Dr. Jeff Spencer (@jeffspencer) is here to tell us how he enables the impossible when everything’s on the line. He’s helped Olympic athletes win gold medals, he’s helped businessmen make millions of dollars, and he’s helped thought leaders move to the next level with his Champion’s Blueprint program.
“I’m the red telephone!” -Dr. Jeff Spencer
The Cheat Sheet:
- Learn how to create a life that’s in alignment with your talents.
- Hear Dr. Spencer’s personal account of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics tragedy.
- Decide how you’re going to show up every day — because how you act reflects on other people’s performance.
- What’s your legacy statement? (If you don’t have one, you’ll learn how to create it.)
- Why can’t you outrun your blind spots?
- And so much more…
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Even people who are used to being at the top of their game sometimes have internal crises that can’t be solved by their usual routines. So how can those of us who consider ourselves “ordinary” people hope to truly excel if we’re in danger of having a meltdown when everything’s on the line?
Dr. Jeff Spencer has been a leader in the high performance field for over 40 years, and he tells us how his Champion’s Blueprint program has helped athletes win gold medals, rock stars go platinum, businessmen make their next million dollars, and thought leaders move to the next level in episode 498 of The Art of Charm
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Dr. Jeff Spencer says he’s always had a knack for recognizing circumstantial patterns and knowing, in an instant, what the solution is to move forward. “As I’ve kind of gone through the evolutionary steps of acquiring my knowledge and my expertise,” he tells us, “it’s found its way into the highest echelons of performance whether it’s business, sports, the stage, or life itself. And that’s really what I do. And I would say the other distinguishing characteristic about myself is that I’m really a corner man. I’m not really a coach. I’m not really a mentor.”
When Jeff says “corner man,” think of Mickey Goldmill from Rocky. What he means that, as someone who’s trained as an Olympic athlete (more on that later), he understands what it means to make decisions and compete at the highest level both mentally and physically — on the spot, in real time. His master’s degree in sports science qualifies him further in comprehending how a body can be pushed — sustainably — to get well and stay well. And while a coach or a mentor will know how to focus on a certain percentage of what has to go right to create greatness, Jeff’s approach is more holistic and applies to a larger percentage of the whole.
“There’s nothing that I don’t consider in the decision making at those critical moments where you’ve got to get it right — or better yet, avoid the problem that doesn’t have to happen that will take you and predictably take others out of the game,” says Jeff. “It’s not really about the discipline — whether it’s business, sports, or stage. It doesn’t matter to me, because those are technical skills. It’s really about how we show up and what decisions we make under critical circumstances.”
This isn’t something Jeff just woke up one day and decided to do. He’s been at it for 40 years. With aspirations to become an Olympic athlete since age seven, he was coached in cycling and did compete in the Olympics at age 21 — during the ill-fated 1972 Munich summer games. He attended the University of Southern California on a scholarship and got his master’s degree in sports science, and then went on to get his chiropractic license. With his well-rounded wealth of experiences, other high performers sought him out to find out what made him tick — and to see if his methods could be harnessed for their own success.
“Nobody’s really born a champion. It’s a learned skill — it’s not an accident,” says Jeff.
Jeff has observed over the past four decades that high performers in any field follow a predictable path that has 10 different steps — and he calls this The Champion’s Blueprint that “every prolific performer in every discipline follows to develop the capacity to be able to achieve their champion goals on the first try and also create a massive legacy. If we don’t understand the success path, then no detailed plan or will or effort or goal can likely be achieved because the understanding of what the path really is will compromise the person’s ability to get to where they want to go.”
Because this path is so predictable, an aspiring champion can track where they are now and compare it to where they’re going. “If you know the hidden dangers of where you are in advance…then we can prepare for it, and we can disarm the liabilities and create the readiness to seize the brass ring and avoid the potholes that most people predictably step into that derail their lives.”
Listen to this episode of The Art of Charm to learn more about how we can identify the three to five pivotal moments we experience every year that influence our progress to make or break us, how we can prepare a contingency plan ahead of these pivotal moments, why going for more immediately after a victory is usually not your best course of action (and what you should do instead), why you shouldn’t squander your team’s allegiance capital, the difference between human nature and the champion’s nature, understanding the battle for legacy (the immortal footprint you’ll leave on human history), listen to Jeff’s eyewitness account of the terrorism he experienced during the 1972 Munich Olympic games, and lots more.
THANKS, DR. JEFF SPENCER!
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