#52 Annika McGivern on Escaping Perfectionism and Navigating Change Successfully

In today's episode I speak with Annika McGivern. Annika is a Performance, Sport and Exercise Psychologist. She delivers highly practical solutions for teams and individuals with a focus on teaching skill based tools for using psychology in real-life. Annika brings insights about performance, leadership and communication from a sport context and successfully applies them to a business context working within business and alongside Personal Trainers. She specializes in resilience, mindset, communication, time management and presentation skills. Today's episode has a massive amount of value for anyone who struggles with setting big goals, perfectionism, challenging your narratives and your dissecting your self-awareness. We chat about.. Tools to navigate your current mindset like self-awareness and challenging your current narratives. Can we pinpoint where our feeling of unworthiness come from? Cultural Influences on our self-narrative . The Comparison Cycle. Navigating perfectionism as an identity. Perfectionism vs Excellence- which is more attainable and why. Building a vision for your life. Challenging ourselves to stay in a place of curiosity with new ways of thinking . Why our identity is a habit and how we can expand it. Acceptance as a starting point for a new goal. Depersonalising skills building to move forward. Commonalities across the human experience . Push and Pull motivations. What is happiness to Annika? Annika's Website: https://www.annikamcgivern.com/ Annika's Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/annika-mcgivern Annika's Instagram: @amp_performancepsych James Clear Resources: https://jamesclear.com/resources Check out my website: https://eannamcnamara.com/ Sign up for my email list: https://mailchi.mp/0c1c00006e07/join-my-email-list