Champion Mindset: Tactics to Maximize Potential, Execute Effectively, & Perform at Your Peak - Knockout Mediocrity!

By Patrick King

Are you terrified of feeling like you’re not good enough? Self-conscious and anxious from harsh judgment?

Don't simply hope for the best - guarantee it. Learn how to operate at the top 1% of your abilities and embody a Champion Mindset to overcome your obstacles – every time. Champion Mindset will show you how to perpetually feel in control and “in the zone”.

Destroy your internal and external barriers to success.

They are the same tactics that have driven me to:
•Become a bestselling author in multiple countries.
•Become a sought-after social skills coach and advisor on corporate culture.
•Practice law full-time while juggling 3 side jobs that would eventually become my new career.

Correction: those tactics made those accomplishments inevitable. And that’s what they can do for you. From becoming a superstar at work to greater happiness, to less stress and anxiety -- hitting your growth potential will take your life to the next level.

Put your goals into reach in record time.

•Why your weaknesses are more important than your strengths.
•How becoming emotion-oriented will motivate you like nothing else.
•How Britain’s cycling team and marginal gains can help you.

Subtle shifts to maximize your potential.

•The importance of secondary 20% skills.
•How to avoid being driven by pride and ego.
•What your disempowering narrative is and how to reverse it.

Never settle for "good enough" again.

Your Champion Mindset is the difference between reaching for a promotion... and knowing you have it in the bag. The difference between calm confidence in a job well done... and frantic last-minute flailing. The difference between a reliable and noteworthy reputation... and being known as adequate at best.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrick King
• Release date: Apr 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463850091

Patrick King

Patrick King is a social interaction specialist/dating, online dating, image, and communication and social skills coach based in San Francisco, California. His work has been featured on numerous national publications such as Inc.com, and he’s achieved status as a #1 Amazon best-selling dating and relationships author. He writes frequently on dating, love, sex, and relationships. Learn more about Patrick at his website, patrickkingconsulting.com.

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CHAMPION MINDSET

Tactics to Maximize Potential, Execute Effectively, & Perform at Your Peak

KNOCKOUT MEDIOCRITY!

By Patrick King

Social Interaction Specialist and Conversation Coach

www.PatrickKingConsulting.com

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Disregard Convention

Chapter 2. Pinpoint Weaknesses

Chapter 3. Control Your Narrative

Chapter 4. Correct Company

Chapter 5. Travel Through Time

Chapter 6. Action and Emotion

Chapter 7. Science of Sleep

Chapter 8. Marginal Gains

Chapter 9. Feign Doubt

Chapter 10. Take Ownership

Chapter 11. Secondary Skills

Chapter 12. Fundamental Needs

Chapter 13. Long road

Chapter 14. Words

Chapter 15. Outside the Box

Chapter 16. Ignore Ego

Chapter 17. Manage Energy

Introduction

Success is wholly subjective.

My own version of success took a while to find. As it turned out, it wasn’t as a practicing lawyer, so my transition from practicing law to writing and coaching was not a difficult decision for me.

In fact, it was one of the easiest choices of my life. Imagine you’re presented with two paths: one you thoroughly dislike, and one that is more appealing in every way, and shows sign of being viable and sustainable. It’s a no-brainer.

I’ve always said that great change usually follows a critical mass of discontent and unhappiness, and that was certainly the case for me.

The difficult part wasn’t the actual transition – the hardest part was the initial act of proactively searching for a career outside of law, the only world I had known for the past six years, including law school. In other words, it was a frightening period when I looked outside of law and couldn’t imagine myself being qualified for any of the positions my friends seemed to be excelling at.

Project management? What was that?

Business development? So… you mean… sales?

Engineering and programming? Yikes.

Every obstacle outside of law I wanted to climb seemed like Mount Everest. My mindset wasn’t in a place of possibility. Instead, I was adhering far too closely to the narrative that my life had taken thus far, and counting myself out prematurely.

A narrative is a story we tell ourselves that is chock-full of excuses that enable a particular path of behavior. As you can imagine, it heavily influences our mindset and how we approach the world.

Narratives can be empowering or disempowering, and mine was decidedly disempowering. My narrative was full of selective storytelling based on assumptions about how pigeon-holed I was in law and how few, if any, marketable skills I thought I had. My mindset was one of avoiding failure rather than seizing opportunity.

The power of the narrative is that it is the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, if you think you can’t… then you definitely can’t. Every obstacle is seen as the coup de grace that will prove your narrative true. Your narrative enables and actually encourages inaction.

Clearly I needed to break my narrative or just find a new one. There were multiple sources of inspiration, but one of my biggest breakthroughs came at a dinner party at a friend’s crowded loft.

He was a former corporate consultant turned skydiving instructor. He took the leap (pun intended) and found that he had quite a bit more to offer people than he thought, and he used consulting skills just about every day in his business.

Just like that, I knew my narrative and mindset changed overnight.

They went from someone who was eminently unemployable to someone who just needed to catch up on a few principles. Nothing hard work and a bit of time couldn’t solve. That was a challenge I could look forward to conquering.

Once I rewrote my narrative and could approach life with that mindset, lasting change was not far away.

As I mentioned, success is wholly subjective. But what’s objective is the mindset that will carry you there. Let’s find your personal success and blaze trails together.

Chapter 1. Disregard Convention

All too often we define success in terms of what other people want, or by what's been socialized into us since birth.

This should come as no surprise because while we were growing up, we were always looking for role models (consciously or not).

You were looking for a path that had already been blazed; a safe route about which you could receive guidance. This is mostly driven by our subconscious, which is why so many people struggle to find their own version of success – one that strays from the conventional definitions they’ve seen models of.

You automatically pick up on patterns that have been set in front of you by your parents, teachers, and environment. And then you work toward those ideals without stopping to consider whether they actually suit you.

That’s been your definition of success and achievement for so long that you don’t even think about it anymore.

Doctor, lawyer, engineer, dentist, white-collar professional. Why do so many people go to graduate school and pursue lines of work that make them wish they were anywhere but there when they’ve finally reached it? Was there any consideration for how they might feel after they finally reached that definition of success?

Success should not be a fixed, defined term unless you define it with being happy, content, and being able to provide for yourself. Unfortunately, most people focus on the last part and mistake success for financial security and other measures of stability. I would assert that a certain type of job is only success if it checks those boxes of happiness and contentment for you.

Therefore, success can be attained in many (countless) ways, and is not a specific milestone or achievement. For some, this can be alarming…but for most, this should be incredibly empowering. If you set your aim to achieve happiness and contentedness rather than some financial milestone, imagine the different decisions you would make.

Your path is yours to choose. If you aren’t careful with the path you choose and are pulled to one side by your conventional programming you are setting yourself up to be mediocre at best and an abject failure at worst.

That’s what happens when you try to jam a square peg into a round hole. Now just imagine being a square peg your whole life and being told you have to conform to a round hole. It doesn’t make sense, it won’t create success, and it’s very uncomfortable. It will actually handicap your probability of a successful journey and cause you unnecessary unhappiness.

People who sleepwalk through their life paths can end up at that point easily if they aren’t conscious about the paths they pursue. They might not quite be able to put their finger on what is out of alignment or making them unhappy, but it’s usually an attempt at success that exposes their weaknesses and doesn’t capitalize on their strengths. It’s like a child who is a gifted poet trying to become a professional athlete because that’s all he saw around him. It won’t resonate and it won’t create happiness.

The simple truth is what works for others may not work for you, and relying on testimonials and the power of numbers (we all took this path and we’re doing just dandy) is a scary proposition.

Your grandparents and their parents had a certain way of doing things. It worked for them and they seemed fine with it. That doesn’t mean they were happy with it, or