Confidence Classic: Unlock More of Your Potential with Heather!

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

This episode explores how breaking free from negative patterns and self-limiting beliefs can unlock untapped potential. Host Heather Monahan

Key takeaways

• The top performers in tennis were not distinguished by skill or training alone, but by their ability to quickly shift to positive thoughts after mistakes.
• Rejection can be a redirection toward something bigger than originally imagined.

Main topics

• Mindset shift after setbacks
• Positive self-talk and visualization

Notable quotes

What are you not considering that's already in front of you?

The difference was within a couple of seconds of making the bad shot—grasping onto a positive thought.

Conclusion

By embracing positivity, openness to feedback, and small intentional changes,

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) What are you not considering that's in front of you? Speaker 1 (0:02) If Speaker 2 (0:03) you're on the hamster wheel and just reliving Groundhog Day over and over, you are in trouble. One small thing can jumpstart everything and start you down a completely different path of change, growth, personal growth, and potential within you. The differentiator was within a couple of seconds of making the bad shot, missing the shot, hitting the ball out, the difference was... They grasp onto a positive thought. You have to be willing and open-minded to see what uncertainty could be. How else could we envision this? What else could this look like? His business has exploded. He's making more money than he's ever made all by stepping into possibility, all by seeing that rejection as a redirection to something so much bigger that he never even considered. Come Speaker 1 (0:48) on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals. overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow. I'm ready for my close-up. Speaker 2 (1:00) Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus confidence classics episodes we've been dropping on you every week? We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to. So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones Speaker 1 (1:12) you may have already missed. I hope you love this one as much as I do. Hi, Speaker 2 (1:17) and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week. Okay. So a couple of things that came up that I thought might add value to you or might be helpful in some way in wherever you are today, right? We all have good days. We all have challenging days. We're all faced with different situations, but I'll tell you this. One thing I know for sure, if you're on the hamster wheel and just reliving Groundhog Day over and over, you are in trouble. Please pump the brakes, do something different. That is a death trap. That's called circling the proverbial bottom of the sink. Like you're going nowhere but down, right? No, we are not meant for that. We are meant for so much more. So I'm going to challenge you, whatever it may be, sign up for a new class, join a new program, you know. commit to an accountability partner, do something to get you like one small thing can jumpstart everything and start you down a completely different path of change, growth, personal growth, and potential within you. And that's what we're all here for is to live that potential within us. And far too many cemeteries are full of potential that was never realized. Don't let that be you. Don't let that be me. No, we got to push each other to go for more to make this world a better place. And anything can change in an instant. It's up to you. Okay, I'm hopefully going to give you some good solutions on how you can make some change and you can do that today. So two different things that came up that I wanted to share with you. One, I was watching a video, a really successful guy, actually local in South Florida. He was talking about some research that he had accessed from a professional tennis coach. And the professional tennis coach was looking at the top. Absolute top, top, top three of the best world champions in tennis. And then looking at the difference between them and the top 25. Right. So if you're the top 25 in the world in tennis, I wouldn't think there's probably all that much difference. But he had found some very specific things, something very specific, actually, that made these individuals perform better, differently and above. the top 25, right? So, you know, most people would think like, oh, it's obviously one person's more skilled than the other. You know, obviously one person had a better coach, better parents, started younger, right? They practice more. They've had more in-person tournaments. I'm sure there's a million reasons. But what is interesting to me is none of those were the determining factor. In fact, he said it didn't matter what age they started at, didn't matter necessarily, you know, who had the most prestigious coach or went to this school or had the wealthiest parents. All of the people, all the tennis players that he was looking at in the top 25 pretty much were similar around skill set and talent and the amount of time they worked and had comparable in regards to all had really good