Dan Lawrence

Even if we'd won, going into the next fight camp or the next game or the next boardroom meeting, whatever it is,

And you're driven by ego if you're not just sitting with your thoughts for a moment.

We have to reflect in that moment to see that went well, but actually there were a couple of things that could have gone a little bit better there.

So then we have to review it with our team.

And then once we've done those two first phases, we can then plan ahead for how we can get better moving forward.

So a very simple approach.

I think it also comes with any high performer is that we're all very aware that it's not a linear path.

We know that there's going to be many a hump in the road.

Otherwise, we would have done it many moons ago.

So it's having the accountability and the environment set up to know that when you hit a hump in the road, do you become downbeat and then fall off track?

Or do you say, okay, this is part of the process.

I've been coached by this.

I can speak to my coach, my head of performance, whoever else around me, to know that this was going to happen at some point.

Annoyingly, it's happened a little bit sooner or annoyingly, it's happened in this moment before this huge deal.

Whatever that looks like contextually to you.

But we knew it was going to happen.

So now I've got the coping mechanisms and the mindset to enable me to say, okay, I'm going to sit with this for a moment.

I'm going to follow the same three-pronged approach of reflect, review, and plan.

But you better believe I'm going to plow on and I'm going to overcome that hump to get closer to the longer term goals.

So I think the self-awareness to know that it's not going to be easy.