Don’t define yourself as an athlete, embody it!
What does that mean? It means bringing it home. 

The measurement of the process is useless without the awareness it takes to integrate it. 

The integration is about the intelligence and the self awareness that you apply to the suck and the embodiment of the physical unfolding that is taking place right here and now. 

This is how physical consistency, adaption and development work. Cognition and consciousness are not just functions of the brain but are also influenced by the body and its interaction with the environment. 

The physical and mental process is utterly interconnected. 

This forms the whole approach of my own coaching and mental skills jam man.

You are: head, heart, body, mind and soul. Not less than that.  

This one is about bringing the whole athletic journey home to yourself where it belongs and is at its most potent. 

Gilesy. 

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This week we had a chat with Mark Jansen about the challenges an athlete faces being an elite level age group triathlete and cyclist while working full-time in the corporate world. 

Mark is a super strong willed athlete, racing successfully in 70.3 and Ironman. A twice top 5 finisher in Hawaii and a multiple sub-9 hour Ironman, he is well positioned to speak about the balance of work, life and sport. 

We talk about the gift and the curse of the type A personality and the management it takes to keep that requirement in homeostasis. 

We are talking about confidence, loads, recovery, the benefits of an active lifestyle and the foil of high-level sport and a corporate career. 

We chat about what it means to go deep in racing terms and the physical and psychological nuances of racing and training that make them what they are. 

Mark is a highly articulate human and that makes this chat great listening. 

Enjoy, 
Gilesy 

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Want the best of yourself?

It's not about how you react; it's about how you respond. 

Critically, it's about your state of mind as you respond that governs the quality of the action you take in that response. 

You're programming around what you think you can and can't do radically affects your capacity to respond from a place of power rather than from a place of defense. If you are responding from defense, you are out of your power and trapped in your head. 

All that you see in front of you is how you feel in your head. 

Let me give you an example: How does the world look to you when you are sick? 
It's not the same world, right? 

Yep, Its pretty drab! Did the world change or did your perception of it change based on the way you feel? 

We know through scientific research that we process the world based on our history, not on how it actually is in reality. 

So, when you hit that spot inside yourself where things start to get difficult in a race or a training session and you are in a world of pain, that hurt doesn't belong to the session or the race, it belongs to you and your perception of it.

That's a melting pot of expectations brought to you by similar experiences of your past. 

You see that course as you are, not as it is.

What are you going to do to get free of that so you can contact and deal with the reality of it as it is here on the coal face? 

Let's explore that real potential that you carry as an athlete and a human. 

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I suspect that a warrior hides in the DNA of all athletes. Many of us are disempowered in these times though. We are so busy trying to be an athlete on an outer level and not quite coming to terms with what that means.

So, in this podcast Im covering a few specific questions:

• When does the warrior become the worrier? 
• Where do we leak power in our sessions? 
• What are the implications of that for our racing and performances? 
• How do we lose connection to purpose, enthusiasm and motivation?

I'm breaking it down here and pulling apart the pieces that seperate us from our own instinctual warrior. Yes, you have one!

Lets explore how we can rediscover the power we need to perform on a level we never thought possible.

Gilesy.

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In life we have times where we meet a crossroads where we have to make a choice. 

Profound life change can be a portal to a deeper existential shift in our perception of ourselves as human beings. 

This week we had a chat with professional triathlete Laura Dennis who is being faced with that challenge right now. 

Laura sustained a serious head injury after being hit by a car in training, and today we chat to her about the significance and the meaning of presence, intention, gratitude and visualisation in changing our perceptions not only of what has happened but also of where we want to be and what we want to experience. 

The human brain is an amazing organism that has the capacity to literally change its own perception and heal itself. 

I hope you enjoy the listening. 

Gilesy

https://www.grantgiles.com.au
https://sansego.sansego.co/coach-grant
grant.giles@sansego.co 

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People have ideas about mental strength which are not entirely true, often thinking they need to be ruthless with themselves.

They tend to think they need to have an Ironclad will that shows no vulnerability, no mercy, no leniency. But that which does not bend, often breaks.

The problem is, it is weak as it is projected outwards towards the world, and strong as it’s projected inwards towards ourselves. Like a tracker on a scent or footprints in sand , he has to use an element of intuition or the trail and the footprints will be lost in the sands for ever. 

If he starts to follow every track and every print in the sand, he will lose the scent completely.

This is a metaphor for how we lose our own  scent. We get lost trying to track our own progress because we only want to assess it from the outside, but it doesn’t work, it’s not enough!

A torrent of fiction, drowning in a sea of information bereft of a direction, a million tracks leading to no where if we are mindful.

So, this podcast is about finding you own inner strength so you can bring it to the world.

Gilesy
http://www.grantgiles.com.au
https://sansego.sansego.co/coach-grant
grant.giles@sansego.co 

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In this podcast I am discussing the three pillars of progress through process. 
Namely -

• Thrive 
• Automaticity 
• Discomfort 

I discuss the subsets of each pillar. The idea here is to provide you a short cut in your own athletic endeavours through the experience of my own and the observation of those I have coached over the last 25 years.

Gilesy. 

http://www.grantgiles.com.au
https://www.inconvenientminds.com.au/
https://sansego.sansego.co/

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Most of our problems as athletes are bound up not in the way we physically train but in the way we think and react to the stimulus.

No point in training like a champion and thinking like you have already lost.  To make any real change we first have to understand what it is we are thinking.

Importantly we can change the way we think, feel and react, creating a positive, supporting mindset for performance at the very same time.

In this podcast Grant gives you an overview of a winning mental strategy -

THE HIERARCHY OF MENTAL PERFORMANCE

• The Why
• The Intention
• The Purpose
• Visualisation 
• Rituals / Habituals 
• Intentional Action 
• Belief 
• Perseverance / Resilience 
• Many More

Working on performance from the inside out is the best way to bring mind, body and spirit into a state of flow that leads to the ultimate in  personal performance excellence.

Cheers,
Gilesy
https://www.inconvenientminds.com.au/
http://sansego.sansego.co/
grant.giles@sansego.co 

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The chase for the dream, the outcome, or the result is the motivating factor that encourages  many people to get after their aspirations. 

In this podcast we explore what is important in terms of the energy that fuels our chase and our relationship to the chase, do your motivations and actions move you towards your goals? Or do they move you away and indeed block the path you have chosen. 

In this podcast you will lean how to unpick your own locks so your intention and attention are directed into alignment with what it is you really want to achieve. 

We explore the realms of -

• Purpose
• The why
• Intention
• Attention
• Focus
• Doubt 
• Negative Expectancy 
• Negative Self Talk 
• Alignment 
• Flow 

And many more. I hope you enjoy the listen.

Cheers,
Grant Giles
https://www.inconvenientminds.com.au/
http://sansego.sansego.co/

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When we get what we want, we want what we don’t have!! 

It’s a slippery slope, sometimes getting what we want is the worst thing that can happen to us. If it comes easy, it comes greasy, slips through our fingers and then the more we have the less we feel like we’ve got. 

This concept we are sold of fame and fortune is an empty promise, a void with no real substance, people who arrive there quickly learn that it is not made of what they thought it would be made of. 

The void comes courtesy of a lack of definition, the promise is that when we arrive at destination success that it will define us, and of course it can’t and doesn’t. 

In the same way when we believe that destination happiness is a place, a face, an object or a person, we ultimately come up against this empty void. 

The more happiness you think you have attained, the more you want, the more money, fame and success you think you have attained, the more you want. 

The salesman sells you on more, but what you feel is less, it’s an uncomfortable paradox, the more safety you get, the less safety you feel. 

It’s a hint that the deeper aspects of life send us to let us know that the things we play with are not made of definition, we are already defined by life, and try as we might, we can never add to it in any real sense. It’s a great leveller, the vagrant, the destitute, the middle class, the upper class and the filthy rich all cut from the same piece of mortal cloth, now that’s a truth you can take to the bank. 

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