42 | 4 Things You Should Know About Successful Habits & Peak Performance
Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over long term? * Of those who pull it off, why are some miserable and others happy on their journey? * What motivates people to reach for higher levels of success in the first place, and what kinds of habits, training, and support help them improve faster? Here's a few things you should know: * KNOW THE RIGHT HABITS: * *With the right habits, anyone can dramatically increase their results and become a high performer in almost any field or endeavor.* * The problem with most people, is that they haven't built the RIGHT habits around the RIGHT kind of work. This is apparent when you go to the water cooler at work and see that same co-worker complaining that they haven't received that promotion. They may be a hard worker, they may get to work early and stay late, they may even go home and work well into the night. But it seems that the people who continue to get promoted in front of your co-worker display more than just hard work ethic, but they display intangible attributes that convey leadership. These people work on themselves, they work on their emotional intelligence, they focus on their work as a whole and achieving the WHY behind their work, they exude a passion for what they do, attract others to follow them and achieve significant results. You'll never find them complaining at the water cooler. * KNOW WHAT IS EQUAL AND WHAT'S NOT: * In my view, we should all be treated as equals. It's the Golden Rule. But here's one thing that isn't equal to the rest. *Not all habits are created equal.* * Developing personal growth habits, learning from the best, investing in yourself to learn and become better everyday is not treated on the same scale as developing the habit of writing in a gratitude journal. Yes, the gratitude journal will help start your day off right, it may make you happier, but it should not be weighed equally with the quality work that you put in to getting smarter, stronger, faster, better. * KNOW THE REAL PROBLEM: * *Achievement is not your problem - alignment is.* * You may already know how to set goals, make check-lists, knock off to-do's. You care about excelling in your field, but you may be experiencing stress, overwhelm and burnout. There is one thing you must learn, what's achievable is not always important. You probably have a lot of things that you CAN do, but it doesn't mean you should always do them. So the real question is not, “How do I achieve more?” but “How would I like to LIVE?” If you listen to this podcast, the chances are you have seen this as a constant theme. Designing your life around your priorities is huge. * KNOW THE ENEMY OF GROWTH: * *The biggest enemy of growth is certainty.* * Too many people want certainty in this chaotic world. What you may not realize is that certainty blinds you, sets false or fixed limits, and creates automatic habits that become predictable bad thinking and opens your competitors to surpass you. High achievers outgrow their youthful need for certainty and replace it with curiosity and genuine self-confidence.
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