21 Traits and Habits of Peak Performers
Here are the habits and skills that you should work on in order to become a top performer. By adapting the mindset, traits and habits of a peak performer, you can transform your life. It just takes a plan and massive action with intent. Think and act like a champion…
Now that you are super excited and ready to jump into peak performance, we will look at the 21 Traits and Habits of Peak Performers. By the end of this series of 21 articles, you will have a clear roadmap of the journey ahead of you. Make this a fun journey. Enjoy the ride and then the outcome.
Passion
It is passion that allows champion athletes and peak performers to perform to the best of their abilities no matter what happens in life. One of the most passionate baseball players was Pete Rose. Sliding into base, feet first takes drive and grit, but Pete took it a step further. He risked serious injury by going head first with his arms outstretched to tag the base. The potential for injury, more than doubled when he adopted this approach. He was so passionate about the game that he would do something other pro baseball players of his time would not.
There are many stories of champion athletes who lost a loved one, just before a major performance. They could have said that they were unable to compete but their passion for the sport would not allow them to quit.
Another factor, is the love and the passionate feelings for the dearly departed. It translates to a feeling of “I am going for my best performance ever.” It is true that the passion and support of loved ones, also drives peak performers to do their absolute best.
Passion goes hand in hand with pain and pleasure. It has been shown that people will do anything to avoid pain and will seek pleasure instead. While some peak performers may do things that seem painful to others, the peak performer has found huge reasons why they seek to do the things they do.
For example we could look at professional wrestlers. While their moves are scripted, they still suffer pain each and every night that they perform. The peak performers from this group, find that at the end of their career, they are so mangled from years of taking falls and hard bumps. With that happening, they cannot walk properly and are in constant pain. So one would ask, if they know at the start of their careers that this is what the end will look like, why would they do it?
The answer to that is passion. They are passionate about hearing the roar of the crowd and seeing the crowd react to what they do. The pain that they feel during each night of performance, is actually pleasure to them because of what goes on outside the ring they fight in.
It is passion that drives singers to perform night after night for sometimes up to year. Passion also drives business people, not only to succeed in life but to contribute as much as possible to the underprivileged.
In the business world, the Rockefeller name is well known. Laurance S. Rockefeller believed that being alive meant being able to give and he had a number of foundations setup to do just that.
When peak performers put everything they have into their career, whether it is professional sports or business, it is the passion that drives them to seek more pleasure from what they do.
Action Steps:
A) Make a list of what your interests are. Beside each one, write out why you want to do this. Then narrow it down to the top 3, using the biggest Why’s.
B) Discover exactly what your talent is. How does it excite you? Is it something you would do for free 24/7?
C) Even if you would do it for free 24/7, don’t let it consume you. Instead integrate it into your life. It is now a part of your life, without overwhelming your thinking.
Watch out for the next article in the series – 21 Traits and Habits of Peak Performers!
