Part 3 - The Hidden Formula For Peak Performance

Welcome to this edition of the Million Dollar Mastermind podcast. This is where we pick the brains of high achievers from all walks of life and get their hard earned real world insights on winning. I'm your host, Larry Wydell. When you're thinking about your kids and of course your, like Tiger woods was talking about his, his son Charlie said they were saying you have a lot of father son talks and you know, pass on to him a lot of things you've learned. And he said he doesn't listen to me on anything except golf.

Well, I don't want to speak out of line because they may hear this or see this, they probably agree with you, but you just, all you can do is your best and.

Yeah, but when you have your, your kids and when you have people that look to you for leadership, I know you try and set a certain kind of example and you know that you have a lot of eyes on you. If you look back in your life, what do you think? Were there forks in the road? Do you look back in your life and see that there were forts in your, in the road where you could have gone, made a wrong turn or gone in another direction and things would have turned out all differently?

Well, I can't say I haven't been down a lot of wrong turns or dead ends. So I tried everything. But, you know, my sports medicine career, that's all I wanted to do. And I've been to the Olympics a couple times and taken care of multiple Olympic teams. I had 20 years as a Division 1 team physician for the University of North Texas. I've been to more hundreds of high school football games than I could ever relate to you and just being there to be available, you know, that's how I learned from my father to be successful. He said, you show up and you be consistent and persistent for a long enough period of time until, as my buddy Jeff Olson's book the Slight Edge says, until the compounding effect takes you and carries you to where you want to be. It's not what I did today or that one bad decision or one good decision. It's that compounded effect over time. And so I just try to live my life that way.

I've heard that said, like you want this, it's the opposite of quitting. You want to stay with whatever it is you're doing to give time for your efforts to compound and grow because it always, everything always seems like it's taking longer than it should. And what was the, how did you get to, you know, selected to go to The Olympics. And what was that experience like?

Oh, I was awesome. You know, I. Well I was active. I was on the board of my National Academy American Hospital Academy of sports medicine for 12 years. Showed up at meetings all the time and had tours. When we did gosh back in the 80s I had a meeting in Colorado Spring Zoo and they took all the sports medicine guys and we got to go do a walk through and a walk around and I just started reaching out to people and writing letters and sending my resume CV at the time and and was fortunate enough to be selected as a volunteer team position at the US Olympic Training center in Colorado Springs back in the early 90s, 92 or 93. And then through that I started working with USA Boxing, USA Judo and then was selected by them to go with them as a team doc and at the Olympics in Atlanta. My passion I grew up ski racing. I didn't quite make it with the alpine team, but I got to go to El Colorado, Chile outside of Santiago for a couple weeks in the summer of 2007 as team doctor for the on the hill with the freestyle ski team and we get to wear the jacket and be part of things and it was yeah, it's a thrill. It was the highlight of my career. The Olympic experiences were great. And then one of the hardest things now is to watch a college football game. I've never set the stands. I've been on the sidelines my whole life and North Texas was a great place and I love being having been part of the Mean Green and still follow them. So that was a big change in 2010 when I moved here was to and walk away from that and change the direction of my career strictly into anti aging and regenerative medicine.

Did you learn anything at all from being that close to so many different coaches at different levels in the heat of battle? Did you or were you just totally concentrated on the hilt side of it or can you pick up the piece of.

Yeah, I loved being on the sidelines and I was always somewhere near the coach and I've been blessed to. I was team doctor for GA Moore for 20 years. He was the number one winningest coach in the history of Texas high school football. He's still alive. We're Facebook friends. He's since retired. But I can just tell you those guys and someone like Johnny Jones who went from North Texas to LSU is now back in Texas a former all American basketball player, Daryl Dickey, who I loved some great coaches, their ability to get more out of someone than they thought they had in Them was amazing. I mean, it just, it was like being around Olympic athletes. Those athletes aren't necessarily more talented than you or I or anybody else, but they work so hard day in, day out until they hone that skill and they are the best in the world and win the Olympics. And I was just blessed to be able to be around coaches and leaders of that caliber that people still talk about. And it's changed, I can tell you. You go back to a little pilot Texas, and there's nobody there that has been around in the last 30 years or more that wasn't impacted by that coach, by G.A. moore. I mean, he, he directed those young men in their lives to go on and be successful following the principles that it took to be successful in athletics.

And if you were to describe how they were able to affect that, make that happen, not only get people to get them to stay with the training, do it at that intensity level and then come to the game and at the moment of truth, be able to deliver again and again the peak, not peak performance. You use peak performance in your literature. Because I know that there's some background behind it. It's not just words you picked out of.

Well, it's very. It's a gift. They have a gift and they were, you know, it's. They knew when to get on someone and when not to, when to build them up and when to back off. And they were just masters at human motivation and getting these young men, including my sons, to, to perform and a level they wanted to, they aspired to, but maybe they didn't believe they could. And they put the belief. And it was just an amazing honor to be around those guys.

And the great thing about achieving greatness in whatever arena of life and you've had a chance to see it through athletics and medicine and everything, is the fact that it does inspire other people to greatness. Don't you believe?

Oh, absolutely. And what's the ripple effect? Those kids, their lives were changed forever whether they were on the first team or sat the bench some they were in the environment, they heard it and they used those tools to go on and create a happy family, to provide for your wife and kids. And there's obviously not just about men. There's tremendous female athletes and, and people around that were part of that support system for every individual athlete.

As people got get to know you better through your book and through your podcast and everything. I think what's going to come out, Doc, is your, your relationships. Because in the world when you're growing up, people, kids and people hear things like mentorship and coaches and things one thing and another. But relationships, I mean you've got a incredible wealth and network of relationships in so many different fields all over the country. It's kind of amazing. And you strengthen those when you strengthen, expand those when you continue to be in the game, going to conferences. But none of that would do you any good if you weren't on the attack with your own practice as well. Would you say that's the case there? Yeah.

Just is part of the environment of learning and bettering yourself and constantly being around people that you can either support or that you can learn something from.

Yeah. And right from the beginning, starting with your dad and coaches and everything growing up that gave you that foundation because I know you got. You've had as tough things happen in life, throw you things that anyone could, you know, a lot of bullets you love to have dodged, but they hit you anyway. But you've had that strength. And what do you do when you get hit with the worst fireball type thing like that? What do you do?

Well, that's a great, great topic and thing to talk about because it's a. I would have never accepted failure in my life. No just means not right now. And to find another way to succeed, to do something. I've been broke. I've had a lot of things happen. I had a spouse die of brain cancer and two boys to take care of. And along with a host of issues with family and business, business failures. I mean it hasn't been easy, but I spent a lot of time reading Personal Development. As I mentioned, my friend, my buddy Jeff Olson used to have a tv, a private TV network that was strictly personal development. So I still on the desk, I read Jim Rohn how to Lead an Inspired Life. I'm always reading it on my ibooks and sending my boys quotes. They get sick of it. But I'm like, there's a wealth of success in the books and books, tapes, podcasts, things like yours that people just have to make an effort to access. And it just takes a little bit read one chapter of a good book a day and. And I mean a novel and steamy romance thing, I mean how does the scene sales. You'd be shocked at how many people in sales have never read a sales book.

Right.

And I. So it's one thing to learn science and help, but you know, I also learn personal development because that is really the difference maker in making yourself more attractive to others. You can't go force anything. It's stuck in Your head down somebody's throat. They have to want what you have to give.

Yeah, yeah. And you have to make it easy for yourself, have the resources around you. You know, they know where to find on YouTube. The right people make it easy to find on Instagram, you know, people to follow on Instagram or our books. I've got books by my spiritual growth books by my bed bed that I've been reading since I was in my 20s, but now I'll just read. Because you forget everything. Maybe I'm. I'm just particularly forgetful, but sometimes I'll only read like two sentences or one sentence, like. Yep, I got it. Okay, reset.

Yeah. And I'll tell you what really sets my foundation is my spiritual background.

Yeah.

I read every day. I don't preach to anyone. Everyone's allowed their own perspective on life and life after death and spirituality. But it affects everything I do, and it affects health and wellness. You have to be grounded and well rounded, whether it's well read, with authors close to your maker, to your higher power, whatever that is to you. And. And I have studied a lot of religions in. In my lifetime, and. And I'm in a comfortable place where I feel that I have a pretty powerful team, so to speak.

Well, I don't think it's too confrontational to say to people that obviously things are not here by accident. You're not here by accident. It's not too much to accept the fact that there's a plan behind this and there's a plan for you, and it's not too much to consider the thing that maybe I should get in line with that plan rather than fight it. I'm probably going to have more. More success if I go along with a program that was. I was supposed to go with. Maybe the abilities and the interests I have. Maybe that has something to do with what I'm supposed to do with my life. That's not too much to challenge people with, I don't think.

Julia, I would agree with you.

Yeah. Now as you go, when you think I real. We'll let you go. But when you look at that book, I will tell you that before I started my podcast, I had 20 years of trying to figure out how to do podcasting. 20 frigging years. I even sent one of my secretaries through a course. A school sent her away. Learn how to do it, get it all. That didn't work either. And so I can relate. But sometimes if you keep it on your mind, there's a reason it's on your mind. And so how do you feel about those 20, 20 something things? I mean, you feel good about having that, those blocks of information down on the podcast, having done that now?

Yeah, I feel, it feels great when I, you. When you watch yourself for the first time, it's like, yeah, that was pretty good. I didn't know because it just comes out. I just start talking and it's like, wow, that wasn't too bad. You did okay. You know, it feels pretty good.

Yeah, it's kind of like sometimes if you're. You're speaking at a convention, I've been things where I've spoken somewhere and, and I almost said, like, that's pretty good. I've never heard myself say that before. Is someone writing this down? Because that subconscious, you know, our minds are putting stuff together all the time. So it's interesting when it comes out, and it's great when you have a format for it to come out. And when you looked at that book, you got a little bit emotional about the book. What about the book gets you emotional that you're going to. Gonna. Gonna feel great about having that done?

I think. Well, one, just a sense of completion. That. All right, I, I did something and I think someone's gonna want to look, read this, learn this, or hear, hear from me in this format. And I, I sent it to Bill Fallon and with Life Extension, and he just wrote the forward to my book. I don't know if I can talk about it without getting choked up. I mean, I literally cried when I read it. It's short, but it's so concise and it's so in tune with how I wanted this to come out. And so, yeah, it's just satisfying, but it's just real satisfying to feel like you've reached a milestone that's been on your goal list for 40 years.

Right. And the thing is that, Julian, we're supposed to do things, we get these ideas, but they're nothing until you put it out there. And you never. When, when I did the podcast, it's kind of like, honey, we both had. Every time I go down, and it's been 20 years since I've been down there. But anyway, go down to South America and try to do some wing shooting. You go out in the morning, say, I hope I just get one bird. I just hope I don't humiliate myself. And then, of course, a few minutes later, you're. You're off to the races. But like, you start a podcast, you say, will anybody listen, Anybody buy the book? But anybody will anybody come to my business. I open my business, I come up with a new product or something like that. You always have that. It was the same thing if you're musician, anybody going to buy my record. But until you get it out there, you, you'll never know. You got to go. And it's like I've, I've heard this before, that there are two rules of success has to do with the, like the Olympics. It's like you've got to pay full price and you got to pay that price in advance. And you want to win the gold medal, you got to be prepared. And so there's no, there's no discount on, on greatness. There's no discount price on it. You got to pay full price, got to do it in advance. And that's pretty much the way it is all through life if you want to succeed and have a life you could be proud of. And so you're just such a great example of that continuing to fight. I'm going to give you the last word for everybody listening who stayed with us and what do you think we ought to send people away with?

Well, don't take your health for granted, you know, and there's a lot more than I preached for a long time as a sports medicine position for diet, exercise, spiritual awakenings. But go get tested, seek out an expert, because as I say, nobody's immune to the effects of aging. And I don't care if you're 30 or 60. I see I have dozens of guys in their 30s that haven't felt up to par, that things aren't quite right, that somebody said you're normal. Well, there's a difference between normal and optimal. And so find someone that can help guide you down that path.

Yeah. And if you want to do something great with your life, you're probably going to be asking a lot out of your body, a lot out of your mind. A lot of you're going to put yourself through a lot. So you better take care of your tool. That's your first tool. And so great advice. Thanks so much and wish you the best with the podcast and the book. And I'm sure we'll be coming back together and talking about how all that's turned out down the road.

Awesome. Thank you and enjoy your podcast. Thanks.

Thanks so much.

All right, buddy. Bye.

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