Winning the Mental Game | Control the Controllables

Published: April 18, 2022, 6 p.m.

In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking discusses Play #6 of the mental performance playbook and emotional mastery. Dr. Selking discusses what happens to our bodies under pressure and how we can learn to master our emotions and not allow physiological stress to inhibit us from showing up as we intend to. She shares the impactful story of a client who decided to step into the pain of a disappointing season and sought to control the controllables.\xa0

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About Building Championship Mindsets

Welcome to \u201cBuilding Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!\u201d 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.\xa0

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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.

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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 Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master\u2019s 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 an 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.

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Can you look at whatever season of life you are in right now and start to see that this is a defining moment in my life? Can you control the controllables? Choose to step out of the emotional cyclone and find your next layer of greatness.\xa0

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STANDOUT QUOTES

  • \u201cWhen we start to understand that we don\u2019t have to be at the mercy of our emotions, but rather we can master those emotions.\u201d - Dr. Amber Selking [07:02]

  • \u201cWhat comes before emotions? Thoughts. So whatever emotions we are experiencing are generated from some type of thought.\u201d\xa0 - Dr. Amber Selking [08:10]

  • \u201cBecause we allow our emotions to dominate we often execute an act before we even think about it. When we allow our emotions to rule we are the passengers rather than the drivers.\u201d - Dr. Amber Selking [11:08]
  • \u201cUnderstanding the concepts of emotional mastery will allow you to redefine your relationship with pressure and stress and allow you to step off the emotional rollercoaster ride. But be patient, it takes time. We are ever learning, ever growing, ever striving to find new layers of our greatness. It is a process.\u201d - Dr. Amber Selking [12:07]

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