3 tips for following the peak performer's path

How can you continue to do your best? One approach is to follow the peak performer’s path. Let’s explore how you can pursue these steps in your own way.

* You can follow your passion and translate it into a clear purpose.

What are your passions? Which of these could you translate into peak performance? How could you channel the passion into a specific ‘project’? You may want to write a book, design a garden, lead a team, invent a product, encourage other people or whatever. Clarify your goals - the real results you want to achieve. Ask yourself: “Will pursuing this project give me a sense of peace?” After settling on the goal, clarify the 3 key things you can do to give yourself the greatest chance of success. Then move onto the next stages.

* You can be professional, solve problems and achieve peak performance.

Be super professional and establish good habits. Keep doing the right things in the right way every day. You are certain to hit problems, so develop strategies: a) To encourage yourself on the journey: b) To be calm during a crisis: c) To find creative solutions to challenges. Master the art of finishing. Do whatever you can to deliver peak performance and get a 10/10. Sometimes you will reach the goal by adding that ‘touch of class’. You can then go onto the final two stages.

* You can pass-on knowledge and – perhaps – find peace.

Isaac Newton said: “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” How can you pass-on your knowledge to other people? Some do this by simply being good models. Others by producing articles, books, seminars, works of art or whatever. Try tackling the exercise called The peak performer’s path. First, describe a time in your life when you followed some - or all - of the steps along the path. Second, describe what you did right then. Third, describe how you can follow similar principles in the future. People who feel they have done their best in life are more likely to enjoy a sense of fulfilment. Sometimes this takes the form of leaving a ‘legacy’. For example, they may wish to provide a happy childhood for their children, create something beautiful or make a positive difference in the world. As the sages say: “Live, love, learn, labour and leave a legacy.” What do you want to be your legacy? Everybody makes their own choices on the road towards finding peace.

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