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Episode 320: Getting Extraordinary Results with Scott Welle

Episode Notes

If you are an Outperformer, you are continuously tracking and tweaking. Replacing limiting beliefs and tweaking results as you go, whether you are an athlete, a scholar, a filmmaker, a creative, a performer, a business leader, a manufacturer, a techie, or an author of 10 books. There is always something to learn in each new challenge.

Scott Welle just finished his 10^th book, Outperform The Norm: Daily Execution. Extraordinary Results. In no particular sequence, we briefly discuss his 10 Excellence in Execution Principles, with Scott offering many insights to savor and apply.

Two crucial questions he says you need to ask yourself about big goals. You will have to listen to find out what they are. Yes, yes, yes. I want you to hear Scott’s explanation around them. DOWNLOAD

Scott’s 10 excellence in execution principles are listed below. Check them out and make sure your big goals have included his principles.

Scott’s 10 Excellence in Execution Principles

Own It
Live It
Love It
Shove It
Internalize It
Externalize It
Stack It
Track It
Speak It
Tweak It

How important is it to adopt the identity of who you need to be to achieve a big goal? Really own it #1 principle. Scott uses an example of writing vs. being a writer I found particularly pertinent.

Here is another example of owning it that happened over the weekend. UW-Madison is Scott’s alma mater.

Matthew and I have been observing our daughter, Olivia, at UW-Madison. We have done more than observe, but I think you know what I mean. Scott says, “no Outperformer goes it alone.” The rowing team and its coaches accepted walk-ons in the fall of 2021. Olivia’s first year was not an option with COVID restrictions; no walk-ons. Her coaches for the novice team are also new last fall to the UW-Madison rowing team. Olivia calls them Hodge and Vicky.

I don’t know all the ins and outs of the coaches. I know that Olivia’s mindset shifted, and she proclaimed herself ‘a rower’ sometime before her first Regatta in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on April 15 and 16. Never having rowed before, Olivia’s goal was to go ‘all in,’ giving it her best, see if this was her ‘college sport.’

This sport has four Regattas a season before the NCAA Championships, so the athletes have a lot of pressure to perform at their highest level every time their boat hits the water. Leading up to the weekend’s Regatta, the team had countless hiccups with sickness and injuries and a few boat accidents, but the team kept up a schedule of two workouts five days a week. And an early morning workout on Saturdays.

Scott knows what he speaks and writes about. I noticed his 10 principles in real-time. I’ll give you the most essential details. Olivia applied the discipline she learned from being part of a Nordic Ski and Cross Country Running team in High School to her daily routine.

I noticed Olivia’s coaches applying the 10 Excellence in Execution Principles through the fall and winter into this spring when the season is underway. She needed to face two extra challenges with rowing: being out of shape from not competing in an organized sport for an entire year and never having rowed before. Getting extraordinary results in her first year on the team seemed impossible. One caveat, she was competing against other University novices like herself. This was a Regatta for southern state Universities like Kansas State, Central Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Notre Dame, and Virginia Tech, to name a few. I guess UW-Madison fits into several national categories.

Olivia’s 4-person boat pulled ahead midway of her five other finalists and stayed ahead. They crossed the finish line as #1, winning gold. We were shocked as we watched it ‘live’ on YouTube. It was such a long shot. The picture below is her 4-person novice team, including her coxswain, Chloe Powell, and Vicky and Hodge, two of her leading coaches flanking each side.

Also, the rowing team brought along a secret weapon, a Meditation Coach. Yup! I’m telling you; that meditation works with Outperformers. An extra bonus to an Outperformer’s execution is a daily meditation practice. Richard J. Davidson is a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds and the affiliated non-profit Healthy Minds Innovations and their healthy minds meditation app that I encourage everyone to download for free.

Outperformers start with big goals. This season UW-Madison’s rowing team has set the bar high. After celebrating and throwing the coxswain into the water to honor a 50 year tradition, the next step is getting back to the daily execution and setting their goals for the next Regatta.

Outperform The Norm: Daily Execution. Extraordinary Results contains 10 principles that explain an Outperformers strategy of goal setting, the execution of goal achievement, and the psychology of aspiring to big things. DOWNLOAD our conversation. Purchase Scott’s book here.

“Use it or lose it. Implement what you learn.”

— Scott Welle, Outperformer

Coach Vicky, Grace Walker, Olivia Foli, Addison Yake, Aubrey Trimbach, Coach Hodge, and Chloe Powell (Coxswain)

NEXT STEP after listening: Challenge yourself and do the Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring (C.A.L.M.) Activities, below.

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Episode Resources

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UW-Madison Women's Rowing

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Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring

After listening, do these three C.A.L.M. Activities:

Take this risk or do this adventurous task: Apply Scott’s 1^st principle, Own It. You can do this by revisiting a big goal that you have. Who do I need to become to achieve this big goal? It works to look at someone who has already achieved that big goal. Olivia became a rower by admiring her coaches and other rowers. Scott became a writer by setting a new goal for his 50^th birthday. I will complete my first book this year as a mentor and writer. Your turn.

Apply Self-Compassion: Sit in a quiet space or tune out the surround sounds as you breathe in and out slowly. Observe the air from your nostrils gently passing over your lips. Picture the person you are becoming. Breathe in the light around you and exhale any fear, anxiety, or imposter syndrome images challenging your picture. Continue breathing in light and exhaling any dark clouds. Keep doing this for a few more minutes. After five or six minutes, gently open your eyes and observe your thoughts. Write down your next step.

Welcome Appreciation: “I appreciate Scott’s ability to execute and live and breathe what he speaks, teaches, and writes about. I appreciate his energy and enthusiasm for life. I appreciate his commitment to helping us Outperform in our own lives by unrolling a path we can follow to achieve our big goals. I am excited about his upcoming marriage, too.”

Your Turn. Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Guest Mentor, Scott Welle. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because….”

“Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, psychologist, author, theorist, educator

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Podcast Guest Mentor

Scott Welle

Scott Welle is a #1 international best-selling author, speaker, and founder of Outperform The Norm, a leading program for business leaders and athletes looking to raise their game and perform at the highest level.

Scott has worked with professional athletes (NFL, MLB, PGA Tour), elite-level triathletes, CEOs, stay-at-home moms, and everyday heroes who all had one common goal – to improve and be better today than yesterday.

Scott’s nine best-selling books, articles, videos, podcasts, and online programs inspire hundreds of thousands worldwide. He regularly speaks and consults with top-performing executives, sales professionals, entrepreneurs, and elite athletes, all with one common goal: to OUTPERFORM. He has a Master’s degree in Sports Psychology and is an adjunct professor at St. Olaf University.

Fox 9 tv station in Minneapolis-St Paul has called him a “Motivational Expert.” He was named the 2021 Midwest Motivational Speaker of the Year.

Scott enjoys pushing his own physical and mental limits, completing five Ironman triathlons, 30 marathons, and a 100-mile ultra-marathon run. He is very close with his brother, Jason. They “plod” at least one marathon each year, laughing the whole run.

He serves others by showing them how to tap into the same mindset of challenging their self-limiting beliefs and aspiring to be their best every day. Outperform The Norm – Raise Your Game.

Episode 320: Getting Extraordinary Results with Scott Welle