Coach Dana Cavalea explains the midline concept from his book Habits of a Champion: operate from a neutral emotional baseline regardless of wins or losses. Life, business, and sport are cyclical. Staying on the midline means maintaining perspective and control, not suppressing emotion, so you perform consistently without extreme swings.
When things are going well, people are feeling amazing. And when things go low, they get really down.
So let's get into some nitty-gritty tactics, right? The name of your book is Habits of a Champion. No one becomes a champion by accident. So right off the bat, what's the number one thing that is like your most common, you got to get this clean in your life, or the people you work with? Like, what would be the top thing that you say like everybody has to clean up on their side of the street?
Yeah, I find a common thread again is, you know, there's one of the chapters in my book is never get too high and never get too low. And I find that like when things are going well, people are feeling amazing. And when things go low, they get really down. So what I try to teach them is working what I call your midline, working and coming from a position all of all time at all times, from a position of neutrality. So when things go well, listen, you're expecting them to go well. And when things go poorly, well, you're expecting that as well, because success and failure travel together. So there shouldn't be any surprises, you know. In every business, it's cyclical. In life, it's cyclical. People come, people go. Business comes, business goes. So you got to know the rules of the game in which you play. So you got to know the rules of life. And you gotta know the rules of business. And you have to know the rules of sport. And when you know the rules of the game, you're less apt to fly up and fly down, fly up and fly down. So when we ride the midline, it's not saying numb yourself or work from a position of where nothing excites you and you don't get pissed over anything. It's just getting you to understand a full perspective of what's going on. In the world around you and that you are in control of that.
