Lifetime Energy Boost: Strategies for Optimizing Peak Performance

Strategizing to live life above zero with energy and enthusiasm!

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1. Lifetime Energy Boost: Strategies for Optimizing Peak Performance BARBARA WALKER, PH.D. EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE COACH CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
2. Ultimate Goal… A consistently create a state in which our mind, body, and energy are operating in sync, allowing us to truly perform to the best of our abilities and talents. Strategizing to live life above zero with energy and enthusiasm! © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
3. Optimal Performers Optimal performance is all about being, knowing, and doing up to your full potential. One is not enough. You have to excel in all three.
4. Challenges in Today’s Environment: Constant Change Isolation Global Competition Extreme work pressures Constant reproving Perceived lack of vision Mismatched risk/recognition/reward structures Technology Work-Life Integration Issues © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
5. What happens when we are not performing optimally? . Too tired or too wired . Unable to sleep . Stay in a flight or fight mode – ready to pounce or run . Take comments personally, become defensive and emotional . Feelings of irritability, unfairness, frustration . Make unhealthy food choices . Confidence diminishes . Feeling pressured and unappreciated . Consumed with work after hours . Muscles are tense/braced, which can develop into more physical symptoms . Immune system taxed, which can lead to frequent colds and other illnesses . Breathing is shallow . Stop exercising due to perceived lack of time and low energy . Difficulty concentrating . Creativity and openness remains low . “Over caring” – getting close to burnout. © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
6. We are wasting energy. . Worrying about IF, when, and how we are going to get things accomplished. . Wondering how we are perceived by others. . Misperceiving others’ actions or lack thereof. . Rehashing previous conversations. . Dwelling on past performances. . Catastrophic thinking. . Delayed decision making due to over analyzing. . Attempting to multitask. © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
7. What gives us energy? . Being in flow, working in the moment . Getting along with others – being one with your work mates . Being excited about your work . Great night sleep . Being well paid and respected for what you do and who you are . Knowing that you make a difference v © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
8. What do we have control over? You can only control what you think, what you say, and what you do. You determine your own day-to-day quality of life. Accept what you can’t control and thus stop wasting energy. Put energy and effort into what you can directly control. © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
9. Creating Optimal Performance Performance Stress/Energy Hi Lo Hi Optimal Performance Motivation and Energy are needed Relaxation is needed © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
10. Strategies to Sustain Consistent Energy and Balance • There is no magic bullet. • Your Commitment: o Awareness and Self-Mastery of Your Behavior oConsistent Discipline and Proper Recovery © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE
11. Keys to Optimal Performance . Commit to Self-Mastery, Discipline, and Recovery. . Sleep. . Eat clean and often. . Move your body. . Breathe Mindfully. . Observe, rather than React. . Think effectively. . Create powerful body language. . Communicate with energy. . Choose Happy. Small changes make big differences! © 2015 CENTER FOR HUMAN PERFORMANCE