Athlete CEO #43: Find, Attach and Attack Your Way to Clarity | Josiah Igono & Erik Averill
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Episode Summary
We’ve all been there – taking the field at the big game, stepping into the boardroom for an important meeting, coming home after a long day to rambunctious kids who demand your attention, or heading in for the massive exam.
It can be easy to get overwhelmed and shut down, to lose focus, to have 10,000 thoughts suddenly racing through your head that draw your attention away.
How do you push past these mental hurdles? How can you be wholly present and focused on your intended results?
In our Peak Performance episodes, Erik Averill, co-founder of AWM Capital, is joined by Josiah Igono, our resident PhD of Performance Psychology and founder of All Things Performance, to focus on helping you develop the greatest impact on your net worth: your human capital.
In the last episode, Josiah shared the skills and habits that are foundational for reaching our performance goals. This week, we drill down on focal points. Erik and Josiah discuss what focal points are and how to set them to achieve high performance at work, on the field, and at home.
Episode Highlights:
Focusing on focal points (00:28)
Defining focal points (1:08)
“A focal point is somewhere in the performance field whereby I can just anchor my thoughts and I can just take those 10 to 50,000 thoughts that are racing through my mind and calm it down and zero in on what I'm about to do next.” – Josiah Igono
Find, Attach, Attack (1:41)
Applying focal points for professional athletes (2:52)
Battling mental fogginess and finding clarity with focal points (3:55)
How focal points lengthens the space for your responses (5:55)
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and in that space is our ability to choose, and in our choice lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl
Setting intention at home through focal points (7:06)
“But when you have these focal points and some of these mental skills in place, what it does, it actually allows you to have control. Time is not leading me, I'm telling time where to go.” – Josiah Igono (9:25)
Existing vs Flourishing (9:58)
“We’re not created to just exist, we’re created to flourish” – Erik Averill (10:39)
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