How To Achieve Goals Like A Champion With Dr. Jeff Spencer

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On today’s episode, we have Dr. Jeff Spencer. Dr. Jeff is an expert in all things champions. Being a former Olympic athlete himself and now working as a high-performance coach to many executives, top athletes, and top artists.

On this episode, we get to explore a lot of elements of his philosophy around what creating goals for a champion really looks like. There is a section of the interview I get to dive in with him on how he interviews potential clients to see if they are really ready for the transformation that he can provide. This is a really useful segment for anyone that is a coach and is trying to determine what their process is for onboarding clients. Dr. Jeff is making sure his clients are ready to show up.

We discuss:

[02:33] Jeff shares his defining moment when he was thirteen years old. He learned that winning big in any discipline is a learned behavior.
[04:51] You can have a premonition of the future but you may not know what all the steps are and you don’t need to know.
[05:10] The journey is the same. You have an aspiration, we develop a plan on what we anticipate and once we apply it we adjust and adapt as we go.
[06:42] There are two types of creativity. One is where you get the idea.
[08:19] When we choose, select, and create the champion’s perfect day then we are using the natural rhythms of our awareness and presence of being, and creativity in alignment with our biology.
[09:45] Amateurs do everything on their terms and that is not what pros do.
[10:43] There are these periods of time that have been established of when we are best at things we are best at.
[11:06] Your ability to learn and your ability to maintain information through memory is between 10 AM- 2 PM and 4-6 PM. If you want to learn something, do it between those hours.
[12:39] The first thing that is really important is to get explicit clarity on the person that is proposing to work with me and vice versa. We need to make sure that they have a state of readiness to begin the process of moving forward.
[13:02] You should not start anything without being explicitly clear on what your aspirations are and are those the right aspirations.
[14:18] If you don’t know where you are starting from, that is the equivalent of programming in the wrong starting location in your GPS. You are automatically off-based and off course from moment zero.
[17:37] When interviewing a potential client a breach or break with reality shows that they are not aware enough to get to where they really want to get to.
[18:01] Dr. Jeff’s favorite truth getting question is his last question when he asks if they have any final thoughts about the interview. It is also revealing when he asks what is the one thing getting in the way.
[20:55] Jeff runs the right goal criteria with his clients and asks them a series of questions to help them confirm if it is the right goal for now or later.
[22:26] If you don’t have the whys behind the goal, you may not have the extra battery pack you need to push when things get difficult.
[23:08] We generally don’t have a deep enough relationship with a goal to really fight for it and really hold it sacred like it deserves to be held especially if it is a big aspirational goal.
[24:29] Champions always look at stalls or roadblocks as indicators that there may be a better option trying to find its way into the conversation.
[26:04] Always hold space for the fact that timing is everything and our timing isn’t always optimized for the best result and the best outcome. If we are subservient to the creative process and we are always listening and looking for a better option and we have the courage to engage it, we may find ourselves predictively creating higher levels of success more often.
[27:47] We are morally bound to develop our gifts. A champion is a manifestor of their gifts. We are not really in competition with others because nobody has our uniqueness in all of creation.
[29:23] If we complete a goal and then race off to the next goal really quickly then we haven’t learned the lessons from it and embedded it in us.
[30:02] It should go pursue, achieve, pause, embed, replenish, rest up, new plan, pursue, achieve, rest, pause, replace, replenish and plan. If there isn’t that built-in pause there is no learning.
[32:04] Goal setting is not goal achievement. The champions’ golden rule is that you do the homework and the test is easy.