ChampMindsets

Check us out on Instagram: @champmindsets

Like SPG on Facebook: Selking Performance Group

Check out our EBooks! "A Dream Come True: the Buzz on Greatness" “Winner's Circle" 

Check out Dr. Selking’s TEDxTalk entitled, “Think Like a Champion Today” to learn more about the power of your mind to drive excellence in all areas of your life!

TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[01:20] Play #3: Confidence

[02:30] What goes into confidence?

[08:17] Preparation

[13:05] External circumstances and confidence

[15:07] This week’s Championship Mindset Training 

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Please rate and review us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and engagement will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on social media, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.

About Building Championship Mindsets

Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence. 

As a leader in the field of sport and performance psychology, Dr. Amber Selking has been fiercely devoted to optimizing human performance in people and systems throughout her entire career.

Dr. Selking is the founder of Selking Performance Group, a leading performance consulting practice that helps individuals, companies, and sports teams achieve sustainable results. She has served as the Mental Performance Coach for the Notre Dame Football team and as the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development for Lippert, a global, publicly traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our World. She has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.

Dr. Selking holds a PhD in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and an undergraduate degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

Championship Mindset Training | MidWeek Mental Rep

• Find the right rhythm in your life to step back and contextualize your life in the broader picture. Do you need to do this quarterly, weekly, or annually? What is the best environment for you to do this in? 

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “It’s all about building systems of high performance and helping people inside of those systems really tap into the essence of being a human being.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [01:45]
• “The brain doesn't care what your socioeconomic background is, what the color of your skin is, what your political affiliation, what part of the world you live in, what religion you are, what gender you are… at the end of the day the brain is about being human” -Dr. Amber Selking  [02:22]
• “If you don’t know why you do what you do it is going to be very difficult to find depths of motivation when you’re going through dry seasons.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [09:00]
• “Motivation that is internally driven is what will keep you propelled, buoyant and on-course, as you navigate the waters of life across any domain, across any spectrum.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [13:49]

Please get on iTunes to rate us and write a review for us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and your rates and reviews will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and any other social media that you use, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.

Additional Links:

Email Amber to book an engagement or become a podcast partner at drselking@selkingperformance.com

Selking Performance Group (SPG) Website: www.selkingperformance.com

Follow SPG on Twitter: @ChampMindsets

Check us out on Instagram: @champmindsets

Like SPG on Facebook: Selking Performance Group

Check out our EBooks! "A Dream Come True: the Buzz on Greatness" “Winner's Circle" 

Check out Dr. Selking’s TEDxTalk entitled, “Think Like a Champion Today” to learn more about the power of your mind to drive excellence in all areas of your life!

TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[00:48] Play #2: Motivation

[01:06] What is a mindset?

[04:22] Learning how to train your brain

[12:57] Sustaining motivation

[15:07] This week’s Championship Mindset Training 

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Please rate and review us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and engagement will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on social media, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.

In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking discusses Play # 1 of the mental performance playbook on why it’s important to be aware of what’s going on inside of us and what’s happening around us. She talks about using the five love language assessment to understand how emotions impact our ability to bring our full selves to move forward and get better through that. Discovering our love language will help us make the necessary adjustments to show up and deliver our best when it matters.

About Building Championship Mindsets

Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence. 

As a leader in the field of sport and performance psychology, Dr. Amber Selking has been fiercely devoted to optimizing human performance in people and systems throughout her entire career.

Dr. Selking is the founder of Selking Performance Group, a leading performance consulting practice that helps individuals, companies, and sports teams achieve sustainable results. She has served as the Mental Performance Coach for the Notre Dame Football team and as the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development for Lippert, a global, publicly traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our World. She has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.

Dr. Selking holds a PhD in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and an undergraduate degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

Championship Mindset Training | MidWeek Mental Rep

• Do the five love languages of assessment. Where do your results show up in your life? Where are you winning your mental game? How can you become more aware of how other people are treating you?

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “I firmly believe that in order to win in the long term, to make and manifest the greatness inside of us, it’s start with how we think.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [02:57]
• “Here’s the challenge that a lot of leaders and coaches face is that often inadvertently our communication styles shut people down. Because we’re wired a certain way, so we don’t process information the same way that our people or our players or our student athletes might, and so we shut them down.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [04:12]
• “How can we as leaders and coaches actually adjust our communication style in ways that we know are meaningful to the men and women that we lead or that we serve as their coach, as their teacher, as their parent in ways again that can elicit that greatness inside of them?” -Dr. Amber Selking  [12:23]
• “If we are aware of the fact that we are words of affirmation, it can help us not take things so personally sometimes.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [16:03]

Please get on iTunes to rate us and write a review for us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and your rates and reviews will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and any other social media that you use, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.

Additional Links:

Email Amber to book an engagement or become a podcast partner at drselking@selkingperformance.com

Selking Performance Group (SPG) Website: www.selkingperformance.com

Follow SPG on Twitter: @ChampMindsets

Check us out on Instagram: @champmindsets

Like SPG on Facebook: Selking Performance Group

Check out our EBooks! "A Dream Come True: the Buzz on Greatness" “Winner's Circle" 

Check out Dr. Selking’s TEDxTalk entitled, “Think Like a Champion Today” to learn more about the power of your mind to drive excellence in all areas of your life!

TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[01:49] Play #1: Awareness

[03:14] What’s your love language?

[10:11] Shift your communication

[13:01] Fundamentals of awareness

[15:07] This week’s Championship Mindset Training 

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Please rate and review us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and engagement will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on social media, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.