The Power of a Word | Awareness

In this episode, Dr. Amber Selking speaks with Michael Yoder, founder and owner of Truth Work Media. Michael talks about his word for 2021 — awareness — and how he will focus it around creating, learning and resting. He discusses the power in writing things down and how it helps him not only flesh out ideas, but make them a reality. Listen as he shares how he’s learned to accept what he doesn’t know and also allow himself to be surrounded by people who do and can show him the way.

About Building Championship Mindsets

Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence. 

Selking Performance Group serves as the Mental Performance Consultant for Head Coach Brian Kelly and the Notre Dame Football team, and does speaking and training for sports teams and business organizations around the globe. She is the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development at Lippert Components, Inc., a publicly-traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our world.

Dr. Selking has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where she taught Strategic Human Resource Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Selking received her PhD in Applied Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri under Dr. Rick McGuire, her master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and her bachelor’s degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

Championship Mindset Training | MidWeek Mental Rep

• Send out a self-awareness email to 10 to 15 people and ask them to share two or three things they think you can work on to become a better person. Have the awareness to do something about it.

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “We aren’t our jobs. We aren’t our occupations, but what we do become is our habits. We do become our processes. We do become the people we surround ourselves with, and so the process of writing down goals that stretch you and make you into a better person that ultimately forms who you are as a human.” -Michael Yoder [08:45]
• “That is being self-aware enough, hopefully, that in 2021, I’m going to work less, because I didn’t start my own business to work all the time. I really didn’t. I didn’t start my business to make a ton of money. I started my business so I can live the life and the lifestyle that I want to live, and that involves resting.” -Michael Yoder [21:54]
• “But one of the things that I think that we forget as high performers, particularly in our society, is that recovery is part of the performance process.” -Dr. Amber Selking [22:29]

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TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[02:11] Today’s guest: Michael Yoder

[04:53] Michael’s word for 2021: awareness

[06:17] The goal planning process

[13:09] Three subcomponents of awareness

[25:28] This week’s Championship Mindset Training

[28:34] How to contact Michael

[30:03] Outro