BITESIZE #40 | Mel Marshall: Finding the purpose in your journey

Today’s bitesize burst of inspiration comes from Mel Marshall, the current Loughborough National Lead Coach with athletes including Olympic winning swimmer Adam Peaty.

This was an episode that had a profound effect on the whole HP team. It was an incredible conversation with so many take home messages. 

This clip is Mel talking about falling in love with the journey you take, finding a collective purpose and what a difference that can make. 

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**Summary of the Podcast Episode:**

The episode features Mel Marshall, the National Lead Coach at Loughborough University who works with athletes such as Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty. The discussion centers around finding purpose and passion in one's journey, emphasizing the transformative impact it can have on personal fulfillment and commitment.

1. **The Power of Collective Purpose:**
- Marshall highlights the remarkable dedication and endurance exhibited by parents of swimmers, driven by their love for their children and their passion for the sport.
- This shared purpose creates a 20% factor, an extra level of commitment and effort that goes beyond financial incentives.
- To foster a strong commitment culture, leaders must inspire and align individuals with a common mission, creating a sense of collective purpose.

2. **Finding Purpose in Daily Life:**
- Marshall challenges the notion that finding purpose is limited to grand gestures or dramatic life changes.
- Purpose can be found in the seemingly mundane aspects of daily life, such as being a partner, a colleague, or simply interacting with others.
- The key is to identify a purpose that extends beyond oneself, focusing on enriching the lives of others, making a positive impact, or contributing to a cause greater than oneself.

3. **Purpose as a Source of Fulfillment:**
- Marshall emphasizes the profound sense of fulfillment that comes from living with a purpose.
- Purpose transforms daily activities into meaningful experiences, enriching personal and professional life.
- It provides a sense of direction, motivation, and a deeper connection to one's work and relationships.

4. **The Infinite Purpose of High Performance:**
- The podcast's purpose is to improve the lives of people worldwide, helping them move closer to living a high-performance life.
- This purpose is infinite, as there are always more people to reach and new levels of high performance to achieve.

5. **Finding Your Purpose:**
- Marshall encourages listeners not to feel pressured to find a grand purpose immediately.
- Purpose can evolve over time, and it's important to reflect on what truly matters and aligns with one's values.
- Purpose should not be a burden but rather a source of inspiration and motivation in everyday life.

The episode concludes with Marshall expressing gratitude to the High Performance team and listeners for their support in fulfilling the podcast's purpose of impacting lives positively.

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[02:46.840 -> 02:52.580] the past five series, we listen to a short clip and then we just delve a bit
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[03:15.160 -> 03:17.720] at the end of what is no doubt a busy week for all of us,
[03:17.720 -> 03:20.560] just to be lifted up by a short bit of inspiration.
[03:20.560 -> 03:22.920] And today is a really, really interesting topic
[03:22.920 -> 03:24.720] from an amazing woman as well.
[03:24.720 -> 03:27.620] Right, let's do it then. It's time for today's bite-sized episode with the
[03:27.620 -> 03:32.660] amazing swimming coach Mel Marshall. How about this for a little burst of
[03:32.660 -> 03:37.200] inspiration for you. If you're in line with your moral purpose and you're in
[03:37.200 -> 03:41.340] line with your reason why, I think there's this 20% factor that you can get
[03:41.340 -> 03:46.440] out of people for no finance, for nothing, just because they're all aligned to one mission.
[03:46.440 -> 03:47.760] And it's really easily seen.
[03:48.560 -> 03:51.280] I always talk about the endurance of parents.
[03:51.560 -> 03:55.360] So when I was in my old club job, the endurance of some of these parents at
[03:55.360 -> 03:59.600] five in the morning until seven at night, selling on the tombola to help raise
[03:59.600 -> 04:03.440] funds, helping with charity missions, you know, helping at the meets and stuff.
[04:03.440 -> 04:06.020] I'm like, their moral purpose was,
[04:06.020 -> 04:09.080] sounds really, really soft and flake, but love.
[04:09.080 -> 04:11.560] And they were so in line with their,
[04:11.560 -> 04:12.760] how much they loved their children
[04:12.760 -> 04:15.000] and how much they love what their children were doing.
[04:15.000 -> 04:17.000] They gave you an extra 20%.
[04:17.000 -> 04:19.120] And I just think it comes back to that.
[04:19.120 -> 04:20.800] You to create a real commitment culture,
[04:20.800 -> 04:26.080] you have to lead, inform and inspire people to fall in love with the
[04:26.080 -> 04:31.240] same things that are important to you, but also to fall in love with the journey they're
[04:31.240 -> 04:37.040] going to go on to reach a destination. And even if you win or lose at the end of the
[04:37.040 -> 04:41.440] destination, the journey that you create to get there, they will always look back on as
[04:41.440 -> 04:43.760] something that, God, I'm glad I took that opportunity.
[04:43.760 -> 04:46.280] It's a really interesting topic, this, isn't it?
[04:46.280 -> 04:48.920] And I'm always really careful talking about
[04:48.920 -> 04:52.160] finding that thing, because I think that quite often
[04:52.160 -> 04:53.760] we put too much pressure on ourselves.
[04:53.760 -> 04:56.640] You know, we think, well, I don't have that purpose in life
[04:56.640 -> 04:58.880] because I just do this job,
[04:58.880 -> 05:02.280] or I just go to work to earn money to pay, you know,
[05:02.280 -> 05:04.760] the mortgage and feed my kids and stuff.
[05:04.760 -> 05:07.880] But all that is vital and all that is absolutely necessary
[05:07.880 -> 05:09.920] and we can't all live in this world where we go,
[05:09.920 -> 05:13.240] hey, I was really passionate about rock climbing
[05:13.240 -> 05:16.800] so I quit the rat race and I moved to Nepal
[05:16.800 -> 05:19.840] and I spend all my days climbing and it fulfills me.
[05:19.840 -> 05:21.840] Like that's not reality.
[05:21.840 -> 05:24.440] But I think reality is that all of us should be able
[05:24.440 -> 05:26.880] to find a deep purpose in life.
[05:26.880 -> 05:29.120] And there's research that says millennials,
[05:29.120 -> 05:32.160] that says that young people are so much more in tuned now
[05:32.160 -> 05:33.940] with having a purpose,
[05:33.940 -> 05:36.320] to the point where they will spend far more money
[05:36.320 -> 05:39.300] with businesses who they understand the purpose
[05:39.300 -> 05:40.140] of that business,
[05:40.140 -> 05:42.560] rather than just giving their money to the first business
[05:42.560 -> 05:43.780] that advertises with them.
[05:43.780 -> 05:45.260] It's all a bit deeper now.
[05:45.260 -> 05:47.360] It's like, what do you stand for?
[05:47.360 -> 05:48.640] What are you about?
[05:48.640 -> 05:50.600] What are your non-negotiables?
[05:50.600 -> 05:51.640] What are your values?
[05:51.640 -> 05:53.560] And I think no matter what our job is,
[05:53.560 -> 05:56.240] what our life is, how busy we are, how stressed we are,
[05:56.240 -> 05:58.000] how much we have going on,
[05:58.000 -> 06:01.520] all of us can find a true purpose in life.
[06:01.520 -> 06:03.080] And the purpose doesn't have to be
[06:03.080 -> 06:10.520] the overarching grand thing. The purpose doesn't have to be the overarching grand thing it doesn't the purpose doesn't have to be the headline the purpose can be what you
[06:10.520 -> 06:15.960] do whilst you're carrying out your daily duties so you know what is the purpose
[06:15.960 -> 06:20.880] what is your purpose for being a partner it's not just coexisting with someone is
[06:20.880 -> 06:23.160] it and getting through each day and hoping that you're still here tomorrow
[06:23.160 -> 06:26.420] it's about bringing the most you can to their life, it's about
[06:26.420 -> 06:30.060] enriching them, uplifting them, hoping that they do the same to you, challenging
[06:30.060 -> 06:36.020] each other at certain times, going on a journey together, experiencing stuff,
[06:36.020 -> 06:41.000] exploring things. That's the purpose of being someone's partner. Or what about
[06:41.000 -> 06:44.840] your job? You know you might think that you just do a job literally because it
[06:44.840 -> 06:48.600] pays the mortgage, that's absolutely fine. But what is
[06:48.600 -> 06:53.160] the purpose within that job? How can you reach people that you work with? How can
[06:53.160 -> 06:57.440] you change the way that your business operates? How can you have a real impact
[06:57.440 -> 07:00.040] with the customers? How can you have an impact with your colleagues? How can you
[07:00.040 -> 07:03.900] have an impact with anyone that you touch in your in your job? Make that your
[07:03.900 -> 07:08.320] purpose. Find the thing outside of just earning the money
[07:08.320 -> 07:09.680] that gives you a purpose,
[07:09.680 -> 07:11.920] because it just leads to something
[07:11.920 -> 07:16.140] so much more fulfilling in life generally.
[07:16.140 -> 07:18.000] And I think one of the biggest things, right,
[07:18.000 -> 07:20.160] is that we all think that finding a purpose
[07:20.160 -> 07:22.080] is really difficult and it's really challenging
[07:22.080 -> 07:24.800] and it's like this huge journey we have to go on.
[07:24.800 -> 07:26.020] I don't think it is.
[07:27.120 -> 07:27.960] I honestly don't.
[07:27.960 -> 07:30.040] I think that sometimes having a purpose,
[07:30.040 -> 07:34.040] your purpose can just be improving the lives
[07:34.040 -> 07:35.720] of everyone around you.
[07:35.720 -> 07:36.880] That could just be your purpose.
[07:36.880 -> 07:39.160] Now you can still go and watch football
[07:39.160 -> 07:40.880] or you can still go and do your yoga class
[07:40.880 -> 07:42.200] or you can still go to your job
[07:42.200 -> 07:43.760] and you can still go to the pub with your mates
[07:43.760 -> 07:46.480] or go clubbing at the weekend but you do it all with the
[07:46.480 -> 07:53.080] purpose of making the world better for everyone around you or you focus on the
[07:53.080 -> 07:57.320] environment or you focus on your family or you focus on your own health or you
[07:57.320 -> 08:00.440] focus on the health of those people around you but just find something
[08:00.440 -> 08:04.640] greater that just coexists alongside everything else that you're doing so you
[08:04.640 -> 08:08.580] still live your life but you just have a purpose and there's no
[08:08.580 -> 08:13.340] doubt about it it's the single most fulfilling thing that you can do and
[08:13.340 -> 08:17.580] Damien and I talk about it in great detail in in our book actually just
[08:17.580 -> 08:20.580] doing something is one thing but doing something with a real purpose and a real
[08:20.580 -> 08:27.420] passion doing it with ownership doing it with an understanding making sure it comes from your heart, not just your head,
[08:27.420 -> 08:28.980] will transform your life,
[08:28.980 -> 08:30.100] and it'll still be the same life,
[08:30.100 -> 08:31.220] and you'll still do the same job,
[08:31.220 -> 08:33.060] and you'll still do the same things,
[08:33.060 -> 08:34.540] but it will be more fulfilling.
[08:34.540 -> 08:36.500] And thank you so much to Mel Marshall
[08:36.500 -> 08:37.580] for coming on High Performance
[08:37.580 -> 08:38.980] and spending her time talking to us.
[08:38.980 -> 08:40.180] If you wanna hear the full episode,
[08:40.180 -> 08:42.260] it's just packed with absolutely brilliant gems.
[08:42.260 -> 08:44.300] And of course, her swimmer as well, Adam Peaty,
[08:44.300 -> 08:46.800] he's on the pod as well, So you can track down both of those episodes
[08:47.360 -> 08:50.160] Just go into the back catalog find them get involved with them
[08:50.200 -> 08:56.080] But can I just take this opportunity to say thank you really for keeping on coming back to high performance the whole purpose of us
[08:56.520 -> 09:02.820] Our infinite purpose as Suzie Marr would say and Suzie Marr is the entrepreneur who created tropic skincare
[09:02.980 -> 09:05.080] She spoke to us about an infinite purpose,
[09:05.080 -> 09:06.320] and that's when it goes even deeper.
[09:06.320 -> 09:07.920] So you have your purpose,
[09:07.920 -> 09:10.520] but then you create something infinite from it.
[09:10.520 -> 09:12.360] So your purpose is something that never ends,
[09:12.360 -> 09:14.720] and the infinite purpose of high performance
[09:14.720 -> 09:17.720] is to improve the lives of people around the world
[09:17.720 -> 09:19.000] every single day,
[09:19.000 -> 09:20.800] and help them take a step closer
[09:20.800 -> 09:23.560] to living a more high performance life.
[09:23.560 -> 09:24.560] Now that's our purpose,
[09:24.560 -> 09:25.520] and the great thing is there's always more people to reach. There's always a step closer to high performance more high performance life. Now that's our purpose, and the great thing is,
[09:25.520 -> 09:27.160] there's always more people to reach.
[09:27.160 -> 09:28.880] There's always a step closer to high performance
[09:28.880 -> 09:29.880] that we can get to.
[09:29.880 -> 09:33.920] So the purpose is absolutely, without question, infinite.
[09:33.920 -> 09:35.960] So good luck finding your purpose,
[09:35.960 -> 09:37.880] but don't let it be a millstone around your neck.
[09:37.880 -> 09:40.280] Don't sit here thinking, man, I don't feel I have a purpose,
[09:40.280 -> 09:43.480] because now I feel bad about things,
[09:43.480 -> 09:45.960] and you have less self-worth because of it.
[09:45.960 -> 09:47.800] That's not what this is about.
[09:47.800 -> 09:51.240] This is about just saying, live your life, do your thing,
[09:51.240 -> 09:54.480] but just think deeply about what your purpose is
[09:54.480 -> 09:56.440] and it might not come to you today or next week
[09:56.440 -> 09:58.360] or next month or next year,
[09:58.360 -> 10:00.520] but I'm pretty sure you'll find it.
[10:00.520 -> 10:03.360] Thanks as always for listening to High Performance.
[10:03.360 -> 10:05.080] Thank you very much to the whole team around us,
[10:05.080 -> 10:08.560] to Finn Ryan, to Will, to Hannah, to Eve,
[10:08.560 -> 10:09.920] the whole High Performance team.
[10:09.920 -> 10:11.200] The whole reason we're doing it,
[10:11.200 -> 10:13.360] the whole purpose for this is you though,
[10:13.360 -> 10:14.840] so we can impact your life.
[10:14.840 -> 10:16.520] And it makes such a difference to us
[10:16.520 -> 10:18.400] if you can just spend two minutes
[10:18.400 -> 10:20.760] shouting out High Performance on your social media,
[10:20.760 -> 10:22.780] on your Instagram, on your LinkedIn,
[10:22.780 -> 10:25.320] just pinging it to some work colleagues on email
[10:25.320 -> 10:26.640] or putting it in a WhatsApp group.
[10:26.640 -> 10:28.880] However you can share high performance,
[10:28.880 -> 10:31.000] it helps us to fulfill our purpose
[10:31.000 -> 10:32.760] of reaching more and more people.
[10:32.760 -> 10:34.400] So thank you so much for joining us
[10:34.400 -> 10:37.720] and we'll see you again soon for another episode
[10:37.720 -> 10:39.840] of the High Performance Podcast.
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