Winning the Mental Game | Habits Create Excellence
In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking discusses Play #8 of the mental performance playbook and the importance of routine. Dr. Selking discusses how habits build excellence and allow us to show up every day with intentionality. When life becomes challenging, we resort to the habits we have created in our lives. Dr. Selking shares how developing routines is a learned skill that requires consistency, purpose and commitment.
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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.
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Flesh out your own competitive identity. Connect with the most beautiful and powerful parts of yourself. What routines do I need to build to help me get into that competitive identity right now?
STANDOUT QUOTES
- “Routines are an effective way to get our minds, emotions and bodies into position to build powerful habits. Routines help build habits. Habits lead to consistency. Consistency leads to excellence.” -Dr. Amber Selking [04:19]
- “Developing effective routines is a learned skill. We can integrate these skills into our performance strategy and execution in a way that facilitates performance excellence. It takes work. It requires intentionality and purpose.” -Dr. Amber Selking [04:51]
- “Don’t let the world take your power away. Don’t let the world tell you that this season, this moment of your life doesn’t matter. Because it does. It matters right now.” -Dr. Amber Selking [12:15]
- “Use these mental plays. Build routines that help you show up more consistently. Because we need your excellence in the world.” -Dr. Amber Selking [12:55]
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TIMESTAMPS
[1:03] Intro
[1:12] Mental Play #8: Routines
[3:35] Building habits of excellence
[6:17] Client story
[11:34] Mid-week Mental Rep
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Please rate and review us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and engagement will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on social media, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.
