#58 - Step Out of Your Comfort Zone, Conquer Imposter Syndrome, and Soar in 2025
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Episode Summary:
In this episode of Sport Is Life, Ian Hawkins dives into the key actions needed to make 2025 your best year yet. He discusses overcoming imposter syndrome, building self-belief, and stepping out of your comfort zone. Using a flight analogy, Ian explains how preparation, energy, and the right environment are essential for success. Whether you're looking to upgrade your personal brand, improve performance, or find consistency, Ian's strategies will help you finish this year strong and set up next year with momentum. Tune in for practical insights and details about his free training to kickstart 2025.
About the Host:
Ian Hawkins, host of "Sport Is Life," 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
Do you know that you need to get yourself
Speaker:outside your comfort zone more than you
Speaker:did in 2024? To have more self
Speaker:belief? To share that imposter syndrome
Speaker:feeling that shows up? Today's episode
Speaker:I'm going to tell you how you can set
Speaker:yourself up to make 2025 the year that
Speaker:you do all of those things.
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:If you want to increase your performance
Speaker:in different areas of your life, find
Speaker:more consistency.
Speaker:Upgrade your personal brand
Speaker:so that people take notice, so that
Speaker:people can see just how valuable you are,
Speaker:the impact that you are having and really
Speaker:recognise that you're trying to
Speaker:grow. One of the challenges that can come
Speaker:up is imposter syndrome. That feeling
Speaker:that you're not good enough. That feeling
Speaker:that despite the fact that people might
Speaker:look at you at a certain level or as an
Speaker:authority or an expert or
Speaker:or you have a certain role. Is part
Speaker:of you that feels like a fraud?Because
Speaker:there are times where you just don't get
Speaker:it right and you have that thought. Lucky
Speaker:they don't know what's going on in my
Speaker:head. Lucky they can't see behind the
Speaker:curtain and see what's really going on
Speaker:'cause I'm not that good. That's what
Speaker:that self doubt creeps in. And you may
Speaker:have had those feelings or thoughts or
Speaker:even identify with that term. Imposter
Speaker:Syndra. Now, one of the ways that you
Speaker:can change that requires you to get out
Speaker:of your comfort zone. I want you to look
Speaker:at it like this. Think about when you
Speaker:have to go on a plane ride. Think
Speaker:about for a plane,
Speaker:well, not the plane itself, but the
Speaker:actual trip. How many of the
Speaker:different areas of
Speaker:life show up on that trip if you're
Speaker:going somewhere for work. Then it can
Speaker:have you maybe working on the flight or
Speaker:trying to switch off and relax. Maybe
Speaker:you've not slept enough if you if it's an
Speaker:early start or, or maybe it's you're
Speaker:excited, you're going on holiday
Speaker:and you're just absolutely pumped
Speaker:for the trip. Maybe it's been the end of
Speaker:a long period of time and you're actually
Speaker:exhausted heading on this trip and and
Speaker:you're trying to get yourself recharged
Speaker:for the holiday. For some people,
Speaker:flights are scary.
Speaker:They find it really quite challenging.
Speaker:There's a social element. You're either
Speaker:flying with people and you're you're
Speaker:hanging out, you're chatting, but you're
Speaker:also sometimes just talking to random
Speaker:strangers. Or the real social
Speaker:element, think about the plane
Speaker:itself. It
Speaker:requires it to be in balance and it
Speaker:hits turbulence like we do in our life.
Speaker:Now let's look at what gives the
Speaker:plane the ability to actually fly.
Speaker:To requires energy, it requires
Speaker:structure, so it needs to be
Speaker:built a certain way, So.
Speaker:Of course it requires
Speaker:navigation. It needs you need to know
Speaker:where you're heading and you need to have
Speaker:a map and a plan and you need to
Speaker:be driving. It needs to be a pilot,
Speaker:right? The environment is important.
Speaker:You can't just take off in in anyweather.
Speaker:And. Everything
Speaker:has to be in the right place for you to
Speaker:be able to move forward in that flight to
Speaker:go well. Preparation, all those different
Speaker:things. So if you look at that, how you
Speaker:would look at your life.
Speaker:All of those different areas of life, we
Speaker:experience them all.
Speaker:Now to be at our best and give ourselves
Speaker:the best chance and make sure we get to
Speaker:our destination safely, then you 2 need
Speaker:to have a navigation system. You need to
Speaker:have a game plan. You need to know what
Speaker:you're working towards and you need to
Speaker:have a plan, some structure on how to
Speaker:actually get there. You need to have
Speaker:energy. You can't keep burning
Speaker:yourself out. You can't keep pushing
Speaker:yourself to the limit. You can't keep.
Speaker:Then what's the expression treating your
Speaker:body like an amusement park on the
Speaker:weekend? So putting the wrong things
Speaker:in there. Pushing your body to limits
Speaker:that maybe you you can't do anymore.
Speaker:And not putting yourself in environments
Speaker:that that aren't safe, that aren't good
Speaker:for your health.
Speaker:Because when you can get well, if you're
Speaker:doing all of those things and you're just
Speaker:going to keep yourself in that pattern,
Speaker:you're going to when you hit that stage
Speaker:of impostor syndrome or, or trying to
Speaker:grow, then the way you've
Speaker:been treating yourself and the lack of
Speaker:energy is just going to really fuel that
Speaker:self doubt. If you want to take
Speaker:off, if you want to fly and you want to
Speaker:actually go to all new levels. And of
Speaker:course, get to your destination safely
Speaker:and feeling strong and
Speaker:energised. Then you
Speaker:need to change some of
Speaker:those patterns, some of those behaviours
Speaker:and you need to get them right. So
Speaker:if you've just got through this last year
Speaker:and you feel like you're hanging on,
Speaker:you're like hanging on to the wing or out
Speaker:the window or, or you're on the
Speaker:flight, but you're, you're not really
Speaker:there. You're checked out, you're
Speaker:exhausted, you're snoozing. Or maybe it
Speaker:just feels like the flight is all over
Speaker:the place, like there's a lot of
Speaker:turbulence.
Speaker:You're, you haven't got that steady
Speaker:navigation and yeah, the
Speaker:flight is literally jumping all over the
Speaker:place. When, what do you need to
Speaker:change? So that next
Speaker:year, you finish the year with
Speaker:momentum that you can take into the next
Speaker:year. Because if you are feeling that
Speaker:way, if you're feeling flat, then you can
Speaker:take that momentum straight into the next
Speaker:year. You can take your while to get
Speaker:going. I equate it to
Speaker:that when you're preparing for
Speaker:something in a in a sporting context.
Speaker:If you don't know what the next thing is,
Speaker:what the next event is, what the next
Speaker:thing you need to be working towards,
Speaker:then you'll hit the end of a, a period of
Speaker:time. Maybe you have a, an event or a run
Speaker:a game and then you take your
Speaker:foot off the pedal and you relax and you
Speaker:won't have any of that momentum. But if
Speaker:you know what's next, if you've got a
Speaker:game the next week or you know that
Speaker:you've got a pre-season starting, or if
Speaker:you're, if you're a runner or a cyclist,
Speaker:you've got another event coming up and
Speaker:it's booked in and. You give yourself
Speaker:some time off, but you'll get yourself
Speaker:back on track now, next year, if
Speaker:you don't know what you're working
Speaker:towards and you don't have a plan. And of
Speaker:course, imposter syndrome is going to
Speaker:creep in because you'll start to have
Speaker:doubts when you're not prepared, when you
Speaker:haven't got things in place, when you
Speaker:haven't got energy. And
Speaker:you're not in an environment that's
Speaker:conducive to growth to you improving
Speaker:yourself and improving that personal
Speaker:brand. So it requires you, excuse
Speaker:me, it requires you to get outside your
Speaker:comfort zone to be able to do that.
Speaker:So this year nearly done,
Speaker:but it's not you've not run out of time.
Speaker:So like I've mentioned earlier in the
Speaker:week, I'm running a free training to help
Speaker:you get all these things in place to have
Speaker:that self awareness of OK, what isn't
Speaker:working at the moment, what has been
Speaker:stopping me, what's been getting in the
Speaker:way? Identify that resistance so
Speaker:that you can have that action happening.
Speaker:And then importantly. Find what the
Speaker:best strategy is for you to move forward
Speaker:and make next year the absolute best year
Speaker:it can be. So go to the link in the show
Speaker:notes Sporty's Life
Speaker:Movement. You'll go in there and the
Speaker:the training it's actually starts.
Speaker:Today, when this episode is
Speaker:released, but you'll be able to go into
Speaker:the guide section of the
Speaker:Facebook group and all of the training
Speaker:will be in there and it's going to help
Speaker:set you up for the new year. It's going
Speaker:to give you all of the structure, some
Speaker:planning, some self awareness
Speaker:around where you're at and what needs to
Speaker:change, and give you all of those things
Speaker:you need to set yourself up for the best
Speaker:year. I'll leave it there for
Speaker:today if.
Speaker:You know this is something you need, but
Speaker:you're feeling like maybe you're tired
Speaker:and you rundown. It's just questioning
Speaker:like, can I just give myself?
Speaker:These. Short bits of training to
Speaker:get myself set up.
Speaker:Just for this one last usher next year, I
Speaker:can face it in a completely different
Speaker:way. If you know you need
Speaker:this but you're not quite sure if you got
Speaker:the energy, then that might just require
Speaker:some. Again, some honest self reflection
Speaker:of making sure you.
Speaker:Make this happen.
Speaker:Even though maybe you're not feeling it
Speaker:at the moment.
Speaker:I said I was leaving it there. I kept
Speaker:talking. I will definitely finish off
Speaker:now. Have an awesome day. I'll speak to
Speaker:you soon.
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 Sporty's
Speaker:Life movement by clicking on the link in
Speaker:the show notes.
