I work under the belief that performance enhancement and personal development go hand in hand.
There are no hacks, short-cuts, or hidden tricks for developing a high performance mindset. There are principles and skills that can be trained. Brief descriptions are below.
There is inherent value to clarify and anchor to a set of principles and character habits; while at the same time, developing a clear vision of what is possible to accomplish, how you want to be while pursuing it, and the actions you need to take to get there. These qualities serve as a compass. A what, how, and why. An individual’s thoughts and actions should align to this personal philosophy. A personal philosophy serves as a foundation for accountability, responsibility, motivation, deliberate practice, resilience, and grit.
Psychological framework represents how we view the world, our filters, our lens; the quality of our thinking that determines our perspective. It consists of grit, control, optimism, and growth mindset. One’s psychological framework impacts coachability; responses to stress, adversity, and pressure; resiliency; and overall attitude.
Mindset skills are the ways we think, engage in the moment, and fully show up when there are consequences (we are competing). Confidence, calm, focus, and trust can be trained. Developing and training our effective competitive mindset builds our capacity for high performance and flow/the zone.
Recovery skills are essential for performance. They impact your immediate and long term capacities for growth, development, and execution. They include sleeping well; thinking well; moving well; eating/hydrating well; and connecting well to others.
Stress + Good Recovery = Growth
Stress without Good Recovery = burnout, injury, fatigue, loss of motivation, decreased grit, and under performing.
Mindfulness is the skill, attribute, and connecting thread that runs through all of the high performance mindset principles and skills. Being fully engaged, present, here and now, in the moment; in a non-judgmental manner is essential for consistent high level performance, but is not sufficient without the other skills. Mindfulness can be trained.
I am grounded by in the inherent value and dignity of each person I have the opportunity to work with; I strive to treat each person I encounter in a respectful and caring manner, even when providing feedback that he or she might not want to hear. I work hard to be trustworthy for those I work with and trusting of them. There are no short-cuts, hacks, or tricks to this.