Athlete CEO

You’re in a performance competition, on the field or court in the middle of a game, or about to give a big presentation and your brain starts running wild with self-defeating thoughts. 

What do you do?

For some, it can be hard to overcome these negative thoughts and their performance suffers. However, in today’s Athlete CEO: Peak Performance episode, Erik and Josiah discuss another way to combat these thoughts through the concept of thought-stopping.

They discuss what thought-stopping is, why this topic is considered controversial by some experts, and ways to practice it to see if it’s helpful for you.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

  • (1:01) This month’s topic: Thought Stopping
  • (1:29) What is thought stopping and why is it controversial?
  • (3:27) Telling yourself not to think about pink elephants?
  • (5:16) There is no one size fits all
  • (6:31) How does positive psychology fit into this?
  • (7:41) Advice for athletes applying thought-stopping
  • (10:35) What you say to yourself is the loudest voice

Creators and Guests

Host
Erik Averill
Partner, Senior Private Wealth Advisor, CFP®, CPWA®

What is Athlete CEO?

Each week on Athlete CEO features select excerpts from interviews with trailblazers, the elite, those at the top of their field and the best at their craft with the goal to curate the best practices that you can leverage to unlock your human capital