Where to Start to Reach High Performance?

Have you ever noticed that sometimes you're inconsistent? You know, some days you show up and you just crush it and you knock it out of the park. You have an amazing day at work. You knock off all your projects, you get things done. You're efficient, you're focused, you're motivated, you're driven, you're awesome with people. Your spouse loves you, the team likes it. You have a great day. And other days you struggle just to pay attention. You kind of show up in your grumpy, or you just notice that you're not getting things done and you're kind of shuffling papers and doing a lot of busy work but not actually achieving anything. This is a big topic in conversation in what we call high performance studies. It's about how do you reach your full potential and stay there. Now, I define high performance as succeeding over the long term, consistently beyond standard measures. That means however you would measure your normal success in your industry or in your field or what you consider having a great day. How do you get a little heightened above that and sustain it? That's what high performance really is. It's heightened and sustained success over and above regular normal measures over the long term. But how do you get there? It's one of the fundamental problems we have, right? You want to reach your full potential and performance. You want to be amazing. But sometimes you lose that edge. What is that edge that high performers have? Well, I've been blessed to conduct some of the largest studies ever of high performers, using assessment tools and empirical analysis to try and figure what is it that makes them different, what's unique about them. And that's what I'd like to share with you today. There's one thing that makes all of the difference, that once you understand this and you start practicing it, as easy as it sounds, it will make so much of a difference in your life and your performance. You'll be amazed. That one thing begins with clarity. Clarity. It turns out high performers are just more clear about three things than most other people are. And if we can get you more clear about these three things in your life, we can increase your performance and your success rate. It's so simple. I know there are other things, but today we're just focusing on this one thing. Clarity. The first area, if you're going to get more clarity and high performance in your life that you want to focus on is getting clear about your intention for who you are. Now, I know that sounds basic, but high performers know the best of who they are. They've defined it. They can describe It. For example, in research interviews, when asked, you know, how would you describe the best of who you are? They can answer it faster with more confidence and clarity and articulation than the standard population. It means you know who you are and what makes the best of you. So try this activity. Try to write down the three best ways that you could describe yourself. Just three words, right? Try to come up with three words that define the absolute best of you. Do you know what they are? Did you already have them? Is it hard to come up with those? Well, your response time to this type of thing can tell us whether or not you have clarity about who you really want to be in life and how. I know it sounds so basic, but isn't it true? Some days you just kind of get up and you kind of get your coffee or go to work and you're just kind of bumbling through the day without any real intention about who you are. And sometimes people go through, you know, years or months or even a decade of their life and they haven't really thought about the best of who they are. They haven't been bringing that best of who they are into the situations and circumstances of their life. And then one day they hit 40 or 50 or, or 60 and they go, I don't know who I am. And they have this midlife crisis and they act like life caused the crisis. No, lack of intention caused the crisis. Each day you have this opportunity to show up as the best of who you are, but you must trigger that. One of the things I teach at one of my programs called High Performance Academy. It's a four day live training seminar on the topic of High performance, where we dig deep into your psychology, physiology, productivity, people skills and your purpose. One of the things that we focus on is teaching people this idea of mental triggers, triggering yourself to remember things that are important so you perform better. If you're going to trigger yourself to remember anything, trigger yourself to remind yourself of how to be your best self. I know that sounds so basic, but I've worked with people, you know, at the top levels where I literally take out your phone and they grab their phone and I have them type in those three words that describe the best of the who they are. And it's in their phone now. You can see it. There it is, right in their phone. And they set up alarms that go on throughout the day and those words keep showing up at them on their phone. Their phone buzzes, they look at it and they're reminded to be that person. Remind yourself again, okay, don't go through another day just bumbling into it. Decide who you want to be the best of you and you have a better day and you have better performance. The second area of clarity that high performers have above and beyond most people is the clarity for intention of who they want to be with others, specifically how they want their interactions to go. This means that a high performer, before going into a meeting, thinks about each person in the room and how they should interact with them to get the best result. It means before you go and talk with your spouse about a conflict or a challenge, you think about what they need in that situation and you think about what you need. And you're kind of strategic going into the conversation. They're more strategic about their interactions, what they want from the interactions, and what other people want from interactions. So from now on, even if you're going to go on a date night or you're going to go out and hang out with your friends, before you go out, just sit, spend two, three minutes. That's all. Just a few minutes thinking about, how do I want this to go? How would I know this was an amazing interaction or a great date night? Like, just define in advance what success looks like in that social interaction. You'll have higher clarity and you'll perform at higher levels. And the third big area that successful people have that they're more clear about than most other people is very simple. What makes you succeed? Not like, what's your strengths or how you were born or what, what's your good at naturally or innately? No, what has made you succeed in the past? Specifically, if you had to narrow it down to three things, what specific things made you succeed in the past? Think about it. Was it hard work? Was it passion? Was it perseverance? Was it asking for help? Was it hiring a team? Was it going to seminars? Was it reading books? Like, what gave you the edge in the past? Because whatever gave you the edge in the past, the question now is, are you doing that consistently today and this week and next month? Right. High performers have routines that make them successful, that they're just running more consciously and consistently than other people. Other people are going through the motions. High performers are forcing themselves to do what they already know makes them good. These are three big areas of clarity that make you a high performer. I hope that serves you today. And if you like this type of thing, come to High Performance Academy live. Again, that's my four day training seminar on topics like this where we go way deep into the research that is proven to help you Reach higher levels of performance. It is the only empirically scientifically backed training in the world that absolutely increases your high performance scores across multiple measures of your life, increases your happiness by double digits, increases your productivity by double digits. Not in our opinion. By your opinion, by your self reports, by your results. It's the only training program built on modern neuroscience, built on modern positive psychology, built on modern high performance studies. So we're not sitting there asking you, hey, tell me about your childhood and maybe that we can figure out why you're who you are. And we're not doing a lot of that. We're focused on what works today, what's a new mindset, a new habit, a new tool you can use to get ahead. Specifically in the four days we cover big areas of your life, but we give you all of those tools to get ahead in them. For example, day one, it's all about your psychology. How do we get you to higher levels of focus and motivation and happiness and joy in your life so that each day you show up and not only do you feel, feel good, but you demonstrate better performance. We talk about physiology. I mean, what should you be eating? How can you get more vibrant in your physiology, feel better, I mean physically feel better, not just mentally physically feel better. How can you use your body to activate more mental performance and increase your stamina so throughout the day you're not having these crashes and these burns and these runs to Starbucks all the time, that you have more, more physical vitality to succeed? The third day is all about productivity. These are the strategies that the world's wealthiest people use to manage their time, to manage their teams, to do project planning, to figure out what the right goals are, to evaluate good opportunities so that their time is productive and is efficient and is effective. Because most of us just bumble through the day or look in our calendar, oh, I guess I have to call this person to do that. And we're more reacting than being strategically productive. And that's something you need to learn. High performers, it turns out, are better at producing what we call productive output related to their field. And I'm going to help you do that at High Performance Academy. And then that last big piece that we take on there is your people skills. If you want to get ahead, you have to become more influential. You have to learn how to better lead other people. You have to get other people to learn to believe in you, to buy from you, to invest in you, to support your big dreams and ideas. But you can't do that if your people skills aren't way, way, way elevated above everybody else. And so we're going to teach you the skills for that. And then the final piece is we bring it all together and tie it in to help you figure out your purpose, your mission, your real primary fields of interest and focus over these coming years. Because sometimes what prevents a person who has everything set up for them, everything in life is, is a blessing or prevents that person from rising that next level is they just don't have clarity. So you're going to get a lot of that at High Performance Academy, too. So there's a link in this post or on this page where you can learn all about High Performance Academy live. Come join us in San Diego. You'll be joined by a thousand other high performers. The networking alone is worth it. I mean, imagine being in such a positive environment where you get to have me, the world's leading high performance coach, teaching you all the same strategies that I'll teach, you know, an Oprah and team or Usher and team or Fortune 500 teams, some of the most successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the world. These are the mindsets and the habits and the tools that I give them. I'm giving it to you in San Diego at High Performance Academy live. I can't wait to see you there. Come join us. Let's change your life this year. Let's put you back on on path to high performance. This is your time, my friend, until I see you there in San Diego at High Performance Academy live. Go out there every single day of your life. Live fully, love openly and make a difference. Today, you have to move towards the things that you desire despite the little fears because you know the struggles along the way are worth it. The gain, the connection, the mission, the ambition.

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