Performing Despite the Pandemic | Ground Your Identity

Building Championship Mindsets

In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking talks about grounding your identity. Ask yourself this week: “Who are you? Who are you under the jersey?” Dr. Selking discusses the power of identity and the importance to ground your identity so you can show up free and ready to bring your very best to the world.

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.

Selking Performance Group serves as the Mental Performance Consultant for Head Coach Brian Kelly and the Notre Dame Football team, and does speaking and training for sports teams and business organizations around the globe. She is the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development at Lippert Components, Inc., a 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.

Dr. Selking has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where she taught Strategic Human Resource Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Selking received her PhD in Applied Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri under Dr. Rick McGuire, her master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and her bachelor’s 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

• Consider the various roles you play and evaluate your self concept. How do you perceive yourself in those various roles? How do you view yourself? How positive or negative do you view yourself? Are you generally the same person throughout your different roles?

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “Thoughts are not just these things that float around in the air. They are real things. Electrical signals that get sent from your brain through your neurons into your body to execute actions. What we know is that our thoughts affect our emotions which affect our physiological response, which ultimately dictates our performance.” -Dr. Amber Selking [02:29]
• “That is the power of identity, in how we show up and live a life fully alive.” -Dr. Amber Selking [06:02]
• “We have to understand who are we. And are we bringing a sense of consistency to ourselves and to our lives and to our roles knowing that if we do, that will increase our levels of mental toughness.” -Dr. Amber Selking [08:13]
• “High performance excellence starts with a grounded sense of identity. Then it goes into mindset and building the mindsets conducive to high performance. Then it goes into leadership of self and systems, and then that’s when we achieve greatness.” -Dr. Amber Selking [08:34]

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TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[02:13] How we think matters

[03:33] Ground our identity

[06:01] The power of identity

[08:55] Examples of performing despite

[12:04] This week’s Championship Mindset Training