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Live the Impossible with Brian Bergford

Episode Summary

If you're looking for motivation and inspiration, look no further. This is it. Get the details on how to go beyond the average and be the exception. Be the extraordinary high performer who lives your fullest potential.

Episode Notes

Brian is a speaker, author, and peak performance coach for athletes and athletic CEOs and entrepreneurs. He also competes at a national level in swimming, which he took up at the age of 30. His mission is to help people do the impossible and experience monumental breakthroughs by liberating the hero within.

Quotes to remember:

“There’s always another fear standing at the gate to our destiny on the other side.”

“Complaining is the language of losers.”

“What would be the next thing to put yourself further down the path of being unstoppable?”

“Don’t ask yourself how you feel; tell yourself how you feel.”

“Somebody needs you to show up fully.”

Takeaways:

Great things can be accomplished by having a mission larger than yourself
Have something to move toward rather just moving away from
You don’t need to identify with your emotions
Mental training is the separator between the really exceptional people and the also-rans
The definition of training is something you would never feel like doing and doesn’t come naturally
We cannot maintain; we are either getting better or getting worse
When you are seeking, you will eventually find the opportunity and that’s the time for the hero within to arise
We all want to be heroes
The ego is anything vying for differentiation

What you’ll learn:

Why Brian decided to confront a lifelong fear of swimming, and how he conquered it
What drives him to help others do the impossible
The one thing that most high performers and high achievers can really benefit from
A solid argument for guarding your time and spending it with the right people
How to build confidence that uplifts other people around you (hint: it’s a habit we build)
Actionable steps to becoming unstoppable and having an unstoppable mindset
Why how we do one thing is NOT how we do everything
What to do when you’re having a down day
Brian’s top tips for productivity
How to make the most of a tough time
The two faces of ego and which one is more dangerous

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