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Run the Risk, Reap the Rewards 5/7: Finish Strong Friday. Bring the Heat! · Dr. Derek H. Suite MD - The SuiteSpot

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Well, hello, beautiful souls, welcome.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sweet Spot.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: It is Friday, but not just any Friday At the Sweet Spot.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: This is Finish Strong Friday and I'm your host.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: I'm Dr Derek Sweet.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I'm a board-certified psychiatrist, as you know, who specializes in sports psychiatry and high performance.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: And today we're talking about that final push, that fourth quarter, that extra rep, that moment when everything in you says, man, I just don't want to do anything today, I just feel like I can skip today.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: But another part of you says, nah, I'm built different.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: That's not me, I'm a finisher.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: And today, on Finish Strong Friday, that's the person in you that I want to talk to.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: We've been doing a series this week called Run the Risk, reap the Reward, and we've seen all kinds of ways that risk helps us.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: We've learned that only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: You've got to be the kind of person who is willing to risk going as far as you need to so that you can know how far you can go.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: And we've learned on Win it Always that failure isn't the opposite of success, it's part of success, and that the person who risks nothing does nothing and has nothing and many times they are nothing and they become nothing.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: So we always want to take a risk and listen, my friend, you've taken many risks and you have been rewarded.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: You just have to sit and reflect and we'll do more of that on slow down sunday, reflecting on all the risks you've taken.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: But but today, today of Finish Strong Friday, we are going to see that risk isn't always about skydiving and launching your business.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it looks like just not quitting getting to the finish line, even if you have to limp across it right.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: So sometimes risk and finishing strong is about showing up tired, showing up when you feel beat up.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: It's about speaking up even when you feel uncomfortable.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: It's about posting your dream when no one has clapped for you yet.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: It's about taking the risk that you might fall, but guess what?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to finish.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: You may fall down seven, but you get up eight.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: If that's your mentality, then you won't be afraid to do the things that you need to do for your life.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: You won't count all the times that you fail.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: You'll be a finisher.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: You will get up, you will finish, because winners, real winners, they finish.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: They finish even if it's ugly, they finish even if it's late and, as I said, they're going to finish, even if they've got to limp across the finish line.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Because to be a clutch player, you have to understand that clutch isn't clean.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Clutch is about commitment, clutch is committed, and you know what the thing about it is.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: No one has a problem with the first mile of our journey.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: Even a baby can do the first few steps.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: But it's never the first few steps in any journey.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: It's how you finish.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: So guess what?
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: The good news is that you are still in the game.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: You are still a part of it.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: There's still time.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: And in sports and in performance we talk about the cost of greatness.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: And in sports and in performance we talk about the cost of greatness, that the high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: And sometimes you have to go through hell to get there.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: But I love a quote.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: I heard a quote.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: It said I think it was Churchill If you are going through hell, keep going.
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  Speaker 1: That's not your destination and I'm going to add something to that and don't look back, don't look back, don't look back.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Don't get turned into a pillar of salt, don't get frozen up with looking back.
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: You're not going that way.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: And here's the neuroscience.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we're up against ourselves because our brains are designed for comfort.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: The brain loves comfort.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: It's going to give you the most comfortable option.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: And the most comfortable option is to avoid taking any risks.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: But if we didn't take a risk, we would never have invented the airplane or the car, or anything for that matter.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: So we've got to get past the comfortable brain and take those risks, because it's in facing the uncomfortable that the brain rewires itself Neuroplasticity the brain starts to strengthen the mesocortical dopamine pathway Remember, I told you about that one.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: All right, and it tells itself I can do hard things.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: It tells the prefrontal cortex yes, I'm more than capable.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: It quiets the threat detection center, the amygdala.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: We know all about this.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: We've talked about this ad nauseum.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: You are experts in this.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: So every time you push through, your mental wiring strengthens in your brain.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: Every time you say I can do this, every time you use your spiritual, I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: Every time you speak your truth, I am powerful, I'm amazing.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: Every time you use an affirmation and you get up, your grit starts getting embedded and finishing becomes part of your identity and your brain begins to accept this and rewire itself so that you can become a finisher.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: And everything hinges on what your brain thinks and the kind of thoughts you have.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: That's why we say feel the fear, but do it anyway.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: That's why, even if you're going to be coming in last in the race, you cross the finish line so that your brain accepts I crossed the finish line.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter if my leg was hurting.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter if I was running last, it didn't matter if people were laughing at me, it didn't matter if I was running last.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter if people were laughing at me, it didn't matter what I was wearing.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I set out to do this and I got it done, even if it meant I had to take my time.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: In the ancient scriptures it says this Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we don't give up.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: That's not just about spiritual reward, that's a life strategy.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Don't stop just because it's Friday, stop when the work is done.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: And like every coach ever told us and sometimes they were so loud with this and so aggressive no risk, no reward, no pain, no gain, gain.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: But hey, sometimes those old heads, they're all right and, let's be honest, by friday most folks are mentally buffering.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: We're tired.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: But the ones who win consistently, my friends, are the ones who finish, the ones who are determined to finish, not perfectly, not in a flashy way, but to fully, fully finish, to cross that line, whatever it takes.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: And what does it take?
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: It takes whatever it takes.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Do one thing today, my friend, that you were about to skip, that you were thinking of skipping.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Do one more rep.
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  Speaker 1: Send that one email.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Have that one conversation.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: Apply for that one job.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Have that one conversation.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: Call the doctor one job.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: Have that one conversation.
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: Call the doctor and make the appointment.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is that you have to do, whatever it is, you have to finish.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: You have a book you're working on.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: Write one more chapter, write one more paragraph.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: That's what separates the talkers from the closers, because around here we don't tap out, we tap in Around.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Here, on Finish Strong Friday, we know you run the risk, you reap the reward.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: All right, now this is Dr Derek Sweet and we're doing it.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: We're doing it.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: We're in this amazing series Run the Risk, reap the Reward.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: And tomorrow we're flipping the script, because sometimes the boldest move is to rest.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: See you for self-care Saturday tomorrow.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: My friends, and please, don't forget to hit like and then subscribe to this YouTube channel.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: But more than that, share it with someone who you know would benefit from this message.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: Take care.