Winning The Mental Game | Confidence is a Choice

Published: March 21, 2022, 6:02 a.m.

In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking discusses Play # 3 of the mental performance playbook and what is required to build confidence. She talks about how as we go through life, confidence becomes harder to attain but we can enhance our ability to choose it. Circumstances don’t have to derail our confidence and our confidence level can remain high when we are focused on the process, and not the outcome. 

About Building Championship Mindsets

Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence. 

As a leader in the field of sport and performance psychology, Dr. Amber Selking has been fiercely devoted to optimizing human performance in people and systems throughout her entire career.

Dr. Selking is the founder of Selking Performance Group, a leading performance consulting practice that helps individuals, companies, and sports teams achieve sustainable results. She has served as the Mental Performance Coach for the Notre Dame Football team and as the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development for Lippert, a global, publicly traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our World. She has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.

Dr. Selking holds a PhD in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and an undergraduate degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

 

Championship Mindset Training | MidWeek Mental Rep

  • Where do I need to remind myself of how prepared I actually am? What is the physical, technical, mental, and tactical preparation that I have done to prepare myself for this moment? Write it down and choose confidence. 

 

STANDOUT QUOTES

  • “We can build confidence. We can train confidence. We can enhance confidence.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [02:16]
  • “That’s what adversity wants to do. It wants you to forget in the moment of execution what you have done and why you are meant for that moment.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [12:02]
  • “External circumstances are real. They impact us. They change us. But they shouldn’t control us.” -Dr. Amber Selking  [13:05]
  • “It matters that we are choosing confidence because we are prepared. We are ready for this moment and it is our opportunity to bring our best selves to the world.”  [16:56]

 

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Check out our EBooks! "A Dream Come True: the Buzz on Greatness" “Winner's Circle" 

Check out Dr. Selking’s TEDxTalk entitled, “Think Like a Champion Today” to learn more about the power of your mind to drive excellence in all areas of your life!

 

TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[01:20] Play #3: Confidence

[02:30] What goes into confidence?

[08:17] Preparation

[13:05] External circumstances and confidence

[15:07] This week’s Championship Mindset Training 

 

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Please rate and review us! We are excited to complementarity share this content with our audience, and engagement will enable us to continue sharing quality content. Also, please share the podcast on social media, so we can continue Building Championship Mindsets around the world! If you are interested in being a sponsor of this podcast, please contact Dr. Selking directly.