A short YouTube monologue by Sandi L Boucher about identifying and using personal triggers for peak performance. She guides viewers to recall specific past moments of high productivity, compare details across events, and extract common factors. Sandi reports that for her the two main triggers are favorite music playing in the background and working under time pressure; she encourages viewers to analyze their own patterns and apply them.
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Hi everybody. Sandy Boucher here and welcome back to my world. It's been a while since I did a video. I actually took the weekend off to relax and unwind and spend some time out in the bush, out with Mother Nature. And I'm back alive and rejuvenated. And thank God because it's year end for people that live and breathe and work in the non profit realm. And I've been busy. I can say I've been going at about 90 miles an hour since 7am and it's about 3:30 in the afternoon now. And now I get to slow down to at least 70 for the rest of the evening. And that's okay because I prepared for this. I took that weekend off and I fed my body and my spirit and I rested so that I could meet this challenge and be at my peak performance. And that's what I wanted to talk to you about today. Anthony Robbins, who is a very well known motivational speaker and someone that I've listened to for years, speaks to peak performance. And what that is is just you performing at your best and figuring out and taking the time to to pinpoint what contributes to that level of accomplishment. What Tony asks you to do and what I'm inviting you to do now is to think back into your past at a time when you were just bang on where you were full of energy and you were working away and you were very productive and pinpoint the details of that event. Where were you? Were you alone or were you with a bunch of people? Was it very quiet or was it very noisy? Was it late at night or early in the morning? Did you have an empty stomach? Did you have a full stomach? Was it a noisy environment or was it quiet? Those are the kind of characteristics you need to pinpoint for me when I did that analysis. And by the way, I want you to think of one event and write down all those details and then think of another completely totally unrelated event, maybe one's professional, one's personal. Write down the details and see if there's anything in common. For me, when I did that analysis and I actually thought of three or four or five different scenarios, as many as I could, I noticed two things. One, when I have my most productive days at work is when I'm playing my favorite music in the background. The TV is distracting, the news updates on the radio is distracting. But when I put on and I have a playlist on my computer of all my favorite songs, when I play that, I'm in work mode and I work. So now that I know that if I have a lot on my to do list, song list goes on. The other thing I realize is I perform my best at 90 miles an hour. When I'm under a time crunch and things are busy and I don't have time to stress and I just got to go, go go is when I perform. If I take time and slow everything down, I just give myself way too much time to worry and the stress level goes up. That's what works for me. And as always, I'm just assisting you to find out what works for you. Take the time, analyze what leads to your peak performance, and then use it. You do have the power. Have a great day. Talk to you soon. Bye Bye.
