EP46: HURDLES with Tim Kight, Speaker, Author, and Founder of Focus3

Becoming UnDone with Toby Brooks

Show Notes
About The Guest:
Tim Kight is the founder and CEO of Focus 3, a company that teaches individuals and organizations how to develop a winning mindset and achieve their goals. He is a former track athlete and has worked with elite high performers in various fields, including sports and business. Tim is known for his expertise in observing and documenting the behavior patterns of high achievers.
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Summary:
Tim emphasizes the importance of developing a winning mindset and competing against the things that hold us back. He shares his personal journey of battling stage four cancer and how he approaches it as a competition for his life. Tim discusses the five decisions that high achievers make to overcome challenges and achieve breakthroughs. He also highlights the significance of taking ownership of our 20 square feet, the sphere of control where we can make decisions and choose our responses.
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Key Takeaways:

• Develop a winning mindset and compete against the things that hold you back.
• Embrace productive discomfort and use mistakes as feedback for growth.
• Defeat fear and be coachable to continuously improve.
• Take ownership of your 20 square feet, the sphere of control where you can make decisions and choose your responses.
• Focus on your response (R) to events (E) to create the desired outcomes (O).

Quotes:

• "Your job is to be the best version of you and to develop a winning mindset to live the life you want." - Tim Kight
• -"The number one person you compete against is the person you look at in the mirror." - Tim Kight
• "If it doesn't challenge you, it ain't going to change you." - Tim Kight
• "Don't let the frustration on the outside diminish the fire on the inside." - Tim Kight
• "You are responsible for your second impulse, not your first." - Tim Kight

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