Imagine if you were able to live your life at your best... all the time. How would your life be different if you could perform near full potential in all aspects of your life, be it at an athletic endeavor, a business meeting or time with your family? This near-perfect existence may not be possible, but there is a lot that you can do to stack the odds in your favor and at least allow you to be able to perform at a high level, most of the time. Let’s discuss.
If you look back on your life, chances are, you can think of plenty of times that you performed at a high-level, maybe even brilliantly. Perhaps it was while acting in a school play, teaching a class, playing in a soccer game, competing in a Martial Arts event or negotiating in a board room. Regardless of the event, you would probably agree that you were “in the zone,” as they say in western sports. This is also what we are going to refer to as the “ideal performance state.”
The ideal performance state happens when you have mental clarity, physical energy and emotional calm. At Kovar‘s, we refer to this as “Satori,” meaning “in the moment at your best“. In this blog, I will attempt to address some ways that you can maximize your time in the state.
I believe that a great starting point is to analyze your current habits. It has been said that the quality of your life is in direct relationship to the quality of the habits, routines, and rituals that you currently have in place. It always amazes to me to see intelligent, hard-working people that don’t seem to see a connection between their habits, the quality of their life, and their level of success.
I would challenge you to analyze your day from dawn to dusk and really dissect your current habits. This will give you great insight as to what habits you should guard and what habits you should replace. As my father once told me, “Take care of the days, and the years take care of themselves.” Chances are, none of us will ever be perfect every day, but we can always be better. As for me, I have plenty of room for improvement. With that said, I believe that I’m better now than I was a year ago and l am certainly better now than I was five years ago. As Vincent Lombardi said “True perfection is unattainable. However, if you chase perfection, you will catch excellence.”
Here is a list of daily habits that might be helpful for those interested in maximizing their time within the ideal performance state. Feel free to adopt any of these habits that you think might help you.
There is probably a lot more than I can add to this list, but hopefully this is a good start. I challenge you to stack the odds in favor of your success by doing as much as you can right every day. If you do so, chances are you will spend a lot of time in the ideal perform state.
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