Winning The Mental Game | You Give Power To What You Focus On
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
- How do you change in stressful moments? Do you get external and distracted or internal and hyper focused on yourself? Make the choice to direct your attention to where it needs to be to help you be effective in the moment.
STANDOUT QUOTES
- “Performance is how you show up, moment by moment. Whether you are a mom or a dad, a friend or a family member or whether you are sitting down to manage your books… All of us need to learn how to win our mental game and direct our attention to the things that matter.” -Dr. Amber Selking [02:12]
- “Our thoughts affect our emotions, which affect our physiological response, our heart rate, our muscle tension, our visual field, our hormones and ultimately how our bodies are, determines our performance in the moment.” -Dr. Amber Selking [04:45]
- “Attentional control is all about being locked on to the right things at the right time. It is a purposeful process.” -Dr. Amber Selking [07:33]
- “When we talk about performance and execution we have to learn how to pull our minds from the past or the future, into the present moment. Because this is where performance happens.” -Dr. Amber Selking [08:12]
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Additional Links:
Email Amber to book an engagement or become a podcast partner at drselking@selkingperformance.com
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Check out our EBooks! "A Dream Come True: the Buzz on Greatness" “Winner's Circle"
Check out Dr. Selking’s TEDxTalk entitled, “Think Like a Champion Today” to learn more about the power of your mind to drive excellence in all areas of your life!
TIMESTAMPS
[00:04] Intro
[01:46] Play #5: Attentional Control
[02:40] Client story
[07:13] Develop your Attentional Control
[08:55] This week’s Championship Mindset Training
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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.
