Right About Now with Ryan Alford
Mastering Mindset: Practical Steps to Optimize Your Performance in Business and Life with Rudi Riekstins
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
Right About Now with Ryan AlfordJoin media personality and marketing expert Ryan Alford as he dives into dynamic conversations with top entrepreneurs, marketers, and influencers. "Right About Now" brings you actionable insights on business, marketing, and personal branding, helping you stay ahead in today's fast-paced digital world. Whether it's exploring how character and charisma can make millions or unveiling the strategies behind viral success, Ryan delivers a fresh perspective with every episode. Perfect for anyone looking to elevate their business game and unlock their full potential.Resources:Right About Now NewsletterFree Podcast Monetization CourseJoin The NetworkFollow Us On InstagramSubscribe To Our Youtube ChannelVibe Science MediaSUMMARYIn this episode of Right About Now, host Ryan Alford and high-performance coach Rudy Riekstins explore the keys to unlocking peak performance in both business and personal life. Ryan energizes the discussion by emphasizing the power of focusing on the present, while Rudy shares compelling success stories of clients who broke through limiting beliefs. The conversation highlights essential strategies, including the impact of intentional morning routines, confidence, and stress management on cognitive function. Rudy provides practical, actionable steps—such as journaling and mental exercises—to help listeners develop a success-driven mindset and reach their full potential.Join the In•Powered Life communityhttps://rudiriekstins.com/communityTAKEAWAYS High performance in business and personal life The critical role of mindset in achieving success Importance of awareness and intentionality in daily routines Transforming organizational culture through mindset shifts The value of coaching and external perspectives Creating a positive feedback loop through success Actionable steps for enhancing high performance The impact of stress on cognitive function and creativity Techniques for managing stress and emotional states The significance of reflection and journaling for personal growth If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE. Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding. Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: How does mindset influence high performance?
If you're listening to this episode, I want you to think about something you have in your day ahead of you today. Maybe it's a hard conversation with somebody at work. Maybe it's a sales pitch that you're really excited about. Maybe it's a heated conversation with your spouse.
If you've got emotion around that and you're nervous or you're anxious or you're frustrated, that creates nervousness, anxiousness, and frustration in you and in your body. And that starts to control what information the brain's bringing to you.
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What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. We're always talking about what you need to do right now. What you need to do today. We could talk about the past. All that does is give you a sore neck. That's what I say. That's why I got no rear view mirrors in my car, baby. That's why we're going to talk about what we need to do today. We're trying to get you ahead in business, marketing, life.
Look, this show's about it all. That's why we're number one. You know why we're number one? Because I got good friends. And one of them is Rudy Ricksteins. What's up, Rudy? Hey, thank you so much for having me, Ryan. I'm excited to be on the show today. Hey, it's taken too long. You might recognize the name if you're listening because Rudy's amazing wife was on the show.
And, you know, he was a true gentleman, letting his wife go first. She was awesome. Aniston's episode has been skyrocketing in downloads. I've got a lot of feedback. And she's a rock star, but we got the rock star couple here because Rudy is one of the best, let's just say the best, because you're going to find out today the best performance coach on the earth.
This is not, hey, we're all life coaches these days, right? No, this is not, hey, got this course at Walmart and all that. No. No. This is a high performers, high performer coach. This is what I'm talking about. Rudy knows his shit and he's on our network because I love him. I love his passion. And when you leave today, you're going to know why. And Rudy, I mean that wholeheartedly.
You know, I appreciate you. I have so much love and respect for you and for what you're doing. And obviously just the opportunity to spend 30 minutes with you is just an incredible way to start a day, man. So thank you so much for having me on the show, brother.
Yeah, man. We're about to go on fire here. This is a hot 30, guys. So I told you coming in January, the gloves were coming off because I'm not going to dance around. Look, I'm working on me too, baby. The mirror is right. I got mirrors on both sides of me in this studio. So don't ever doubt it. And Rudy's not afraid. Afraid to bust my balls, too. Just go ahead and tell you.
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Chapter 2: Who is Rudi Riekstins and what makes him a top performance coach?
We need to know why are we doing something so that we will do it because people need to know what's in it for them. Otherwise, they're never going to do it. But if you could slow yourself down for a minute in that situation, take a few deep breaths in, create coherence of the brain. Because the left and the right brain, both compartmentalize, they shut down in stress.
And that's why you can't fire logic and ration and reason. So you need to get them to reestablish that connection, which recreates the coherence, which creates the symbiotic relationship between the brain and the body. When you've got that, all of a sudden, inspiration flows, creativity flows, your stress levels go down. And now you're like, boom, I've got the idea. I know exactly what to do.
And the idea lands. And that is a simple practice of being able to breathe in and breathe out, create separation between where you are and what you're experiencing, labeling and identifying what are the things that are coming up. These are really simple techniques that I teach, but you have to be aware that they are there and that they happen.
I want to give one, just one exercise to your audience that they can take away and apply into their life as early as today.
If you find yourself in heightened chronic stress, your tongue gets thick, your mouth gets dry, you're really struggling to think, if you have heightened emotion and you're stressed about something, stop, push yourself away from your desk, pick up a pen or a pencil, take your cell phone, anything, and just hold it a couple of feet from your face and stare at the pen.
You and the pen, nothing but the pen, and take a really deep breath in and look at the pen. That act of observing something outside of you creates distance between you and the emotion. Your brain stops identifying as the emotion, and the moment you no longer identify with the anger, the frustration, the resentment, because your focus is on an
external item outside of your body, all of a sudden the brain creates that coherence. The minute the left and the right brain start to talk to each other again, the brain's like, oh, it's not that bad. Oh, you know what? We've got this. Hey, we overcame this in the past. And now you've come back to being you.
98% of people that I work with, and this is the population, 98% of people on the planet live a reactionary life where they are reacting to who they were in the past, how they reacted in the past. They're not constantly present today. And then they want to know why their lives don't change. But you need to be in control of your life.
And the only way to do that is to be in control of your conscious thinking mind, getting out of stress. And these techniques, like I just shared, are really simple. But Ryan, I'm going to tell you, they are profoundly impactful. The people that I work with, their lives change in a very, very short amount of time. And it's because all of a sudden, they become powerful.
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