What Is High Performance?

Hello, hello, this is Alex, your certified high performance coach. Happy Monday! Today I wanted to talk to you a little bit about what high performance is. I've talked quite a bit over the course of the last few days about coaching in general, what coaching means to me, but I wanted to tell you a little bit more about what we mean when we talk about high performance. So the way we describe high performance is Succeeding beyond standard norms consistently over the long term while maintaining positive well-being in relationships. So I want to unpack that a little bit for you because it's a pretty loaded statement. So when we talk about standard norms, we're not talking about societal norms, we're talking about the norms that you have set for yourself. So the benchmark is going to be different for everyone and And the hurdles are going to be different for, for everyone. Part of what makes a high performer a high performer is consistency. You know, everybody can do something once, everybody can do something twice, but to do something consistently, especially over the long term, isn't always easy. It requires the right habits, it requires the right behaviors, it requires having the right skills, not always an easy task unless you can develop that over time. And when we talk about high performance, you know, it's one thing to have a great career, or it's one thing to, um, you know, dive so deep into your work that you're actually absolutely passionate about it. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either, but the Life is about balance, and we need to have balance in our life. And part of that balance is not only being able to manage our careers and our work and what we do there, but we also need to have healthy relationships in our life because it doesn't do us any good if we have success if we don't have good relationships with people. You know, you don't want to divorce your wife or your husband because you're so focused on your career that you can see nothing else. You also don't want your health to go down the drain because again, you're so focused on getting your career to the right level that you either forget to eat or you don't eat healthy foods. You don't eat foods that are helping you to have better brain function. You're not exercising. You're not managing stress well. So all of those things together is really how we define high performance. How it feels is a little bit different because high performing means that you're actually consistently showing up from your best self. And what that leads to is a life where you are fully engaged, you're in the moment, you're present, you're with your loved ones, you're with your friends. So you're in the moment engaged, you're joyful, and you also have a high level of confidence because you are showing up consistently for yourself. So it's a broad definition, but it's also a very targeted definition in terms of what it feels like to show up as a high performer and what it feels like to do so consistently over the long term. So those were the two definitions that I wanted to share with you. The other thing I wanted to share is the fact that is that the High Performance Institute ran some research over the course of the last 2 to 3 years, and it was all related to high performance. And what they found was that there were certain things about high performance that highly correlated with different aspects of life. So what they found is that when somebody is performing at a higher level of performance, it's actually— it can predict their level of confidence, their level of happiness, their level of perceived excellence, and also their perceived success over others when they compare over the long term. They also found that high performers actually— there's a high correlation with income. So different aspects of life, we could see that through the research, those who are performing at a higher level have— how can I say this— you know, have higher levels of satisfaction overall in their life. They also have higher quality relationships, so good relationships with whoever that might be. But at the same time, their work quality and the impact that all of these things put together have on their career was really higher than not high performers. So if you want to read a little bit more about it, you can go to www.highperformanceinstitute.com, and the research is there for you to see, and you'll be able to see firsthand the, the predictiveness and the correlations that I mentioned. So that's it for today. Just wanted to share a little bit more about what high performance is, how it feels, where the study— or what the study found. And I guess that's it for today. So I will see you on Wednesday. Have a fabulous Monday and a wonderful week. Talk to you soon. Bye!