E172: Getting in Your Game Playing Mindset to Become a Champion in Life with Rodney Flowers

<p>Rodney Flowers is a transformational speaker and a bestselling author helping others reach their goals, experience their dreams, and live successful purposeful lives. A mindset, strategy, resilience, team building coach, Rodney facilitates conversations and events. Rodney Flowers is the host of <a href="https://rodneyflowers.com/welcome-to-the-game-changer-mentality-podcast/"><u>The Game Changer Mentality Podcast</u></a>.</p> <p>Today, he shares his inspirational story, being paralyzed at 15 years old and being in a wheelchair for 18 years, and how he walked his way through, not just physically, but emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, bouncing back and getting to where he is now.</p> <p><strong>Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:</strong></p> <ul> <li>How Rodney ended up in the wheelchair</li> <li>His driving force that made him want to be better in life</li> <li>Understanding that recovery is a process</li> <li>How to win in the game of life</li> <li>The Chinese bamboo and the bow and arrow analogies in relation to embracing our failures</li> </ul> <p><strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p> <p><strong>Recovery is a Process</strong></p> <p>Recovery can move very slowly and so, you sometimes have to build on those improvements. You have to go through the process and be okay with being in spaces of uncertainty.</p> <p>You have to have a strong mind and not allow frustration or delayed gratification to get the best of you because that's how you lose. In order to win, you’ve got to stay strong and keep your mind on the vision.</p> <p>Make sure you have a process and a ritual in place. Even if you have a destination, you’ve got to break that down into small chunks, and then reward yourself when you meet those milestones that you set for yourself along the journey. And realize that the most important things are the milestones between where you are and that destination.</p> <p>Ultimately, having a vision is a vehicle for you to become better. And any resistance that shows up in your