Adam Whitelock Recap: High Performance Habits

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In our last episode, we were really fortunate to have Adam Whitelock come and join us. Adam is a former Rugby Sevens World Champion. He shared so many gems around high performance and what it is to be a high performer, and I want to challenge you. What do you believe is high performance? How will you show up as a high performer in your work? Life? At home, as a parent, maybe in your health? Well, look, he shared some absolute gems and I've just got a few takeaways. So if you haven't had a chance to listen to the full episode here, here's some little gems that perhaps you can apply to your mindset, to your life, and perhaps your work. Before we do that, I just want to say I'm incredibly excited that HPL, my live event, High Performance Leadership, is launched for October 2022 this year here in Christchurch, New Zealand. We've got our former Prime Minister Sir John Key coming down to join us for that, as well as a number of other incredible speakers. I'd like to say a huge thank you to Brannigan's and VVV Real Estate for being our Platinum Partners. If you want to know more about HPL, head over to the website jjlochlin.com and you can see under Leadership Training all about the upcoming event. Now let's look at some of the gems. How to Stay Grounded as a High Performer when you're not grounded, sometimes you can lose your footing. You can forget about where you've came from, and that's dangerous. We've seen it in sports stars We've seen it in celebrities and actors when they lose a sense of belonging and a sense of self, they can check out very, very dangerous from a mindset standpoint. So as you're growing as a high performer, here's a few things that Adam shared. You know, make sure that everything is founded on respect for others. And that comes from parenting, right? Having those strong family values, you know, parents like I certainly, when I look back to my parents, they disciplined me. I needed that. Right? Having those strong family values instilled in you are just so important in terms of being grounded in your adult life. And here's something Adam talked about. You know, at least once a year, him and his family and all of his other brothers who are all professional athletes, they head back to the farm. They head back to their childhood farm, and they get amongst it. So going back to your roots, your childhood home, your village, your time, if you don't live there, that is, go back and. And just be amongst it and immerse yourself in where you began your journey. The next aspect was around self discipline. And here's something I want you to think about before self discipline comes. Discipline.

So who disciplines us? Well, in our younger years, it's often our parents, our guardians, our teachers, our coaches. That discipline and how that discipline is served up is crucially important in how it impacts our own self discipline and how we then go on to lead others. So if you find yourself leading others with a little bit of shortness, aggression, it's maybe an opportunity to go, oh, maybe there's a bit of my upbringing, some of my challenges that I haven't dealt with. How can I heal from those so that I can really empower the people around me? And certainly for me in my younger years in leading teams, I can remember being short, impatient, upset. It wasn't pretty. But looking back when I started to do the work on myself and figure out my own flaws and forgive myself and forgive others and move forward, it certainly helped me to have better self discipline, healthier self discipline, and to discipline others in a more empowering way and really support their forward journey.

One thing that stuck out on the interview with Adam was this. I enjoy the struggle. And I questioned him on that. I wanted to unpack that. Most of us as humans were avoiding the struggle at all costs, right? But he says, look, I enjoy the struggle. And so we started to unpack it. And he was very clear that all of his successes have not been luck. They've been through hard work and through incrementalism, incrementally Building on each day at a time, showing up to that training session, reading that book, getting that coaching session, going the extra half a mile, just pushing yourself a little bit every day. But he enjoyed the struggle because he knew that at the other end of struggle comes success.

So often nowadays people are quick to share their successes, right? You see it pop up on Facebook, whatever, social media. Very rarely do we see people want to share their struggles.

People will really support you, believe you, understand you, if you can share your struggles, because they can all relate. Not one human has got through life without a struggle. So learn to enjoy the struggle. Realize that the struggle is the journey towards the outcome that you're trying to work towards. Build those habits and know that it requires consistency. And once you consistently build small, tiny habits, then you build momentum. Adam talked about tracking his wake up time. And I think his average wake up time across an entire year and yes, he did track it and wrote it down was 4:37am now there's something with that. A lot of high performers are early risers. Why is that? I challenge you to think about that, why that might be last but not least. And before I do this, I just want to ask you, is there someone in your life who could do with listening to one of these podcasts? Please do me a favor and share the lead on purpose podcast with a friend. We have people on here who ran countries, Fortune 100 companies, they're the world's top sports psychologists. People that have started with nothing and ended up buying the New York Yankee stadium. All different types of people. One thing in common, they found their purpose, they continued to refocus on their purpose and they really made a difference for themselves and the people around them. So please do me a favor and share this with one friend. Grab the link and just share it with them. And if you haven't already, please leave me a review on Apple Podcasts or a rating on Spotify. It just hugely helps me to grow the podcast and reach more amazing people like you. So here's the last takeaway. You can either get inspiration or desperation. Both will help you to drive towards your potential. Adam talked about times when people put the pressure on him as an athlete and said, we need more from you when he already thought he was giving it all. And out of desperation to really impress and to really step up and reach that potential, he went to the next level. He achieved much closer to his potential. So sometimes it's when somebody inspires us, we step up. But also desperation is such a great motivator and we've seen that time and time again throughout history. You know, we look at different people. Harriet Tubman comes to mind back in the late 1800s, an amazing woman who freed hundreds and hundreds of slaves, putting her own life at risk. She fled slavery herself out of desperation. And then she used inspiration to inspire many, many more to follow her. What is it that you're working towards? What do you want to be world class at? What do you want to be a high performer in? Is it as a parent? Is it as a leader? Is it to reach your potential and figure out your purpose? I want you to think about that today, and I'm looking forward to sharing. Our next guest coming up this weekend, so make sure you check back in. But for now, get out there and lead your life on purpose.