ep 90 - He's Legally Blind, a World Champion with Laser Focus - Matt Formston

​Learn how a Legally Blind Athlete can Powerfully Visualise to be a World Champ

Matt Formston is a world champion tandem cyclist, speaker, coach and global adventure seeker. Matt is a legally blind Australian para-cyclist who won gold at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Para-cycling Track World Champs. At age 5, Matt was diagnosed with Macular Dystrophy resulting in 0% central vision and 5% peripheral vision. He is an incredibly focussed and driven individual and in this show he shares the HOW. 

Learn to develop laser beam focus and determination and a winning attitude of a world champ. He puts an amazing spin on visualisation. Matt will soon be heading to the 2016 Rio Paralympics to represent Australia.  We catch him in his final weeks of prep for Rio. 
 
Here’s what we cover with Matt this week:

• What does visually impairment mean?
• How important the view parents have, can impact the child.
• The attitude Matt inherited from his parents.
• How does Matt manage to ride a bike on the road when legally blind?
• The steps to take when dealing with personal hardships.
• Matt’s process for getting himself into the zone, being in the moment.
• Using all of our senses to visualise
• When your plans go to crap, how do you refocus and trust your ability.
• Does Matt have fears?
• What would Matt like his children to take out his performances and approach on life?
• What are the steps we can go through to model others and then progress to model yourself?
• The power of compartmentalisation and how that helps develop laser beam focus.
• When you need to deliver in the moment… what now?

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