WILL IT MAKE THE BOAT GO FASTER (with Ben Hunt Davis MBE ~ Gold Medal Olypic Winning Strategies for Sport, Life & Business)

Live Your Full Potential

In today's episode of the Live Your Full Potential Podcast, we are joined by Gold Medal Olympian Ben Hunt-Davis MBE. Ben is a performance expert, coach, facilitator and keynote speaker.

He is also Co-author of “Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?”, the story of how the Great Britain’s men’s eight crew won an Olympic Gold medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Ben has spent the last 16 years specialising in leadership and team development and in 2012 he co-founded Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?, a performance consultancy which seeks to transform organisational performance through the adoption of elite sport principles and strategies.

Ben and his team have a highly practical approach which focuses heavily focused on the application of performance habits, mindsets and beliefs. Their aim is to ensure that participants genuinely apply new ways of working and behave differently to achieve greater results. Ben is still involved in the Olympic movement having been a member of the Team GB staff at the last 4 Summer Olympics.

In this podcast we talk about The Speech, The Book, Performance Vs Results, Leadership of Oneself and Others, Managing Pressure, Evidence, BS Filters and so much more. As a result of watching this podcast, you will have spent over 1 hour with someone who was at the top of his game, both mentally and physically, who carries these life lessons into life and business every day. It's not as complicated as you might think, but it requires an extreme amount of focus and discipline to achieve. Tune into the full episode to get the ingredients.

0:00 Introductions - Ben Hunt-Davis MBE

2:00 The role of Self Belief in High Performance

4:00 Relationships & Team

5:30 Today is going to be a good day, because I'm going to make it a good day

6:00 Collective Accountability & The Wider Team

7:30 The Daily Actions

8:30 Evidence that you can do this

12:50 BS Filters 19:20 Managing Pressure

23:20 Walking upstairs quietly and moving in the right way!

27:00 Striking a balance

29:20 Finding your sweet-spot

31:55 Small changes and momentum

33:30 Results Vs Performance

39:20 Getting clear on the recipe of success (Performance Ingredients)

44:44 Setting you up for the day

48:00 Chasing the result Vs Working on the ingredients

55:00 Excellence is habit

1:04:30 Leadership

1:12:30 Using your story to help others

1:18:20 Asking questions and seeking guidance

To connect with Ben and his business, head over to:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhuntdavis/

https://hunt-davis.co.uk/

https://willitmaketheboatgofaster.com/

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