What if the difference between your worst performance and your best one had nothing to do with talent, preparation, or circumstance? What if it was simply a matter of what you chose to fill your mind with in the moments before?

Chris Dorris is a peak performance coach who has spent his career helping professional athletes and business leaders find the flow state on command, not by chance but by choice. He calls it instant state control. And the first time he and Clayton talked, they expected to find some overlap between sports psychology and mindfulness.

What they found was that they were describing the same room through different doors.

This episode includes something rare for this podcast: a live demonstration. Chris walks Clayton and every listener through the emotional spectrum exercise in real time, moving from anxiety to serenity to imposter syndrome to world-class confidence in a matter of seconds. Not as a parlor trick. As proof of something that changes everything once you really see it. You are not at the mercy of your emotional state. You are its author.

The conversation also goes deeper than performance. Chris shares his four-step pre-game routine, his hierarchy of certainty that now includes a new rung above knowing called advanced gratitude, and the single most lucrative discipline he has ever integrated into his life: slowing down. He also unpacks an idea that stopped Clayton cold when they first spoke. Your bank account is a direct reflection of your level of service. Not as motivation. As operating principle.

Chris joins from his thinking spot on the Sea of Cortez in Rocky Point, Mexico. The energy of this conversation matches the setting.

Find Chris at christopherdorris.com.

His Daily Dose, mental toughness tips in thirty seconds or less delivered to your inbox every morning, is available at: christopherdorris.com/dd.

Free resources for Magic in the Moment listeners are at: christopherdorris.com/magic.