Olympic Thinking TM

Who are you.....Really

2009-12-15T07:19:00.000-08:00

Greatness Gets Real
with Mattison Grey

Imagine
Define
Do the Impossible

Who do you really want to be?

High Performers are always looking at what is next. Trouble is, their relative success often overshadows what is keeping them from their absolute best.

The truth is you can Be, Do and Have anything and everything you want. The difficulty with that truth is most of us can't even imagine how great we can be. Your greatness is the part of you that you cannot see. You know it is there. Every once and a while you get a glimpse of it. You can feel it, but you cannot see it. In this course you will look your greatness squarely in the eye and finally see yourself for who you really are. Once you see it, then you can take it on, and BE it, once and for all.

Everyone has greatness in them,
but there is something else in there too,
and it keeps that greatness just out of reach

This is not a coaching seminar. This is a High Performance Training that takes you to the most exciting place available to any human being - into your brilliance and outside of your own self deception. It will be challenging, possibly to the point of offensive. That is what it takes to get you past who you think you should be to find who you really are and what you are really here to do.

In life and business, if you have a clear perception of reality, who you are, what impossible things you are here to accomplish, you have a tremendous advantage. You can get what you want, be who you want and do what you want instead of doing what you think you want, being what others expect and doing only what you think you are meant to do. By becoming ruthless about this you can bring your brilliance to the world and get amazing value in return.

Kind of like this

Be who you really are.

Imagine the impossible.

Do your brilliance.

Become the real you.

When you do you will have access to the amazing life you yearn for.

Don't be fooled. This is going to challenging, grueling, and offensive but it will also be fun, funny, and most of all life changing, if you show up.

Vision and Value - Houston
December 30 10am-6pm
$299
Get more info HERE

Main Event - Outside of Houston
February 19 5pm-10pm
February 20 9am-10pm
February 21 10am-6pm or later
$2495
Price includes training, food and 2 nights lodging
Also included are elements from our Advanced Coaching and Communication Course
Venue Rancho Nia Montgomery Texas

Final Event - Houston
April 9 10am-6pm
$299

All 3 events - 5 days of awesome training Save $300 $2795 Register Here
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Out of town clients may attend just the main event for $2495 Register Here

Vision and Value is open to anyone

The Main and Final Events are open to former or current clients or by special exception. Clients from around the world are welcome.
The Main Event will also include some Elements from our Advanced Coaching and Communication Course

If you are not current or former client and would like to attend, contact Mattison Grey for an application.

Just Adjust your Dreams

2008-08-28T13:35:00.000-07:00

Come on…….Be Reasonable

In the afterglow of another completely compelling Olympic Games I got to thinking about what it takes to be the best and make it to the Olympics. Among many other factors, being the best is primarily about overcoming.

What do athletes have to overcome to get to the Olympics? Every one of them had to endure long hours, painful training, injuries and years of sacrifice. We heard last week how Nastia Luikin who won the Women’s Gymnastics all-round competition was injured almost the entire year prior to the games. Injuries are bad but the most insidious and unacceptable thing that the athletes who have made it to the Olympics have had to overcome is the doubters. The doubters are the people who told them they couldn’t do it; they did not have what it takes in terms of talent, resources or drive. Or that no one has ever done that so you just need to adjust your dreams. Can you imagine how many times these elite athletes had to overcome these suggestions? Often from some of the people closest to them? As mere mortals we are subject to this conversation every day and most of us are not trying to something as ambitious as competing in the Olympics.

In the realm of world class athletics making it to the highest level is no longer determined by who is more talented, has trained harder or has access to the best technology. Everyone is talented, everyone trains hard and everyone has access to the same technologies. So what is the difference? The athletes who make it to the Olympics are the ones who ignored, dismissed and/or overcame people telling them to adjust their dreams.

Thank goodness, Jessie Owens, the Wright brothers, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Nadia Comeneche, Mark Spitz, Oprah, Harriet Tubman, Michael Jordon, Mary Lou Retton, Carl Lewis or Michael Phelps never did.

What about you? When someone tells you that your idea will never work, you can’t do that, you are not smart or talented enough, or that no one has ever done it that way, how often do you let that stop you? Be honest, it has stopped us all at some point in our lives. People do it us all the time. I call that “taking your lights out,” and it is often the people who are closest to us that do it. They say things like what if, you should, I just don’t want you to be disappointed, I just worry you’ll get hurt. Those comments create doubt and we let doubt stop us. So, we adjust our dreams. We listen to the doubters that create doubt, and that changes the trajectory of our lives. I talk to people about their true desire all the time. I estimate that at least 80% of the time when we begin to explore their ideas about why they can’t have what they want, it boils down to someone else has told them they could not do it.

You know the real kicker about this? If you really pay attention the people who are taking your lights out and suggesting that you cannot do it, most of the time it is people who are not up to anything themselves. They have no significant accomplishments and are not, nor will they ever be, going for their life. They have themselves listened to the doubters and adjusted their dreams and they are passing the favor on to you. So not only are you adjusting you dreams, you are adjusting them by listening to people who are not going for theirs. Anyone who is going for their dreams and getting what they want in life will not suggest that you adjust your dreams; they will be encouraging, supportive and even ask how they can help. If you have people in your life who are asking you to adjust your dreams, you have a problem.

Adjust your dreams? I know it is disappointing and difficult to accept that people say these kinds of things, but what may be even more difficult to accept is that you have done it to others, just as it has been done to you. Intentionally or not you have at some point told someone that they could not do it, were not smart enough or strong enough, did not want them to get hurt, and that they should adjust their dreams. I don’t know about you, but I do not want to be the one who influences anyone to adjust their dreams. So, I am asking you right now to please stop it, and I will too.

If you adjusted your dreams so much for so long that you don’t remember them, or think it’s impossible to get what you really want and want to change that, call me. Together we can get you back to your brilliance and on track to your dreams.

3rd place makes us happier than 2nd

2008-08-18T09:09:00.000-07:00

This is really interesting.

Research has shown that bronze medalists are happier than the silver medalists.

"The psychologists obtained television interviews with the medalists and asked volunteers to rate the athletes' comments immediately after they had finished their events. Silver medalists, the researchers found, obsessively spoke about what they could have done differently to have won gold. Bronze medalists, by contrast, tended to focus on how lucky they were to have won a medal at all"

Read the entire article here:

http://tinyurl.com/6eg5dx

As someone who has add this exact experience of losing the gold medal in a state championship race, I concur, I really don't consider that getting second place in the state championship was a great accomplishment. I have it that I lost the state championship. And as mentioned in the article, it clearly affected me, as I am talking about it 24 years later.

WOW!

2008-08-13T16:00:00.000-07:00

Its the fifth day of the Olympics and unless you have been living under a rock you have seen untold number of amazing and dramatic stories of human performance. I don't know about you, but I find inspiration in all of it. The winning, the losing, the drama, and especially the surprise and unknown of it all.
In our lives we often feel like we want to know what will happen before we even start. We have thoughts like, I have to make sure this will be successful before I even start or how can I be sure I wont fail?
Truth is that unknown is what makes life interesting. What if we already knew the results of all the Olympic events before we sat down to watch? It would be so much less interesting, dare I say boring? What about for the athletes? What if they knew for sure what would happen before they even competed? What would be the point of even showing up? No point really, and no real satisfaction. Real satisfaction and success comes out of working hard, taking risks, navigating the unknown, doing the best that you can and seeing what happens. This is one of the secrets of high performers.

The Olympics are Coming!

2008-07-07T08:56:00.000-07:00

The Olympics are Coming! The Olympics are Coming!

Ever four years an amazing thing happens. The highest performers in the world of sport gather to compete. Even if you are not a sports fan you have to appreciate what it takes for these men, women children and a 41 year old women (see video below) to become the best in the world in their chosen vocation.

I am a huge sports fan, but more interestingly I am student of high performance. I am fascinated by the intricacies of it all. How does one person excel and another never even get to the starting line. With all the technology and training advances what separates first from second. At that level everyone has access to essentially the same resources. What makes the difference?

This is what makes sport so compelling, and what this blog is about. What can we, as mere mortals, learn from the Olympics about High Performance, Goal Achievement, dealing with disappointment and with elation.

Stay tuned. It is sure to be interesting stuff