Welcome to the Mindset Coach Academy Podcast. I'm Lindsay Wilson and I am a high-performance mindset coach, a mom, a former professional athlete and entrepreneur. I help coaches and high performers optimize their mindset to improve their coaching, their performance and those of their athletes and their lives. Here you'll learn all about mindset, how to live it, how to teach it and how to sell it. Hi y'all and welcome to the Mindset Coach Academy Podcast.
My name is Lindsay Wilson. You guys, we are giving away for free today our positive performance, six-step mindset and mental training framework. Guys, this is so simple and it works so well. This is exactly what we teach our mindset coaching certification students. It's what I take most athletes through and it will change the way that you coach. So I'm gonna get into that but first I want to talk about why I came up with this and I also want to tell you that within this podcast is the six-step framework but this is also in our new e-book, How to Become a Mental Performance Coach that by the time this is live is probably right on our website. It'll definitely be in the show notes and it's really a guide that will help you one decide if mental training as a career is ready, is right for you or as a side hustle whatever making money as a mindset coach. coach and it will answer a lot of the questions that you guys have that people come to me asking about how to make money, who they're going to make money with, how much money they can make, what they're going to teach, how they're going to teach it, how they get good at being a mindset and mental performance coach, whether they should get go back to school or get certified, like all the questions that so many of you have in your mind, and maybe even we know that you have in your mind, but are sort of like working in the background and like maybe you're Googling it occasionally or maybe you're like looking at what I do or what other people do and like trying to figure out like, can I do this?
Like that's the ultimate question, right? Can I do this? Can I make money at this? And this guide is going to help you answer that. So get your copy.
It's totally free. And it talks about this six step framework. Okay. So the reason that this framework is so powerful is one, it fricking works. These are all proven methods. They are not theory.
They are not based on some whim. These are used many, many times with many different athletes at many different levels. And so the reason that I want to share this is because I see so many coaches on the team are trying to do it, maybe, but they're like doing the throwing spaghetti approach. And they're like, oh, let's try some breathing or let's try a mistake ritual or let's try and those are all good things.
Don't get me wrong. Or let's talk to a player after a game when they played bad and like they're trying and that might be you, but they don't know what works. They don't have any way to measure it. And it's frustrating because it's it kind of feels like it's their tools, but they don't know how to teach it to their athletes. And look, a lot of this stuff is if you don't know how to teach it, it can be intimidating and can be hard because it's like, how do you teach somebody potentially something that you do naturally? How do you teach somebody how to compete?
How do you teach somebody how to be mentally tough? They're simple tools and you will be shocked at how easy it is. But if you don't know how, it's very complicated in your brain at least. You're like, how do I don't even know what I do to prepare for a competition? Like I don't even know how I react after a failure. I just do it. And that's why the skill of mindset and mental performance coaching is different than being mentally tough.
Right? Like Breonna Stewart or Michael Jordan, like, could they teach somebody how to compete at the level they they they do? I don't know.
But my guess would be no. Because it's not so easy to teach what you do maybe more naturally or things that you picked up along the way. Like I was talking to one of our mindset coaching certification students or graduates actually, and she's a fighter pilot. And she's like, I was doing a lot of this stuff.
Like just in the, you know, the adrenaline filled world that she's in. But I didn't know I was doing them. And how do you teach somebody something you don't know?
you're doing. So this framework, I think you'll have some ah-ha moments, I think you'll be like, oh, I knew that, I didn't even know I'd do that. Or, oh, these are the only things I should be teaching. Because what the other thing that happens is a lot of coaches get really overwhelmed and they like learn a bunch of stuff, they're like on YouTube, they're like reading every book and they're passionate about this stuff, you know, they follow our newsletter and like they're into this stuff, which is great. We all in this field like nerd out on this stuff, like it's so fun, it's so fun to learn different tools and tweak different things.
But it can also be a little paralyzing, right? It can also be like, oh, I know all these things, but what do I teach my athletes on a Tuesday afternoon? Because if you throw the book at them and you put everything on their plate, they're gonna learn nothing. That's what's gonna happen. And you're like, why doesn't this stuff work? Or why aren't they bought in?
It's like, they're just overwhelmed. So the six things I'm gonna talk about today. This is in my experience of doing this for like 18 years is these are the six things that 90 to 95 % of athletes need. Because they don't do these things. They don't do these six things. I would say they're almost like the low hanging fruit, but like a little bit more than that. Because I would say they're the quick wins.
That's how I would say it. These are the quick wins. But a little bit more than that because most people don't do these six things, even though they're really simple. And you will see that if you take your athletes, whether that's your team or your client, and you take them through these six steps of this framework, even if they got one of these things down, their whole competition performance would improve their life, their ability to manage their brain, their ability to step into difficult situations and deal with difficult things will shift. And it's six things and they're simple.
But the beauty is that they are simple. Okay, so don't overcomplicate it. Don't go think that you need to come up with some big, huge curriculum.
Most people need this. Now, can you teach more things after this? Yeah, you could just keep going through and deeper and other layers of these same six pieces of this framework. If you're working with elite, elite athletes, they may have some of these things in place already, but it's not to say that you can't go through this exact framework and be like, okay, we're going to go deeper in this sense. So don't overthink it, these six steps work. I've been doing them for a long time. I've distilled it down to the things that are the most important that flat out work.
Okay, y'all ready? The positive performance, six step mindset training framework. This is what we teach our certification students and this is what I use with my athletes. Okay, step one is how the brain works. Now, we have a very specific way that we teach this. We talk about how the brain works with a metaphor and we have different exercises that illustrate this and we talk very clearly and simplistically on how the brain works with the subconscious and the conscious and this ties into a lot of the work that we do with visualization when our performance visualization specialist. But it is a simple framework and it really helps people understand how powerful the subconscious brain is. What it also does is it helps them understand how the human brain works, which normalizes their struggles because a lot of people will be like, well, why am I self-sabotaging or why does this seem harder for me than other people? Or, you know, they'll feel kind of alone in their mental struggles and talking to them about how the brain works really sort of neutralizes this. And it also gives them hope that their brain can be trained because once we understand how the human brain works, we have insight into how to get our brain to work better. And that they'll also understand how their thoughts work and how their situation and their reaction to the situation with their thoughts is a choice, which gives them that feeling and that belief that they are in control, okay? So this step is really, really important. Sometimes if someone is already really well-versed in mindset and mental performance coaching, we go closer to the tools, or I would say faster to the tools.
And so that is an option. But I would say that some basic understanding of how the brain works and how the conscious and the subconscious interact with each other and why it's so crucial and why maybe change or success has been hard in the past is really helpful to just like lay the foundation and the groundwork for working with somebody or working with a team or working with an athlete. So step one would be how the brain works. Step two is really starting to fill up their mental toolbox. So we understand how the human brain works and now it's about like how to get their subconscious to make changes that they've wanted faster and deeper. So step two is really about very specific tools. Thoughtwork and visualization or imagery. And ideally this is getting them started on some sort of daily practice.
Like what we talk about is 10 minutes a day. Like if you can do 10 minutes a day of journaling, being aware of your thoughts, visualization, which we do, we have a proprietary visualization specialist training, mindfulness, breathing exercises, teaching them how to manage their subconscious thoughts and their conscious thoughts so that they're operating from their future best self. And not just repeating their past results from their past thoughts.
Like anybody can do that and that's really what they've been doing. And so teaching them some tools to break out of that. That is step two of our framework. So step one is how the brain works. Step two is getting deeper into their brain and teaching them visualization and thought work. Step three is pre-practice mental routines. So we teach our proprietary braver methods, which many of you use, but making sure that they understand how to get their brain ready to practice.
This will allow them to have increased focus, focus, motivation, consistency, and it'll translate to many different areas of their life. And it's a really solid tool. And it's simple, but it does take some other pieces. Like if you're familiar with a braver, you know, we also teach within that affirmations. So that is about figuring out what their goals are and being able to learn how to put it in language that their subconscious understands and practice visualizing it. So there's a lot that goes into a very simple five minute routine.
So it takes a little time to set that up, but that is a crucial piece because what that does is that means they're practicing this stuff. So it's not just these sessions. You're not just going to do, you know, six workshops and like they're going to be heels or whatever, right?
Or six sessions with them. Like they're getting these tools that they're going to be practicing on a, if not daily basis, at least before practice. So pre-practice mental routines, step three in our framework.
Really important. The next step is pre-competition routine. So we teach about they need to understand their pre-competition hyped up level, like how excited to play they need to be to play at their best.
Like we have a whole system based on the N-Virtue theory. I'm not going to get into all that today, but essentially helping them understand where their mindset needs to be before competition. And if it's not where it needs to be, teaching them how to alter that.
Okay, this is really, really important. So one, they have to have that self-awareness of their mental state. And then they need to have tools to optimize it pre-game, especially when they feel things that they think they shouldn't like being nervous or something like that. And so this allows them to go into competition knowing that they are mentally prepared every single time and that there's no magical thing outside of themselves that determine how they play. They have control.
This is huge, you guys. So step four is pre-competition routines. Step five is in competition reset routines.
So this is going to look different. And this is what we teach both in our certification, of course, but also in psychology of competition, also in our mistake ritual magic workshop. This is helpful because regardless of the sport, there are ups and downs, ebbs and flows, mistakes in every single competition.
How we react to that determines how we compete, period. This is one of the critical ways that an athlete can increase their performance. Okay, so what this does is it'll give them a consistent routine to help them deal productively with failure and mistakes and deal with the emotions of competition. So when they're able to do that, they feel confident and in control and they know and you know that they're prepared for anything. They're prepared for those ups and downs. And it's not just practice during mistakes, although that's probably where it, you know, biggest bang for your buck.
It's also just a routine that helps them come back to managing their mind in any type of competition situation, like a timeout, a water break in practice, like whatever it is, like learning to manage themselves in those moments and getting that sort of like muscle memory of how to do that. Okay, so that's step five. Step six is our post-competition routines.
Now this is what so many people miss. And again, we teach this in our certification in psychology of competition. And this is really about learning how to critique your performance without criticizing it.
And most athletes, I would say skip this, right? They either feel great because they played well, they played a lot, you won, or they feel sad or mad because it didn't go how they want. There's very few athletes that know how to have that middle ground of like, okay, what went well, what didn't go well, what can I do better next time? And this post-competition routine is great for a client that you're working with. It's great for a team. It's great for coaches. It's a great way to help people learn to improve. It's that simple, right? And remove the emotions of it so we can get better and learn and improve every single competition.
So this will give them those routines to deal with the ups and downs. It doesn't matter if they won, doesn't matter if they lost, doesn't matter how they played. We do this routine every single time. And when we have a consistent tool, we can ride the waves of the ups and downs of sports and of life. And this will give you as a leader the freedom to not feel you have to guide them or make them feel better after games or competitions, but instead let them rely on their mental training.
Okay? So this is the six step framework. Again, we talk about this in our ebook, How to Become a Mental Performance Coach. We definitely talk about it in our certification, which we're doing right now. And we're in pre-enrollment right now.
Enrollment, I think opens in May for our June class, our summer class. And really the six step framework, I want you to take it. I want you to use it. And I want you to just stop trying to reinvent the wheel, stop over-complicating it.
Like if you taught your client, your athlete client or your team, these six things, you would give them a toolbox that has the capacity to change their life. Period end of story. I've done it a million times. This is what works. Okay? This is proven. You don't need to go like down the rabbit hole and hunt and pack all over the internet and read every single book. Like that's great.
But also keep it simple. Okay? So I'm going to review how the brain works. The six step positive performance, six step mindset training framework is one, how the brain works.
Two, visualization imagery and thought work. Step three, a pre-practice mental routine. Step four, a pre-competition routine. Step five is in competition reset routine.
And six is post-competition routine. Guys, use this. A six-step framework that is simple and works. Now, if you like this, please download our ebook. It has more on each step. We'll put that in the show notes.
It's also all over our website if it's live. And what else was I going to say? Share this with a coaching friend, another mindset coach, a sports coach friend, an assistant coach. These are the six steps that I think every athlete needs to know. And you and I and our army of mental coaches out there can take this to the world so that more athletes and young people have this toolbox because it really can change life.
If they learn nothing else, but these six steps in this framework, their life will be changed. We can do this, guys. Let's go. We'll see you again next week.
Bye for now. If you want to learn more about training and live it more in your life, definitely subscribe to this podcast. We send out bonus episodes. We have our mental Mondays. We have interviews and training episodes.
Definitely subscribe. If you want to teach it, meaning taking it to your athletes or your clients, I highly recommend Psychology of Competition. Again, you can check that out at positiveperformancetraining.com.
It is a great course that will teach you and your athletes how to have pre, during, and post-competition routines to up your performance. And if you want to learn how to have a mindset coaching business in order to sell mindset coaching, I highly recommend signing up for our wait list for our next certification cohort, which usually opens about once a year. But in the meantime, go to positiveperformancetraining.com and check out our ultimate mindset coaching toolkit. Well, it will show you exactly how to get started with your first mindset coaching clients. Again, go to positiveperformancetraining.com for all of our free and paid resources. Thank you.
