In today’s episode I speak with Annika McGivern on escaping perfectionism and navigating change in life successfully . Annika is a Performance, Sport and Exercise Psychologist. She delivers highly practical solutions for teams and individuals with a focus on teaching skill based tools for using psychology in real-life.
Annika brings insights about performance, leadership and communication from a sport context and successfully applies them to a business context working within business and alongside Personal Trainers. She specializes in resilience, mindset, communication, time management and presentation skills.
We had a wonderful and enlightening conversation about perfectionism and navigating change where Annika challenged the status quo and really left me with some wonderful points to reflect on.
Today’s episode has a massive amount of value for anyone who struggles with setting big goals, perfectionism, challenging your narratives and your dissecting your self-awareness.
We chat about..
- Tools to navigate your current mindset like self-awareness and challenging your current narratives.
- Can we pinpoint where our feeling of unworthiness come from?
- Cultural Influences on our self-narrative .
- The Comparison Cycle.
- Navigating perfectionism as an identity.
- Perfectionism vs Excellence- which is more attainable and why.
- Building a vision for your life.
- Challenging ourselves to stay in a place of curiosity with new ways of thinking .
- Why our identity is a habit and how we can expand it.
- Acceptance as a starting point for a new goal.
- Depersonalising skills building to move forward.
- Commonalities across the human experience .
- Push and Pull motivations.
- What is happiness to Annika?
Get in touch with Annika:
Annika’s Website: https://www.annikamcgivern.com/
Annika’s Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/annika-mcgivern
Annika’s Instagram: @amp_performancepsych
James Clear Resources: https://jamesclear.com/resources
Following on from this podcast with the theme of observing and educating ourselves you can check out my blog post about Feeling Fear And Embracing Failure
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