Episode Details

Mark Pattison was catching touchdown passes in the last minutes of games to stadiums of 100,000 plus thousand people. Playing football at a high level taught him how to think big and step into fear. When his NFL career ended, what was next? It's not easy to leave a job and identity like that. After a pivot to what became a successful marketing and import, export business - Mark Pattison decided that how things looked from the outside mattered less than how he felt on the inside. He wanted to truly follow his passion for the mountains. Here is where his Seven Summits mission began, to attempt to be the first NFL player to successfully hike the tallest mountain on each continent. Today he is 6 mountains in. He was preparing to summit Everest this summer, but just like many of us, COVID-19 changed his plans https://www.markpattisonnfl.com/category/blog/ . But he still knows preparation means opportunity! 

LESSONS 

1. Shift your internal questions
2. Be goal oriented
3. Adjust, adapt, change and pivot 
4. You can't control mother nature 
5. Your greatest strength can also be your greatest weakness 
6. Preparation means opportunity 
7. Be authentic and true to what your going after 
8. Step into your fear 
9. Love the process 
10. Fail to plan, plan to fail 
11. Train, train, train 
12. Hone your nutrition
13. Always go after your dreams, never give up  

LINKS 

https://www.markpattisonnfl.com/category/podcast/

https://www.markpattisonnfl.com

TIME STAMPS 

1:38 Interview begins with a bear through his race 

3:00 Playing in the NFL 

6:00 Going off the cliff 

7:30 Rechanneling energy towards business 

10:00 Shifting your questions 

10:49 Adjust, adapt & pivot 

11:40 the Seven Summits mission begins 

13:30 Finding a mentor, mapping it out & flying to Africa 

15:00 Challenges, tragedies and joys of the many summits

16:20 Denali 

19:00 Greatest strength is also greatest weakness 

23:00 Antarctica 

24:30 His why. Step i