Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
Self-Improvement
About
Welcome to Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland, where you'll discover tips to break through the personal and professional barriers in a hectic world that are preventing you from leading your optimal vision of life at work and home. This is the podcast for passionate life travelers and leaders who want to live a deliberate, confident and fulfilling life, and change the world while they do. In each episode, we'll expose you to something new in the areas of passion, performance and psychology that you can immediately apply to grow your life, love and leadership.As a Business and Life Coach, Rita Hyland works with highly motivated professionals who, despite their level of success and achievements, are not happy or satisfied. Often, they're "successful" by traditional standards, yet unfulfilled based on their own. They know they want more and are ready to have it.Visit http://www.RitaHyland.com to get the "Playing Full Out Accelerator" ™ - Four Steps to Identify, Plan & Take the Leap to Yo
Episodes
- 153: Your Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open (Here's How to Close Them)
This episode discusses how managing responsibilities can lead to attention loss and offers the HERE Framework to help leaders reclaim presence. It covers why high achievers struggle with presence, nervous system science, and how being full…
- 152: The Remedy For the High Performer's Success Drift
High performers often endure and operate on autopilot, but internal alignment can expire, leading to "success drift." This episode explores this subtle danger, contrasting it with failure, and offers strategic resets to recalibrate by exam…
- 151: The Year-End Review And The Epidemic of Not Celebrating
This episode introduces Rita Hyland's four-step Year-End Review exercise, designed to help high performers acknowledge accomplishments, identify recurring success patterns, and establish a foundation for future goals based on lived experie…
- 150: My Seven Learned Leadership Lessons From the Inca Trail
In this episode, Rita Hyland discusses seven leadership lessons gained from her experience on the Inca Trail. These lessons focus on leading oneself with clarity, trust, and intention, offering insights into resetting expectations and stre…
- 149: A 3-Question Practice To End Overthinking and Move Forward
This episode introduces a 3-question practice designed to help leaders overcome overthinking and decision fatigue. The practice aims to foster clarity, balance doubt with perspective, and enable meaningful action, ultimately supporting mom…
- 148: 10 Brain-backed Ways To Be a Positively Infectious Leader Daily
If you think leadership is about the title on your résumé, the results you deliver, or the strategies you execute, it's easy to see why. We've been taught to measure great leadership by performance. However, the truth is that people often…
- 147: The Most Underrated Leadership Tool
If you think effective leadership is all about having the perfect plan, the most compelling pitch, or racking up a list of accomplishments, you're not alone. Most of us have grown up believing that confidence, strategy, and performance are…
- 146: Redefining Success: After the Climb
I've got a big question for you today… one I'm betting no one's asked you in a while: What does success mean to you now? Not the version you scribbled in a vision statement 20 years ago. Not what your parents wanted. Not the one culture th…
- 145: The Hidden Cost Behind Having It All Together: What High-Performers Rarely Admit But Deeply Feel
You've achieved everything you were supposed to: a successful career, a full family life, the ability to get things done. And yet, you find yourself asking… Why don't I feel more satisfied? Why am I still not at peace? In this deeply perso…
- 144: The Second Thought Method
Do you ever find yourself reacting in the heat of the moment, only to regret what you said or did just minutes later? Whether at home with your kids, in the meeting room, or even behind the wheel, our instinctual "first thoughts" can often…
- 143: Slowing It Down to Keep Yourself Resourceful
Do you find yourself compulsively moved to action even when you want to rest? You promise yourself you'll slow down after you get just one more thing knocked out. But then something else needs to be accomplished or fixed – and well aren't…
- 142: From Disappointment to Power: Mastering the Art of Bouncing Back
How do you feel about disappointment? Or the better question is how do you bounce back after people let you down? Recently, I've been thinking of this topic, specifically because I hear a lot of conversations about people letting us down a…
- 141: The Must-Have Skill That Separates Highly Successful Leaders From the Rest
Do you think you're a good listener? Most leaders do, but research shows that we only retain about 25% of what we hear. That means distractions and assumptions get in the way. But what if you could train yourself to become a 5-star active…
- 140: Four Simple Steps to Reset Your Goals Based On Your Ultimate Future
Hey there, friends! Can you believe it? Another year has passed, and it's time to prepare for a fresh start. Congratulations on all you've accomplished in 2024! If you're like most, you're ready to hit the reset button and dive into the ne…
- 139: The Year End Review
As we approach the end of 2024, it's tempting to dive straight into setting new goals for the new year without reflecting on the past. But what if a simple 10-minute practice of leveraging the wisdom from the past twelve months can transfo…
- 138: Ten Ways To Adjust Your Strategy and Rhythm For More Enjoyment This Season
Many high achievers and busy individuals find themselves running the ultimate "Holiday Race," trying to fit even more transactions into their already packed schedules. As a result, the end of the year becomes a whirlwind of labor and to-do…
- 137: The First 3 Steps To Creating What You Want After An Inner Shakedown
Are you at a point where you're questioning everything about your life right now? Maybe you're feeling uncertain, like the ground beneath you is shifting, and nothing feels as stable as it once did. You thought life was headed in the right…
- 136: Disassembling Old Patterns For Profound Peace and Improved Performance
Have you ever found yourself saying, "There's a part of me that feels this or that behaves like this, and I don't know why?" Or perhaps you've reacted in ways that even surprise you, leaving you wondering where those feelings or behaviors…
- 135: How To Get Beyond Your Obstacle Today
Imagine you're working on a crucial project, and suddenly, your computer crashes, wiping out hours of work, or your best worker quits. Panic sets in, right? But what if you could remain calm, view the situation objectively, and even turn i…
- 134: Mastering the Pre-Mortem: Boost Your Team's Success and Your Personal Goals With This Simple Exercise
Ever wondered how to better prepare for your important projects's success? Planning is often seen as the cornerstone of success. Yet, even the most meticulously crafted plans can encounter unforeseen obstacles. So, how can we better prepar…
- 133: Key Strategies To Overcome Rejection So You Remain Unstoppable
Have you ever felt paralyzed by the fear of rejection or failure? These setbacks are universal experiences that often stall us from pursuing our dreams. But what if I told you that rejection could be your greatest ally in achieving your fu…
- 132: How To Engage In Pressureful Situations While Maintaining Your Best Self
How do you engage in pressured situations while maintaining your best self? What do you do to manage and prevent stressful situations from negatively impacting your behavior? In an ideal world, we don't feel pressure at all—we hold bound…
- 131: Enrich Your Relationships With the Enneagram and Leslie Neugent Part 2
We're back with Part 2 of the incredibly insightful conversation with Leslie Neugent about The Enneagram! The Enneagram can greatly improve your leadership abilities and your relationships. I always say self-awareness is our greatest advan…
- 130: Enrich Your Relationships With the Enneagram and Leslie Neugent
You already know relationships are the foundation to a life well lived. Yet most of our relationships with our spouse, kids, siblings, parents, colleagues and clients are left wanting for something more. Since our relationships matter so m…
- 129: How To Stay Motivated When You're Just Not Feeling It
How can you stay motivated to achieve your goals—especially when you don't feel like it? As entrepreneurs, team leaders, managers, bosses, and parents we have times when we lose motivation or lose track of the reason that we're doing what…
- 128: What Working Hard May Tell You About Your Self-Worth
Many of us are struggling with the pace of life and the drive to hustle to accomplish more. Often our drive has been a part of our career or financial success, but what happens when it never feels like we enjoy what we've created? Through…
- 127: The One Strategy To Level Up Your Problem Solving
Future Writing is your ticket to moving beyond sticky, unpleasant situations. Whether you're worried about how the team will perform while you're away, or unsure how that big meeting will go—this exercise is sure to help you. And I would k…
- 126: How To Overcome Your Resistance To Work Less
Do you have a deep desire to work less but find it difficult to slow down despite how much you want to? Many of those in midlife with good careers and successful businesses are finding themselves exhausted today. They've hit their threshol…
- 125: Feeling Pressured? Don't Stay Calm — Get Excited
When the pressure is on, do you find that you tell yourself to calm down? Relax? Maybe even to breathe? It seems like the smart thing to do, right? But there may be a better way and it's backed by research. Shifting your energy in the oppo…
- 124: A Practice To Cultivate Your External Self-Awareness
External self-awareness is a vital leadership quality. Today's leaders must do more than bring forth the best ideas, strategies, or plans. They must be able to manage the energy of those they lead. This is a critical determining factor of…
- 123: Your Mindset Management Practice For Higher Performance
High-performing athletes are doing this right—it's time the rest of us in other industries receive the benefits of incorporating a daily mindset management practice, too. Athletes know that managing their minds is as important as honing th…
- 122: Feeling Your Feelings So They Don't Run You
Let's face it. Life is full of a LOT of BIG emotions. And yet we've grown up in a culture which tends to encourage dismissing and compartmentalizing our uncomfortable feelings. To prevent ourselves from feeling certain feelings we often nu…
- 121: Four Ways To Win Your Battle With Resistance
Have you ever wondered why you procrastinate or get distracted when you're about to tackle something significant? Join me as I define and illustrate how the true culprit is Resistance, that invisible force that often derails us from adding…
- 120. What We Were Taught About Happiness That Isn't True
What are you overthinking or trying to control right now that is getting in the way of your happiness today? What would happen if you let go of the overthinking and the control that too often hinders you? Recently, I had the opportunity to…
- 119. How To Hire a Strong Coach In Your Corner
Do you feel like life is going too fast? Are you tolerating things? Perhaps you're going through a transitional phase or feeling lonely at the top. Now, imagine how great it would feel to have someone by your side, offering support, and li…
- 118. What Does It Take To Transform with Michael Quinlan
Are you ready for transformational change? What we know is that who we are will have a significant influence on the leaders we become. Transformational leadership requires self-evaluation, personal growth and actively engaging with your te…
- 117: How To Break the Habits That Limit You with Hypnotherapist Christina Woods
Have you ever reacted to a situation without thinking? That's your subconscious at play. It makes roughly 90% of our daily decisions. After being attacked by two men in a parking lot in 2019, I found myself responding to objectively safe s…
- 116: Leading (and Parenting) In Uncertain Times
To say we're living in uncertain times is an understatement. For the last few years, we couldn't even be sure what would happen 48 hours from now, and that uncertainty has done a number on us. As leaders, we have a responsibility to be a p…
- 115. Making the Pivot You've Been Contemplating Real This Season
Are you going through a pivot or change in life? These pivots, whether by choice or not, aren't always easy. In fact, they can be scary, uncomfortable, and even embarrassing. In this episode, we'll explore what honest pivots and change ent…
- 114. How To Eliminate the Pressure So That You Can Enhance Your Career Anytime You Want
Do you struggle with low-grade stress? Do you look for extrinsic rewards to validate your progress and worthiness, or resist allowing your career to be easier? If your current work feels heavy, then something needs to change. In this episo…
- 113. The Most Influential Practice To Write Your New Future
What keeps you from making the changes and taking the actions you want? Do you wish you could get to the root of what's keeping you from enjoying more happiness and success? In the final part of our three-part series on getting the freedom…
- 112. The #1 Ability You Need to Elevate Your Life in 2023
There is one common thing that has the potential of robbing us of the capacity to follow through and achieve our ideas and great goals in 2023. This one thing has everything to do with the stress and distraction that we allow into our live…
- 111. Get Your Great Goal Down
Are you ready to get the best work of your career out into the world? Are you ready to learn how you can get the freedom so that you can make a real difference, and live the life you actually want? Then friend, this is where you want to be…
- 110. Reviewing the Year Before Moving On
Friends, this is my favorite time of the year! Not only is it a wonderful time to reconnect with family and friends, it's the perfect time to pause and reconnect with yourself. As you participate in the collective permission to pause, I wa…
- 109. Why Who You Are Matters Just As Much As The Work
Recently I was asked, "What 3 things do you wish someone had told you?" I want to share with you the most significant one of the three which is also one of the biggest mistakes I often see being made by people in leadership, business, and…
- 108. The #1 Sign Your Relationship Will Last
How do you know if a relationship will last? What will make your relationship stronger? The data holds the key. Would you believe it if I told you there are 2 relationship experts who – within 15 minutes of meeting a couple – can tell whet…
- 107. A Simple Practice To Elevate Your Personal Brand
How do others experience you — as a business owner, as a leader, as an employee, and even as a family member? Just like well-known companies and brands, you have an experience, a feeling that you bring to your interactions with others that…
- 106. Recognizing Your Self-Protection Mechanism
How do you protect yourself when someone says or does something that triggers you? How are you most likely to respond? When a part of us doesn't feel like it can manage or navigate a solution, we employ a coping mechanism – often unknowing…
- 105. The Simple Step-by-Step Candid Conversation Formula
In any relationship, there will be conflict. We may not want it, but it is inevitable. The problem is most of us were never taught a simple way to address conflict directly. As a result, most individuals, seasoned leaders included, retreat…
- 104. Establish Better Connections By Understanding The Neuroscience Of Engagement
As leaders, we want to positively connect with, influence, and impact others. But, getting individuals to feel comfortable to engage with us isn't always easy. There's an evolutionary reason for this. If people are not sure of their situat…