#170 – Want Bigger Results? Stop Chasing and Start Growing
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Episode Summary:
In this episode of Sport Is Life, Ian Hawkins challenges the “hustle and grind” mentality, sharing why real transformation comes not from chasing results but from growing into the person you need to be to achieve your vision. Inspired by a coaching session with a business client, Ian explores how limiting beliefs can cap our potential and how rewiring them opens up space to dream again.
Through a vivid “garden” analogy, Ian unpacks how to create the right environment for growth, success, and flow: planting empowering beliefs, nurturing yourself with light and fuel, removing weeds that stifle progress, and surrounding yourself with the right people. He also explains the science behind the brain’s Reticular Activating System and the magic-like synchronicity that happens when you get crystal clear on your goals.
Whether you’re an athlete, leader, or high performer, this episode offers practical and inspiring steps to stop chasing and start attracting the opportunities, people, and resources you need to flourish.
About the Host:
Ian Hawkins is dedicated to showing how sports can transform lives. With extensive experience as an athlete, a coach, PE teacher, community volunteer, and manager at Fox Sports, Ian brings a wealth of knowledge to the podcast. His journey began in his backyard, mentored by his older brother, and has since evolved into coaching elite athletes and business leaders. Ian's commitment to sports and personal development is evident in his roles as a performance coach and active community member. Through "Sport Is Life," Ian shares inspiring stories and valuable lessons to help listeners apply sports principles to all areas of life.
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Transcript
We all want results, but too often we
Speaker:get caught in the chase. We grind,
Speaker:we hustle, we chase the next win.
Speaker:But what if the real shift comes when you
Speaker:stop chasing and start growing? In
Speaker:this episode, I'm sharing or having a
Speaker:vision isn't just about achieving some
Speaker:perfect goal. It's about
Speaker:who you need to become to get there.
Speaker:I'll unpack how to create the right
Speaker:environment for growth, success and
Speaker:flow, and why, just like a garden, your
Speaker:mindset and surroundings need to be
Speaker:planted, fed, nurtured,
Speaker:and of course, weeded. Let's get into it.
Speaker:I'm Ian Hawkins and this is Sporty's
Speaker:life. The purpose of sport, as I
Speaker:see it, is to see your vision become a
Speaker:reality, find your voice, create
Speaker:strong connections and learn to trust
Speaker:your body.
Speaker:Just finished up with one of my business
Speaker:clients. I've got to get in the habit of
Speaker:recording these straight off the back of
Speaker:these. Sessions because this is
Speaker:where the ideas are freshers in my mind.
Speaker:There's always something in those
Speaker:conversations that.
Speaker:Have an element of goal that are going to
Speaker:be beneficial to you guys so I want to
Speaker:make sure I capture that as many times as
Speaker:possible and what we're talking about is
Speaker:is that he's now.
Speaker:We cleared some. Some blocks he
Speaker:had around his.
Speaker:Future he realised he hada ceiling
Speaker:to the results he was able to achieve and
Speaker:he wanted to break that ceiling. He he's
Speaker:done a bit of work on himself already, so
Speaker:he had a bit of self awareness around
Speaker:this and he actually mentioned a moment
Speaker:in his life, something his brother had
Speaker:said to him that had anchored in a belief
Speaker:about what he thought he was capable of.
Speaker:It's amazing the power of. People's words
Speaker:when we're young and the formative age
Speaker:and. And this
Speaker:statement had sort of plagued him to a
Speaker:certain degree. He knew it was holding
Speaker:him back, but he couldn't break it. So so
Speaker:we did that. We, we went through a
Speaker:process to rewire that belief, to
Speaker:actually remove it and create a whole new
Speaker:belief. And so suddenly he's like, OK,
Speaker:well, we'll need to like, get back to
Speaker:that vision. Like what? What is it that I
Speaker:do want? He kind of stopped dreaming.
Speaker:That belief had stopped him from having
Speaker:that full, unrestricted dream of what his
Speaker:future looked like. And so we we
Speaker:started him. On that process of
Speaker:forming his life game plan
Speaker:and I was describing to him
Speaker:how it works and I used a story
Speaker:that my coach back in
Speaker:2013 shared with me the.
Speaker:The future vision that you create. Your
Speaker:game plan. Is not
Speaker:because you have to
Speaker:achieve that particular.
Speaker:Goal or or. Future
Speaker:vision, but it's because of the person
Speaker:that you need to become to work towards
Speaker:that. And then we talked about how.
Speaker:When you get really clear on on what it
Speaker:is you want. Knowing that.
Speaker:Flagpole may move knowing that you know
Speaker:you're working towards it, but you're
Speaker:going to grow and change, and maybe what
Speaker:you thought you wanted might change.
Speaker:That. Once you get that
Speaker:clear vision, then things start to find
Speaker:their way to you. Your brain is
Speaker:incredible at filtering out unnecessary
Speaker:information, but you have to give it
Speaker:clear parameters of what you want. And
Speaker:that part of your brain, the RIS
Speaker:reticular activating system, will find
Speaker:what it is you want. And I've for
Speaker:me, like if there's a certain car you
Speaker:want to drive, suddenly you see them
Speaker:everywhere. Does everyone else see that
Speaker:car?As are they on the road?
Speaker:Absolutely. But because you've got clear,
Speaker:you've given your brain clear directions,
Speaker:it's always looking for it. And he
Speaker:understood it. He talked about, you know,
Speaker:the, the, the spotter, the yellow car.
Speaker:Suddenly you see yellow cars everywhere.
Speaker:Excuse me. And
Speaker:so creating that vision, but then we also
Speaker:talked about how. Once you do
Speaker:that, then. Whether you look
Speaker:come at it from a scientific perspective,
Speaker:which is because the brain is then
Speaker:focused on what it is, or whether you
Speaker:have a more spiritual belief in
Speaker:like things showing up, law of
Speaker:attraction, whatever it is like, is there
Speaker:any different way that you want to frame
Speaker:it? It's all the same thing. The clearer
Speaker:you are in your mind of what you want,
Speaker:the easier those things will find their
Speaker:way to you. It's it's
Speaker:not overcomplicating and I love how Steve
Speaker:Jobs described it. In that that
Speaker:famous speech he did, I think it was
Speaker:Stanford University and he said at some
Speaker:point you have to put your faith in
Speaker:something. Whether you call it life,
Speaker:whether you call it karma, whether you
Speaker:call it God, whether you call it.
Speaker:Attraction. He used other words I can't
Speaker:remember, but whatever it is, you need to
Speaker:put your faith in something. Knowing that
Speaker:life will work itself out. And it's the
Speaker:same thing for you. You have that vision,
Speaker:you put your faith and then things will
Speaker:show up. But you have to have that faith.
Speaker:We have to have the vision and then the
Speaker:faith. And then. And I told him this
Speaker:story. That my coach told to
Speaker:me. He said that there were these British
Speaker:scientists. They studied butterflies.
Speaker:What do you call a scientist that studies
Speaker:butterflies? I couldn't tell you, but
Speaker:they. Plan this trip to
Speaker:South America to find this rare butterfly
Speaker:that hadn't been seen in however long
Speaker:they wanted to find it. And so they went.
Speaker:They planned, did all of this extensive
Speaker:planning. They went there. They spent
Speaker:months and months, maybe even years, I
Speaker:can't remember exactly the the whole
Speaker:story. It was 12 years ago. But they
Speaker:never found it. The funding got removed
Speaker:and they had to go back. But they didn't
Speaker:want to give up, so they tried a
Speaker:different tact. They they'd heard there's
Speaker:other ways to do it. So what they did
Speaker:instead was build a garden in the UK,
Speaker:using all of the native plants to that
Speaker:particular area where this butterfly is
Speaker:known to live. And what do you reckon
Speaker:happened? These butterflies started
Speaker:turning up. Now the logic part
Speaker:of your brain goes, well, how is that
Speaker:possible? How do they fly across?
Speaker:The world will.
Speaker:The reality is there's so many different
Speaker:ways for that to happen. I don't know if
Speaker:butterflies can fly across things, but I
Speaker:also know that butterflies and eggs can
Speaker:get laid in a whole lot of different
Speaker:places where things come
Speaker:across other parts of the world.
Speaker:Australia has a quite.
Speaker:Strict quarantine and.
Speaker:And rules around customs and yet the the
Speaker:beetle that kills the that gets
Speaker:into beehives still got through and
Speaker:and a lot of beehives have been destroyed
Speaker:here in Australia in the last five years.
Speaker:It can happen, right? So the same thing.
Speaker:And actually it's not the point of the
Speaker:story. The point is, is that we don't go.
Speaker:Like trying to chase something
Speaker:necessarily, but if we create the right
Speaker:environment, if we create
Speaker:our best possible garden.
Speaker:We're crystal clear on the goal. We
Speaker:continue to build the garden that will
Speaker:attract the things that we need. So that
Speaker:might mean you need to plant
Speaker:certain things in your world.
Speaker:Maybe it's beliefs, maybe it's the people
Speaker:you surround you with. You're going to
Speaker:need fuel. Sunlight, so
Speaker:you need more light in your life, things
Speaker:that are going to light you up. You
Speaker:need to weed the garden. You need to get
Speaker:rid of those things that that overgrow
Speaker:the good parts, the things that grow fast
Speaker:and aren't helpful need to remove those
Speaker:water. Water is like flow, right?
Speaker:So bringing more of that flow, more of
Speaker:that place where you are you're most
Speaker:effective. Because when you do all of
Speaker:these things and you become that person
Speaker:that you need to be for that goal, that
Speaker:it's amazing what will show up for you,
Speaker:what will be attracted to your garden.
Speaker:It's like magic. And if you've ever had
Speaker:that experience of synchronicity where
Speaker:where just something happens where you're
Speaker:like, wow. That just blows me away.
Speaker:Opportunity falls in your lap.
Speaker:Those things happen off the back of
Speaker:having clarity on what it is you're
Speaker:working towards. Now, if up until this
Speaker:point in your life, you've had vague idea
Speaker:of where you're heading and what that
Speaker:future vision is, We've had vague
Speaker:results, but you've got an idea of what
Speaker:it is. So you still have had results and
Speaker:you've still had opportunities find you.
Speaker:Imagine what would show up for you if you
Speaker:had that clear vision, if you created an
Speaker:environment where those. 70s but I only
Speaker:found you. But you were ready to actually
Speaker:accept them. You had all of the resources
Speaker:in place to be able to then do something
Speaker:with them. Imagine what your life could
Speaker:look like.
Speaker:So it's not about chasing. It's not about
Speaker:working harder. And this is a
Speaker:cliche, but it's true. You need to work
Speaker:smarter. You need to have the right
Speaker:things in place. And then,
Speaker:importantly, you've got to take action.
Speaker:So where do you need to start? Do you
Speaker:need that future vision?Have you already
Speaker:got the vision clear and you need to
Speaker:start planting in your garden? Is there
Speaker:weeds in the garden that need to be
Speaker:removed?Are there people hanging out in
Speaker:your garden that don't need to be there
Speaker:because of the damage that they do?Maybe
Speaker:you need to bring in some more people
Speaker:that will help you with your garden, help
Speaker:it to flourish.
Speaker:Whatever it is, start somewhere. Take
Speaker:action. And just watch.
Speaker:Watch with amazement.
Speaker:About what you'll see, what you'll find,
Speaker:and the opportunities that will find you.
Speaker:As always, share your experience.
Speaker:Where have you had that moment of
Speaker:synchronicity? Something showing up that
Speaker:just blew your mind? So
Speaker:many because some of them, it's almost
Speaker:like magic, right?Well, again, it's not
Speaker:magic, It's it's science, but it's
Speaker:also an element of that feels like magic.
Speaker:There's there's a you get into quantum
Speaker:physics and the way that things are
Speaker:attracted like attracts like you've
Speaker:experienced it. That's
Speaker:amazing. So please
Speaker:do share your stories. And
Speaker:always sharing.
Speaker:Share this with anyone that you know
Speaker:would, would appreciate it that needs to
Speaker:hear this at this time. And
Speaker:yeah, I'll be very much appreciative of
Speaker:that. See you next time.
Speaker:You've taken the time to listen to this
Speaker:whole episode. Now it's time to take
Speaker:action. Commit to one thing you've
Speaker:learned today and make it happen. And to
Speaker:avoid any obstructions, join the
Speaker:Sporty's Life movement by clicking on the
Speaker:link in the show notes.
