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Episode Summary: 

In this episode of Sport Is Life, Ian Hawkins dives into the key actions needed to make 2025 your best year yet. He discusses overcoming imposter syndrome, building self-belief, and stepping out of your comfort zone. Using a flight analogy, Ian explains how preparation, energy, and the right environment are essential for success. Whether you're looking to upgrade your personal brand, improve performance, or find consistency, Ian's strategies will help you finish this year strong and set up next year with momentum. Tune in for practical insights and details about his free training to kickstart 2025. 

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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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Do you know that you need to get yourself

outside your comfort zone more than you

did in 2024? To have more self

belief? To share that imposter syndrome

feeling that shows up? Today's episode

I'm going to tell you how you can set

yourself up to make 2025 the year that

you do all of those things.

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.

If you want to increase your performance

in different areas of your life, find

more consistency.

Upgrade your personal brand

so that people take notice, so that

people can see just how valuable you are,

the impact that you are having and really

recognise that you're trying to

grow. One of the challenges that can come

up is imposter syndrome. That feeling

that you're not good enough. That feeling

that despite the fact that people might

look at you at a certain level or as an

authority or an expert or

or you have a certain role. Is part

of you that feels like a fraud?Because

there are times where you just don't get

it right and you have that thought. Lucky

they don't know what's going on in my

head. Lucky they can't see behind the

curtain and see what's really going on

'cause I'm not that good. That's what

that self doubt creeps in. And you may

have had those feelings or thoughts or

even identify with that term. Imposter

Syndra. Now, one of the ways that you

can change that requires you to get out

of your comfort zone. I want you to look

at it like this. Think about when you

have to go on a plane ride. Think

about for a plane,

well, not the plane itself, but the

actual trip. How many of the

different areas of

life show up on that trip if you're

going somewhere for work. Then it can

have you maybe working on the flight or

trying to switch off and relax. Maybe

you've not slept enough if you if it's an

early start or, or maybe it's you're

excited, you're going on holiday

and you're just absolutely pumped

for the trip. Maybe it's been the end of

a long period of time and you're actually

exhausted heading on this trip and and

you're trying to get yourself recharged

for the holiday. For some people,

flights are scary.

They find it really quite challenging.

There's a social element. You're either

flying with people and you're you're

hanging out, you're chatting, but you're

also sometimes just talking to random

strangers. Or the real social

element, think about the plane

itself. It

requires it to be in balance and it

hits turbulence like we do in our life.

Now let's look at what gives the

plane the ability to actually fly.

To requires energy, it requires

structure, so it needs to be

built a certain way, So.

Of course it requires

navigation. It needs you need to know

where you're heading and you need to have

a map and a plan and you need to

be driving. It needs to be a pilot,

right? The environment is important.

You can't just take off in in anyweather.

And. Everything

has to be in the right place for you to

be able to move forward in that flight to

go well. Preparation, all those different

things. So if you look at that, how you

would look at your life.

All of those different areas of life, we

experience them all.

Now to be at our best and give ourselves

the best chance and make sure we get to

our destination safely, then you 2 need

to have a navigation system. You need to

have a game plan. You need to know what

you're working towards and you need to

have a plan, some structure on how to

actually get there. You need to have

energy. You can't keep burning

yourself out. You can't keep pushing

yourself to the limit. You can't keep.

Then what's the expression treating your

body like an amusement park on the

weekend? So putting the wrong things

in there. Pushing your body to limits

that maybe you you can't do anymore.

And not putting yourself in environments

that that aren't safe, that aren't good

for your health.

Because when you can get well, if you're

doing all of those things and you're just

going to keep yourself in that pattern,

you're going to when you hit that stage

of impostor syndrome or, or trying to

grow, then the way you've

been treating yourself and the lack of

energy is just going to really fuel that

self doubt. If you want to take

off, if you want to fly and you want to

actually go to all new levels. And of

course, get to your destination safely

and feeling strong and

energised. Then you

need to change some of

those patterns, some of those behaviours

and you need to get them right. So

if you've just got through this last year

and you feel like you're hanging on,

you're like hanging on to the wing or out

the window or, or you're on the

flight, but you're, you're not really

there. You're checked out, you're

exhausted, you're snoozing. Or maybe it

just feels like the flight is all over

the place, like there's a lot of

turbulence.

You're, you haven't got that steady

navigation and yeah, the

flight is literally jumping all over the

place. When, what do you need to

change? So that next

year, you finish the year with

momentum that you can take into the next

year. Because if you are feeling that

way, if you're feeling flat, then you can

take that momentum straight into the next

year. You can take your while to get

going. I equate it to

that when you're preparing for

something in a in a sporting context.

If you don't know what the next thing is,

what the next event is, what the next

thing you need to be working towards,

then you'll hit the end of a, a period of

time. Maybe you have a, an event or a run

a game and then you take your

foot off the pedal and you relax and you

won't have any of that momentum. But if

you know what's next, if you've got a

game the next week or you know that

you've got a pre-season starting, or if

you're, if you're a runner or a cyclist,

you've got another event coming up and

it's booked in and. You give yourself

some time off, but you'll get yourself

back on track now, next year, if

you don't know what you're working

towards and you don't have a plan. And of

course, imposter syndrome is going to

creep in because you'll start to have

doubts when you're not prepared, when you

haven't got things in place, when you

haven't got energy. And

you're not in an environment that's

conducive to growth to you improving

yourself and improving that personal

brand. So it requires you, excuse

me, it requires you to get outside your

comfort zone to be able to do that.

So this year nearly done,

but it's not you've not run out of time.

So like I've mentioned earlier in the

week, I'm running a free training to help

you get all these things in place to have

that self awareness of OK, what isn't

working at the moment, what has been

stopping me, what's been getting in the

way? Identify that resistance so

that you can have that action happening.

And then importantly. Find what the

best strategy is for you to move forward

and make next year the absolute best year

it can be. So go to the link in the show

notes Sporty's Life

Movement. You'll go in there and the

the training it's actually starts.

Today, when this episode is

released, but you'll be able to go into

the guide section of the

Facebook group and all of the training

will be in there and it's going to help

set you up for the new year. It's going

to give you all of the structure, some

planning, some self awareness

around where you're at and what needs to

change, and give you all of those things

you need to set yourself up for the best

year. I'll leave it there for

today if.

You know this is something you need, but

you're feeling like maybe you're tired

and you rundown. It's just questioning

like, can I just give myself?

These. Short bits of training to

get myself set up.

Just for this one last usher next year, I

can face it in a completely different

way. If you know you need

this but you're not quite sure if you got

the energy, then that might just require

some. Again, some honest self reflection

of making sure you.

Make this happen.

Even though maybe you're not feeling it

at the moment.

I said I was leaving it there. I kept

talking. I will definitely finish off

now. Have an awesome day. I'll speak to

you soon.

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.