How To Eliminate Negative Thoughts & Achieve Inner Peace | Lindsey Vonn

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0:50How do you think people could deal with that mindset, that mentality of I gave my whole life to something, whether it's a relationship, a career, a project, whatever, a business, and it doesn't work out? How do we bounce back from that? I mean it's hard I think everyone has their own process I always felt like if I worked hard enough things would turn around like whenever I had a really bad moment so you know the good guy is not gonna finish last you know I'm going to come back I just have to double down you know reinvest everything in myself and come back you know sometimes you just need a little bit of a reset sometimes you know you need to take a break and come back to it sometimes you know it's more of just a mind over matter there's just a lot of different ways to get from point a to point b but i think the biggest thing is just believing in yourself which can be very difficult to do obviously especially if you have like multiple setbacks in a row um but that's why i always journal really you know i did a lot of journaling from like a general day-to-day to when i was racing and training i would write everything down really especially when things are going well because everyone thinks when things are going well, like, this is great, it's so easy, and they forget about what they're doing, and then all of a sudden one day things aren't going well.

2:07Like, how do I get back? You know, so it's good to keep, like, I always kept notes of everything, like what runs felt good, what skis felt good, what foods felt good, and then I always had a reference point to go back to. Was that daily or was that just most days? No, daily. Every day? I have, like, I have stacks of books, yeah. When did you start? probably 2005 so you were like 21 or 23 years yeah was it more like here's what I did here's the feeling I had here's what worked what didn't work yeah like every run you know I I would write down you know I tried a different line it didn't work I felt good like this boot felt good you know this setup felt good um you know this felt bad I tried to you know this line didn't work I just As much detail as I could give myself, I felt like the better because it's only helping me.

2:59Where do you think you would have been if you never journaled? I think I would have lost my way a couple times because, you know, looking back definitely gave me confidence. And thinking about, you know, remembering, you know, like how it felt to have a good run and what I was doing in that moment. And, you know, my own words helped me visualize that, which then translated into me finding my way again. You talked about believing in yourself. How did you learn to believe in yourself consistently with all the setbacks, though? How do you stay in belief when it's like, okay, crash, failure, didn't make the Olympics here, whatever.

3:37I'm going through personal struggles in my life. Whatever it might be, how do you stay in belief with yourself? I kind of always went back to, especially when I had multiple injuries, I always went back to why am I doing this? You know, I'm doing it because I love it. I'm passionate about it. And, you know, even if I have setbacks, I still am happy every time in the starting gate. So it's kind of like always going back to the root of why I'm there. Yes, I love winning, and that's always what I wanted to do. There's no response about that. Yeah, but, you know, at the end of the day, when I'm putting myself through everything that I did, you know, all the rehabs and everything, I always remembered I loved it.

4:21And I wanted to go fast again. Whether I won or lost, I wanted to go fast again. So kind of keeping things in perspective. Which, again, is like, you know, one of the reasons why I think being injured, you know, not so many times, but, you know, having injuries is just a good way to have a different perspective on things. Reflect and see, do I still love this or not? Do I want to keep going? And it sounded like you did so many times. Yeah. How important was mental health for you, you know, throughout your entire career? Because it wasn't really talked about until like the last five years, mental health and the importance of self-care and taking care of your mindset.

4:54How important was that for you? Did you ever feel like you lost it at times or overwhelmed or stressed or depressed at certain points? Yeah, definitely. I mean, I definitely struggled with depression for a long time and I, you know, was vocal about it not until 2012, maybe. Um, and at that time, like, you know, no one was talking about it. I hadn't told my parents, like I didn't tell anybody. And then I just was like, this is something I really need to do. And it definitely helped me kind of process everything and like feel more comfortable about it. Um, but I mean, you know, if being on the road is really hard, you know, you're always in a hotel room.

5:33I'm always in myself. And, you know, a lot of times, you know, people just see the athletes like on the podium and happy and like in the media. but you know when the cameras go off you go back to an empty hotel room and it can be really really hard um again especially because you're doing it for so long you know and at the end of my career thankfully i got my dog lucy so she was like my companion and always was with me and definitely helped a lot but um it's like the the loneliness really gets to you it is lonely if you're training that hard for something i mean your team is there and i'm sure your family are there but at certain points you're just alone it's isolating it's very isolating yeah there's not many people that can probably relate to you not you have a couple peers there's a couple other athletes you can talk to and kind of understand your coach maybe but then also you know it's if you want to talk to somebody about it they're not really going to have any sympathy for you right because you're doing well because you're making money why are you complaining about something so you know success doesn't equal happiness i mean everyone says that like money doesn't equal happiness success is an equal happiness.

6:39You have to find that on your own, but yeah, it's just because you're successful doesn't mean you're happy. There are definitely a lot of times where I was not happy. Really? Yeah. Do you feel like you're happy now? Yeah, I'm actually the happiest I've ever been. Do you do a lot of rituals beyond journaling to, when you said this is like a death, have you ever put your skis in a coffin and buried it to allow you to process or something like that? Yeah. I actually did the opposite. I always had like my Olympic medals in my sock drawer. I never had them out. Like I never, I mean, I had like a nice trophy case for my other, you know, trophies, but I never.

7:18You probably had a whole room for all your trophies. I mean, so many of them. I had a nice display case in Colorado, but now I moved to Utah. So I don't have, literally everything is in storage. But you got your Olympic medals. So my Olympic medals, I, for the first time, like got my gold medal framed. Wow. And I got all my world championship medals framed. That's cool. And it was like, this is a big moment. Of course. And it kind of was like, this is what I did. You know what I mean? It's not what you're doing. Right. Ooh. Because it was kind of like, it's put away now. You know what I mean? Yeah, right?

7:50There's a lot to celebrate, but my heart hurts. Right? Gosh. So it was like, it was an interesting moment to do that. Wow. It seems weird and, you know, slightly vain, but I just felt like it was like, this is what I did. And it's done now. And I can look back and be happy about what I did, but it's not what I do. And it's not who I am, certainly.

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