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#217 | Winning Is: Better To Be Consistently Good Than Occasionally Great
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Speaker 1:Sindra, you actually get to be the first person that I get to create this conversation with, so I recently started exploring, as I was thinking about the business and the podcast and life. There are a lot of topics that we talk about that can be defined so many different ways. Take even confidence and motivation. What it means to you might be completely different to what it means to somebody else. Same for motivation Now, when we think about winning. I launched a newsletter recently called winning is dot dot dot, because how I define winning and how you define winning may be different, but through our varying perspectives we may be giving somebody a tool or helping unlock a new thought pattern that can help somebody gain higher performance or that mental edge. So if I ask you what is winning? To you, winning is dot dot dot. What does that blank look like for you? I?
Speaker 2:think of two answers. I think winning is being your best consistently, because winning is actually something you can't control, but you can control how you show up. And I also think of winning as this acronym what's important now. And I like that acronym because you can't be your best if you're not in the present moment, and you know we only spend 47% of our time in the present moment. 53% of our time is we're focused on something other than what we're doing, which is very scary. That study was conducted by two Harvard professors and it's like what's important now? Can you be your best more often? That's what I think winning is, because we ultimately can't control the outcome of the game or the outcome of if you get that promotion or not. It's out of your control. You can control showing up as your very best.
Speaker 1:How do you believe how you just defined winning today would have looked like if we asked the syndra that was running at Iowa and was the best of the best and then went to college and found out oh wow, we're around a lot of people that are also the best of the best. What do you believe the difference, if there is one, would have been in that response.
Speaker 2:I think it's very different. I think I spent most of my focus on the outcome in college and I was so outcome focused, like I wanted to run a certain time or I wanted to get in the top five or the top three, and I defined my identity by my outcome and that's ultimately like why I think I struggled and why I. You know it was a lot, there was a lot of inner limits for me at the time, like constant comparison, constant judgment, but I wish that I would have focused on the small steps to get there and I wish I would have like I, I wish I would have evaluated my own success based on my process, you know, like, can I, um, implement my race plan? Can I talk to myself powerfully in the race? Can I, um, you know, give my best effort? Those are all the things I could control and I think most of my college career I was focused on things I could not control and that's why I just kept on being in that downward spiral, you know. And so I think college syndrome thinks very differently than you know, professional syndrome right now, and I think those are things I just had to learn and you know so much of.
Speaker 2:I think our identity can be tied up into like the outcome. And the outcome is completely out of your control, you know, for example, I used to. Even when I first started speaking. It was like I identified. Did I get a standing ovation? Okay, that meant I did really good. But now it's like my only judgment of myself, or my keynotes, is like did I show up fully as Cinder Campoff? Like that's what my definition of success is. Because when I show up fully as Cinder Campoff, you know with you Ryan, and you show up fully as Ryan, you know, then there's no barriers to connection and that's where we can make the most impact. When our true authentic self so that's how I define success now is like can I show up as my true authentic self?
Speaker 1:you know, moment after moment, which can be difficult, to be honest, yeah, more of a shift, in that it's not so binary and it's not as outcome driven, as we believe it it may be, or as the word, as the word may appear to be. As you mentioned before and I'm with you as well winning certainly would have been tied to a scoreboard or some sort of outcome, but now it's something much deeper. For you it's with presence. For me, it's being in constant creation and alignment with my goals and values, and constant creation of powerful conversations like this, constant creation of meaningful experiences with people in the world. And 22-year-old Ryan 10 years ago would have said something completely different. So one last bit on this is if you were to give someone one piece of advice as to how they could define what winning is for their life, what would that be?
Speaker 2:A piece of advice would be to think about what definition would propel you forward and to use that definition when you think about what. Do you really need winning to be like, to be your best? What does that mean to you? And I would just give them advice to say be careful that it's not the outcome, because you can't ultimately control if you can reach that outcome. And you know, we know, ryan, that some of the world's best athletes, for example, they do have outcome goals, like they want to make it to the Olympics or they want to make it to the Superbowl. And I would also say is you know, they have other goals along with those and they use those goals to like, motivate them, those outcome goals. But every day they focus on you know what they can control. So I would say so, consider your definition of success and winning to be something you can control, because that's going to get you further along and keep you more motivated that comes out on Mondays.
Speaker 1:So I'm exploring what does winning actually mean? And asking high performers and people that have created successful lives and however they define that, but what appears to be outwardly successful lives, what does that mean to them? Because I believe winning is far more than an outcome and it's interesting to see that shift now across various industries, but in the personal development world as well, winning isn't so much of an outcome. Maybe it is to you, but I believe that through exploring this question, we're going to find different ways to look at our lives, create different perspectives, create perspectives that maybe that's the one thing we needed to hear, or the one shift that we needed to have in our life that day, that week, that season that we're in, so that we can look at things from a different lens. So Dr Sindra Kampoff she was on the podcast last week. She is a performance coach, has worked with a lot of elite athletes and teams, including the Minnesota Vikings and USA Track and Field, and that was interesting what she just said there with the first thing after the question came up, and that was interesting what she just said there with the first thing after the question came up Winning is consistently showing up as your best self.
Speaker 1:It makes me think of a Nick Bear quote that has come up a lot and has been sticking with me recently it is better to be consistently good than occasionally great great. So let this serve as a invitation or a call to action this week to be more consistent and evaluate are you as consistent as you would like to be in the things that are most meaningful to you and the things that you're most set on creating and pursuing in this current season of life and this year? It is better to be consistently good than occasionally great. But the challenge for you all this week, as it relates to winning, is to consistently show up as your best self and think through what that is. Appreciate y'all Check out Winning Is. You can check out the notes and subscribe. Lots of great stuff coming there. Make it a great week and win today.
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