High Performance Habits You Need To Build | EP 909

0:00There are two big things happening at one time that I've never done before. I'm going on a book tour for my new book, Make Money Easy, and I'm doing a podcast tour at the same time. It is going to be big, and I'm going to seven cities in 10 days. Get your friends, get your family, bring everyone you know to these cities. I'm coming to Austin, Texas, New York, Boston. We're going to Nashville. Then we're going to Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Make sure to get your tickets right now. Go to lewishouse.com slash tour. Again, bring everyone you know if you're looking to create more financial freedom and abundance in your life.

0:40And you want to see a massive guest live on the School of Greatness show. Get your tickets. I can't wait to see you there. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:57High 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. And it's not like once in a while, they're doing way more often. You know, I've been blessed to work with Oprah Winfrey. When she has a meeting, at the start of every meeting, she asks, what's our intention here? What's the intention of this meeting? Not what's the agenda, what do I do? What's the intention? That's every meeting. So she's seeking clarity at the beginning of every meeting. That's why she's so amazing, right? If you think about her whole career, she was always trying to have people seek clarity on who they were so they could be themselves.

1:35That'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. Specifically, we found three practices to help you get better at seeking clarity. Number one, they are seeking clarity in what we call the future four. So 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.

2:03They're more future oriented. They're more intentional about who they want to be in social situations. They're more clear about what skills they need to develop to reach their next level of success. Here's how you really know an underperformer. Open up their calendar and look for any evidence they have planned their own curriculum for greatness. if they don't have classes or courses, if they're not actively skill building, there's no chance at high performance. I mean, maybe they can dumb luck into it for initial success, but high performance is long-term success. You got to be building your skill sets.

2:37Constantly growing, constant learning, constantly growing. Being aware of that. And the last of the future four is, I know the service I want to provide in the future. Talk 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. When you're seeking clarity, 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 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, arms down, what do I want to feel?

3:12Like they're very aware of the feeling they're trying to get. They're doing that self-talk, which is seeking clarity. 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, which is something I didn't know until we did a lot of the interviews or the conversations. 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. We all have to decide who we are and what we want and how to get it at this stage of our life.

3:41And when we don't know that, you know, reaching high performance can be really hard. Let's imagine you have a bear and that bear wants to go on top of this cliff over here. And it's never been on the cliff. and he wants to get that new honey up there, right? Telling the bear to focus on the strengths, to go somewhere it's never gone before and do something it's never done before is stupid. It's like saying, hey, you know what? Just try being more of a bear. Right. The habit is generate energy. Not necessarily have energy. Create energy. Create energy. The way we measure that was kind of academic.

4:10Mental energy, which is tied to your focus and your stamina and your ability to manage complex tasks without too much mental stress. Number two is emotional energy. which is just the quality of your positive emotions. And number three is physical energy. High performers are 40 % more likely to work out five times per week than the rest of their peers. So that means the top 15 % most high performing people in the world tend to work out five days per week. And that workout could be defined as, you know, 45 minute brisk walk or hit intensity or whatever it is, but 40 % more likely. That's a huge finding.

4:47And what we found is High performers just have better well-being and happiness and physical conditioning than everybody else. CEOs, senior executives, and business owners, they report expending as much energy as athletes who are competitive now. If you really want to achieve your dreams, you have to care for your body, your mind. It's why all these things are finally resonating in the marketplace because of the science of meditation or taking a break. And I think all of that is really important. And we say generate energy because there's this myth that some people have happiness or they have. It's like, no, you generate, you don't have happiness.

5:27You generate it. You create it. And so the quality of your energy you have to create, like you and I both, I mean, if most of our audience knew our schedules, your schedule the last five days, it's like, how is Lewis even able to focus right now? And how are you able to get here and do this as well? Yeah, but it's because we say, well, this is our mission. Show up, man. High performers raise necessity. And what that means is they raise the necessity of performance in their mind before each performance. They say, I got to do great. And they give themselves reasons why. So they're connected to their why.

6:02Know your why is nice. Know your why and give yourself edge for it. Two guys walking out on the track field. Who's going to win? equal quality of experience, similar times, maybe they've raced before. The guy at the blocks who I'm going to bet on is the guy who came out and said, I got to do this for my mom. They have a reason to perform at heightened levels. And they have connected to that over and over. They're more connected to their reasons why, and they're stirring it, man. It's like, and they do it from two angles. One angle is your internal standards. Like my values or my self-expectations say, I got to crush this because that's who I freaking am.

6:40Then though, they pair it with external obligation. Like my team needs me to do this. The deadline says this time. There's some kind of external, they don't call it pressure. My family, something bigger than themselves. Something bigger than themselves. Yeah. Yeah. They rarely use the word pressure because they want it.

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