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Episode Summary: 

Ian Hawkins explores the three key elements of success, inspired by lessons from elite sportspeople. He emphasizes the importance of hard work, doing what you love, and being authentically yourself. Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, Ian shows how small, intentional steps can lead to a more fulfilling and successful life. 

• Discover why doing what you love is crucial for long-term success and happiness. 
• Learn how being authentically yourself can help you overcome challenges and build stronger connections. 
• Explore the role of courage, commitment, and incremental changes in creating a life you love. 

Now is the time to take action—commit to one step today and embrace your journey toward success. 

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Ian Hawkins, host of "Sport Is Life," is dedicated to showing how sports can transform lives. With extensive experience as an athlete, a coach, PE teacher, community volunteer, and manager at Fox Sports, Ian brings a wealth of knowledge to the podcast. His journey began in his backyard, mentored by his older brother, and has since evolved into coaching elite athletes and business leaders. Ian's commitment to sports and personal development is evident in his roles as a performance coach and active community member. Through "Sport Is Life," Ian shares inspiring stories and valuable lessons to help listeners apply sports principles to all areas of life.  

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I know you want more success because

you're listening to this podcast, but

what are the best people do? What are the

elite do well in sport? There's three key

things. Today. I explained to you what

they are and how you can bring more of

those three things to your life today.

I'm Ian Hawkins and this is Sporty's

life. The purpose of sport, as I

see it, is to see your vision become a

reality, find your voice, create

strong connections and learn to trust

your body.

Whenever I've heard elite sports

people ask the question of what's the

most important thing? If you're giving

advice to someone about success, it's

always these three things that come

come up that are that they

say are important. Now, nearly all of

them say hard work. That's a given,

right? If you want to be good at

anything, you have to put in the work.

You have to do the hours. I think

everyone knows that. The two other things

I wanted to talk about today. One is you

have to enjoy yourself.

You have to do things that you love. You

get success when you're doing stuff that

you love. Now, I speak to so many

people at my age and actually

probably across the board and they,

I asked them particularly for their job.

Oh, you must really love what you do or

something along those lines. I say

something like that. Let me go. That's

OK, Kind of.

Yeah, it's pretty good. But we're not

even pretty good. Some of them might even

say, well, if I change

directions, then, you know, maybe that

would be too hard. Maybe I wouldn't be

able to earn the same amount of money.

All these different excuses. Why not?

Now I know what that's like because I can

remember. Few years after my dad

died, just questioning lots of things in

my life and I was just thinking, I worked

at Fox Sports. It was such a great place

to work until it wasn't because I wasn't

able to extend myself, not because it

wasn't a good place to work, but because

I wasn't enjoying what I was doing. And I

looked wanting something that gave me

more fulfilment that thatgave me more

enjoyment. And I can

remember the conversation I had with

myself, just I remember walking. So

vividly walking through the office and

just thinking, I keep telling people I

love my job, but, but do I really? And I

keep telling people I'm happy, but am I

really happy? Like, am I, am I fulfilled

enough? And the answer to both those

questions was no. I wanted more.

I wanted to enjoy what I did so much

more. I wanted to love it. I wanted to,

you know, these people they talked about

who get up, jump out of bed in the

morning because they love what they do.

And doesn't feel like a day of work.

Now, I'm happy to say that's where I am

now, but that took time and it took

courage and commitment for me to go well,

I'm going to change direction and it's

not about ripping the band aid and I'm

just going headlong into something that's

just going to cause you stress and

overwhelm. But it's working towards

something, taking the gradual steps

because I'm a big believer that when you

find what it is you love and pursue it,

you'll find a way to make it work. You'll

find a way to make it work financially.

You'll find a way to. As a career, you'll

find a way to make it work, whatever it

is. So if you're at that point in

your career and you're thinking maybe I,

maybe I could be doing something else,

but then you go, oh, but how am I going

to, how am I going to get around the

money side of things again? It takes

courage and it takes commitment. For me,

it was about 3-4 years of it was like

working two jobs. So I would get home

from work, I'd spend time with the

family, and then I would dive headlong

into creating something new.

And it did take time, but totally

worth it. And the other thing

that they say that's hard work,

loving what you do. And the third thing

is making sure you are being yourself.

Now I would ask all of you to have a

blunt and honest self assessment of of

how you show up in different

circumstances and how often you

be a lesser version of yourself or a

different version of yourself to suit

circumstances. How often are you not

being yourself? How often are you?

Making sacrifices, tolerating things

that you shouldn't for fear of upsetting

other people. People

pleasing? Just yeah. Try

trying to make everyone else happy and

comfortable. It doesn't

really do them a service and it certainly

doesn't do you a service. It doesn't

everyone a disservice. The more you can

be authentically yourself and the more

you're going to get out of everything you

do and you're going to be far more

successful. So you look back at like

doing what you love. If you don't love it

when it gets hard, you'll find an excuse.

You'll find something not a reason not to

do it. When you are having to make

sacrifices and you're not fully being

yourself, then you develop things like

resentment, frustration.

You might get a good result by trying to

be someone you're not, but then it always

comes with a payout. Pay off when you

then step away from whatever it was you

were doing and realise that that just

didn't feel right.

So like with anything where you want

to make changes, it's not about trying to

dive headlong into something, it's not

about trying to go zero

to 103 seconds, It's what incremental changes can I make?

probably

And don't choose all three. Just focus on one of these three areas to

improve your success. If you're already working hard, and as I've talked

to to you many times, you'reworking

o to

hard at different moments. Than the other

two areas, what can you do differently?

What can you bring more of what you love

into your day to day and where can you be

starting to step up and be more of who

you actually are?

Not what you think that the world wants

to see from you or what other people

expect of you, but who you are

takes courage, takes commitment, but it

will be the best thing you will do.

You've taken the time to listen to this

whole episode. Now it's time to take

action. Commit to one thing you've

learned today and make it happen. And to

avoid any obstructions, join the Sporty's

Life movement by clicking on the link in

the show notes.