Winning the Mental Game | Find Your Optimal Zone
In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking discusses Play #4 of the Mental Performance Playbook and how to find your optimal zone. Dr. Selking talks about how we can reach our optimal zone when we trust our preparation. When we identify our optimal zone, we can manage our intensity and deliver consistent high performance. We can use adrenaline to get in the zone, show up where it matters, and win our mental game.
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.
As a leader in the field of sport and performance psychology, Dr. Amber Selking has been fiercely devoted to optimizing human performance in people and systems throughout her entire career.
Dr. Selking is the founder of Selking Performance Group, a leading performance consulting practice that helps individuals, companies, and sports teams achieve sustainable results. She has served as the Mental Performance Coach for the Notre Dame Football team and as the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development for Lippert, a global, 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. She has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.
Dr. Selking holds a Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and an undergraduate degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before an 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
- What are you doing leading up to your moment? Is it helping you be in the zone that you need to be in when you need to be there? Use the idea of a pre-routine to get into that zone.
STANDOUT QUOTES
- “I firmly believe that people want to be good and do good in the world. But, oftentimes the barrier to get there is how they think. Their beliefs about themselves or about their abilities in the world.” - Dr. Amber Selking [01:51]
- “If we can learn to tap into and truly win our mental game, I believe that not only are we going to enjoy life more, have more fun in the process, but the world is gonna be a better place along the way.” -Dr. Amber Selking [02:10]
- “Whether you’re standing on a football field, in a board room or before the love of your life, how you show up matters and you don’t need to leave that up to chance.” -Dr. Amber Selking [10:18]
- “Regardless of what is going on around us, regardless of the butterflies, we might feel. Listen, you’re still going to feel the butterflies, you’re still gonna have adrenaline searing through your body. I don’t want any of that to stop. I just want us to know how to use it, direct it, get in that zone and be our best. Because it matters.” [11:54]
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TIMESTAMPS
[00:02] Intro
[01:20] Play #4: Intensity Management
[03:20] Client story
[09:58] Finding your optimal zone
[11:02] This week’s Championship Mindset Training
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