August 22, 2025 • 26 mins
Join Dr. Pete and Colin C. Thompson as they discuss the importance of mental fitness. Colin is a personal and professional coach with a dynamic approach and deep commitment to transformation. Colin guides his clients on a path toward success using mental fitness - he believes in pushing ourselves both mentally and physically and I know we share the same philosophy on that. Learn more about Colin here:
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dr Pete Econimo 0613-0103 Dr Pete Econimo.
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And I'm excited for anotherepisode of On Air and thank you
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so much for listening and forbeing here this week.
So today we have a very amazingguest all the way from Shanghai
, Colin C Thompson.
He's a professional andpersonal coach with a dynamic
approach to help, with acommitment of transformation.
He guides his clients on a pathtowards success using mental
fitness, which you hear a lot ofon this episode.
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Mental fitness, mentaltoughness we're going to talk
about that today.
He believes that you have topush ourselves both physically
and mentally, and I am soexcited.
Thank you, Colin, for beinghere.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Dr Peter, thanks for having me on your show and, as
you know, I know your mind canbe your best friend or your
worst enemy.
So I'm glad to be here today totalk about how your mind
absolutely must be your bestfriend.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We have to make your mind your best friend and I
appreciate that.
And just for listeners, we hada little bit of technical issues
but just like good mentalfitness people, we were able to
pivot and we are able to gethere today.
So tell the listeners aboutyourself, colin.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So, as Dr Pete mentioned, I'm coming live and
direct from Shanghai, china.
I'd like to say I have a richbackground.
My family is Jamaican and myfamily left that small warm
island of Jamaica and immigratedto that big, cold country of
Canada.
And then from Canada weimmigrated again into the United
States back when I was, I think, in the early 1980s.
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So, my background mindset hasalways been more international.
My father was big on sayinglook, no matter where you live,
there's a way you do things inthat culture, but there's a way
people do things in othercultures as well.
So I'm glad to say that, notjust being here in China now,
but all my life I've tried toview things as there's more than
one or two degrees of doing thesame thing.
All those ways could be right.
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That's right.
You know, Dr Pete, in somecultures there's two ways.
There's our way and the wrongway.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's right.
Is that more common in theJamaican culture?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, no, in different cultures, in different cultures,
different.
More red, white and blueculture.
It's more common, it's a littlemore common, oh boy, especially
as we record this in 2025, thathits, that's right, yeah yeah,
yeah, well, you reached outbecause you really believe in
mindfulness and building mentalfitness.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And I want to hear about your philosophy on
mindfulness and, uh, you know,building mental fitness.
So I love.
So thank you for doing that,and I want to hear about your
philosophy on mindfulness andmental fitness.
Yeah, and it's not more myphilosophy um, I, I did study
the positive intelligenceprogram.
Um, I did, I did, um, getcertified as a positive,
positive mental fitness coach.
And mental fitness is quite easyto understand.
It's our ability to get throughthis crazy, wonderful, tough,
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exciting thing called life whilemaintaining a positive mindset
instead of a negative mindset,and that's all it is.
It's how do you go through theups and downs and just able to
maintain a positive mindset?
And even if you do get down weall get down it's not staying
down too long and understandingbeing down is part of life.
You can't avoid it.
It's just making sure that youhave tools that help you to get
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back up and get back out easier.
And when you see your friendsand family are down, you're able
to either give them space orhelp them maintain a positive
mindset as well.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I love that you said that, because it's not just
about sometimes you have to letthem give them the space like
let them go through what they'regoing through, and I find,
especially when I work withcouples or that's really hard
for people, or if it's like ahigh performing parent and their
child is just being a childwhich what children do
developmentally being able towatch the child, do that.
Let the child fall.
Let them fall and let themfigure out how to get back up.
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Don't always be there to pickthem back up.
So, uh, how how do you thinkthat would play into our lives?
So, mental fitness in general,maybe, how does it play into
your life?
And how does it play into, like, a listener's life?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
uh, about ways to do that well, it's interesting you
mentioned a child.
Yeah, because back in 2021that's when I first started to
really work on my mental fitnessand my son, who is now almost
six.
He was two and a quarter and Idon't know what happened right
when he hit two.
Dr Pete, I don't know if youhave kids or not, but that
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terrible two thing is real.
I don't know what happens, butin my household every night at
bedtime he would leave theshower.
It was my job to get from theshower into bed and go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh, that's one of the toughest jobs.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I did not know that because I had my first child, so
we would have World War IIIevery single night.
He would see a side of me that Ireally wasn't comfortable him
seeing when I grew up.
I would see my father gettingreally, really upset, yelling.
I did not want that same thing,my household and I told my wife
.
I said, honey, tomorrow, nomatter what, no matter what he
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does, I would not get upset.
Nice, after pete.
The next night, after shower inthe bedroom, quincy go to sleep
.
I about lost my mind that nightit did not work, but what it?
taught me was I had to approachmy mental fitness the same way I
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would approach training for arace yeah.
Or getting getting in shapeyeah.
You can do a 5k run, 5k race.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You can't do that day one right, you have to train
for it.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You got to build up for it yeah, first in the gym,
you're not going to bench 220,no.
So what I realized is to buildup my mental fitness.
I must approach it step by step, by step.
Instead of taking something sopersonal, so deep, like my son
and his bedtime stuff, two yearsold, which the first time
father can't handle.
I decided, let me start with apet peeve.
So I equate a pet peeve,something small that gets you
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upset, for maybe you know two orthree, two, two or three
minutes, not too long.
Yeah, for me that was openmicrowave doors, right.
So with that I started thereand I was slowly able to go to
bigger pet peeve, bigger petpeeve.
But important thing isapproaching it as if you're
training for an exam or trainingfor a physical feat.
Start small, but what we alwaysdo and my clients do this they
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want to take on the biggest,biggest frustration or pain or
challenge they have and theyfail because they're starting
too big day one.
So my approach to mentalfitness is look at it like you
want to build up over time.
And just one thing to add heremy two-year-old son was just
being a two-year-old son atwo-year-old child.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's it.
That's it.
Yeah.
Now, intellectually you canunderstand that, but it really
gets hard to truly put intopractice.
So I love the vulnerability ofowning that and I know you are a
certified life coach as welland empowering your clients to
unleash their inner potential.
We could all use a little helpwith that.
I know we said in today's world, so tell us how you work with
clients to achieve, you know,reaching that inner potential.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, well, you know, I think a lot of clients come
with different backgrounds anddifferent goals.
Some clients come because theyreally don't know how to start
going after a goal.
Some may not know how tocontinue going after a goal.
Some may say you know what?
I really have no goals, butsomething has to change because
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my life isn't where I want it tobe.
So one of the first things wedo is I like to do an exercise
called flash forward.
I say imagine having aconversation with yourself, but
not yourself in the past.
You're talking to yourself 20,30 years from now, having lived
your life up to here, plus 20,30 more, and that person has
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achieved all the goals duringgreat physical and mental health
.
What questions would you havefor that person?
Nice, and yeah.
And by understanding whatquestions they would have,
here's what I say.
I say okay, now what would yourwiser self say?
I would answer those questions.
So then a client is looking atit from both perspectives and
that really helps them to lookat.
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Okay, here's where I want to goPotentially, here's where it
may get in my way and here'swhat I need to start focusing on
to make sure that doesn't getin my way.
So it's really allowing theclient to look at visualizing,
visualizing having aconversation with yourself about
your future it's always aboutperspective.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And another thing I really enjoyed about your
message when you reach out waslike uh, your birthday run, I
thought that was uh really cool,so tell us about your birthday
run yeah, well, let me justfirst say it is not cool.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It is cool, but it's not cool.
But go ahead, it's coming up inabout three weeks.
So back in 2000, and, yeah,2000, I want to 2010.
I believe it was I, being an exathlete, being an ex collegiate
athlete yes, at the time I wasaround 36, so that's a good 16
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years out of college, so Ishould have.
What did you play?
Just for listeners.
I wrestled, I wrestled Iwrestled in college um, and you
know, at 37 I'll do a lot ofrunning marathons, but not and I
had to prove I still had it.
Yeah, and I said, well, I'vedone a marathon, that's not
enough.
And I said let me go ahead andrun.
My age miles on my birthday atthat time was like 36 miles and
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it was tough.
It was very, very tough.
It's august heat.
It was very, very tough.
But dr peter realized that atthat point I was doing it for
the wrong reasons.
I was doing it to prove I stillhad it Right, which is never
the reason to drive you Now.
I do it because I just enjoy it.
Enjoy, it's not cool.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But it's a goal.
It's a goal that you'reachieving.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it's a goal, and so the birthday one thing.
So I give myself 24 hours torun, to run, all to cover that
business.
A lot of walking, right.
So this year I'll have 52 milesand I don't do it from start to
end.
I'll do maybe, let's say, 10miles and then take a few hours
break and I'll break it upthroughout the day.
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I'll be running at 2 3 am, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
But if the training don't blah blah blah, you'll be
running at 2 or 3 am.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well, you know.
So in Shanghai it gets hot herein August, very hot in August.
So one of the things I have todo, I have to really try to plan
out when to start.
So my training runs usually gofrom 3, 4 am to about 6, 7 am,
because once that sun comes out,it's game over, it's game over.
So the birthday run takes place.
I'll probably start around,like I think, around 7 pm in the
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evening and then finish up, youknow, through the night and
whatnot, but it's a trainingthat's really tough because,
well, I like the training too.
Imagine you're like a12-year-old boy and you're
taking your port card home, allFs, all Ds and Fs, and you know
your dad's going to wear you out.
He's going to wear that buttout when he gets home.
Now imagine having to do thatevery single day.
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Right, that's what the trainingreminds me of, because you know
running in the heat and running, you know, three hours in the
morning.
It's not fun but it does make medeal with my emotional side, a
lot of emotions.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I know you mentioned that about the running, and it
also just clicks about thewrestling though too, because
wrestlers are different athletesin that way, I don't know Was
it like?
Did you guys have the heatedrooms where you were practicing?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Of course we did.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I wasn't sure how long that's been going on.
And the suits rooms where youwere practicing.
Of course we did.
I wasn't sure how long that'sbeen going on and a suit's on it
.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, I can't have any more, you know, so I I'll,
I'll let you know how weak I am.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
When I go into the right, I'm always like I'll find
, like the training room wherethere's some area, where there's
some air.
I'm always standing.
That's where I'll stand, I will, that's it.
Like I, I can't, I can't cut it.
Yeah, you guys are.
You guys are different.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, so you guys, you know, asa you, so you're, you still
have that inner potential of awrestler where you're like,
obviously you're a really highperformer well, you know, I
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think it's different.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I think now it's more .
I would say it's more myrunning side, with my running
side, or it's more my athleteside, right, because as much I
wrestle I think I was just a bitin football, yeah.
So it's just that athlete'smindset, be it because I do
triathlons also.
It's just, it's just go, go, go, because part of it is I
realize that once you stop doinga lot of things, it's very,
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very hard to get going again.
Like every year.
You run, you run.
You have three months off.
Once you start training again,it takes months to get back to
where you were.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, well, you Months.
You know, as you know, I workwith a lot of college athletes
and now there's like no time offanymore.
I mean, back in our day atleast there was time off.
I mean this way today theydon't really.
You know American football,they'll get like a couple weeks
here and there and that's areally taxing sport.
But you know, you're being herebecause you are a hall of famer
at howard university, right?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
absolutely.
Yes, I am.
I don't have the ring ontonight, but it's.
I'm very, very proud, very,very proud of that and that just
happened, I want to say two orthree years ago so we just
invested, thank you a few yearsago.
Very, very proud of that andreason being um, I have almost
all my family went to how beforeme.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh, yeah, nice Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And because of that I got into Howard.
Howard is an academic school.
I was bat dumb jock in highschool.
I'll admit I was there for thegirls in sports.
When I graduated I only appliedto two or three schools and I
didn't even I wasn't thinkingabout it.
University of Louisville, myhome school, said no.
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It's so funny.
Louisville said no, howard saidyes, but it was strictly
because family.
Your family and I was an athletethere.
I was on probation the firstsemester, so I'm very happy to
say that Only because of how Igot in, but I'm very happy to
say that when I graduate I hadlike a 360 GPA.
Wow, so definitely a goodturnaround.
I graduate I had like a 360 GPA.
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So I definitely good turnaroundand yeah, so you know I'm very
proud to say that not only did Igo to Howard University and
really got in, but I'm nowenshrined in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Amazing, yeah, well, obviously well earned.
What do you think?
What would you say you learnedduring that period, because I do
think that being a collegestudent athlete really teaches
us a lot.
But what would you say youlearned the most?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I don't.
I don't think being, uh, Idon't think anything that I
found to be useful later.
Um, really, because I mean youdon't have to train hard, train
hard, train hard.
Be loyal to your teammates.
Be loyal to your teammatesRight, you learned that, but I'm
a fraternity same thing.
What I think, though, is what Ilearned the most is at some
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point, you have to let it go.
What I think, though, is what Ilearned the most is at some
point, you have to let it go.
You have to let it go.
Once I graduated university andgot into the real world, I was
like OK, what am I going to beknown for or do now?
Yeah, so it was a lot of.
I think.
What I learned was you have tohave balance in university, even
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for an athlete, it can't justbe sports.
Yeah, it must be academics, itmust be um clubs.
It has to be a lot of differentthings.
So, when you graduate, you havethat side to lean into.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I love that.
Well, one of my coaches said tome uh, you have academics,
social and athletics pick two.
You can't have all three.
And me being me, I was.
I was like I'm gonna show you,you know, because I'm gonna have
all three and me being me, Iwas.
I was like I'm gonna show you,you know, because I'm gonna have
all three.
Uh, but knowing what I knowtoday, like you then have to
sacrifice certain aspects of itso you're not thriving as much
as you can and really makingsure you have this like
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well-rounded values and thatthere's other parts of your life
where you're not.
Just one thing is what I hearyou saying yeah, yeah and it's
different now.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
The sport, the spotlight on college sports now,
is very, very different, verydifferent.
And look with howard howardagain academic school, so
there's not much pressure, butthose sports teams now also
getting more eyeballs on them.
The golf team there wassponsored by stephan stephan.
Um stephan basketball player,curry curry, yeah, yeah, stephan
curry, he's the one who gotthat going.
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So a lot more islands I meannow.
And the track team, their trackteam has no time off.
They're all year round.
When I was student athlete,track had winter break, track
and summer break, yeah, but nowit's all year round.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So well, and just for listeners that might not know,
I mean, howard university is,like you said, an academic, so
it's a great university, a greatschool, and it's an hbcu, which
is a historically black collegeuniversity, and so there's a
like the.
The history there is so richand uh, I'll.
I'm gonna go with this reallyquick because I think this is
important to say right before,because college sports has
changed so much.
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Right before covid, there wasncaa published the
transformation report, andwhenever I talk about this, this
example I always give is Howard, because you have Howard
competing with Alabama, you know, I mean, alabama's basketball
budget is Howard's entire budget, you know, as one example.
And so the transformation waslike report was saying there's
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so many uh, it's it, there's notan equal playing field, and so,
fast forward to 2025, as we'rerecording now, in the last five
years we've had a globalpandemic.
We've had, uh, nil name, imageand likeness.
We've had revenue share nowwhich we're not even sure
exactly how that's going to playout, and so we went from
transformation port a few yearsago to now.
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Now, alabama's spending howevermuch they're spending, we don't
even know because they don'thave to report it, because they
could pay athletes now andHoward's not going to be able to
do it.
It's always the example I givebecause yet they still stay
competitive.
You know they stay competitivelike you said with.
You know golf and track andsome of the Olympic sports, but
you know they are in the FBS.
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You know, for football, I think, or maybe that's FCS, that's
fcs either way, yes, maybe fcseither.
High level football, that'sstill high level, you know.
I mean, you know they're stilloften coming and I know actually
at ruckers we played them and Iknow that, I know ruckers holds
a very, uh, dear place in inyour memory yeah, you'll
literally move on right well,we'll have to give them.
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we were talking about louisville, and, and I think that was 2010
to be exact, actually, actually2010.
Yeah, so there was aLouisville-Rutgers game that
broke Collins.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Louisville's chances yeah.
Broke our chances to go to thebig game yeah, but that's
college sports, right.
That's another thing, and I'llgo back to what you just said
letting go and so actually,Louisville had to let go, you
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know, and as people have to letgo.
So how do you work with clients?
You know around letting go, forexample?
Well, empathy, empathy.
So one of the things I tell myclients is when you're getting
upset with yourself.
We get upset with threesituations ourselves, other
people or the environment.
I said I want you to visualize,every time you get upset with
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anybody, you're hurting yourself.
Yeah, I want you to take a dart.
Take a dart and stab yourselfin the arm.
Okay, that's what you're doingevery single time you get upset
with somebody else.
Yourself, environment, becauseyou're taking your emotions to a
negative place.
Yes, right.
So I want you to think aboutand talk to me about why are you
comfortable harming yourself?
And but ask them questions likethat that show them that, yes,
indeed, they're harmingthemselves every time they get
upset.
So what you have to do is learnhow to hot stove it right Hot
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stove.
So, so, dr Pete, if you put yourhair on a hot stove, what do
you do?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, hopefully, hopefully.
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You, hopefully.
What do you do?
You pull it away fast.
Yeah, pull it away fast, akalet it go.
When you get mad, think of ahot stove.
A hot stove is a great alarm totell you something is not right
.
Let it go.
Whatever got you on a hot stove, let it go.
Now it's not easy to let it go.
It's not easy to let it go, butyou have to sit on your bed and
think about what you couldn'tlet go last time.
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That's recurring becauseeverybody has that person at
work that says that knows how topush your buttons.
Right, yeah, you know, tomorrowthey're going to push your
buttons.
Before you go to work tomorrow,close your eyes and say no
matter what they do tomorrow,I'm going to let it go.
But if that that's too tough,start with something easier.
Go back to pet peeves, right,learn how to let things go, and
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by learning how to let go of theeasy things, the harder things
will become easy later.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Should people inventory their pet peeves?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I think you should inventory the heavier ones.
Yeah, because those arecarrying more weight.
You put those, as they saybaseball, put those in the
batter's box.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's coming up next yeah, pet peeves.
Sometimes pet peeves you haveto think about what's a.
I mean, ask somebody to thinkof five pet peeves, you'll be
there all day, right, yeah, whatare five things that bother you
?
They'll say spouse bills,friends.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, they'll have a whole list.
Yep, they'll have a whole list.
Wait, what do you mean by livelife by design?
I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So live life by design is something I've been
talking about for years and Ididn't coin it, of course, but I
remember hearing I think it wasJim Rohn years ago the best
life to live is a life by design, because that means that you've
thought this out and you'reliving your dreams.
If you think about where youwant to be in 10 years, as
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opposed to just showing up in 10years somewhere, it's a very
different mindset.
So it's about being veryintentional on how you're living
your life.
Now, I'm not saying have afive-year goal, have a 10-year
goal or dream right.
But I am saying that when youmake decisions, make decisions
that are based on how you wantto live your life, not making a
decision because you're beingforced to do that.
Make decisions.
Make decisions that are basedon how you want to live your
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life.
Um, not making a decisionbecause you're being forced to
do that.
For example, taking a jobbecause it pays good, but that
job is not doing any good forthe world right, versus a job
that's doing great for the world, saving lives, but pays
terrible.
What's more, aligned with yourlife right and going that way.
So it's really aboutunderstanding, making decisions
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based on a life you want to haveand not having life.
Make decisions for you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You mentioned goals, which I think are really
important.
I'm sure you work a lot withgoals and establishing goals
with your clients, and so whatabout for you, like, what about
goals that you're trying toreach in your professional
career?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, and thank you for saying professional, because
if not, I would tell you.
Well, let me tell you myultimate personal goal.
Let's hear that yeah, the moreI talk about this, the more I
realize I still have thatathlete thing in my head,
because my number one goal inlife is to complete a full iron
man and it may.
It may not resonate a lot ofpeople, but I want that iron man
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tattoo.
I want it badly because,especially at my age now and
anyways, that's personal I lovethat side.
My goal is it's ongoingrecurring goal is to be able to
give my family a lifestyle wherethey're comfortable and not in
need through my business, and mybusiness is coaching,
facilitating, speaking.
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So my business and I decidedthis years ago my business, my
future, is based on what comesout of my mouth.
That's it.
No tools, no, how strong I amhere, it's based on what comes
out of my mouth.
So, I want to be able to use mymouth, and my mouth alone, to
provide my family a lifestylethat allows them to live a life
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without need.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I love that.
Yeah, and it's values,connecting with your values,
understanding what's importantfor you and how are you at
bedtime now?
Say it again how are you atbedtime now Like have you found
the way?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
so let me one of the one of the biggest things, that
one of the biggest shifts waswhen I realized that and when I
just sat down and I watched himand instead of me getting mad
because he was hopping over bedand saying daddy, daddy, daddy,
daddy, yeah, I realized he'skind of funny, yeah, he's kind
of cute, and then I said knowwhat, let me read a book to him.
So even now that nighttime partis our best time of the day.
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We love it.
And I remember my wife sayingColin, you've changed so much
and you know when your spousesays that to you, that's like.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You should get like an award, a certificate.
Yeah, I had a client I workedwith and as a couple they would
meditate during bedtime becauseit is such a it is such a
stressful thing, especially inthe around that toddler age.
So they would go in the roomand just meditate and, whatever
craziness and tantrums they werethrowing, just sit there,
meditate and it really modeledthat and it took.
It took a lot of mental fitnessto be able to do that as a
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parent.
Yeah, absolutely and but thatthat taught me, though, that it
can work, because absolutelythat I mean, and it took a lot
of mental fitness to be able todo that as a parent.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, absolutely.
But that taught me, though,that it can work Absolutely.
I mean, I would leave that roomjust so upset, just so wound up
, that my wife would know don'ttalk to Colin right now.
And then, just a few monthslater, we're happy.
So that's what had me believingthat I could apply that to
other aspects of my life, andI'm happy to say that it takes a
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lot now to get me upset.
Um, because I'm able to use mymental fitness, which has been
built up over time, and just youknow what.
I don't have to win theargument.
Yeah, let it go let it go justlet it go really really good
advice.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Well, uh, this went, you know.
Thanks so much for being heretoday, col Colin.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This was really really amazing when can
listeners learn about yourservices, colincthompsoncom?
Very easy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
ColinCThompsoncom.
Colincthompsoncom.
So again, thank you, even justfor your flexibility today and
the technology and all thethings that we got through and
we let it go, let it go.
And we did it on the other sideof the world.
So, um, I'm I'm beginning myday, uh, and you are going to
start getting ready for bedtimeyeah, and dr pete, hey, thank
you for your platform because Ithink I've watched all the
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Speaker 2 (25:49):
What you're doing is great because you're allowing
your guests to share theirmessage and also share parts of
their personal life, and tolaugh so.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
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I appreciate that too.
So, uh, thank you for thosethat are listening at home and
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So please like and follow andshare everything's at official
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so much for listening and forbeing here this week.
So today we have a very amazingguest all the way from Shanghai
, Colin C Thompson.
He's a professional andpersonal coach with a dynamic
approach to help, with acommitment of transformation.
He guides his clients on a pathtowards success using mental
fitness, which you hear a lot ofon this episode.
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Mental fitness, mentaltoughness we're going to talk
about that today.
He believes that you have topush ourselves both physically
and mentally, and I am soexcited.
Thank you, Colin, for beinghere.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Dr Peter, thanks for having me on your show and, as
you know, I know your mind canbe your best friend or your
worst enemy.
So I'm glad to be here today totalk about how your mind
absolutely must be your bestfriend.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We have to make your mind your best friend and I
appreciate that.
And just for listeners, we hada little bit of technical issues
but just like good mentalfitness people, we were able to
pivot and we are able to gethere today.
So tell the listeners aboutyourself, colin.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So, as Dr Pete mentioned, I'm coming live and
direct from Shanghai, china.
I'd like to say I have a richbackground.
My family is Jamaican and myfamily left that small warm
island of Jamaica and immigratedto that big, cold country of
Canada.
And then from Canada weimmigrated again into the United
States back when I was, I think, in the early 1980s.
(01:50):
So, my background mindset hasalways been more international.
My father was big on sayinglook, no matter where you live,
there's a way you do things inthat culture, but there's a way
people do things in othercultures as well.
So I'm glad to say that, notjust being here in China now,
but all my life I've tried toview things as there's more than
one or two degrees of doing thesame thing.
All those ways could be right.
(02:11):
That's right.
You know, Dr Pete, in somecultures there's two ways.
There's our way and the wrongway.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's right.
Is that more common in theJamaican culture?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, no, in different cultures, in different cultures,
different.
More red, white and blueculture.
It's more common, it's a littlemore common, oh boy, especially
as we record this in 2025, thathits, that's right, yeah yeah,
yeah, well, you reached outbecause you really believe in
mindfulness and building mentalfitness.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And I want to hear about your philosophy on
mindfulness and, uh, you know,building mental fitness.
So I love.
So thank you for doing that,and I want to hear about your
philosophy on mindfulness andmental fitness.
Yeah, and it's not more myphilosophy um, I, I did study
the positive intelligenceprogram.
Um, I did, I did, um, getcertified as a positive,
positive mental fitness coach.
And mental fitness is quite easyto understand.
It's our ability to get throughthis crazy, wonderful, tough,
(03:09):
exciting thing called life whilemaintaining a positive mindset
instead of a negative mindset,and that's all it is.
It's how do you go through theups and downs and just able to
maintain a positive mindset?
And even if you do get down weall get down it's not staying
down too long and understandingbeing down is part of life.
You can't avoid it.
It's just making sure that youhave tools that help you to get
(03:31):
back up and get back out easier.
And when you see your friendsand family are down, you're able
to either give them space orhelp them maintain a positive
mindset as well.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I love that you said that, because it's not just
about sometimes you have to letthem give them the space like
let them go through what they'regoing through, and I find,
especially when I work withcouples or that's really hard
for people, or if it's like ahigh performing parent and their
child is just being a childwhich what children do
developmentally being able towatch the child, do that.
Let the child fall.
Let them fall and let themfigure out how to get back up.
(04:03):
Don't always be there to pickthem back up.
So, uh, how how do you thinkthat would play into our lives?
So, mental fitness in general,maybe, how does it play into
your life?
And how does it play into, like, a listener's life?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
uh, about ways to do that well, it's interesting you
mentioned a child.
Yeah, because back in 2021that's when I first started to
really work on my mental fitnessand my son, who is now almost
six.
He was two and a quarter and Idon't know what happened right
when he hit two.
Dr Pete, I don't know if youhave kids or not, but that
(04:35):
terrible two thing is real.
I don't know what happens, butin my household every night at
bedtime he would leave theshower.
It was my job to get from theshower into bed and go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh, that's one of the toughest jobs.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I did not know that because I had my first child, so
we would have World War IIIevery single night.
He would see a side of me that Ireally wasn't comfortable him
seeing when I grew up.
I would see my father gettingreally, really upset, yelling.
I did not want that same thing,my household and I told my wife
.
I said, honey, tomorrow, nomatter what, no matter what he
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does, I would not get upset.
Nice, after pete.
The next night, after shower inthe bedroom, quincy go to sleep
.
I about lost my mind that nightit did not work, but what it?
taught me was I had to approachmy mental fitness the same way I
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would approach training for arace yeah.
Or getting getting in shapeyeah.
You can do a 5k run, 5k race.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You can't do that day one right, you have to train
for it.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You got to build up for it yeah, first in the gym,
you're not going to bench 220,no.
So what I realized is to buildup my mental fitness.
I must approach it step by step, by step.
Instead of taking something sopersonal, so deep, like my son
and his bedtime stuff, two yearsold, which the first time
father can't handle.
I decided, let me start with apet peeve.
So I equate a pet peeve,something small that gets you
(06:03):
upset, for maybe you know two orthree, two, two or three
minutes, not too long.
Yeah, for me that was openmicrowave doors, right.
So with that I started thereand I was slowly able to go to
bigger pet peeve, bigger petpeeve.
But important thing isapproaching it as if you're
training for an exam or trainingfor a physical feat.
Start small, but what we alwaysdo and my clients do this they
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want to take on the biggest,biggest frustration or pain or
challenge they have and theyfail because they're starting
too big day one.
So my approach to mentalfitness is look at it like you
want to build up over time.
And just one thing to add heremy two-year-old son was just
being a two-year-old son atwo-year-old child.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's it.
That's it.
Yeah.
Now, intellectually you canunderstand that, but it really
gets hard to truly put intopractice.
So I love the vulnerability ofowning that and I know you are a
certified life coach as welland empowering your clients to
unleash their inner potential.
We could all use a little helpwith that.
I know we said in today's world, so tell us how you work with
clients to achieve, you know,reaching that inner potential.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, well, you know, I think a lot of clients come
with different backgrounds anddifferent goals.
Some clients come because theyreally don't know how to start
going after a goal.
Some may not know how tocontinue going after a goal.
Some may say you know what?
I really have no goals, butsomething has to change because
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my life isn't where I want it tobe.
So one of the first things wedo is I like to do an exercise
called flash forward.
I say imagine having aconversation with yourself, but
not yourself in the past.
You're talking to yourself 20,30 years from now, having lived
your life up to here, plus 20,30 more, and that person has
(07:53):
achieved all the goals duringgreat physical and mental health
.
What questions would you havefor that person?
Nice, and yeah.
And by understanding whatquestions they would have,
here's what I say.
I say okay, now what would yourwiser self say?
I would answer those questions.
So then a client is looking atit from both perspectives and
that really helps them to lookat.
(08:14):
Okay, here's where I want to goPotentially, here's where it
may get in my way and here'swhat I need to start focusing on
to make sure that doesn't getin my way.
So it's really allowing theclient to look at visualizing,
visualizing having aconversation with yourself about
your future it's always aboutperspective.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And another thing I really enjoyed about your
message when you reach out waslike uh, your birthday run, I
thought that was uh really cool,so tell us about your birthday
run yeah, well, let me justfirst say it is not cool.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It is cool, but it's not cool.
But go ahead, it's coming up inabout three weeks.
So back in 2000, and, yeah,2000, I want to 2010.
I believe it was I, being an exathlete, being an ex collegiate
athlete yes, at the time I wasaround 36, so that's a good 16
(09:08):
years out of college, so Ishould have.
What did you play?
Just for listeners.
I wrestled, I wrestled Iwrestled in college um, and you
know, at 37 I'll do a lot ofrunning marathons, but not and I
had to prove I still had it.
Yeah, and I said, well, I'vedone a marathon, that's not
enough.
And I said let me go ahead andrun.
My age miles on my birthday atthat time was like 36 miles and
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it was tough.
It was very, very tough.
It's august heat.
It was very, very tough.
But dr peter realized that atthat point I was doing it for
the wrong reasons.
I was doing it to prove I stillhad it Right, which is never
the reason to drive you Now.
I do it because I just enjoy it.
Enjoy, it's not cool.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But it's a goal.
It's a goal that you'reachieving.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it's a goal, and so the birthday one thing.
So I give myself 24 hours torun, to run, all to cover that
business.
A lot of walking, right.
So this year I'll have 52 milesand I don't do it from start to
end.
I'll do maybe, let's say, 10miles and then take a few hours
break and I'll break it upthroughout the day.
(10:16):
I'll be running at 2 3 am, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
But if the training don't blah blah blah, you'll be
running at 2 or 3 am.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well, you know.
So in Shanghai it gets hot herein August, very hot in August.
So one of the things I have todo, I have to really try to plan
out when to start.
So my training runs usually gofrom 3, 4 am to about 6, 7 am,
because once that sun comes out,it's game over, it's game over.
So the birthday run takes place.
I'll probably start around,like I think, around 7 pm in the
(10:48):
evening and then finish up, youknow, through the night and
whatnot, but it's a trainingthat's really tough because,
well, I like the training too.
Imagine you're like a12-year-old boy and you're
taking your port card home, allFs, all Ds and Fs, and you know
your dad's going to wear you out.
He's going to wear that buttout when he gets home.
Now imagine having to do thatevery single day.
(11:11):
Right, that's what the trainingreminds me of, because you know
running in the heat and running, you know, three hours in the
morning.
It's not fun but it does make medeal with my emotional side, a
lot of emotions.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I know you mentioned that about the running, and it
also just clicks about thewrestling though too, because
wrestlers are different athletesin that way, I don't know Was
it like?
Did you guys have the heatedrooms where you were practicing?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Of course we did.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I wasn't sure how long that's been going on.
And the suits rooms where youwere practicing.
Of course we did.
I wasn't sure how long that'sbeen going on and a suit's on it
.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, I can't have any more, you know, so I I'll,
I'll let you know how weak I am.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
When I go into the right, I'm always like I'll find
, like the training room wherethere's some area, where there's
some air.
I'm always standing.
That's where I'll stand, I will, that's it.
Like I, I can't, I can't cut it.
Yeah, you guys are.
You guys are different.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, so you guys, you know, asa you, so you're, you still
have that inner potential of awrestler where you're like,
obviously you're a really highperformer well, you know, I
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think it's different.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I think now it's more .
I would say it's more myrunning side, with my running
side, or it's more my athleteside, right, because as much I
wrestle I think I was just a bitin football, yeah.
So it's just that athlete'smindset, be it because I do
triathlons also.
It's just, it's just go, go, go, because part of it is I
realize that once you stop doinga lot of things, it's very,
(12:33):
very hard to get going again.
Like every year.
You run, you run.
You have three months off.
Once you start training again,it takes months to get back to
where you were.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, well, you Months.
You know, as you know, I workwith a lot of college athletes
and now there's like no time offanymore.
I mean, back in our day atleast there was time off.
I mean this way today theydon't really.
You know American football,they'll get like a couple weeks
here and there and that's areally taxing sport.
But you know, you're being herebecause you are a hall of famer
at howard university, right?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
absolutely.
Yes, I am.
I don't have the ring ontonight, but it's.
I'm very, very proud, very,very proud of that and that just
happened, I want to say two orthree years ago so we just
invested, thank you a few yearsago.
Very, very proud of that andreason being um, I have almost
all my family went to how beforeme.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh, yeah, nice Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And because of that I got into Howard.
Howard is an academic school.
I was bat dumb jock in highschool.
I'll admit I was there for thegirls in sports.
When I graduated I only appliedto two or three schools and I
didn't even I wasn't thinkingabout it.
University of Louisville, myhome school, said no.
(13:43):
It's so funny.
Louisville said no, howard saidyes, but it was strictly
because family.
Your family and I was an athletethere.
I was on probation the firstsemester, so I'm very happy to
say that Only because of how Igot in, but I'm very happy to
say that when I graduate I hadlike a 360 GPA.
Wow, so definitely a goodturnaround.
I graduate I had like a 360 GPA.
(14:04):
So I definitely good turnaroundand yeah, so you know I'm very
proud to say that not only did Igo to Howard University and
really got in, but I'm nowenshrined in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Amazing, yeah, well, obviously well earned.
What do you think?
What would you say you learnedduring that period, because I do
think that being a collegestudent athlete really teaches
us a lot.
But what would you say youlearned the most?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I don't.
I don't think being, uh, Idon't think anything that I
found to be useful later.
Um, really, because I mean youdon't have to train hard, train
hard, train hard.
Be loyal to your teammates.
Be loyal to your teammatesRight, you learned that, but I'm
a fraternity same thing.
What I think, though, is what Ilearned the most is at some
(14:45):
point, you have to let it go.
What I think, though, is what Ilearned the most is at some
point, you have to let it go.
You have to let it go.
Once I graduated university andgot into the real world, I was
like OK, what am I going to beknown for or do now?
Yeah, so it was a lot of.
I think.
What I learned was you have tohave balance in university, even
(15:08):
for an athlete, it can't justbe sports.
Yeah, it must be academics, itmust be um clubs.
It has to be a lot of differentthings.
So, when you graduate, you havethat side to lean into.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I love that.
Well, one of my coaches said tome uh, you have academics,
social and athletics pick two.
You can't have all three.
And me being me, I was.
I was like I'm gonna show you,you know, because I'm gonna have
all three and me being me, Iwas.
I was like I'm gonna show you,you know, because I'm gonna have
all three.
Uh, but knowing what I knowtoday, like you then have to
sacrifice certain aspects of itso you're not thriving as much
as you can and really makingsure you have this like
(15:38):
well-rounded values and thatthere's other parts of your life
where you're not.
Just one thing is what I hearyou saying yeah, yeah and it's
different now.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
The sport, the spotlight on college sports now,
is very, very different, verydifferent.
And look with howard howardagain academic school, so
there's not much pressure, butthose sports teams now also
getting more eyeballs on them.
The golf team there wassponsored by stephan stephan.
Um stephan basketball player,curry curry, yeah, yeah, stephan
curry, he's the one who gotthat going.
(16:05):
So a lot more islands I meannow.
And the track team, their trackteam has no time off.
They're all year round.
When I was student athlete,track had winter break, track
and summer break, yeah, but nowit's all year round.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So well, and just for listeners that might not know,
I mean, howard university is,like you said, an academic, so
it's a great university, a greatschool, and it's an hbcu, which
is a historically black collegeuniversity, and so there's a
like the.
The history there is so richand uh, I'll.
I'm gonna go with this reallyquick because I think this is
important to say right before,because college sports has
changed so much.
(16:37):
Right before covid, there wasncaa published the
transformation report, andwhenever I talk about this, this
example I always give is Howard, because you have Howard
competing with Alabama, you know, I mean, alabama's basketball
budget is Howard's entire budget, you know, as one example.
And so the transformation waslike report was saying there's
(16:58):
so many uh, it's it, there's notan equal playing field, and so,
fast forward to 2025, as we'rerecording now, in the last five
years we've had a globalpandemic.
We've had, uh, nil name, imageand likeness.
We've had revenue share nowwhich we're not even sure
exactly how that's going to playout, and so we went from
transformation port a few yearsago to now.
(17:20):
Now, alabama's spending howevermuch they're spending, we don't
even know because they don'thave to report it, because they
could pay athletes now andHoward's not going to be able to
do it.
It's always the example I givebecause yet they still stay
competitive.
You know they stay competitivelike you said with.
You know golf and track andsome of the Olympic sports, but
you know they are in the FBS.
(17:40):
You know, for football, I think, or maybe that's FCS, that's
fcs either way, yes, maybe fcseither.
High level football, that'sstill high level, you know.
I mean, you know they're stilloften coming and I know actually
at ruckers we played them and Iknow that, I know ruckers holds
a very, uh, dear place in inyour memory yeah, you'll
literally move on right well,we'll have to give them.
(18:02):
we were talking about louisville, and, and I think that was 2010
to be exact, actually, actually2010.
Yeah, so there was aLouisville-Rutgers game that
broke Collins.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Louisville's chances yeah.
Broke our chances to go to thebig game yeah, but that's
college sports, right.
That's another thing, and I'llgo back to what you just said
letting go and so actually,Louisville had to let go, you
(18:32):
know, and as people have to letgo.
So how do you work with clients?
You know around letting go, forexample?
Well, empathy, empathy.
So one of the things I tell myclients is when you're getting
upset with yourself.
We get upset with threesituations ourselves, other
people or the environment.
I said I want you to visualize,every time you get upset with
(18:53):
anybody, you're hurting yourself.
Yeah, I want you to take a dart.
Take a dart and stab yourselfin the arm.
Okay, that's what you're doingevery single time you get upset
with somebody else.
Yourself, environment, becauseyou're taking your emotions to a
negative place.
Yes, right.
So I want you to think aboutand talk to me about why are you
comfortable harming yourself?
And but ask them questions likethat that show them that, yes,
indeed, they're harmingthemselves every time they get
upset.
So what you have to do is learnhow to hot stove it right Hot
(19:18):
stove.
So, so, dr Pete, if you put yourhair on a hot stove, what do
you do?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, hopefully, hopefully.
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You, hopefully.
What do you do?
You pull it away fast.
Yeah, pull it away fast, akalet it go.
When you get mad, think of ahot stove.
A hot stove is a great alarm totell you something is not right
.
Let it go.
Whatever got you on a hot stove, let it go.
Now it's not easy to let it go.
It's not easy to let it go, butyou have to sit on your bed and
think about what you couldn'tlet go last time.
(19:48):
That's recurring becauseeverybody has that person at
work that says that knows how topush your buttons.
Right, yeah, you know, tomorrowthey're going to push your
buttons.
Before you go to work tomorrow,close your eyes and say no
matter what they do tomorrow,I'm going to let it go.
But if that that's too tough,start with something easier.
Go back to pet peeves, right,learn how to let things go, and
(20:10):
by learning how to let go of theeasy things, the harder things
will become easy later.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Should people inventory their pet peeves?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I think you should inventory the heavier ones.
Yeah, because those arecarrying more weight.
You put those, as they saybaseball, put those in the
batter's box.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's coming up next yeah, pet peeves.
Sometimes pet peeves you haveto think about what's a.
I mean, ask somebody to thinkof five pet peeves, you'll be
there all day, right, yeah, whatare five things that bother you
?
They'll say spouse bills,friends.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, they'll have a whole list.
Yep, they'll have a whole list.
Wait, what do you mean by livelife by design?
I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So live life by design is something I've been
talking about for years and Ididn't coin it, of course, but I
remember hearing I think it wasJim Rohn years ago the best
life to live is a life by design, because that means that you've
thought this out and you'reliving your dreams.
If you think about where youwant to be in 10 years, as
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opposed to just showing up in 10years somewhere, it's a very
different mindset.
So it's about being veryintentional on how you're living
your life.
Now, I'm not saying have afive-year goal, have a 10-year
goal or dream right.
But I am saying that when youmake decisions, make decisions
that are based on how you wantto live your life, not making a
decision because you're beingforced to do that.
Make decisions.
Make decisions that are basedon how you want to live your
(21:37):
life.
Um, not making a decisionbecause you're being forced to
do that.
For example, taking a jobbecause it pays good, but that
job is not doing any good forthe world right, versus a job
that's doing great for the world, saving lives, but pays
terrible.
What's more, aligned with yourlife right and going that way.
So it's really aboutunderstanding, making decisions
(21:59):
based on a life you want to haveand not having life.
Make decisions for you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You mentioned goals, which I think are really
important.
I'm sure you work a lot withgoals and establishing goals
with your clients, and so whatabout for you, like, what about
goals that you're trying toreach in your professional
career?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, and thank you for saying professional, because
if not, I would tell you.
Well, let me tell you myultimate personal goal.
Let's hear that yeah, the moreI talk about this, the more I
realize I still have thatathlete thing in my head,
because my number one goal inlife is to complete a full iron
man and it may.
It may not resonate a lot ofpeople, but I want that iron man
(22:38):
tattoo.
I want it badly because,especially at my age now and
anyways, that's personal I lovethat side.
My goal is it's ongoingrecurring goal is to be able to
give my family a lifestyle wherethey're comfortable and not in
need through my business, and mybusiness is coaching,
facilitating, speaking.
(22:58):
So my business and I decidedthis years ago my business, my
future, is based on what comesout of my mouth.
That's it.
No tools, no, how strong I amhere, it's based on what comes
out of my mouth.
So, I want to be able to use mymouth, and my mouth alone, to
provide my family a lifestylethat allows them to live a life
(23:20):
without need.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I love that.
Yeah, and it's values,connecting with your values,
understanding what's importantfor you and how are you at
bedtime now?
Say it again how are you atbedtime now Like have you found
the way?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
so let me one of the one of the biggest things, that
one of the biggest shifts waswhen I realized that and when I
just sat down and I watched himand instead of me getting mad
because he was hopping over bedand saying daddy, daddy, daddy,
daddy, yeah, I realized he'skind of funny, yeah, he's kind
of cute, and then I said knowwhat, let me read a book to him.
So even now that nighttime partis our best time of the day.
(24:01):
We love it.
And I remember my wife sayingColin, you've changed so much
and you know when your spousesays that to you, that's like.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You should get like an award, a certificate.
Yeah, I had a client I workedwith and as a couple they would
meditate during bedtime becauseit is such a it is such a
stressful thing, especially inthe around that toddler age.
So they would go in the roomand just meditate and, whatever
craziness and tantrums they werethrowing, just sit there,
meditate and it really modeledthat and it took.
It took a lot of mental fitnessto be able to do that as a
(24:34):
parent.
Yeah, absolutely and but thatthat taught me, though, that it
can work, because absolutelythat I mean, and it took a lot
of mental fitness to be able todo that as a parent.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, absolutely.
But that taught me, though,that it can work Absolutely.
I mean, I would leave that roomjust so upset, just so wound up
, that my wife would know don'ttalk to Colin right now.
And then, just a few monthslater, we're happy.
So that's what had me believingthat I could apply that to
other aspects of my life, andI'm happy to say that it takes a
(25:00):
lot now to get me upset.
Um, because I'm able to use mymental fitness, which has been
built up over time, and just youknow what.
I don't have to win theargument.
Yeah, let it go let it go justlet it go really really good
advice.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Well, uh, this went, you know.
Thanks so much for being heretoday, col Colin.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This was really really amazing when can
listeners learn about yourservices, colincthompsoncom?
Very easy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
ColinCThompsoncom.
Colincthompsoncom.
So again, thank you, even justfor your flexibility today and
the technology and all thethings that we got through and
we let it go, let it go.
And we did it on the other sideof the world.
So, um, I'm I'm beginning myday, uh, and you are going to
start getting ready for bedtimeyeah, and dr pete, hey, thank
you for your platform because Ithink I've watched all the
(25:48):
episodes.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
What you're doing is great because you're allowing
your guests to share theirmessage and also share parts of
their personal life, and tolaugh so.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So thank you for the platform.
I appreciate that too.
So, uh, thank you for thosethat are listening at home and
your sport, your support isalways greatly appreciated.
So please like and follow andshare everything's at official
dr Petecom and uh, I'll see youback next week.
So until then, spread a littlekindness and stay well.
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