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 …
Both High performing individuals and high performing teams learn to be mindset maniacs to be successful long term. How do you think these high performers react to continuous high pressure and high-positive energy? … Watch the video below for the answer or read the video summary that will be posted in a few days. Have you ever crashed and burned emotionally? What put you over the edge? Let me know, I’ll respond!
For those of you who prefer to read text over watching a video, here’s a summary of the previous video. World-class athletes, business leaders and other high performers actually transform, or transmute, their fear and channel it into higher levels of performance. Here’s a quick lesson from sport psychology.
As the stress or pressure or importance of the situation increases, what generally happens is that your ability to perform increases up to a point of peak performance and then rapidly drops off, with additional stress. So you’ll be at your best at a certain level of pressure. You can actually learn how to better control your reaction to more stress, pressure and importance so that you can be at your best under higher pressure circumstances. That’s the key to becoming a higher performer.
The second part of this peak performance formula is to learn to transform your negative thoughts and fear-based energy into …
Fifty, 150, 500? I can’t even count the number of highly successful entrepreneurs, sales professionals and executives who’ve told me, “I feel like a fraud,” or something similar — and all these talented people had a secret. Like one very powerful businessman, whom I’ll call Dan.
Dan was a public figure who use to enjoy speaking,
