#61 – The 3 Keys to Success: Lessons from Elite Athletes
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Episode Summary:
Ian Hawkins explores the three key elements of success, inspired by lessons from elite sportspeople. He emphasizes the importance of hard work, doing what you love, and being authentically yourself. Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, Ian shows how small, intentional steps can lead to a more fulfilling and successful life.
- Discover why doing what you love is crucial for long-term success and happiness.
- Learn how being authentically yourself can help you overcome challenges and build stronger connections.
- Explore the role of courage, commitment, and incremental changes in creating a life you love.
Now is the time to take action—commit to one step today and embrace your journey toward success.
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
I know you want more success because
Speaker:you're listening to this podcast, but
Speaker:what are the best people do? What are the
Speaker:elite do well in sport? There's three key
Speaker:things. Today. I explained to you what
Speaker:they are and how you can bring more of
Speaker:those three things to your life today.
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:Whenever I've heard elite sports
Speaker:people ask the question of what's the
Speaker:most important thing? If you're giving
Speaker:advice to someone about success, it's
Speaker:always these three things that come
Speaker:come up that are that they
Speaker:say are important. Now, nearly all of
Speaker:them say hard work. That's a given,
Speaker:right? If you want to be good at
Speaker:anything, you have to put in the work.
Speaker:You have to do the hours. I think
Speaker:everyone knows that. The two other things
Speaker:I wanted to talk about today. One is you
Speaker:have to enjoy yourself.
Speaker:You have to do things that you love. You
Speaker:get success when you're doing stuff that
Speaker:you love. Now, I speak to so many
Speaker:people at my age and actually
Speaker:probably across the board and they,
Speaker:I asked them particularly for their job.
Speaker:Oh, you must really love what you do or
Speaker:something along those lines. I say
Speaker:something like that. Let me go. That's
Speaker:OK, Kind of.
Speaker:Yeah, it's pretty good. But we're not
Speaker:even pretty good. Some of them might even
Speaker:say, well, if I change
Speaker:directions, then, you know, maybe that
Speaker:would be too hard. Maybe I wouldn't be
Speaker:able to earn the same amount of money.
Speaker:All these different excuses. Why not?
Speaker:Now I know what that's like because I can
Speaker:remember. Few years after my dad
Speaker:died, just questioning lots of things in
Speaker:my life and I was just thinking, I worked
Speaker:at Fox Sports. It was such a great place
Speaker:to work until it wasn't because I wasn't
Speaker:able to extend myself, not because it
Speaker:wasn't a good place to work, but because
Speaker:I wasn't enjoying what I was doing. And I
Speaker:looked wanting something that gave me
Speaker:more fulfilment that thatgave me more
Speaker:enjoyment. And I can
Speaker:remember the conversation I had with
Speaker:myself, just I remember walking. So
Speaker:vividly walking through the office and
Speaker:just thinking, I keep telling people I
Speaker:love my job, but, but do I really? And I
Speaker:keep telling people I'm happy, but am I
Speaker:really happy? Like, am I, am I fulfilled
Speaker:enough? And the answer to both those
Speaker:questions was no. I wanted more.
Speaker:I wanted to enjoy what I did so much
Speaker:more. I wanted to love it. I wanted to,
Speaker:you know, these people they talked about
Speaker:who get up, jump out of bed in the
Speaker:morning because they love what they do.
Speaker:And doesn't feel like a day of work.
Speaker:Now, I'm happy to say that's where I am
Speaker:now, but that took time and it took
Speaker:courage and commitment for me to go well,
Speaker:I'm going to change direction and it's
Speaker:not about ripping the band aid and I'm
Speaker:just going headlong into something that's
Speaker:just going to cause you stress and
Speaker:overwhelm. But it's working towards
Speaker:something, taking the gradual steps
Speaker:because I'm a big believer that when you
Speaker:find what it is you love and pursue it,
Speaker:you'll find a way to make it work. You'll
Speaker:find a way to make it work financially.
Speaker:You'll find a way to. As a career, you'll
Speaker:find a way to make it work, whatever it
Speaker:is. So if you're at that point in
Speaker:your career and you're thinking maybe I,
Speaker:maybe I could be doing something else,
Speaker:but then you go, oh, but how am I going
Speaker:to, how am I going to get around the
Speaker:money side of things again? It takes
Speaker:courage and it takes commitment. For me,
Speaker:it was about 3-4 years of it was like
Speaker:working two jobs. So I would get home
Speaker:from work, I'd spend time with the
Speaker:family, and then I would dive headlong
Speaker:into creating something new.
Speaker:And it did take time, but totally
Speaker:worth it. And the other thing
Speaker:that they say that's hard work,
Speaker:loving what you do. And the third thing
Speaker:is making sure you are being yourself.
Speaker:Now I would ask all of you to have a
Speaker:blunt and honest self assessment of of
Speaker:how you show up in different
Speaker:circumstances and how often you
Speaker:be a lesser version of yourself or a
Speaker:different version of yourself to suit
Speaker:circumstances. How often are you not
Speaker:being yourself? How often are you?
Speaker:Making sacrifices, tolerating things
Speaker:that you shouldn't for fear of upsetting
Speaker:other people. People
Speaker:pleasing? Just yeah. Try
Speaker:trying to make everyone else happy and
Speaker:comfortable. It doesn't
Speaker:really do them a service and it certainly
Speaker:doesn't do you a service. It doesn't
Speaker:everyone a disservice. The more you can
Speaker:be authentically yourself and the more
Speaker:you're going to get out of everything you
Speaker:do and you're going to be far more
Speaker:successful. So you look back at like
Speaker:doing what you love. If you don't love it
Speaker:when it gets hard, you'll find an excuse.
Speaker:You'll find something not a reason not to
Speaker:do it. When you are having to make
Speaker:sacrifices and you're not fully being
Speaker:yourself, then you develop things like
Speaker:resentment, frustration.
Speaker:You might get a good result by trying to
Speaker:be someone you're not, but then it always
Speaker:comes with a payout. Pay off when you
Speaker:then step away from whatever it was you
Speaker:were doing and realise that that just
Speaker:didn't feel right.
Speaker:So like with anything where you want
Speaker:to make changes, it's not about trying to
Speaker:dive headlong into something, it's not
Speaker:about trying to go zero
Speaker:to 103 seconds, It's what incremental changes can I make?
Speaker:probably
Speaker:And don't choose all three. Just focus on one of these three areas to
Speaker:improve your success. If you're already working hard, and as I've talked
Speaker:to to you many times, you'reworking
Speaker:o to
Speaker:hard at different moments. Than the other
Speaker:two areas, what can you do differently?
Speaker:What can you bring more of what you love
Speaker:into your day to day and where can you be
Speaker:starting to step up and be more of who
Speaker:you actually are?
Speaker:Not what you think that the world wants
Speaker:to see from you or what other people
Speaker:expect of you, but who you are
Speaker:takes courage, takes commitment, but it
Speaker:will be the best thing you will do.
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.
