Expect the Expected with NFL, MLB and NBA Mindset Coach Russ Rausch

🏃‍♂️ RUSS RAUSCH is the Founder of Vision Pursue or VP. VP helps individuals and organizations create a Performance Mindset through their training and mobile app. Before founding Vision Pursue. Russ has worked with countless athletes in the NFL, NBA, PGA, and the Olympics. These are top athletes with an incredible amount of stress and pressure.  Russ was the COO at the hedge fund Emil van Essen. Before that he was part of the executive team that took the trading software firm, Trading Technologies, Inc. (TT), from a 20-person startup to a 650-person global company as CFO, CIO, and EVP of Global Buyside Sales. Russ lives in Chicago.

 

→IN THIS EPISODE…Russ and Joe talk about key tips to change up your competitive mindset by expecting the unexpected, controlling the controllable, and a game-changing acronym that will have you “see-ing” each situation differently. Russ explains how to take inspiration and turn it into action, and some tools/apps to use to help along the way.

 

🔍 Breakdown with Russ Rausch:

 

Chapter 1 (0:00) Intro

Joe introduces Russ Rausch, founder of Vision Pursue

 

Chapter 2 (1:51) Pivotal starting moment

Being in a job that didn’t inspire Russ was weighing on him. He shares his story of how he left his corporate job and started Vision Pursue

 

Chapter 3 (4:59) Impactful content

Russ shares what has inspired him, and how he was able to change his mindset.

 

Chapter 4 (9:58) Surrounding and the power of S.E.E

SEE doesn’t stop your emotions. However, the three steps should calm your emotions or at least allow you to access your thinking mind to make better decisions.

 

Chapter 5 (17:06) Performing at a high level

Performing at your highest level can be wearing. Russ explains how to combat that exhaustion

 

Chapter 6 (22:02) Preparation

Preparing for your day/goal is a big way of combating stress and anxiety. Russ explains the best practices of preparation

 

Chapter 7 (23:35) Visualization

Visualizing outcomes is a technique used by many athletes, most notably by Michael Phelps. Joe shares a story about how Phelps was able to set a record even when something goes wrong in the water.

 

Chapter 8 (30:47) Not Almost There, just starting

The story of how Not Almost There Started and how just starting a plan or a project and not over thinking can be a great practice.

 

Chapter 9 (35:57) Meditation

Mediation is an excellent school to center your thoughts and have a clear mind to take on the day.

 

Chapter 10 (38:18) New tools to use 

Russ shares tools/apps to use to help with your mindset journey

 

Chapter 11 (49:49) Upward Social Comparison

A problem we face is comparing ourselves to others. It is all over social media, and hard to avoid, but it is so important to focus on you and your family and not comparing to what others have.

 

Chapter 12 (1:01:09) Wrap Up

Joe wraps up the episode and shares his key takeaway. 

 

Material Referenced in this interview:

→The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel

→https://www.visionpursue.com/

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📞 Connect with Russ Rausch

→https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-rausch-7358a12/

→https://www.instagram.com/russrausch/

→https://www.facebook.com/russ.rausch

→https://www.visionpursue.com/contact-2/

 

👊 To learn more about Not Almost There by visiting this link 

→ Not Almost There http://notalmostthere.com/​

 

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