A Sneak Peak inside my new book

I'd like to ship you a free copy of my book, Habits of High Performers. If you come and join the 2026 goal setting workshop, I will ship you one of these today. The link is in the notes. Please come and join me to set up the very best 2026 you could imagine. If you've set up goals in the past or New Year's resolutions and they haven't substantiated, I'm here to help you across all the key pillars of your life, nail your goals. I'll see you there. Welcome to One to One with James Laughlin. I'm a former world champion and now I work with and coach professional athletes, entrepreneurs and CEOs of billion dollar companies. I'm going to share with you in this episode some of the insights and strategies, some of the tools that I use with my clients. Every week I'll bring you an insight, an action or a tool that will help you go from great to to greatest. My mission is to cut through the noise and help give you the tools that truly transform your mindset and help you to take the right actions towards your desired outcome. So let's dive in.

Okay, so literally about to head to the airport and head to South Africa. I'm going to take a couple of weeks off. The podcast will be on a little break. I think it's important that we all take time to rest. But before I do that, I wanted to share with you a little snippet from my upcoming book, Habits of High Performers. Nobody has had a sneak peek inside here except for the publishers at HarperCollins, my partner Caroline, and the few people who were editing the book at HarperCollins. So here's a little sneak peek. There's seven different sections. Seven really timeless truths that high performers stick to. I'm going to go into one of them called do the Work because at the end of the day we all need to do the work and take a little excerpt out of do the Work. So sit back and enjoy. Hope you enjoy a little insight into the book. And if you enjoy it and you want to go and pre order it, please do go to thehabitbook.com and it's in the show notes as well. I would hugely, hugely appreciate any pre orders from you. It's massive in terms of helping me with my mission to get this book into the hands of humans who need it most. So here we go.

One person springs to mind when I think of self discipline. Long distance runner Dean Carnazes. He's the ultimate high performer known as the Ultra Marathon Man. Some might know him for his best selling books, but most known for the power of his mental discipline to overcome physical limitations. He ran 50 marathons in 50 states over 50 consecutive days. He's completed 350 continuous miles without sleep. His journey is not just about physical endurance, but also about mastering the mind. Along his path, Dean struggled with immense physical pain, like being unable to place his feet on the floor before Marathon 19 and moments of self doubt when the magnitude of his challenge threatened to overwhelm him. But through sheer discipline, he trained his mind to focus on the present moment, breaking the monumental task into manageable steps. By embracing adversity and removing mental distractions, he pushed further than he ever thought possible. His story underlines the fact that success is built incrementally and requires us to master the inner domain of our mind in order to overcome the outer challenges. Through chatting to Dean about his high performance habits on my podcast, I identified four key techniques that he harnessed to discipline his inner domain. That first technique, focusing on the present moment.

Dean mentioned that during difficult moments, such as when his body was in intense pain, he disciplined his mind to focus on the present. He broke down challenges into smaller, manageable tasks, just focusing on taking the next step. He said, I tried my best to be in the here and now. I said, just get to the sink, splash water on your face, take a step. When the gun goes off, take another step. No matter how daunting the task, simply focus on the most important next step. The second takeaway. Incremental perseverance. Dean took an incremental approach to discipline that allowed him to conquer seemingly impossible feats like running 50 marathons in 50 states. His commitment to being the best version of himself every day showcases the importance of small, disciplined steps in achieving big results. Dean put it perfectly when he explored his story on the show. He said, great things don't happen at once. They happen over time. They accumulate. 50 days of a marathon proved to me that.

If you have that stick to itness, if you have the same commitment just to be the best that you can give, give it your all, then you can achieve greatness. Committing to the long game is a crucial part of becoming a high performer. Short game playing leads to short game results. Now folks, there are plenty of other takeaways in the book. Those are just a few, but the book is a collection of timeless principles that I have studied. I have practiced both in my own journey to becoming a world champion, helping others become world champions, and then working with teams and others on their journey to whether it's Olympic gold medals, you know, business success. I wanted to share it all with you and I give it all in the book. So please, if you're excited about getting into it, please go and pre order the book@thehabitbook.com the show notes has a link as well. I deeply appreciate you. As I said earlier, I'm going to take a few weeks off. The show will be on pause for a couple of weeks so that we can fully be present with Finn and Caroline. Cannot wait to show Finn South Africa. It's my second trip. Caroline's from there, we will be sure to take him to Robben island where Nelson Mandela spent many years and also connecting with his family there. So that's Caroline's family, so his little cousins and aunt and uncle and his step grandparents. It'll be pretty awesome. So, looking forward to switching off, but I promise you folks, when I get back, I'll be fully switched on. For now though, please get out there and lead your life on purpose. Thanks for tuning in to Lead on Purpose. If you find this episode valuable, please share it with one person that you think might benefit from it. And if you're serious about leveling up, please make sure you're subscribed to the show and continue to lead your life on purpose.