- Hi there, in this video,
we are talking about how to get really high performance
from yourself and your client.
Why would somebody not want to perform
at the highest of their levels?
And still often we kind of drawback ourselves.
We don't really live our potential,
we don't really get the best out of us.
We going to talk about the six principles
so you can get even a more optimal performance
from your client and of course, from yourself.
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Firstly, let's really define
what does high performance even mean?
High performance for me really means
that you are able to get more out of yourself
than you have ever been before.
And you're able to do that
for a really extended period of time.
The reason why that is defined the high performance
is because high performance is relative to the person
that you're working with.
Something that is high-performing for me,
may not be high-performing for somebody else or vice versa.
And this is why high-performance is a very personal thing.
What you always want to ask yourself
is if you are a high performing individual,
is to see how your past performance has been
and how your future performance is
or your current performance is and how it is sustained
over an extended period of time.
It's very important that your performance sustains
over a period of time because otherwise
is just a spike in your performance
but you've done not really becoming
a high performing individual.
The first area is clarity.
Clarity allows you to focus on a particular outcome
that you are really trying to achieve.
When you clear about something,
it allows you to focus in your efforts
with getting that think.
And which is why the first principle of high performance
is to be able to get tremendous amount of clarity in action,
tremendous amount of clarity towards the direction
that you want to go.
Clarity really comes if you're clear in these three areas.
First is passion, what is it that you're passionate about?
And I'm not talking about passion that's fickle,
not the passion that you get
because you went to Italy and now you love pasta,
I'm talking about real passion, passion that a sustained
or long period of time.
It's like I have passion for coaching and education
and because of that, I've always involved myself
in something that does anything to do
with coaching or education.
That's my passion, that's my fuel.
The second important thing is purpose.
You need to know why you do something.
Now, usually purpose would be externally focused.
For example, if you are purposed of an individual,
you would say, I have the purpose of helping the community,
I have the purpose of helping another individual,
I may have a purpose to what's the greater good
of the society, I may have a purpose to serving humanity
and loving humanity.
That is my purpose in life.
My purpose is to be better as an individual
every single day and contribute
to the greater good off the world.
You need to know your purpose
because it gives you that final destination
that you're rarely going towards.
And lastly is practicality.
See, a lot of times we have very passionate individual
and purpose driven individuals
but we don't really put practicality
behind our passionate purpose.
You need practicality to use your passion
to fulfill your purpose?
And that's why passion, purpose, practicality
when you're clear about all these three areas,
you get tremendous focus, you get tremendous drive
and you're able to progress towards your future,
you're able to progress with commitment
and focus towards your future
hence deriving high performance out of you.
The second element of high performing individuals,
is courage.
You see when you are about to create something
that is greater than you,
when you're trying to be better version of yourself,
you're going to need to do things
that you may not have done before,
things that you may sometimes be uncomfortable doing
in the first place.
And hence you need courage,
you need courage that will help you
to really you'd be able to take that step
even if it looks right a little bit or very much scary
which is why courage is important
and courage is the second element
of getting high performance out of you.
Now how do you get courage?
Where is this magical potion of courage available?
Well, you get courageous when you make a commitment.
You see as human beings, when we commit to something,
we try and make action towards it,
we try and take action towards it especially that commitment
is driven with a strong sense of why
are you making that commitment?
If you are wanting courage to say speak on stages,
what you need to do first is to make a commitment
that you will be speaking on stages and then define
why that commitment is so important to you,
why speaking on stages is so important to you,
because if it is, you will find a play,
an action book that will help you get on more stages.
And that's really how courage is developed.
Once you have made the commitment,
once you have defined your why,
once you take action, a new belief is formed in you
which is more courageous belief, right.
And because that new belief is formed,
it also allows you to make a new commitment
then you find the why of that commitment
and build the belief that will eventually let you
even have even more courage.
And as you develop your courage more and more and more,
your confidence starts to develop around that area of life
or those areas of life that you're achieving.
For the matter, often it is seen that
when you show courage in one area of your life,
you tend to show courage in another area of your life
which means courage is kind of contagious
within your own body, within your own biology,
within your own spirituality, which means courage
once experience has the ability to really turn you
into a high performing individual across the board,
across all areas of your life.
Third principle of high performing individuals
is productivity.
Productivity is simply defined as getting more done
in less time.
How quickly can you get done something
without taking that much time in doing it?
And that's really what productivity is.
There's so many tools that can help you be more productive
but I'm going to talk about three really simple principles
that have helped me and my clients
get tremendously productive and get more done
in that time than anything else.
The first principle is called Pareto principle.
Pareto principle is simply put as the 80-20 rule.
By 80-20 rule, it's simply means that 80%
of your activities only yield 20% of your results
and 20% of your activities yield 80% of your results.
And so if you do a really good job on these 20% of that
and you continue to get more your performance
in these 20% activities, you'll be able to generate
even more results because that compounds
to about 80% off your results
which means it gives you focus on the 20% of the activities.
Now, what I found is when you find the 20 the activities
than even do 80-20 of that, you find that one, two
or maybe three activities that really moves
the needle for your health, for your body,
for your work, whatever that is, that is the focal area
for you to get more performance out of you.
Second principle is called Parkinson's law.
This simply means that work will always fill
the time assigned to it.
It means if you give a task eight hours to do,
it'll take eight hours to do,
if you give it that same task only two hours to do
you'll end up doing it in two hours.
And the reason why that principle works in that way
is because we as human beings have a lot of ability
to really fill up time in our brains and in our activities.
So if we actually take more concentrated effort
and say, all right, I don't need
to do these many activities or I don't need
to give this much time to this activity,
you will tend to find that faster ways
to actually get that activity done.
And that would make you even more productive.
The third principle that I absolutely love
it's called deep work.
Deep work is simple that if you really focus
on one task at a time and don't try to do multiple tasks
at the same time, just focusing on one thing
and then get a done, you're more likely to do it
with high quality, you're more likely to do it
in a better way, you're more likely to get more done
in less time, making you outrageously more productive.
So three principles that will get more productivity
out of your clients and out of you
is the Pareto principle, Parkinson's law and deep work.
The fourth principle is called emotional calibration.
You see, we are constantly feeling emotions,
we're constantly feeling anxiety, fear, excitement, love,
respect, whatever the different emotions are.
There are many emotions that we are moving
between all the time.
The thing with emotions is this is the way
we experience life.
Like we the emotions tell us if we like something
we don't like something, do we find them disgusting?
Do we find something fun, right?
So emotions are really useful to really get juice flight,
to get the enjoyment of life.
But emotion sometimes can be a deterrent
in getting more performance of ourselves
because say for example, you're feeling sad
and you're in that spiral,
because you're in that spiral,
you constantly turn down and down and down
and you're in that spiral for a really long time
and then suddenly you realize,
Oh, I was supposed to do these 10 things
and I didn't do any, reason?
Because you were in the downward spiral.
And sometimes that's simply happens
because we don't know what we are feeling
because we don't identify with the emotions
that are happening for us.
So the way to really deal with emotions,
the way we need to really understand how they play out
in their life, it's to understand
what I call emotional calibration.
Emotional calibration is simply you identifying
what emotion is it that you're really feeling
and what is the reason why that emotion
has shown up for you, right.
So for example, if you are really feeling down,
just say, I feel down, doesn't mean anything,
because it won't let you identify what led you come
to this place where you feel down, right.
What you want to identify is what is that emotion really?
Like what is that is really sitting
for you as an emotion, right?
So say for example, all I'm feeling down
because I'm really feeling anxiety.
So anxiety is leading you to feel a particular way
and that is the identified emotion
and so you label it.
You say, okay, this is anxiety,
anxiety has shown up in my life.
Now what I look for is what is the event
or the circumstance that led for you
to feel anxious right now.
You identify that circumstance or an event
that led you to get to this emotion and say,
all right so because I looked at my bank account,
I got anxious, right or because I got that right bill,
I got anxious.
Now there are two weeks I used to deal with it, right.
First is, did you really need to look at that boat?
Did you really need to look at your bank account
and if you can avoid that, well, you have caused yourself
to not getting anxious again the next time.
And not go and do that down spiral.
The second way of doing it is to see, okay,
why is it that this circumstance, this event
causes me anxiety.
Why is it looking at my bank account causes me anxiety,
why is it looking at a bill causes me anxiety
because when you look at why this thing
is causing you anxiety, it allows you to be able
to now reflect and go, okay,
what is the belief that I have behind this particular event?
This circumstance?
What is it that happens for me when this happens
so I can now change my outcome
because now I know why I am feeling a particular way, right.
You see most of the time, if you put facts in place,
you can get the emotions to turn much faster
and that's really what we are looking at here
is how can I look at an emotion
and relate it back to a fact or a situation or circumstance
because once I have a fact, I can rationalize it
and if I can rationalize it, I can get past it.
And it's the same for your clients.
If you look at, if they say, oh,
I just don't feel productive, that's not really an emotion.
Let's try to identify what is it that is behind
that lack of productivity.
What is the emotion that's sitting behind lack
of productivity because once we identify
what that emotion is, it now allows us to be able
to tackle it.
The fifth element is physical movement.
You see we oftenly forget that our biology
is as much responsible for our state of action
or inaction as much as our mental state, right.
Because yes, your mind plays tricks and it tells you things,
yes, you can work on your mind
but if your body is not doing what it needs to do,
it's not releasing the hormones that needs to release,
it's not doing the magic of biology,
you are going to not feel good.
And that's just the truth of it, right.
So if there is no physicality in your life,
if there is no physical movement in your life,
or your client's life, there is going to be a tendency
that you will feel lethargic, that you will feel lazy,
that you'll feel not good enough,
that you'll feel like you're not able
to get most out of your time.
And all of those things happen not because
you are actually lazy but because your body hasn't moved
and so the energy that your body has starts to sink in
and kind of gets suppressed, right.
So you want to find a way for you or your clients
to constantly be in some kind of movement and the movement
doesn't have to be some heavy duty exercises,
it doesn't have to be gym for an hour,
it can be 10 minutes, 20 minutes, could be a long walk,
whatever that is that would allow you
and your clients to move a little and get your body
into some motion because as the body moves
into motion, energy moves.
And so if let's say you were feeling any kind
of particular emotion if your body moves,
you will be able to move your emotions well
and you'll see how your state changes
because also biologically, when you work out,
when you create movement,
the right kind of chemicals kind of come out
and then allow your body to refresh itself
and your state to change.
Let's take an example.
I right now when we are recording this,
we are doing it in my guest bedroom
because we are in a lockdown in Los Angeles, California.
And as I'm recording this, I've been cooped up
for about three and a half weeks
which meant that I haven't been able to do my routine gym.
I've been walking and so forth
but at the same point in time, I have not been really able
to move the way I was moving before this lockdown happened.
So I put myself to a task I'm like, okay, listen.
Yes, I can pick up a couple of weights
and I can do a little walk here and there
but that's not really moving my emotions
as much as I liked to.
I would not really moving my body
as much as I'd like to it,
doesn't put me in my highest performance state
as I would like to.
So I set myself up to say, all right,
I'm going to do a thousand burpees in the next 30 days, right.
It's not a lot of burpees, I mean if you're somebody
who does gym a lot, you would realize
it's only about 35, 40 burpees a day
which is actually not a lot, you could very easily do it
or the course of the whole day.
But at the same point in time,
it puts me to a task of moving myself physically
and tracking it that I'm actually moving myself physically
every single day by doing at least 35 burpees a day, right.
That is how you put yourself into a physical movement,
you just have to create a rhythm,
a challenge for yourself to constantly do something
that moves your body because once your body moves,
it almost pulls itself through your body tells you,
this is good, I feel good, please keep doing it.
And that really gets you and teach you in movement.
Lastly, would probably one of them most important things
in creating high-performance for yourself
and for your clients is identity.
Who do you think you are?
And how do you think that person who you think
you are, operate, defines what your identity for yourself is
and if your identity is of a person
that is not a high performer, it'll be very hard for you
to take your clients to a high performance level.
Identity is you defining who am I as a person
and how do I need to show up to be congruent
with who I am as a person?
So if I said, I'm a person that moves their body,
if I'm a person who is a high performing individual,
I'm a person who learns and understands every single day,
I grow and serve every single day, that's my identity.
I embody it, I can live it every single day
because what I do is once I've identified my identity,
once I know what my identity is,
I define what that person with
that identity will be behaving like,
how would I be as a person if that was my identity?
If my identity was a high-performing individual,
would I be following these six principles?
The answer is yes.
And because I would be following these six principles,
I would be constantly creating ways for me to follow
through on each of these items
and hence I would have the personality
of a high performing individual, right.
I've shifted myself.
Now, here is one big important thing
that happens when you shift your identity.
As you shift the processes associated with the identity,
what does that mean?
Like I said, if I believe I'm a high performing individual
and that means I would follow these six principles,
I would resonate with these six areas of life,
that would mean I'm going to have a process
to get really clear, I will have a process
to move my physical body to calibrate my emotions,
to be able to be a very productive individual,
to constantly challenge my own identity, right?
Because this is the process
that a high performing individual follows
and hence everything associated I need to get done, right.
So that's how you shift your processes
and are the reason why you shift your processes
is because when things get hard and motivation is affected,
we think we can watch a video, go to a seminar
and get motivated.
And yes you can but for a really short period of time
because motivation is temporary processes are how we follow
through on something is permanent.
It's like, what's your de facto when you're stressed out.
Now a lot of people and this is just me giving
an example right now but a lot of people have a de facto
of going to the fridge when they're stressed out,
is that your de facto?
When you're stressed out, do you just go back to the fridge?
That's your identity?
Your identity is I go to the fridge
to relieve myself in distress.
There's another identity that you could have
is when I'm stressed, I'm going to do 10 burpees, right.
When I'm feeling anxiety, I'm going to do 10 burpees,
when I'm not feeling productive, I'm going to do 10 burpees,
whatever that is for you will change the way you operate
and put you from a place of not really living
your optimal performance to somebody will live
a high performing life.
So ask yourself, what's your identity, define it,
who are you as a person?
And then ask yourself a better question
of who you want to be as a person.
And once you know who you want to be as a person,
start living like that person today.
The dean of the six principles
of a high performing individual;
Clarity, courage, productivity, emotional calibration,
physical movement and identity.
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