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11 Keys To Peak Performance


For over 40 years I’ve studied, taught, trained, coached, observed and learned from, peak performers.

All of this exposure has allowed me to see the good, the bad and the ugly in myself and others in nearly every possible type of situation imaginable. During all that time, I’ve studied and made notes about the attitudes, skills and actions of peak performers and I’ve narrowed them down to these keys. I’m sharing these keys so you can realize that the things peak performers do are mostly about attitude and effort. Peak performance is more about who they are, than their skills, but in my opinion who they are, becomes their biggest advantage!

My message to everyone I share this with is simple...There isn’t one thing peak performers do regularly that you can’t do. None of these keys requires you to have anything you weren't born with the ability to develop. The only thing holding you back from becoming a peak performer in life and your profession is you. So, stop waiting, complaining, making excuses and start on your mission today!


KEYS TO PEAK PERFORMANCE...

1. Focus on always helping, serving and doing what's best...They make people more important than things!

2. Always work to build trust by being a likable, trustworthy, expert in their field.

3. Have a positive attitude, mental toughness and give a maximum effort.

4. Hold themselves accountable for their results...They never blame others or their company and always accept full responsibility for their attitudes, skills and actions.

5. Have a plan and work their plan.

6. Are focused and know the importance of not allowing their time to be wasted by email, technology, social networks or routine tasks that distracts them from their priorities.

7. Continually learn, grow and improve and in doing so are open minded, embrace change and look to others to gain knowledge, information and insight.

8. Know the most important assets they have are their own time, effort and attitude.

9. Treat people with respect by being open, honest and direct at the same time being kind, caring and compassionate.

10. Set and hold themselves accountable to standards far surpassing what others would expect of them.

11. Are goal oriented in everything they do and understand how being goal oriented gives them self-discipline.

By Mike Moore

The Most Important List You'll Ever Make

Who we are and what we believe drives us to our accomplishments and creates the life we live. When we work on who we arena the inside, then what do and have, the outside, gets better. If we focus on our outside, or wants, we become needy and wanting and this will hinder our learning, growing and the improvements need to achieve our best life.

Peak performers make who they are more important that what they do, and what they do becomes amazing. Their normal becomes extraordinary!

You can become a peak perfumer who's normal is amazing to everyone else and the best place to start is by making the most important list you'll ever make...Your 'To Be List'! Do it today don't wait! Try to keep it to no more than 7 to 10 character traits. The traits you are going to make key to who you are. The traits you will not compromise. Then, shift your focus to being these things, instead of what you're going to accomplish and use them as the compass pointing you towards constant improvement. You see, peak perfumers aren't worried about their results, they're too busy focusing on becoming the person they've set our to be! The person who'll natural produce excellent results! 

This list is your most important list because it activates the natural law of accomplishment...Be, Do, Have, and starts a process of learning, growing and improving that will result in making you undeniably excellent! You're going to be taking advantage of this natural law to become your best self! Pick your traits, design who you will be and your results will take care of themselves! Read your list daily, focus on one each day and stop worrying about your results, they'll begin to improve until your new normal is extraordinary!

Here are some of the character traits possessed by peak performers. Analyze your strengths and weaknesses, then make your 'To Be List' and shift focus, energy actions to being the person who'll naturally accomplish amazing results. Remember we are human beings, not humans doing. So make your list and start learning, growing and improving the cause of all your results...You!

Self Discipline
Correction or regulation of oneself for the sake of improvement
Self Control
Restraint exercised over one's own impulses, emotions, or desires
Self Confidence
Confidence in oneself and in one's powers and abilities
Forgiving
Allowing room for error or weakness
Open-minded
Receptive to arguments or ideas
Educated
Giving evidence of training or practice
Caring
To be concerned about or to the extent of
Giving
To commit to another as a trust or responsibility and usually for an expressed reason
Humble
Not proud or haughty: not arrogant
Courage
Mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty
Genuine
Actually having the reputed or apparent qualities or character
Cooperative
Marked by a willingness and ability to work with others
Honest
Free from fraud or deception
Integrity
Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values...Making what you say, and what you do, match
Faithful
Firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty:
Implies firm determination to adhere to a cause or purpose
Perceptive
Responsive to sensory stimuli
Creative
Marked by the ability or power to
Conviction
A strong persuasion or belief
Alert
Quick to perceive and act
Empathetic
The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
Perseverance
To persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement
Hardworking        
Industrious, diligent
Restraint
A control over the expression of one's emotions or thoughts
Competitive
To strive consciously or unconsciously for an objective
Initiative
The action of taking the first step or move
Tolerant
To allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction: to put up with
Enthusiastic
Intense or eager interest; zeal
Responsible
Able to answer for one's conduct and obligations
Flexible
Characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements
Ambition
An ardent desire for rank, fame, or power: desire to achieve a particular end
Passion
Intense emotional excitement, as rage, enthusiasm, lust, etc; the object of any strong desire

 By Mike Moore