M is for Motivation

Building Championship Mindsets

This week on the Building Championship Mindsets podcast, Dr. Selking discusses motivation. She shares the story behind her daughter Elleeanna’s name and how it represents the legacy of her family. Dr. Selking explores the definition of motivation and its role in initiating, continuing, or terminating behaviors. She emphasizes the importance of setting goals and aligning actions with what truly matters to us. Dr. Selking also highlights the reality of motivation, which is often about making choices and being accountable rather than relying on constant feelings of motivation.

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.

As a leader in the field of sports and performance psychology, Dr. Amber Selking has been fiercely devoted to optimizing human performance in people and systems throughout her entire career.

Dr. Selking is the founder of Selking Performance Group, a leading performance consulting practice that helps individuals, companies, and sports teams achieve sustainable results. She has served as the Mental Performance Coach for the Notre Dame Football team and as the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development for Lippert, a global, 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. She has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.

Dr. Selking holds a Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and an undergraduate degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before an 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.

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What are things that you just need to do in your life because you say that they're important to you? Can you get over this feeling of having to feel something magnificent and electric from a motivational standpoint and instead just make the choice to do the things that you say are really important to you?

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “Motivation isn't always sexy. It's doing what you know you need to do when you need to do it and being accountable to it and making that choice to engage in those said behaviors." -Dr. Amber Selking [06:06]

• “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” -Dr. Amber Selking [06:29]

TIMESTAMPS

02:49 Motivation and its importance in goal setting

06:29 The importance of knowing what really matters to us

11:17 Championship Mindset Training

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