EP42 Mindset Monday - Plan for Success

This is the empowered athlete podcast Mindset Monday. 10 minutes with Kari Schneider to learn new mindset tactics and tricks to optimize your performance in sport, business, and life. Let me take you back to the summer of 2008. It was my first summer not playing for the national team. I had it off. And I got to train the entire summer with Kari on a specifically made program that was tailored to me, my injuries, my body, and my goals for that next upcoming season. And I was 34 years old. Well, the result went back over to Turkey and won a European cup in incredible physical condition. Thank you to that program setting me up for the perfect season. Well, now you have access to the exact same thing. Hit email ksempowerconditioning.com that's KS for Kari Schneider. And get started on one of Kari's incredible online training programs. The program is tailored to you. It has video of each exercise you're doing so you know what you're doing. Your reps are laid out, the sets are laid out. You can't go wrong. Reach out now to reach your best.

And welcome to Mindset Monday. And it is a real gray, cold, rainy Monday. And if you're anything like me, you've been through phases where you would wake up and see this kind of thing and just feel like it's Monday. I don't want to do anything. I don't like this. I've got the whole rest of my week. I've got so much to do. You can all hear that whole mindset wrapping up into what your day is going to look like and ultimately your week. So today we are going to talk about how to plan for success and specifically planning. How do you plan to get your best results for your week? If you can plan one week after another, you're ultimately going to build upon major success and meet those monthly goals or meet those annual goals or those bigger goals that you really want to get after. So how do you do that? How do you plan for success? I'm going to kind of go back to basics so that you can mitigate some of the things that stick stop you from getting your best results. So first, before we get into that planning for success, we're going to talk about the dream stealers. And this is something I learned from a life coach a while back a few years ago, but they call them the dream stealers. And as I was aware of this, I saw it for myself and I saw it for many of my athletes and clients over and over. And the dream stealers are the thoughts that come in or the excuse excuses that come out that say, I don't know, I'm confused, I don't have time. The I don't know, I'm confused, I don't have time. When someone is asking you what you want, that is your dream stealer. So I've been lucky enough in my career to have people coming in with definitive goals and that's why they've come to me. They have definitive sport goals or, or career goals or physical goals, typically a physical goal, and that's why they've come. And when that happens, that's great because they have clarity. But when you ask someone that's a family member or a teammate or someone you work with and you say what do you want? And they're wishy washy, it's I don't know, or I don't have time to go for something right now, or I'm confused about what to do when those things are coming out. That's the dream stealer. That's going to cause confusion and lack of clarity in not allowing someone to move forward. And it's very convenient because when someone says I don't have time, well, that's a legitimate excuse. So why would you have to plan for something if you don't have time or if you really don't know? Well, okay, I understand if you don't know, well, we'll wait till you do know. But those are your dream stealers. If you find those lines popping up in your mind, then you're going to have to take a step back and get to know yourself. So that takes us into our planning. Number one, you need to know what you want. If those dream stealers of I don't know, I'm confused or I don't have time keep popping up, then you don't have clarity on what you want. If you know what you want, then that dictates everything about what you plan for your week. It causes all of the decisions that you're going to make in what that week entails. Let's look at a high performance athlete, for instance. If you have somebody who is operating at a professional level, then they know there's going to be likely two practices a day. There's likely going to be one to two matches or games or whatever their sport is per week. And that dictates almost every. Everything that they do in between. Everything else becomes filler. How do they prepare for that practice? How do they prepare for that game? All of the things in the planning becomes filler because the games are so important. Or because the practices are so important and because those things are so big, everything else falls into place around it. Take a look at an executive or a teacher or a parent. Those same types of things happen, those big chunks. And then when you know what you want, those big chunks should be feeding into that thing. If that athlete wants a championship, then winning those certain games or preparing properly for those certain games are vital for what they want. If they have complete clarity over what they want. So knowing what you want is number one. It's so, so, so important. If you don't know what you want, you. You have to take a step backwards and get to know yourself. There are three things that I would recommend to get to know yourself. Pay attention. Pay attention to what you like and what you don't like. Don't be afraid to try things that you think you're not going to like. Go and find out whether you like it or not. Because as soon as you find some things that you don't like, it starts pointing you into the direction that you should or you that is more pertinent for your interests. So pay attention to the things you like and the things you don't like. If people know you really well, they're going to know what you want to order at a restaurant. They're going to know what you want to do in an evening. They're going to know whether you like certain types of movies. Know yourself. Get to know yourself deeper. Pay attention. Acceptance. So getting to know yourself involves paying attention. It involves acceptance of who you are and what you've experienced in the world. And then, only then are you going to be able to access your greater wisdom. Because I promise you that you have the answers. I don't have the answers for you. No coach has the answers for you. You have the answers within yourself. It's going to be the coach or the people close to you that simply help bring that out. You already have the answers. So get to know yourself. This is number one. Know what you want. If you don't know what you want, then step backwards and get to know yourself better via paying attention, acceptance, and accessing what you already know. The answers are within you. So the second thing in planning is your rocks, your pebbles and your sand. You've probably heard this before, that your rocks are your big priorities, your pebbles are your smaller, intermediate ones, and then there's your sand, all the filler, everything in between. So if your rocks are your big priorities, your family, your career, the goals that you have, and you know those are in there, you've heard that over and over. But what does that look like in real life? In my real life, it looks like, hey, I've got these big goals or these big priorities, especially my family, especially my career. And then I find that even though those are so important, the urgent things come in like crazy. So an email needs replied to be reply to because there's a time sensitive nature to it or somebody's something happened where a child is sick, so there's an urgent nature, I've got to go pick them up or whatever. But there's all kinds of urgent things that come at us day to day that impinge upon our big rocks or our priorities. So those are the things that if you know those are going to come at you, you're going to have to create some buffer time. You cannot do what you think you're going to be able to do in that given amount of time. There has to be some buffer zones, whether it's a little extra time at lunch or a little time in between each of your main blocks of rocks. Okay, number three for planning being intentional. If you think that going to practice, if you're a professional athlete, going to practice and just showing up and going through the motions is going to be the thing to get you to your goal, you're absolutely dead wrong. It is the same thing as showing up at work. Did you show up to do something, be intentional, be somebody, or did you show up for something to do just to kill some time, just because you're supposed to clock in, clock out, you know, make sure you get your hours? Or are you being intentional and this comes down to quality? Everything that you do has to have the quality. If the quality isn't there, then don't expect that block of time to actually be contributing. Then what you did by not being intentional, what you did is, is you turned that rock of priority into a pebble. And even worse, you might have turned it into sand because you were putting poor quality in, which is reinforcing poor quality. So to go back to that planning, to really have solid weekly planning, if you take a look at what you want in that week, you've got to know exactly what you want. You want X number of hours putting towards the project, you want X number of hours put towards your family or whatever other important things for you, then you pick what is really important. Make sure that you've got some buffer zones because those pebbles are going to start to chip away at your big rocks. And what I mean by that is that those urgent needs coming in that you have to act on whether it's paying taxes or a sick kid or doing that other urgent, time sensitive email, those things are going to chip away at your big rocks, your important priorities. So make sure you've got buffers that can accommodate some of that, some white space, some free time within that block of week as well. And then lastly, whatever you've booked in, make sure that quality is there. If you're looking to do some research online, don't get sucked into the rabbit hole of all sorts of 30 minutes of exploring Pinterest or whatever else the thing is, or staring at a magazine for an hour when you knew you needed to get some studying done. Whatever it is for your life, whether you're a student or you're in your career, you're a parent or you're a professional athlete. So make sure you've got, you know what you want. You've got your rocks, pebbles and sand in order prioritized, and you've got quality time going towards the things that you are actually booking in. So I hope that helps for your planning. Remember, don't get the dream stealers of confusion and I don't know and I don't have time to stumble stop you from getting to where you really want to go. Keep going for what you really want to go go for. And if you want more of what we're offering when it comes to my husband and myself, we have an amazing podcast called Empowered Athlete Podcast. You can learn from incredible athletes on how they overcame things and how they got to where they did in their amazing journey. And also keep an eye out for what we're posting here. So have a great day and share this with your friends. If you're finding the group an amazing thing for you, then share it with somebody else. Have a good one, guys. Happy Monday.