The Mental Game of Rising and Falling Under Pressure

What happens when expectations don’t meet reality? In the full podcast, you will hear the solution to adjusting when expectations don't meet reality that the world champions we coach (like Trevor Story) use.

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FULL TRANSCRIPT

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the show started.

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Welcome to the living in the zone podcast with your host, Jim fannin. This is your front row seat into the minds of champions as a master mental performance coach, Jim will pull back the curtain on the hidden strategies that drive peak performance in sports, in business and in life. If you are an athlete, coach, entrepreneur or just someone who's ready to level up mentally and step into your greatness, you're in the right place.

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Welcome to living in the zone.

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Today I want to talk about something that's hit all of us in the face.

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It's been one of the number one setbacks for every student athlete, every amateur athlete, every pro athlete. And I'm talking business as well. And families. And that's how do you handle when your expectations don't meet reality. We're seeing a lot of people recoil, get upset, get ticked off, get emotional in real time right in front of everybody. And I'm talking professional athletes, not just an amateur.

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I'm talking every body, not just fortune 500 CEOs. I'm talking about families, small business owners, parents, coaches, expectations. You know, you want it. You covered it. You think about it. You dream about it. You invest time in it. You sacrifice for it, and then it doesn't happen. Decades ago. I realized I'm going to play my childhood tennis idol.

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The former number one in the world, the great Pancho Gonzalez. He's coming to Columbus, Ohio. My first racket was a Poncho Gonzalez autograph. I'm fired up, and I'm playing well. I'm the best in Ohio, and I'm going to crush my childhood idol and my serve. Don't let me talk about that too much, because I'll go nuts. I had a radio serve.

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You could only hear it. You couldn't see it. So the match begins. It's an exhi