How To Rebuild Confidence After Failure | Lindsey Vonn

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12How do you think people could deal with that mindset, the 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. Whenever I had really bad moments, I said, the good guy is not going to 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.

0:44Sometimes, 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. 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 like 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 boots felt good and then i always had a reference point to go back to.

1:33Was that daily or was that just most days? You were journaling? No, daily. Every day? I have like, I have stacks of books, yeah. When did you start? Probably 2005. So you were what, like 21 or 23 or something? Okay. So for 13, 14 years. Like when I started consistently winning, yeah. 14 years you were like journaling consistently. And I also, on and off I journaled my workouts because that got a little bit excessive. It was like, there's only so much journaling one can do, but I occasionally did do my workouts as well. Was it more like, here's what I did, here's the feeling I had, here's what worked, what didn't work?

2:08Yeah, like every run, you know, 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, you know, this felt bad, I tried to do, you know, this line, it didn't work. As much detail as I could give myself, I felt like the better because it's only helping me. Where 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.

2:46You know, my own words helped me visualize that, which then translated into me finding my way again. So, you know, I don't know. I feel like. So you would read back your journals? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. 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. I'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?

3:21I'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. And 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.

4:05Reflect and see, do I still love this or not? Do I want to keep going? And it sounded like you did so many times. 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. How important was that for you? Do 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.

4:37And 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 i'm always by 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 i think thankfully i got my dog lucy so she was like my companion and always was with me and definitely helped a lot.

5:20But it's like 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.

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