Do THIS To Become a PRODUCTIVITY MASTER | Brendon Burchard EP 458

0:28I am so grateful for you. community. All you have to do is go to lewishouse.com slash giveaway. And that's where you'll get all the details about how you can be a winner. And again, we're choosing winners every single day for 10 straight days. 10 days of greatness is my way of saying thank you for a decade of greatness. So what are you waiting for? Head to lewishouse.com slash giveaway and enter the giveaway right now. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

1:26I would have never thought that. Age, nationality, ethnicity, and here's a big one, compensation. Here's a big one, personality. Here's a big one, strengths. They are not correlated strongly with high performance. Some of them have weak correlations. And all those things, by the way, because if academics are listening to that, they're like, no, he's wrong. And this is tied towards high performance. It's not that those aren't important. Those things can shape your mood. They can shape lots of important life outcomes, well-being, health, happiness. But when we're talking about high performance, those are less important.

1:59I'm not saying those aren't important. These just happen to be more important. So the personal habits, and these are the ones that move the needle the most. Number one, high performers seek clarity more often than their peers. And what that means for them is every situation they go into, they're seeking clarity and setting intention. That's what high performers are doing. they just do it more often. They seek clarity before they shoot that video, before they have the podcast interview. But specifically, we found three practices help you get better at seeking clarity. Number one, they are seeking clarity in what we call the future four.

2:36So you've probably heard that successful people are more future-minded. It's true. And specifically what they're looking at, if you talk to a high performer, they're more clear about who do I want to be in this upcoming situation. And by the way, it's not about who I am. it's about who do I want to be. They're more future oriented. They're more intentional about who they want to be in social situations. So it's like, I want to have this type of interaction with Lewis today. That's intentional. They're more clear about what skills they need to develop to reach their next level of success. And the last of the future four is I know the service I want to provide in the future.

3:14Talk to any high performers, I'm sure you've interviewed, they kind of know the service and the difference they want to make. Maybe not precisely, but they're asking the question. So that's some of what we know. They seek clarity. And that's kind of the first practice is asking questions in those areas. They're more clear about the feeling they want to have. Like an Olympic sprinter who's won gold is more likely to have said before he went or she went on the track, how do I want to feel out there? Not like just the result. Like when the foot's in the block and I'm arms down, what do I want to feel?

3:52Like they're very aware of the feeling they're trying to get. Yeah, I don't want to feel nervous and stressed. I want to feel calm and clear and smooth. Yes, and they're doing that self-talk, which is seeking clarity. Then the last one, which is really important, they're clear about what's meaningful to them now and what might be different in the future. A lot of people kind of know what I like now. They know what their passion is. But it's like, what's going to be meaningful to you later? Like in five years. They've thought about that. I would say they've done the work. We all have to decide who we are and what we want and how to get it at this stage of our life.

4:30And when we don't know that, reaching high performance can be really hard. Yeah. It's all about clear vision for me. It's the first chapter in my book. Yes. The greatest leaders in the world have a clear vision. Love that. Yeah. That's it. And they got that vision by seeking clarity. That was the habit that gave them the vision. They were consistently seeking, like, how do I, what do I, I mean, they ask themselves more questions. They literally are doing more of the self-talk, asking more of the questions, which is so important.

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