Unleash Your Power to "Level Up": Recent Episodes
Reed Carlson and Matt Carlson
What would your 30 day in the future self think of you now? Would they thank you for your efforts or try and light a fire under you to push harder? You are either developing a better version of yourself or you're not. Unleashing your power to "level up" dives into the principles required to evolve into the person that your future self wants to meet and congratulate for having the courage to take the path that leads to excellence. Reed and Matt Carlson have over 20 years of experience helping people "level up" in all facets of life. Their Podcast shares the information and experiences that will help the listener use life tools that are proven to be effective and efficient. They are 7x winners of Utah's Best of State award for running the best Sports Program in Club V Volleyball (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). Reed was named the 2018 AVCA National Club Coach of the Year for the 15's age group while Matt was named the 2018 UHSAA Coach of the Year. They have trained and mentored hundreds of All-State Volleyball Players helping over 300 accomplish their goal of playing in college. They have won 6 Volleyball State Championships and 2 National Championships since 2016.
External Validation is like Chocolate Cake in that it feels good while eating it but is unhealthy if you eat too much of it.
When people face stress they will fight, flight, or freeze and after doing one of these things they will have an emotional response that becomes their addiction that will continue to drive their behavior.
Have you ever felt like you’ve worked really hard and persisted and still didn’t get any benefit from it? This is why persistence without insight will lead you to a path of insanity.
High Expectations met by High Accountability for the accomplishment of those expectations creates the energy needed to engage in the appropriate behaviors.
When you can align your words and actions productively, is when your energy is directed in one place leading you to success.
Principles teach us exactly what to do to get exactly what we want. Is the principle not working or are you not working?
You can choose to have a mindset like a beater car or a Ferrari. Which are you driving around?
On the other side of your inadequacy is a more evolved, “leveled up” version of yourself.
Being relentless requires a learner’s mentality. Can you focus and use discipline to get what you want? Do you get emotional when you don’t get what you want?
What you watch, listen to, read, and who you spend your time with determines what spills out in your life.
An attitude of excellence compels you to make improvements and to be present in all things at all times.
Resilience is needed to make us stronger, tougher, and more capable of taking on more responsibility.
Discipline means to do exactly what you say you’re going to do in order to figure out if what you’re doing is the right thing to do. A lack of discipline does not give you the specific information needed to know where a change is needed.
Awareness of the details needed to accomplish your goals and the self-awareness needed to know what you are actually doing is a critical part of Grit.
To have Grit you must be unconditionally committed to the accomplishment of your goal and conditionally committed to the process if you run into an obstacle that requires a different approach.
When you take ownership of your goals like you would your car you naturally accept the responsibility of caring for it. It’s your car, you decide how you are going to use it and care for it.
In the pursuit of accomplishing your goals it is important to stay true to and live your values so you can find fulfillment and happiness in your daily life.
The more clarity you have for what you want, why you want it, and how you’re going to get it, the more likely you’ll take the appropriate actions to make it a reality.
Grit is one of the most powerful attributes one can posses if you want to “level up” and accomplish more in your life.
You need to be in a state of receivership to let the things you want manifest themselves in your life.
The right mindset will substantially increase your productivity. This episode takes you through the process of preparing your mindset to go to work.
Is life happening to you or for you? How do you react when your positive expectations aren’t met? We discuss how to identify and avoid a victim mindset.
By adapting to failure you figure out how to conquer any challenge and by doing so grow in ability and in experience.
When things don’t work you must try something different. If you’re unwilling to adapt you will make failure your habit.
Failure will occur when taking on a new challenge but it is not the goal. There is a common belief that as long as you fail enough times things will work out. This is nonsense. Learn from failures and repeat successes.
After you encounter an obstacle and decide to change your approach of how you’re going to get to your destination, you get back in control by creating a new challenge for yourself.
When you run into an obstacle you will need to change your approach from what you had previously planned on. If you can see the possibility in what changing your approach will bring into your life, you will continue on your journey with new passion.
Obstacles are unforeseen events you didn’t plan for on your journey to your desired destination and can offer the greatest opportunities to “level up”.
Your journey to success is going to be filled with unpredictable moments. What is that process going to look like?
Short term thinking allows outcomes to control your emotional state while having a long term mindset allows you to use your time and energy more wisely.
In your process of growth and change do you find yourself getting frustrated? Learn why giving in to frustration will stop you from leveling up.
Most have a belief that their standards are things they rise up to when in fact they are the lines you won't cross...
Do you have the mindset of a hunter? Are you constantly working to get what you want or are you relaxing and allowing others to hunt you?
We are experts at being ourselves. If you want to change who you are, you must learn how to accept the new you to change the story you are telling yourself.
The perspective you have determines the memories you create. When your perspective changes of the same experience, your memories change as well.
There are 4 questions that help you determine if you are willing to get what you want...
No matter what you decide to do there will be difficult times attached. You get to choose what the hard things will be in your life. Choose the ones that will lead to your success.
Often, in the pursuit of building a stronger skill, athletes develop a poor relationship with that skill.
When passion drives your behavior no-one has to ask you to work for your success. BUT how do you create passion??? We tackle this in this episode.
Your level of understanding affects your level of thinking. Are you spending enough time expanding your knowledge?
To get what you want there is a truth that needs to be aligned with. Understanding that truth accepting, and implementing it will lead to success.
You become an expert at what you spend all your time thinking about, feeling, and doing. The question is are you an expert at leveling up or remaining as you are?
Do you notice your desires don't match your actions? In this episode we help you understand how to close the gap.
If you know what it takes to succeed and focus on something else, you are in fact choosing to fail.
Do you have a goal you are struggling to accomplish? Increasing your productivity and understanding what productivity is will dramatically help.
Changing yourself is not easy. In this episode we discuss the process of how to change and how to make it stick.
When high expectations are met by high accountability for the accomplishment of those expectations. Our behaviors ultimately decide what we get not our desires. Learn about some of the behaviors found in the success quadrant.
You get to choose your perspective which means you get to choose how you want to experience life.