Mentally Strong
How to Create a Thriving Culture
Several years ago, Google undertook a massive two-year study on high-performing teams, calling it “Project Aristotle.” They sought to answer the question “What makes a high performing team?” After conducting over 200 interviews, they surprisingly found a top ingredient for high-performing teams was psychological safety—in fact, it was the most important ingredient in high-performing teams. Today on the podcast,…
Read MoreTrain Your Mind Like an Olympian
Today in this episode, Dr. Cindra who works with several Olympians, talks about how we each need to train our mind like an Olympian. Training your mind like an Olympian includes believing in your potential, and believing anything is possible. Research also confirms that importance of preplanning our self-talk for moments we feel pressure. What…
Read MoreUsing Your Emotions as Data
Today on the podcast Dr. Cindra talks about the importance of using our emotions as data to regulate our emotions. We are not born regulating our emotions instead we learn this skill. Our emotions direct our actions, decisions, relationships, performance, and health. The RULER acronym can help us consider our emotions and Cindra shares how…
Read MoreTurn Stress into Excitement
Today on the podcast, Dr. Cindra talks about the importance of when you feel stress or pressure to interpret that as “I am excited” instead of trying to calm down. We all experience moments of stress and pressure in our lives. We cannot live a life without stress and pressure. Seeing your stress or pressure…
Read MoreEverything is an Opportunity
Today on the podcast, Dr. Cindra shares with us how to find the opportunity in everything. We can find the opportunity in the difficulties we have experienced in the past, current struggles, or events in the future. When we see the difficulty as happening for us, we grow and learn, feel in control, and create more powerful…
Read MoreEnvisioning Your Future
In this episode, Cindra Kamphoff shares the power of completing the Best Possible Self where you imagine everything going perfectly in the future for you 1, 5, 10 or 15 years from now. Research has found that by completing this exercise, it helps improve optimism, positive affect, and expectations for the future. Once you complete the…
Read MoreTaming Your Inner Critic
In the episode today, Dr. Cindra talks with Lisa Kaye about how we all have an inner gremlin what is formed to protect us. Listening to this gremlin leads us to playing small and puts a cap on our limitless potential. To identify your gremlin message, ask yourself “What gets in the way of you moving forward…
Read MoreHow Breathing Calms Your Brain
The present moment is the only place peak performance is possible. Breathing deliberately is important to your mindset because it allows you to remain in the present moment and reduces your stress, anxiety, and anger. Breathing deliberately also improves memory and awareness. Dr. Cindra talks about how to count with your breathing because this helps you…
Read MoreTrain Your Trust
Trusting yourself is an essential part of building your self-confidence. Your trust is a trait that can be trained, and should be trained. First, when training your trust, it is important to not wait for confidence – instead, act confidently. Second, we need to doubt our doubts! Most of what we say to ourselves when…
Read MoreThe 3 Gifts Technique
This week on the podcast we talk about The 3 Gifts Technique. Consider a difficulty you are experiencing right now – the difficulty could be big or small. Then, ask yourself, how can this be a gift? The gift could come from an increased knowledge, power to grow your mental muscle in a new way,…
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