Posts Tagged ‘Overcoming Adversity’
How Failure Has Gotten You Where You Are Today
In this week’s 5-minute episode, Dr. Cindra shares that failure is inevitable and when you define failure on your terms, you are able to see failure as an event, not who you are. You are able to keep pushing outside your comfort zone because that is how you learn and grow. Remember you want to…
Read MoreEmbracing the New Normal Mindset with John Register, Inspirational Speaker
John Register failed to clear a hurdle as he trained for the Olympic Games—a move that led to a tragic accident and altered his life forever. He shifted his focus and embraced a “new normal mindset.” The decorated Persian Gulf War combat U.S. Army veteran world champion became a two-time Paralympic Games Silver Medalist, professional…
Read MoreHow to Show Gratitude More Often
Regularly practicing gratitude is powerful because it has a lasting impact when doing it regularly. Gratitude is connected to better health, more optimism and resilience. Remember, you can shift your focus at any time to what is good and what you are gratitude for in the situation. Choose to take the perspective of a resilient…
Read More3 Ways to Reduce Stress
High performers see stressful situations as a challenge they can overcome instead of a threat to their performance or confidence. They remember it’s all about their perception of a situation and they talk to themselves powerful when experiencing stress – reminding themselves they can handle anything. Remember, “You have the resources to overcome this.” Power…
Read MoreThe Mindset to Overcome Adversity
High performers see stressful situations as a challenge they can overcome instead of a threat to their performance or confidence. This improves their health and their performance. They talk to themselves powerful when experiencing stress – reminding themselves they can handle anything. Quote of the Week: “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is…
Read More3 Ways to Reduce Pressure
High performers in sport, business, and life use pressure to be at their best. They use natural tools inside of them to see pressure as a privilege. In this episode, Cindra talks about how the best POP the Pressure they feel. Power Phrase of the Week: “ I see pressure as a privilege. Pressure leads me…
Read MoreLive and Let Go
Staying gritty and reaching high performance requires adopting the mindset of constant and never-ending improvement. Showing self-compassion is key to adapting and bouncing back quickly after setbacks, adversity, and mistakes. Self-compassion is also a powerful antidote to stress, anxiety, and perfectionistic thinking, which can lead to poor performance. When we practice self-compassion, we are able…
Read MoreOvercoming Negativity
Knowing doesn’t create change; it’s the doing that creates change. You may know about why we have negativity as humans, but you must put it into action to see the results. In this episode, Cindra talks about how negativity isn’t always bad – it can help us make good decisions and protect us. But many times too…
Read MoreStaying Strong in Adversity
In this episode, Cindra shares how we can overcome adversity and the research that supports the importance of looking for the opportunity in setbacks. She describes that practice “benefit finding” and how we can use the practice to stay strong in adversity. Quote of the week: “The most successful people see adversity not as a…
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…
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