#78 – How to Predict This Year’s Biggest Success Stories
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Episode Summary:
In this episode, Ian Hawkins highlights the power of consistency, routines, and sticking to what works. Drawing on lessons from sports and his own coaching experiences, Ian shares how having a clear plan and staying true to it can lead to sustained success. Reflecting on moments where teams and individuals lost their way—whether it’s a soccer team defending a lead or a client drifting from the habits that brought them success—Ian underscores the importance of commitment, clarity, and conviction.
Through stories of personal growth, coaching wins, and sports analogies, Ian reveals how consistency and alignment with your values can help you avoid setbacks, overcome challenges, and achieve your goals.
Tune in to discover practical strategies for creating a winning routine, building momentum, and coaching yourself and your team to lasting success.
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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
So firstly, it's a question of do you
Speaker:know what works? Do you have a routine on
Speaker:the game plan call on Monday? There's a
Speaker:guy there who's who's been absolutely
Speaker:killing it. And one of the things is you
Speaker:just go, I've just got to get back to my
Speaker:routine. He's had his holiday, just going
Speaker:to smash out that routine. And, and when
Speaker:he does morning and evening routines,
Speaker:he's just at the top of his game and he's
Speaker:got things heading in the right direction
Speaker:and everything else takes care of itself.
Speaker:I'm Ian Hawkins and this is Sporty's
Speaker:He doesn't
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:Having a conversation with a mate at the
Speaker:weekend talking about the Sydney
Speaker:Derby and the A league and how.
Speaker:The Wanderers were leading, leading well,
Speaker:and then they went away from what was
Speaker:working. They tried to well, they
Speaker:seemed to be playing to defend
Speaker:their lead instead of playing to win and.
Speaker:What usually happens is that suddenly
Speaker:they're under the pump. Sydney scored two
Speaker:late goals and.
Speaker:To draw in one of the greatest.
Speaker:Games of the year so far, really just the
Speaker:the drama and the action. And what is a
Speaker:Derby? Full house.
Speaker:Yeah, very good, and
Speaker:it always makes me shake my head with as
Speaker:a. Football fan, but also
Speaker:someone who's been involved in soccer my
Speaker:whole life is just that. That's what's
Speaker:possible. Like big crowds, but we just
Speaker:still seem so far away because, you
Speaker:know, the other games of the weekend you
Speaker:might get 7000 and the atmosphere is not
Speaker:the same.
Speaker:Anyway, I got a bit off track then, but
Speaker:the like the point of the conversation
Speaker:was around just that.
Speaker:Not not sticking to a winning
Speaker:formula. And if you
Speaker:look at look at it from a sports
Speaker:perspective, it's like the teams that are
Speaker:consistently winning, they're
Speaker:ruthless and they have a plan and they
Speaker:stick to it and they continue to focus on
Speaker:that. They might have a few different
Speaker:gears and they might have a few different
Speaker:ways of playing, but they're absolutely,
Speaker:they know their style and they just
Speaker:continue to play that way
Speaker:until the end. And obviously. Towards the
Speaker:end of the game, there are some subtle
Speaker:things that you can do, but. You
Speaker:want consistency, you want truthfulness.
Speaker:You got to stick to your plan. You may
Speaker:not guarantee yourself success, but at
Speaker:least you can walk off knowing that
Speaker:you've given every chance. And now
Speaker:Tottenham are in a bit of a hole. They've
Speaker:got lots of injuries. But you hear Ange
Speaker:talk about it all the time. He's like, we
Speaker:don't play the scoreboard, we play. This
Speaker:is how we play. And
Speaker:just after that conversation,
Speaker:the. The weekend's game, it
Speaker:got me thinking how often we do that.
Speaker:In our life to where?
Speaker:Things might be going well and we stopped
Speaker:doing the things that got us there.
Speaker:Often when I'm someone on coach
Speaker:previously comes back for some more
Speaker:coaching, it's usually that's the reason
Speaker:why is that they've stopped doing the
Speaker:things that got them to success and they
Speaker:need some accountability, maybe a bit of
Speaker:a kick up the ass and they need a boost
Speaker:to make sure they're getting back to
Speaker:doing those things. So
Speaker:firstly, it's a question of do you know
Speaker:what works? Do you have a routine on the
Speaker:game plan call on Monday? There's a guy
Speaker:there who's who's been absolutely killing
Speaker:it. And one of the things is you just go,
Speaker:I've just got to get back to my routine.
Speaker:He's had his holiday, just going to smash
Speaker:out that routine. And, and when he does
Speaker:morning and evening routines, he's just
Speaker:at the top of his game and he's got
Speaker:things heading in the right direction and
Speaker:everything else takes care of itself. He
Speaker:doesn't go away from those. He also.
Speaker:One of the tasks to get people to do is a
Speaker:commitment to themselves, and he took a
Speaker:fair bit of time, effort and pride in
Speaker:making sure his commitment to himself was
Speaker:right on. And he reads it every day. They
Speaker:haven't had a client do that. And he's
Speaker:getting results. So there's something to
Speaker:that, right? Some people do bits and
Speaker:pieces and some people that's fine
Speaker:because you don't. Sometimes you don't
Speaker:need everything. I'm not saying everyone
Speaker:needs to have that, but. He's
Speaker:consistent with it. How he knows what
Speaker:works for him. Having that commitment
Speaker:works for him. Having those routines
Speaker:works for him, and he makes sure he does
Speaker:it. So do you know what
Speaker:works? Are you consistent, and do you
Speaker:have a process in place to make sure you
Speaker:can stick to the things that work and
Speaker:continue to move forward so that you can
Speaker:continue to improve? At the very least,
Speaker:stay at the line, not find
Speaker:yourself drifting back into those holes.
Speaker:Because sometimes when you hit those
Speaker:holes, it can be a quick fall
Speaker:and then it can be a long slow grind to
Speaker:get back to where you were. But if you
Speaker:are not looking at.
Speaker:Like prevention, like what
Speaker:or, or papering over the cracks
Speaker:when things go wrong or just putting a
Speaker:few things in place and you're going to
Speaker:have relapses. But if you are looking at
Speaker:how do I continue to extend myself and
Speaker:improve and make sure I stick to the
Speaker:things that I know work and how can I add
Speaker:more of the things that maybe I haven't
Speaker:learned yet, they can extend myself.
Speaker:Well, then you're going to be like the
Speaker:Wanderers on Saturday night. You're going
Speaker:to keep having those. Light flourishes
Speaker:from life that kick you
Speaker:down. And even if it come
Speaker:back to parity, it's going to feel like a
Speaker:loss because you had the game,
Speaker:you had life just where you wanted it.
Speaker:Gotta know your plan and you gotta stick
Speaker:to it. You gotta have that
Speaker:consistency. So
Speaker:I've been banging on about it this week.
Speaker:Know your plan and I won't leave all the
Speaker:I won't bore you with more details about
Speaker:the planning session, but it is tomorrow.
Speaker:If you're watching this on Wednesday,
Speaker:there will be an opportunity to get the
Speaker:recording. Really small investment.
Speaker:Or do it yourself. But you need to have a
Speaker:plan, and you need to know what works,
Speaker:and you need to be consistent with it.
Speaker:And if you're coaching your team, it's
Speaker:the same. Don't chop and change. Don't.
Speaker:Don't.
Speaker:Sacrifice your values and your
Speaker:beliefs because of what other think
Speaker:people might be saying or doing. I
Speaker:remember the first year I coached at a
Speaker:high level in football.
Speaker:Full 30 something man squad.
Speaker:I didn't have enough conviction in in
Speaker:what I how I wanted to play and what I
Speaker:wanted to do. And I took advice from all
Speaker:these different people and I didn't trust
Speaker:my instincts and judgement. And then
Speaker:later in the year when I'm like, oh, I
Speaker:need to do this. I acted and it was too
Speaker:late. I'm already in a massive hole.
Speaker:Thankfully we didn't get relegated, but
Speaker:we weren't close. And it was
Speaker:because I wasn't clear. And then
Speaker:once I did get a bit clear, I didn't have
Speaker:the conviction to to.
Speaker:Trust myself and follow through with the
Speaker:action. Again, it's an importance of
Speaker:having good mentors, listening to them.
Speaker:Getting good advice and then also knowing
Speaker:what it is that you want and being
Speaker:definitive about that. And I
Speaker:love as well I talk about this
Speaker:podcast is how the transferable skills
Speaker:and moments and learnings
Speaker:across sport and life. Just
Speaker:love that. I'll send it to my coach,
Speaker:like sometimes you just need to give me a
Speaker:Rev up like it's half time because I love
Speaker:that. I love having someone to say to me,
Speaker:you haven't got this done, what's going
Speaker:on? You said you were going to do this.
Speaker:Here's what we talked about the process.
Speaker:Go back and see the process. Are you
Speaker:doing the training? Are you doing the
Speaker:practise? Are you doing those things?
Speaker:And to me, that's just a great.
Speaker:Recipe for success?
Speaker:The Paul Ruiz book, which was a big
Speaker:inspiration for me. Paul
Speaker:and Tammy Ruiz book was a big inspiration
Speaker:for me and so many levels. You know, he
Speaker:talked about living like an athlete and
Speaker:and.
Speaker:I've learnt over the years just how
Speaker:profound that statement was and just how
Speaker:many of those lessons are so true that
Speaker:actually they're they're even more true
Speaker:and there's so many more levels to it
Speaker:than I thought.
Speaker:So if you know that you've had that
Speaker:success in sport or just that you enjoy
Speaker:that, you know you're going to get the
Speaker:best out of yourself and start applying
Speaker:more of those skills into your day to day
Speaker:life and you're going to see things
Speaker:transfer, transform before your
Speaker:eyes, especially if you keep it a journal
Speaker:and you're keeping track of it. I wanted
Speaker:to include this quote from one of the
Speaker:people from the game plan training this
Speaker:week. Journaling supercharges
Speaker:everything. That's what they'd
Speaker:experienced from that, from the
Speaker:journaling process. Since I started my
Speaker:hair, but making sure they were
Speaker:practising gratitude. Their
Speaker:wins and then just journaling about what
Speaker:they're creating and what they want to
Speaker:create. It's just getting that,
Speaker:those ideas and those thoughts out of
Speaker:their head and putting it into
Speaker:written word, which makes it truth, which
Speaker:taps into your subconscious, which helps
Speaker:you go out and get it. It helps with that
Speaker:consistency, helps you stick to your
Speaker:routines and stick to your plans and make
Speaker:it happen. Go make it happen.
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.
