Tim Tebow, a true Fearless Leader™
Is emotional intelligence part of his success?
- by Dr. TC North and Dr. Cathy Greenberg, originally published in ColoradoBiz online Magazine
Tim Tebow’s six comeback wins in recent weeks for the Denver Broncos have been so incredibly improbable that some say it’s divine intervention (some seriously, others tongue in cheek). Not since the 1972 Pittsburgh Steelers Franco Harris “immaculate reception,” dubbed the greatest play in NFL history by NFL Films, have people so strongly suggested that divine intervention played a role in a football game’s outcome. (Click here to view a video of the famous play.)
Let’s set aside divine intervention for this article and examine the intangible Fearless Leader™ qualities that make Tebow a great leader. Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D., a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and I have defined a Fearless Leader™…
Fear of Success … the most cryptic block to success
If you were building a fire, would you pour water on it? Not if you knew that’s what you were doing. Many of us work on building our inspiration, motivation and passion (our fire) and then subconsciously douse it. The dousing is caused by fear of success, which is probably the most cryptic and prevalent fear that blocks success.
Tunnel vision the pre-event routine and focus of Jeremy Bloom, a three-time world-champion freestyle skier, NFL football player and successful entrepreneur. Bloom shares how he focused his mind to block out distractions in becoming a world-champion athlete now successful entrepreneur.
Different situations require a different types of focus. Tunnel vision focus, used by Jeremy Bloom to become a world-champion freestyle skier is the perfect type of focus for that type of event. Soft eyes with a broad view is the best focus when you need to take in a broader scope, or a lot of movement.
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What do you think of how Jeremy focuses? When is it a good focusing technique and when isn’t it? Look forward to your comments …
Build courage and confidence – resilience and mental toughness like a world-champion athlete.
Jeremy Bloom, a three-time world-champion freestyle skier, two-time Olympian, and now successful entrepreneur shares the mindset that helped him develop wold-class mental toughness (resilience) and also, courage and confidence.
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If you’ve ever led a meeting or given a presentation, put yourself in my place for this story. What would you do as the meeting facilitator?
I was presenting to about 30 folks at a corporate retreat that combined a day of strategic planning with a day of confidence-building training. While teaching how to stop negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts, this lovely, 30-something, blond-haired, blue-eyed woman in a stunning, shiny black suit raised her hand. When I called on her, she stood up, put her hands on her hips, sighed deeply and loudly, and said, “TC, I don’t necessarily agree with you. I’ve been trying to lose weight for years. You know what I do? I stand naked in front of the mirror every day and say,
Fear of failure is one of the greatest blocks to success, in every aspect of life. Jeremy Bloom has been a top male model, three-time world champion freestyle skier, played three years of NFL football and built two successful entrepreneur companies during the great recession of 2008-2009. He has accomplished all this at the age of 29. In an interview I did for a book I am writing, Jeremy shared how he has in his words, “failed more than I have succeeded” and how he learned to overcome fear of failure.
Here’s a four minute video with Jeremy describing his unique perspective on failure and fear of failure. The test of the video is below.
Overcome fear of failure -a world champion’s and entrepreneur’s perspective. A conversation between Jeremy Bloom and Dr. TC North
JEREMY
Yes. I think every athlete that’s successful learns it. And it is not because they create it; they learn it out of necessity. They were competing at a time where a thought got in and attached, and they couldn’t let go and it messed them up. It certainly happened to me. And you create that out of necessity. That’s when, I mean, it is part of climbing that mountain. And you learn so much more about yourself in times of defeat, you know, when things… when you don’t prepare right or you don’t perform up to your own standards. And that is when you kind of lay things out and say, …
