High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best

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HABIT ONE: SEEK CLARITY 1. Envision the Future Four. Have vision and consistently set clear intentions for who you want to be each day, how you want to interact with others, what skills you must develop to win in the future, and how you can make a difference and serve with excellence. Never enter a situation without thinking through these four categories (self, social, skills, service). 2. Determine the Feeling You’re After. Ask yourself frequently, “What is the primary feeling I want to bring to this situation, and what is the primary feeling I want to get from this situation?” Don’t wait for emotions to land on you; choose and cultivate the feelings that you wish to consistently experience and share in life. 3. Define What’s Meaningful. Not everything that is achievable is important, and so achievement is not the issue—alignment is. Look to upcoming months and projects and determine what might bring you enthusiasm, connection, and satisfaction—then spend more time there. Always be asking, “How can I make this effort personally meaningful to me?” Just because people want to put things on your plate because you’re good doesn’t mean you should let them.”

Danny delves into what he believes makes a great football manager, emphasising the significance of personal management to bring out the best in players and build team momentum. They also discuss Danny’s difficult reality with mental health struggles, including dealing with rejection after new offers failed to materialise. Reflecting on his lowest point when he was arrested for drink-driving in 2019, Danny highlights the importance of mental health care and finding practical solutions to unhappiness. generate energy- mental, physical, and emotional. Get into the best shape of your life, the best health of your life. You can do it.Man’s Search for Meaning : A book about how Viktor Frankl exercised his will, lying naked in a Nazi concentration camp. So if he could do it, so can you The author of this book wanted to write a book and he wanted a reason to produce another book and so he went about and found a good title that would get people to buy this book. Like many other self-help books in the market, this book is just motivation porn. There is little or no value addition by the author in this respect. There are few, very few areas where he has added some value i.e. the section where he talks about writing a book. That is the only value addition. The rest is just spiritual mumbo-jumbo and using some fancy words to explain how people become extraordinary. To be forced to live in the Nazi concentration camps. To have his wife and family members ripped from his arms. To see and live in those conditions . . . He realised that when people in the most frail conditions had something taken away from them—something that mattered to them, like a cigarette or a shirt—they literally would die. They were that fatigued, that depleted. He just holds up the flag for the balance again between a deep internal investigation, and a relentless commitment to an external craft. You started out in sports psychology, but have expanded your focus to ‘high performance’ psychology more generally. So what do business leaders, Olympic athletes, and performance artists have in common—psychologically speaking?

So we’d sit, athletes and coaches, and go through chapter by chapter, and just talk about it. It brings up ideas. Like, ‘Okay, that was cool 2,500 years ago, but what about now? How do we apply that now?’ It just begins to open us up to different ways of looking at the very concrete world of sport. What precedes that concrete expression is the invisible world of imagination and thought. Mindfulness is the ability to be where your feet are through awareness training. It involves training our mind to deeply focus in the present moment. The present moment is where wisdom is revealed, performance is expressed, and relationships are formed. In general, it is investing in your interior life, and organising your external life towards great challenge. The last pillar is the science and art of recovery. Bad book - the book is written with a clear purpose to try and motivate. In doing so, I think the author over simplifies a lot of things such as tenor, perseverance et. the book mentions almost all popular works such as Daniel kahneman, Daniel Pink and others and uses those case studies to make a point. Most of these points are repetitive and dull. It does poor justice to those references and isn��t well tied. To reach your full potential you must put as much effort into building mental resilience as you do into work or training, advises high-performance psychologist Dr Michael Gervais. Here, he selects five titles to help you find the right mindset—whether you dream of sporting stardom, artistic achievement or business success.It exposed areas of procedural weakness that I have (like planning), areas where I've suspected my current set of habits are degrading my performance (not bringing the joy, not envisioning the future I intend to live into, etc) and areas where I have been selectively high performing but have not replicated those habits everywhere in my life (defining what's meaningful, progressive mastery, sharing my truth and ambitions, etc). I also found that I unequivocally fall into all 3 traps that kill high performance (superiority, dissatisfaction, and neglect). HABIT FIVE: DEVELOP INFLUENCE 1. Teach People How to Think. In every situation of influence, prepare by asking yourself how do you want other people to think about (a) themselves, (b) other people, and (c) the world at large. Then go communicate that consistently. Shape people’s thinking by saying things like: “Think of it this way . . .” “What do you think about . . .” “What would happen if we tried . . .” 2. Challenge People to Grow. Observe people’s character, connections, and contributions, and actively challenge them to develop those things even further. Ask people if they gave their all, if they could be treating those around them better, and if they could give even more or serve with even greater excellence and distinction. 3. Role Model the Way. Seventy-one percent of high performers say they think about being a role model daily. They want to be a good role model for their family, the team, and the greater community. So ask, “How can I handle this situation in a way that will inspire others to believe in themselves, be their best, and serve others with integrity, heart, and excellence?” Jake Humphrey has interviewed some of the most iconic individuals around. He has a wealth of wisdom to share. VEX KING, author of Good Vibes, Good Life

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A fantastic book that will help you think like an Olympic champion - in mind, body and spirit. DAME KELLY HOLMES