Sep 16, 2020
Matt Chavlovich is a leadership coach who helps athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs find more momentum in their success-driven life. He meets his clients through his company, Today I Begin, with the intent to lead clients in doing what they love while being the person they love. Before he became a full-time coach, Matt was a professional soccer player and once held the position of Vice President of Licensing at Major League Soccer for over five years.
Matt joins me today to share how you can find a moment of stillness and how that moment can help shape your path to long-term success and inner peace. He describes the events in his life that redefined his definition of success and discusses his flashpoints and what he now realizes in hindsight. He explains why he left the corporate world as well as the lessons he learned from being part of it. Matt shares how you can reframe pain and resting as part of the processes that help you grow. He also describes some of the lowest points in his life and how he pulled himself back up.
"You'll never grow if you don't rest." - Matt Chavlovich
This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast:
- Matt's flashpoints and why he missed them early on.
- How Matt learned to choose the path that leads to stillness.
- How you can choose the right decisions that bring you peace.
- Matt's reflections when he was still a pro soccer player.
- Redefining success in a way that gives you inner peace and contentment.
- The reasons why Matt left the corporate world and his takeaways from that experience.
- How you can thrive in the pain and what you can learn from it.
- How you can rest with purpose and why it's also a form of training.
- The times when Matt experienced negative thoughts and how he pulled through.
Our Favorite Quotes:
- "Success is really when I've shown my full capability, my true colors, and when I helped others do the same." - Matt Chavlovich
- "As I look back on my life and career, it was the moments where I just flowed and gave everything I had when everything changed." - Matt Chavlovich
- "Regardless how strong that feeling is - what feels right - whatever direction it's pointing, that's the one that's right for you." - Matt Chavlovich
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