In this video Aaron Doughty explores the energetic and mental patterns that distinguish champions—athletes and high‑performers who consistently win. He argues that true champions embody a "natural" sense of victory, rooted in belief that precedes feeling, thought, and action. By examining real‑world examples such as UFC fighters TJ Dillashaw, Jon Jones, Michael Jordan, Conor McGregor, and Khabib, Doughty illustrates how champions cultivate a love for the process, keep ego and importance off a pedestal, and often channel a higher power or source consciousness. He warns against making money the primary North Star, noting that when passion is replaced by profit‑driven motivation, performance declines. The video outlines a hierarchy of belief → feeling → thought → action → result, emphasizing that belief is the foundation of a champion’s vibration. Practical take‑aways include: make success feel natural, fall in love with the activity, reduce the importance you place on outcomes, and align with a higher purpose to reduce ego‑driven resistance. Doughty concludes with a call to viewers to apply these mindset shifts to become their own champions.
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To be a champion or someone that is consistently winning, that person has a certain energy. And in this video, I want to share with you what that energy is, the mindset shifts that can change everything, that can allow you to win more of the time, but also to be at the top of your game. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron Doughty. I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm gonna be sharing with you the mindset and vibration of a champion. Now whether that is somebody like Michael Jordan, whether that is someone like a famous tennis player, whatever sport you like, the person that is dominating the sport, the Tom Brady of football, the Michael Jordan of basketball, whoever it is, there's a certain energy and a mindset they have that is allowing them, that is in a way gifting out of them that ability that they have to be the best in the world. And this has to do with understanding the identity that they have and how they relate to that. Now, I was watching a UFC fight just a couple of days ago and there's this guy, this old champion. He was a champion 2 or 3 years ago. His name was TJ Dillashaw and this guy was a champion. I think he won 2— he won championship and then he defended it in his weight class. He's a bantamweight, 135-pounder, and he's really good. He got popped for steroids though. So when he got popped, for 2 years he was suspended. He came back now that he's off whatever he was on and he fought recently. And when he fought, it was a very interesting fight, went back and forth. It was a really good fight, honestly. And he ended up winning. And when he won, the interesting thing was he was being asked afterwards by the interviewer saying, "So, are you surprised by winning today and how does that make you feel? How does it feel to be winning, you know, to have won that?" And it wasn't for the championship belt. Probably the next fight he fights will be for the championship belt now that he's back after 2 years of being off. And he said something very interesting. He said, "I wasn't surprised that I won. I expected to win. I actually believed I would win. I didn't know how hard or how easy it was going to be for me to win." but I knew I would. And the interesting thing about that is he said something else that I found very interesting. He said it was natural for him to win. It felt natural for me to be in there. It felt natural for me to be in front of, you know, millions of people watching me. It feels natural. Now, when you look at that, the energy dynamics behind that perspective is that if it were on a pedestal, it would be this thing that you'd vibrationally butcher up. It'd be this really cool thing that happened. And if it's on a pedestal and it's not natural for you, it many times is blocked from coming into your life. I remember when I was first dreaming about one day being on YouTube and making a great amount of abundance and money. I remember thinking about that. It was on this big pedestal. I was like, oh, if I had all of that abundance, that money, this is what I do with it. But what I realized is it didn't come into my life until it was natural for me to be abundant. And by natural, this means I became the version of me where it was natural for me to be extraordinarily abundant. I became that version of me to where it is natural. That's one of the things I want to talk about. So for a champion to be doing what they're doing, they put in the hard work to where it gives themselves permission to where it is natural for them to be in that mentality. Now also someone else that we can look at, and I like UFC, so I'm a little bit biased, but you look at Jon Jones. Jon Jones is in the UFC as well, and he's this guy that's in the light heavyweight division. Now he's actually moved up to heavyweight, he's gained some weight, but he dominates completely, has dominated the light heavyweight division. Now one thing he would do— I'm not saying that this is what we should do— but he was on Joe Rogan, and after his fall, one thing he talked about was what he would do in order for him to get into the mode of him being a champion, to decrease importance. Because if he were to go into and wanting to be these fights, these big fights where all this, this light and all these people paying attention, if he were to put it on a pedestal, it would— he would feel fear. So what he would do is a week before these fights, he would go get obliterated drunk and he would do drugs and stuff. I'm not saying this is the key, but what— by doing that, he then had in his back of his mind that if I were to lose this fight, it was because of this. He would lessen the degree of importance. Now for him, I guess that's kind of worked, but I don't recommend it. So I'm not saying that that is the mindset or the vibe of a champion. But the thing I want to point out here is him getting obliterated drunk when he did was his way of decreasing importance, that if he lost, it wasn't this big thing on a pedestal for him. And he would do that before all of his main fights and he would still win, which was kind of crazy. But one other thing that I think is so important to understand is I've heard Michael Jordan talk about this. I've heard other amazing champions talk about this. Is they fall in love with the game. This is so important. You must be in love with what you're doing for you to be the best at anything. The person that's going to be the best YouTuber is the person that loves making videos. The person that's going to be the best at doing live events is the person that loves doing live events. The person that's going to be the best artist is the person that is in love. It's a part of who they are for them to be creating art. In the same way, I've seen champions fall off because they stopped this. They made money the goal. Look at Conor McGregor, who 4 or 5 years ago was at the top of his game. He loved fighting. He was fighting 3, 4 times a year, and he loved performing. He loved the trash talk. He loved all of it. And then he took 2 or 3 years off and he comes back and he now is worth over $100 million and he's focused on the money. He has lost his passion for what he was doing. He came back when he didn't have to. He's successful, could live his whole life being extraordinarily wealthy and not ever fight again, but he loves fighting. But what he lost is because he made it about the money, he lost the passion he used to have. So to be a champion, you have to be passionate about what you're doing. That has to be your main focus. You can't let it be the side effect. Money's a side effect. If you make money your North Star, you will not be a champion. If you make money your North Star of you being successful at whatever you're doing, you won't be the best at it because there'll be somebody else that's in love with the process. So if you want to be the best at what you're doing, you've got to fall in love with the process. You've got to fall in love with you becoming that ideal version of you, knowing that that's who you prefer to be. And when you're really in the moment, that changes everything. Another important part of this is having fun. When Conor McGregor became this big identity and got this big name, he also put the— all the awareness on the ego. It's like he has all this pressure he has to live up to, and recently he's been losing. I made another video about that recently. And one of the reasons I think so is he has all this, you know, it's all the ego and it's all this like, you know, dense energy instead of realizing if you're in the moment, you can allow this energy to channel through. When you're having fun, when it's earlier fights, he was having fun. He was enjoying it. He's very serious now. He's very serious and angry. And that's why I think one of the reasons he's losing and he's really focused on the money and it's all on his ego. And if you notice some fighters, some champions, Here's a very interesting thing about champions as well. Talk about Khabib. Khabib is somebody that fought Conor and that's pretty much unstoppable. He retired. One thing he always went, when he went up to his weight classes, you wanna know what he did? He'd go up to be weighed for the ceremonial weigh-ins. He'd weigh in and what he would do is he'd do this thing. He'd go, me? No. This is, that's who, that is what he's really giving the power up. To him. He's more in religion, you know, you know, there's spirituality, there's God, there's source consciousness, there's the universe, whatever you want to call it, but he's giving it up to a higher power. And when we start thinking it's our ego that's going to get us that which we want, we get out of that channel state, we get out of that mentality. So one of the best things I can recommend to you is that when you're really in divine alignment with who you and how you prefer to be, it's more of a channeling. There's less ego involved. Why I make it more about the videos I make, it's more about my passion and adding value to you. And because of that, it flows through. But when it's about how do I look, are people gonna like me, are they gonna get, it's gonna be a lot of views, are you guys gonna watch this video, you guys gonna like this video, please like this video, you see what I mean? It's a different needy energy. And when you need to win, well guess what? It's need, I need, I lack. But if it's natural for you to win, if it's natural for you to like this video, Did you guys like this video? It's natural for you to like this video because you're watching it 8 minutes in, you know, but really, if you want to, you can like the video. But the idea behind this is letting it be natural, expecting and belief in yourself. What do you believe about yourself? And that belief is key. Belief is everything. Belief comes before feeling, becomes before thoughts. This isn't just thinking it, thinking better thoughts. Thinking better thoughts. Thinking is two levels below belief. You have a meaning about who you are and what you're capable of in the world that generates a feeling that then has thoughts that are equal to that, that then has actions you take after the thought. Then you have results, and that result fuels the belief. So you must believe in yourself. You must believe in a higher power. You don't have to, but you can believe in that to channel through, you know, whatever your beliefs are. It's up to you. Everyone is always going to get reflected back to them, what they believe to be true. And these champions believe that they are— it's natural for them. They expect it because they've worked hard. That's their reasoning that reaffirms that same belief. So the vibe of a champion, it is natural, it is fun, they are in the moment. If their North Star is them being passionate, that changes everything. And I have a video on Conor McGregor if you haven't seen it yet that breaks down his psychology of his vibration when he was a champion to his vibration now. You can check out that video by clicking the link below and/or clicking the end card here. Other than that, if you guys like this video, feel free to like it, comment below, and let me know if videos like this resonate with you. I know they're a little bit different, but I like talking about these real-world examples. And if you guys like those, let me know. I shall do more. Other than that, as always, peace, much love, and namaste.
