Athlete Maestro | The Ultimate Podcast For Young Athletes | Sports Education | Sport Psychology | Mental Toughness | Athlete Development | Mental Training with Tola Ogunlewe

"in life there are always lessons to be learnt along the way." — Darren Hardy What have you learnt today? Is this a question you consider? Personal development is one of the hallmarks of a successful athlete. They look to improve and get better in all aspects of their life. Whatever it is and no matter how small it seems, learning in whatever way is an improvement to what you already have. So what will you learn today and going forward? Let your mantra be “better everyday”. Episode 30 is fruitful Friday and another dose of weekend inspiration and motivation. ACTION FOR TODAY Start with learning one thing every month and if you can improve that to every two weeks. As you make progress, try learning one new thing every week and ultimately everyday. It all starts with that first thing. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes, stitcher radio and Tunein

"your approach to sports can have a profound impact on the success you enjoy in the end." — Tola Ogunlewe Everyone involved in sports does so for a particular reason. Performance or Mastery? Which category do you fall into? Are you more interested in just winning or having fun or are you more interested in improving? The answer to this key question determines a lot when it comes to the true success you enjoy in sports. You see when you chase mastery which is centered around self-improvement, you ultimate enjoy the success that comes with chasing just performance. But when you chase performance, it becomes easy to lose interest when you are not winning or when you hit a snag along the way. Afterall your motivation was all above winning. Its much similar to self development and the drive to add value to the world. More often than not when you chase money you don’t get it but when you chase adding value to the lives of others while improving yourself, the money would find its way to you. I’m sure you get the point. Episode 29 is all about discovering your motivation for participating in sports and what drives you. Athlete Maestro is all about mastering your craft and that is why we recommend the mastery approach. Seek improvement and progress and the success will come. ACTION FOR TODAY Take an in-depth look at the reason for your participation in sports and begin to tailor it towards the mastery approach. Start small, start with little wins and begin to build. What is the one thing that you can improve about yourself today? Start win that and your approach will change. You are listening to Athlete Maestro anyway so you are already on the path to mastery. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes, stitcher radio and Tunein

"Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.” – Tom Brady Tom Brady is a four-time Super Bowl Champion in the National Football League (American Football). He has spent his entire career with the New England Patriots. He has numerous records and stellar feats. We are excited to bring him to you today. Anyone who doesn’t know Tom Brady probably would be excused. His greatness is not one to cross borders. He has changed the dynamics of what it means to succeed in sports despite all the odds against him. He was a college athlete who was selected in the sixth round of the NFL draft and has gone on to be one of the greatest to ever play American Football. Just how did he do it? I hope you are as curious as I once was. You see Brady defied logic, but only because he chose to. He chose to think in a different way. He chose to take a different approach. That’s what I want you to learn from todays episode. To take a different approach. Every single thing Brady has done over his illustrious career has been tailored along the lines of what we discuss in this episode. 3 KEY LESSONS - Never be afraid of the competition - Focus on the fundamentals of your role - Be prepared to grasp your opportunity Episode 28 lays down the blueprint you can copy from Tom Brady and how easily it is to start applying it in your career. Enjoy. ACTION FOR TODAY Ask yourself if you are prepared for the next stage of your career. If you got the opportunity you have always dreamed of. Would you be ready to take advantage of it? If the answer is no, I want you to map out steps you can take to get prepared and I want you to start taking the action today. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes, stitcher radio and Tunein

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." — Willie Nelson What would you lose by being positive? Nothing. But trust me the impact negativity would have on your career is far more reaching. Negativity is like a cancer that would eat you up before you know whats happening. Negativity would reduce your confidence and increase your anxiety levels which affect your performance. I have learnt in life to see the positive in every situation. And I want you to see it as well. Episode 27 is all about staying positive no matter and using that to transform your mentality. ACTION FOR TODAY What is the thing getting you worried or giving you sleepless nights? Is it really worth the stress of seeing it in a negative light? Change your approach and start seeing the positive in everything. As always start small and make steady progress. Today, right now, in this moment believe that anything is possible. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes, stitcher radio and Tunein

"Fail fast, fail often" – Unknown Nothing in life helps you improve faster than learning from your mistakes. It teaches you more life lessons than success ever can. When you know why something went wrong it is easier to plot a path to success. If you are a serious athlete and I know you are, one thing that would stand between your big goals and dreams is FAILURE AND MISTAKES, that’s right FAILURE. You see, you can never be perfect and you can never escape obstacles. But one thing that would set you apart is how you learn from those tough times and bounce back. Episode 26 breaks down how you should learn from those mistakes and also how you should approach them. At the end of this episode you should start seeing your mistakes from a different perspective. ACTION FOR TODAY Get that journal or book I talked about and think back at your most recent performance. Now write down what went wrong, why you feel it went wrong and how you can avoid it repeating itself in future. Trust me it won’t take time so stick with the process and watch the results happen. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes, stitcher radio and Tunein

"your determination in life is what sets you apart from every other person in this world with talent" – Tola Ogunlewe Don’t let the price tag fool you. The issue in this episode is not whether Pogba is worth 100million, the issue is what we can learn from his career so far. You see the fact that those figures are even being thrown around means he is doing something right. So if you are smart and I know you are, your focus should be on why he is even being talked about in that breath. What could be going on behind the scenes. Well, let me help with that. I studied Pogba in detail over the last few weeks and found exactly the things that make him the athlete he is today. Its no coincidence that many of the top athletes today actually use this technique in their career. Pogba amongst other things had a huge desire to succeed. It had nothing to do with his talent or physique. It had everything to do with his innate desires. Coupled with that Pogba is on a constant path to improvement. So what is your desire? Are you even concerned about improving? Episode 25 breaks down Paul Pogba’s career so far and the simple lessons you can learn from him. Be different, Pogba can be that difference for you. Enjoy the episode and the lessons we share. ACTION FOR TODAY I want you to first look at the team around you. Are they guiding and protecting you? Do they have your interest at heart? Second I want you to question your desire. Ask yourself if you are willing to do anything to succeed. Ask yourself how far you are willing to go. Before you go into your next training session or game, find answers to these questions. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes, stitcher radio and Tunein

"you must take personal responsibility, you cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of" – Jim Rohn If you have not achieved your dreams, it is 100% your fault. Yes it is. You need to look within and assess exactly what you are doing right and wrong. You choose everything that happens to you. What you pay attention to, what you devote your time and resources to and so on. Everything starts and ends with you. All the answers you seek are within you. Episode 24 is motivational. Its fruitful Friday and I want you to take 100% responsibility. ACTION FOR TODAY Jot down a few of the things you can take responsibility for today in your career. Stop blaming others and start taking responsibility. Very simple. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"there is a syndrome in sports called paralysis of analysis " – Arthur Ashe What make the best athletes in the world successful? What makes them great? This are great questions. Imagine you sat for an exam in school and you never got the results for the exam. How would you know whether you failed or succeeded? Imagine you sold goods or products and you never got any feedback from your clients, how would you know if they enjoyed the product or not? For all you care they could have bought the products and abandoned it. It happens. How does this apply to sports and the topic for today you might ask. Well, in order to determine the amount of progress you are making as an athlete you need to analyze your performances. How do you know what you should be working on? By taking a closer look at your performances. That’s what would determine your progress. That’s what would determine if you are heading in the right direction. The greatness of the superstar athletes lies in improving on where they currently are and the only way to do that is to analyze your performances. In this Episode 23, I tell you why its important to take a closer look at your performances and what it would mean to your career. I also give you examples of superstar athletes who analyze their performances regularly and the success they currently enjoy. ACTION FOR TODAY I want you to take a closer look at your most recent performance. The last race you ran or the last match you played. I want you to be alone when you do this. Now tear out a sheet of paper and write down what went well and what went wrong. When you finish this I want to you discuss with your team. If you don’t have a team you can send me a mail, I’ll be your team, I already am, after all you are listening to the podcast. Now discuss with them on ways they think you can improve on that recent performance. Get that feedback and the rest would flow from there. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"when I was young I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals" – Michael Jordan Tim Duncan is one of those stories in sport you don’t get to hear often. He is one of those guys who never stand out but yet have something special about them. In my study of Duncan I found that some of the traits which distinguished him from his peers were traits that had been around a long time. My favourite is that Duncan had a stoic attitude. He got on with the job regardless of what was going on around him. Many would often say he never showed emotion and you didn’t know when he was happy or upset. What they didn’t know was this attitude was a mask Duncan used to get on with the job. I want you to pull a Tim Duncan today and take in all the lessons I share here on this episode. Duncan recently retired to much acclaim the greatest power forward in the games history and one of the greatest all round players to ever grace the hardwood. There is no better person to learn from. This Episode 22 should highlight what you need to be focusing on as an athlete and why its key to trust the team around. I really hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed studying Tim and bringing out these lessons for you. ACTION FOR TODAY Tear out a sheet of paper and write what you think the fundamentals in your sport are. What are those things that without them you could never succeed in your sports. You done that? Next I want you to be honest with yourself and check the boxes beside each one that reflect the fundamentals that you currently possess. By the end of this exercise you would know what you should work on next and how fast you should work on it. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"the most important thing is, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you can become" – Eric Thomas Surely when you started out in your sports journey you knew you would have to give something in order to achieve the goals you set for yourself. You knew there would be a need to train. You knew there would be sacrifices. The important question here is what are you willing to give? How far are you willing to go? Can you at any moment sacrifice what you are for what you can become? Until you answer this question you would never know the extent to which you can test yourself. This Episode should motivate you to dig deep into yourself and find that reason. ACTION FOR TODAY Take a look within yourself and identify just how important your goals and dreams are and what you would be willing to sacrifice in order to achieve them. Its not enough to just know the goals, you must know how far you are willing to go. So identify what you are willing to give in order to achieve that goal. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"every setback leaves behind a path for you to make a comeback”. – Unknown Setbacks are inevitable in life let alone in sports. It is something you would deal with over and over again. The problem is many never recover. Its like a car accident that totals the entire car. Some have insurance and some don’t. Well the ones who have insurance are the ones who have learnt to recover from those setbacks. And you can join the ranks today. Whether you admit it or not you have suffered setbacks in your career and perhaps you are special and you haven’t, trust me that set back is around the corner. No kidding. But there no reason to be afraid or fear. The ultimate step lies in knowing the process to help you recover from those setbacks so they don’t destroy you. So you comeback stronger and better. So this EPISODE 20 is all about learning to recover from your setbacks in a way that makes the process easy and somewhat fun. Take notes as you listen and prepare mentally to begin working on recovering from your last setback. ACTION FOR TODAY The first step in this process is to remember your last setback. Was it last week or last month? Take yourself into that moment and the first thing I want you to do is to look for the positives. Don’t tell me there is no positive. There is. Look for the positives, when you find it your mind is already conditioned to work on the other lessons from the episode. If you learn how to recover from your setback, you can make a stunning comeback. Who doesn’t like a comeback. You are half way there already. Get to work. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"there is not a day that goes by that I feel like losing”. – Serena Williams In a recent interview Serena did with Nike she talks about how she always felt like an underdog and how she always felt like she was fighting to make it as an athlete. It was never easy for her despite all the successes you see today. She never thought she would be great but she developed a work ethic of an underdog. At the end of the interview she says there are days she doesn’t feel like training but more importantly there is no day that goes by where she feels like losing. Serena is a perfect example for you to follow no matter the stage of your career that you are, beginning, middle or end. She has had ups and downs, she has recovered from here set backs and she has also consolidated on her greatness. This EPISODE 19 is packed full with examples of Serena I want you to follow. Forget the many fashion trends she has set and the many relationships she has been in and focus on the part of her life that can make a difference in yours. ACTION FOR TODAY Of all the lessons you have learnt from Serena in this episode, I want to change the way you approach your training starting today. Work despite not knowing when the results would come. Change your orientation. Work even when you don’t know when your moment would come. So the next time you train and you feel down remember to keep going and to keep on giving your best. You moment would surely come just like Serena but you have to be prepared for it. I know you are. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief - WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?" - Simon Sinek In his great book Simon Sinek discuses the power behind your "why" and why its critical for every entrepreneur to discover it in order to succeed in business. Same goes for an athlete. Your motivation will be tested and the only way you would be able to overcome it is to find your why. Finding your purpose is what would motivate you. Finding your purpose is what makes it all worth it in the end. Finding your purpose means you are not a lost soul. WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE? ACTION FOR TODAY Take some time to look inward and ask yourself "why did i get involved in sports". When you discover this you are on your way to succeeding. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success." Denis Waitley In this episode we discuss one of the most avoided topics in the world, FAILURE. Why are we afraid to fail? Why are you afraid to fail? Why is your mind so programmed on fear? It turns out it a natural thing. But you can make a change by focusing on the right things, by re-orientating the way the mind naturally works. So this episode would teach you how to master that fear, what you should work on and how you should approach fear. It is not that difficult and it is a mystery that has been solved by many before you so now you have the secret. I want you to put in the work, it is only going to be as hard as you make it. As Michael Jordan said "i've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why i succeed". Enjoy the episode and get to work on them NOW. ACTION FOR THE DAY I want you to change your perception of failure and to start seeing it as a positive. So the next time you fail at something in your sport, don't lose heart, see it at a positive. The rest of the lessons in the episode can only be actualized if you change your perception of failure. Start with that and the rest would be easy. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes

"I come from a very rough background, and I’m saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it too" – Floyd Mayweather Jnr In this episode we focus on “TBE”, as he likes to call himself, Floyd Mayweather Jnr. Without a doubt Mayweather is the greatest fighter of his generation. He would not have accomplished that if he wasn’t doing some things right. Mayweather is somewhat more famous for throwing $100 bills around and hoping on private jets. But here on Athlete Maestro we break down a legends career and show you how to put their success tips into practice in your own career. For Mayweather you would learn from him why you should be the hardest worker in the room and why you should never underestimate your opponents. This are some the blueprints Mayweather used in becoming the legend that he is. Lucky for you I have taken the pain to study the legend and give you everything you need to know in less than 20mins. Now you are in on the secret. Now you have the blueprint. Do not disgrace me, get to work on them NOW. This EPISODE 16 takes you through the blueprints laid down by the great Floyd Mayweather Jnr. ACTION FOR THE DAY I want you to ensure that you are the hardest worker in your gym or on your team. I want you to go into your next training session and be determined to outwork everyone. Build the determination to put in the work to the peak of your abilities. Write it on the wall or on your vision board “I will be the hardest worker in the room”. If you are the hardest worker in the room, you would never underestimate the challenge in front of you. Get to work. Get in touch with me. tola@athletemaestro.com P.S. Are you sharing Athlete Maestro with your teammates, friends and colleagues? Do so by clicking the share button in the audio above: If you love the Episode share it with your friends and teammates. Subscribe on itunes.