High Performance: How to Think Like a Top Achiever

All right, all right. Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, everyone. My name is George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Today, we are going to talk about high performance. And I want to start you off with the quote of the day. The quote of the day is from Tony Robbins, and it is, there is no such thing as failure, only results. I love that quote because I know I talk a lot about the fact that results only come from failure, right? Fail five times faster, relook at, change your philosophy on failure. But the bottom line is this, there's really no such thing as failure because you are one of those individuals that never gives up. But there's only results, results that are going to happen in your life. I think you need to adopt that as a very strong quote in your life. There's no such thing as failure, only results. So let's talk today about high performance. You know, I mentioned, and I do this often, I mentioned in our episode on Monday where we were kind of talking about how to feed your energy. I mentioned Brendan Burchard and, you know, he's one of those, first of all, named by USA Today as one of the top performance coaches in the world. But he's one of those guys I go back to often because he has simple ways to really talk about things that get you thinking out of the box. And, you know, I was thinking about this topic of high performance and Wednesday, it's kind of hump day. You know, the idea is what do we need to do to get you thinking, acting, and being a higher performer in your life? Because you're already a high performance guy or gal. If you listen to this podcast, if you're a high achiever, a CEO, small business owner, or just someone hustling, you're a high achiever. But are you thinking like a high achiever? Do you constantly remind yourself of what high achievers do. And there's a few thoughts that Brennan Burchard talks about in his book, High Performance Habits. And I wanted to share them with you today because these are things that are pretty significant if you are going to be a high achiever. And there's just several thoughts I'd kind of written down, but there's a couple of things that he talks about when he talks about goals and habits, because all habits are not created equal. You might be thinking, all right, I'm going to get my workouts, my nutrition, my daily rituals, things like this. But just remember that all habits are not equal. And there's a couple of things you need to keep in mind as we talk about what a true high performer is. And the first is that achievement is not your problem. The problem most of us have is we think achieving more will solve our problems that we have. And achievement is not your problem. Whether or not you're getting results is not your problem Alignment is The question is are you aligned with the things that are the most important in your life Are you aligned with the things that you are purposefully passionate about Achievement is not the problem It not about achieving more It about better alignment Because if you not aligned with what most important to you you're not growing. You're not experiencing life. You're not fulfilled. So think about the fact that maybe it's not about achieving more. It's maybe about aligning better in your life. Another thing is that he reminds, and I say this quite a bit actually, is that certainty is the enemy of growth and high performers. If you are a high performer, you don't care about certainty in your life because you're constantly outside your comfort zone. You're constantly reinventing, re-delivering, and expanding your knowledge. So remind yourself that certainty is not one of the things that you need or crave. It's growth. And so think about that. And then the other thought I wanted to preface this episode with is that technology is not going to be what saves you. Brennan talks about this a bunch because so many of us are looking for that little hack. You know, AI, you know, automatic tools, technology, phones, social media, whatever it is, tools will never replace wisdom. And at the end of the day, some of us are losing touch with what our true purpose and passion is. And among all the excitement of all this stuff like AI and outsourcing and things like this, it turns out that what does a job better than anything else is simply human behavior and better habits. That's why I really love that book, High Performance Habits by Brendan Bouchard, because at the end of the day, nothing is going to take the place of having an insanely good set of habits. So I want to talk to you today. I just want to give you a couple of things to think about. What is common? Brennan in his book, I mean, I don't remember the number, but he's dealt with thousands and thousands of people over decades, and they identified what the characteristics are of high performers, high performers, people that are getting it done, the people that you might want or are trying to aspire to be, the people that you and I think are really crushing it. What makes them high performers? What is it that gets them to that level? I'm going to give you a few of those bullets and I want you to think about if these are the ways you think and if they're not, I want you to start thinking a little bit more about that because he says high performers are more successful than their peers and yet they're less stressed. So they're more successful, but less stressed. And that's partially due to the alignment that they have and what they value in their life. High performers love challenges and they more confident that they going to achieve their goals despite adversity So you got to be one of those individuals that may not have all the answers but you know that you going to figure it out because high performers they love challenges despite the adversity High performers are also healthier than their peers. What are you doing on your health? Because if you're a high performer, we talked about energy on Monday, high performers value their health and they're healthier than their peers. High performers are also happy. Isn't it nice to hear that? High performers are happier because what you're going to do by becoming more focused on excellence and purpose and passion and alignment, you're going to be happier along the way. High performers don't get caught up in not having hit their goals. They don't get caught up in the gap between where they are and where they want to be because they're so busy measuring the gain and the progress that they have in their life. high performers are also admired are you one of those individuals that's admired and respected or do you do you feed your ego do you worry about what people think of you see it's better to be admired than it is um famous than it is to be recognized you know strive to be admired because it takes a different type of person a high performer to be admired high performers also get better grades and reach higher positions of success. And that's because of their habits. It's because they prioritize growth and mastery and success. High performers work passionately regardless of the traditional rewards. I love this one because high performers don't just base what they're doing on compensation. They do things based on growth. They do things based on impact. They do things based on things that are going to make them be fulfilled. And we all know that those other things are just short term. So they might be more emotionally based. They might be more purpose-based, impactful based. But high performers are also, you know, they see and sort of serve beyond their strengths. And the idea here is that if you're just working on the things that you're good at and you're not trying to go past that, you're not trying to develop your talents, you're not trying to expand who you are to the best version of yourself, then it's very doubtful you're going to be a high performer because high performers expand past what their current unique abilities are. They always look to master their natural talents and to expand the gifts that they've been given. And obviously it goes without saying, but I want to make sure I mention that high performers are adaptive servant leaders. They don't think, live, or practice in a vacuum They try to expand their skills and help other people Think about that for a minute Are you just developing your own skills your own strengths or are you doing things to try to develop the strengths of those around you Because there so much that you can even learn and grow and do and expand exponentially your results in your life by helping others. It's one of the reasons I started the podcast is I wanted to be able to take the knowledge that I gained over the last 20, 25 years, the benefits I've had of working around some of the biggest thought leaders, experts, successful people, and share that knowledge with other people so they can learn. I don't get, you know, I mean, I'm not getting any benefit from doing these free podcasts that don't have sponsors, that don't have, you know, people paying me to do it. I'm doing it in order to make an impact and it helps bring fulfillment and happiness for me. It helps me expand my skills and hopefully it expands yours as well. So that's my message for today is, are you thinking like a high performer? Are you setting habits in place? But also, are you learning to think and adapt at being a high performer versus just results? Because getting more results versus getting more aligned is the key, right? We're trying to create, I really believe this. I'm never going to say this too much. I believe it's never too late for you to start living the life that you were meant to live. But you've got to learn to change the way you're focusing on things in your life. I mean, we all fall in the habits. Heck, I do the same thing. I try to put more time into things instead of expanding my energy. I try to get more done instead of trying to help other people expand and therefore get more results. It's important that you think about and you're conscious about what you're doing in your life and you get more aligned and you start to think more like a high performer because when you do that, the results will follow. You'll attract things into your life that'll help you to get to that point. So that's my message for today. I hope you have a great day. I hope you're having a great week. If not, guess what? Today's a new day. So get on it, share this episode. I don't ask much. In fact, I don't ask anything. Just do me a favor and share this episode with at least someone and tag me at The Daily Mastermind on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube. Check out the quote of the day. Go to the Daily Mastermind, dailymastermind.com website and check out all the free resources. We've got academy membership. We've got some mentoring opportunities, very few of those. But I'd love to be able to help you. I'd love to see what you're working on. So hit me up. Let me know what you're up to. And I look forward to talking with you more tomorrow. Once again, this is George Wright III, and this has been the Daily Mastermind. Have a great day. you