What happens when you interview a man who's redefined what the human body and mind can endure? This week on Redefining High Performance, I talk with my friend James Lawrence, the Iron Cowboy, about the mindset behind doing the impossible. We dig into mental toughness, resilience, grit, identity, and the psychology of high performers. This conversation is gold.
Let's attack the myth of "more" and how that mentality is wrong. What takes you to the top is working "deeper" not just harder. At some point effort alone stops producing results. So how do we work deeper? Ty lays out the foundation for working deeper in this short episode. The real measure of success isn't how much you do but how deeply you do it. Let's step back and reflect on how we are showing up and focus on the depth.
This is the last part of a three-part series on High Performance Mindsets. Let's look at not just look at what high performers do but what they think about while they do it. Today, Ty dives into the mindset of empathetic drive. Drive is powerful but without balance you can become selfish. You're finding the balance behind pursuing results without losing the sight of relationships – ambition with understanding. When you combine the two – individual success can become collective impact. All three of these mindsets, when used together, will take you to the top.
This episode is part one of a two-part series on High Performance Mindsets. Ty explores the concept of the mindset of a Confident Curiosity – belief without certainty. Confidence is essential to performance, but confidence without curiosity leads to arrogance and getting in your own way. Are you able to have a surety to move forward while staying open to new possibility? This mindset keeps experts from becoming obsolete and innovators from becoming irrelevant. Let's work on being certain enough to act but humble enough to adapt.
This is the third and final part in a series on building connection. Ty discusses mastering conversational leadership to create more meaningful connection. He breaks it down into the "3 A's" to give you tangible tools to better your conversation skills. Let's honestly assess our skills and see where we can improve to increase connection.
Our second week of focusing on the importance of connection. Today, Ty discusses the importance of Investing In People, an investment with the greatest return. How do we invest in those we lead? These are the little things that change the nature of relationships and create real connection. Let's start doing those little things and creating influence.
For the next three weeks we will be focusing on the importance of connection. Connection is crucial to win in the people business – and we are all in the people business. In this episode, Ty breaks down the concept of being interested, rather than interesting and how that can fundamentally change how we connect with people. Ty gives tangible ideas how to implement this into our lives, our businesses, our interactions to grow and deepen our connections.
We all fall into the comparison trap in any aspect of our lives, but comparison doesn't serve us. Comparison impedes growth and impacts our social well-being. So how do we leave the comparisons behind? We can turn envy into inspiration, express gratitude and focus on our course and compare you to the you of yesterday. Focus on progress and be better every day. Tell me what you do to avoid unhealthy comparison on my social media and let's continue the conversation.
What is the most important ingredient to achieving any goal? There is one thing that makes the difference between wishing and actually hitting the mark. It's your level of commitment. Ty breaks down the Four Levels of Commitment to hopefully give you some insight into where your current commitment is and how to level up to make goal achievement happen.
High Performers adopt the mindset set of Relaxed Intensity. Having a relaxed intensity is having a calm focus with a purposeful drive. Developing this attribute is key to high performance and Ty breaks down in this episode how to cultivate this crucial mindset for high performers across the board. How do we develop precision under pressure? Listen and apply these principles to level up your game.
One of the biggest barriers to growth is taking feedback personally and not letting it fuel you to action. Ty dives into both giving and receiving feedback with the help of the book, Firm Feedback in a Fragile World by Jeff Hancher. This is a great episode to help you be your best self by using feedback as fuel.
Everyone talks about how your circle of association matters but Ty looks at that conventional concept from a different angle. To play at a higher level, we can't spend our time with those we are comfortable with. Are those around you challenging you to take it higher? Listen to this episode and take the challenge!
On Monday Kai Beckstrand became the American Ninja Warrior Champion & today he's sitting down with me on The Redefining High Performance Podcast to discuss this incredible win & the lessons learned in the process. This is a must listen.
How do we successfully make decisions in our lives and in our businesses? Ty lays out an effective framework for making productive decisions that lead to successful outcomes. This framework will help with large, life-changing decisions and smaller everyday decisions. Fear holds us back from making decisions, but having a process will help you overcome analysis paralysis and move forward. Listen and implement in your every day.
Listen as Ty dives into one of his favorite stories that demonstrates the high performance principle: Value Precedes Influence. Ty shows us how pursuing impact trumps comparison and how to apply that on your way to leveling up. How are you making an impact, not just being incrementally better than others? Great insight – don't miss this episode.
In this episode, Ty dives into the three High Performance principles: preparation, customization and engagement. Mastering these principles will set you apart and enable you to excel in any field. High performance does not happen by happenstance. It's in the preparation, the customization and engagement. How can you utilize these ideas to stand out in your own situation?
Wilt Chamberlain was one of the greatest basketball players of his time and could have potentially had an even bigger career had his ego not gotten in the way. In this episode, Ty breaks down the greatest barriers to high performance and how it comes down to ego. How do we push our ego aside to reach greater performance? Dive into this principle in this quick episode.
Our nation wide-research study on High Performance shows us what makes an individual a high performer and motivation was a leading answer. So how do we motivate out people? Let's dive into extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation and how we as leaders develop motivation in our people. There are three components to motivation. How do we use the three components and help our people find them too? Great leaders create the right atmosphere for motivation to grow. Let's break it down in this episode.
We tend to overvalue intensity and undervalue consistency. Consistency is a huge driver to achieving high performance. So how do stay consistent and how does it serve us? In this episode we dive into the concept and how to implement it. Learn the habits and systems to create consistency and the growth will follow.