Adam Outland
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first heard May 2024
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But I find that a lot of them have to have gotten what they had. They have to have a certain amount of self-worth and self-value that they've crested over to accomplish things of a magnitude. And with that sometimes comes some defensiveness around change or a defensiveness of them maybe not verbalizing this. But I'm imagined you've maybe heard at some point, Patrick, you don't know my business.
You don't know. what we're doing. So how do you overcome that?
Yeah, interesting.
Reminds me of a book called Tribal Leadership. I don't know if you've read this, but I think you'd like it. There's, you know, a category of stages that the Stanford professor observed in different culture and communities. The lowest level was like the kind you see in prisons, which is like defined by the affirmation, my life sucks. Yeah. That was the way they had to write it and put it.
They didn't see the way out. And then the second tier, it becomes a little bit less my life sucks and they can see others have it great. It's my life sucks, but other people have it great. There's someone near them that's succeeding, probably a manager or a leader. And then level three is I'm great, but you're not.
And this is the prolific in the corporate world, lawyers, doctors, in an order to be the greatest, they can't have competition in their office, right? It's always proving it's a survivalist. And then level four is we are great. And level five is life is great. And there are very few companies that operate at that level.
But just kind of connecting these dots in my head as I hear you talk, it's a little bit of that. Am I hearing this somewhat right?
Oh, yeah. And one of the things that you talk about is how to break the cycle of distraction. What does that look like in motion when you're working with someone?
What's your personal practice to remain clear? Because as I think we both agree, it's sometimes it's easy to see than others. It's harder even for us to apply some of this thinking to ourselves at times because it gets cloudy.
Having done a lot of these transformative things yourself, put them in motion for clients, what advice would you give yourself many years ago? What do you think that young version of yourself could use?
What a great note to end on. Great conversation, Patrick. Really enjoyed it.
This is your host, Adam Outland. And outside of this podcast, I'm also the leader for a division of our company, Southwestern Consulting, and our division is the Southwestern Student Coaching Program. And that division, we started back in 2020 because the desire we had was to take all these skills that we've equipped executives with for
Over a decade, I've coached executives and managers and sales professionals on the skills, the habits, the motivation, and the systems to be successful in their job and in life.
And what we realized from working with 30, 40, 50 year olds was if we could have gotten to them when they were in ninth grade, in middle school, in high school, and equipped them with the same things we're teaching them now, the ripple effects would be huge. And so back in 2020, we decided to formulate a coaching program for youth
equipping youth with the same types of skill development that we typically work on with adults. We just apply it to their world. And what that looks like is teaching them the study skills, the communication skills that they can use every day in the classroom and outside the classroom, coaching them on the mindset and the motivation of someone who's a top performer And what does that mean?
It means helping a young teenager create and craft a vision for themselves. Because without a vision, we perish. But with a vision, we can be equipped with the motivation to dig into our study habits. We can see the connection between our future and the excellence that we have to form in our habits now to be successful in the long run. And we also work on the emotional intelligence.
It's how we balance our emotions and manage those emotions when they come up in a way that allows us to communicate effectively with others and to communicate with ourselves. It's about equipping young people with self-talk. That means equipping them with the language that they can use to better direct their thoughts and their mind to accomplish their goals and their aims.
And lastly, we equip them with the systems. That means for us, the tools, the time management and the organization strategies. to not just work hard in life, but to work smart. And when we combine all these different areas that we work with our teens on, what we find is that they form the habits early in life that allows them to achieve their goals later in life and even right now.
And so our passion is to equip as many young people across this world as we can. And we're doing pretty good so far. We've got teens in seven different countries who have been through our coaching program to date. We've worked with over 400 teens, and we would love to be able to serve you as well. Here's how it works. If you want to investigate coaching, we start with a parent consultation.
That's a free call to discuss your students' particular needs and our program details. We work with Olympic athletes all the way down to teens that are just struggling to motivate themselves to do the daily work necessary in their class. So wherever your teen is, we'll meet them where they are and get them to the next level. And that starts with a parent consultation with you.
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