What Is High Performance? By Brendan Burchard

We all want to be our best, but not just during short-bursts or when we need to be at our “peak.” We want to live and maintain our full potential, to reach and sustain what is called “high performance.” I often say, “the definition of high performance is succeeding above and beyond standard norms over the long-term.”

Here’s what I’ve learned about high performers as I’ve become the world’s most-followed (and highest-compensated) high-performance coach:

1. Clarity:

High Performers have uncommon clarity about three things: (a) who they are, (b) what they desire and, (c.) how they intend to perform and interact with other people. By knowing these things, they can stay true to themselves, in their zone, and highly intentional. Without clarity, there is no way you can reach high performance. With clarity you are focused and limitless.

2. Energy:

High Performers experience and generate heightened and sustained levels of energy through training, discipline and focus. You can literally feel their energy because they’ve become present, vibrant and strong through their choices, nutrition, and conditioning.

3. Courage:

High Performers are more likely than others to speak up for themselves and to take more risks and bolder actions. They are intentionally courageous, knowing that their decisions and actions are forming a character that is either weak or strong. Their courage helps them get ahead because, when everyone else quits at the first signs of criticism or difficulty or risk, they march on.

4. Productivity:

High Performers simply produce more in the same amount of time as everybody else. They get into experiences deeper than others, and they become more efficient and prolific as well. That’s why they get ahead faster. How do they become more productive? They have more clarity, energy and courage!

5. Influence:

High Performers have better people skills; they give others more time, attention and caring, and as a result, other people admire, respect and help them. Their kindness and generosity draws people in, and often helps them be elevated to leadership positions. They simply tend to be exceptionally caring, good, fully contributing human beings.

The most important lesson I’ve learned is that High Performers are not born; they are conditioned by habit and practice.

Sharpen, heighten and hone these five areas of High Performance and you will start to experience what we call The Charged Life!

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What Ghost Is Holding You Back The Most

CHAPTER 15
HOW TO OUTWIT THE SIX GHOSTS OF FEAR

My biggest fear has always been the fear of Criticism.  This has been mainly due to lack of confidence in myself.  There was always that nagging little voice that asked these confidence wrecking question.  "Who are you to tell people anything?  You don't know squat about anything!"  All that negative ranting was causing me to cower in fear and hide behind fear's skirts like a child cowering behind its mother's skirts at the sign of perceived danger.  That voice as rather loud and insistent.  For the longest time I could not shake it.

That is until one day when I joined this Mental Cleanse mastermind.  I soon realized that I was tuned to the wrong channel.  Getting rid of that nagging persistent voice was as simple as changing channels.  Oh! I'm not going to tell you it was easy, oh, no not at all.  It took saying my self talk thousands and thousands of times.  For the longest time, it seem as though when my dial started moving toward that great positive channel, it would suddenly snap back to the negative one and I had to start all over again. Eventually it got easier to get that dial to move in the right direction and stay longer and longer in the right place.

I can now say that I am in the positive channel most of the time.  My dial still tends to drift off at times and I start hearing the crackle of negative interference.  A few intense self talks snaps it back into the right place.

I thank Michael and Linda for having created this incredible Mentoring For Free training that allows us to set lofty goals, then provide the training necessary for us to achieve those goals. If we are COACHABLE, use the complete MFF system and are here a year from now, we will be closer to having that success we desire. It will be GUARANTEED!

I thank each member of this Mastermind group that assembles every Wednesday and the mastermind group on each of the calls for their inputs that help us gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and others. I want ot especially thank Bob Shoaf for setting such a great example.

I especially thank each person who has downloaded my ebook and has allowed me to call them weekly to share this incredible training. I appreciate each of them. I appreciate their desire to learn these 13 Steps as I am doing. I appreciate that they allow me to help them learn how each of us can implement the "hunches and inspirations" we receive so that each of us can, "achieve anything we can conceive."

Thank you, thank you, thank you to each of these 3 groups.

Roger Boisjoli
Elie, Manitoba, Canada

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What are we talking about? It's called a 30-day mental cleanse. Yes, that's right. Too often we let things into our minds that should not be there and it hinders our progress. The best way to get your mind focused is to clean it up with what it should have. Think of it like rebooting your hard drive.

We have found this process to be more effective when people can do this together and share the result. What are you going to get? By joining this 30-day cleanse, we will send you ebook(s) to read and have weekly calls associated with this specific 30-day mental cleanse to assist you along the way. All that is required by you is your commitment to doing the program. If you are ready to become the right kind of person, then complete the form below. You will be sent the full instructions and Michael & Linda will keep in touch with you by email and on the weekly calls.Or join us in our forum here : http://30daycleanse.com/

The Ghosts of Fear

This is a direct quote from a "lesson" that My good friend Celeste Smucker posted in our 30 Day Mental Cleanse forum :

Chapter 15, The Ghosts of Fear

People who write about manifestation often describe a 3 step process:  State what you want, The universe brings it, relax and let it in.  While step 3 seems like it should be easy, in fact it is usually the most difficult for people.  I find it interesting that Hill says essentially the same thing in this last chapter:  "Before you can put any portion of this philosophy into successful use, your mind must be prepared to receive it."  He goes on to say that what prevents us from receiving is fear.

However the chapter title is actually Ghosts of fear.  I looked up the word ghost and found that it is defined as a mere shadow or semblance, or alternatively as a remote possibility (as in he has a ghost of a chance).  This seems very similar to the eastern mystical traditions which define fear as illusion.  If our fears are illusory or at best remote possibilities, then they aren't very substantial..and yet they can have great power in most people's lives, keeping them from experiencing joy, success and abundance.

Last Saturday night Michael asked us "what are you thinking about?"  He was asking us to be conscious of the thoughts that go on all the time under it all..our default or unconscious thoughts.  One way to get in touch with these thoughts is to notice feelings.  Our feelings spring directly from our thoughts...so if you are angry, depressed, sad, jealous, anxious....experiencing any of the negative emotions, then there must be some unconscious, negative and illusory thoughts going on underneath.  Change the thoughts and you change your emotions and your life.

Chances are these thoughts are some form of "it should be other than it is." as in, I contacted 20 people and don't have a single ebook download....this system doesn't work, it should be easier.  Or I called that person 3 times and left messages and they haven't called me back, must be something about that ebook. or my message or maybe the stars just aren't right. It shouldn't be like that. Or, I called my friend and left a message, I even sent an email, and they haven't called back.  They should be more thoughtful.  It's easy to fall back on the negative ghostly, illusory story, the default mode, which turns on the negative emotions and keeps our good away.

Hill offers a solution to this kind of thinking...he says  "Fears are nothing more than states of mind.  One's state of mind is subject to control and direction."  In other words, when you experience a negative emotion, examine the underlying thought and decide if it's true, then make a different decision.  For example, is it true that your lack of downloads means MFF doesn't work?  Chances are this is a ghost, or an illusion...there's too much evidence to the contrary.  So instead of getting angry we can always make a different decision....for example to get some help, or try some different ways to reach out to people until we find one that works for us.  In other words, recognize the ghost for the illusion it is and turn the light on by choosing to think differently about it.  Ghosts have a way of disappearing in the light.

Of course the best way to clear out the fear and make way for positive emotions is positive self talk.  A couple hundred a day and you begin to shed a little light on your situation, but it's still a little shadowy and the ghosts are lurking near by ready to pounce..  A thousand a day is like walking out into the sunshine where the ghosts don't have a chance.  Once they are consistently on the run, your mind is truly open to receive lots and lots of joy, abundance, and ebook downloads.

Celeste Smucker, Nellysford, Virginia.

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Join Michael & Linda Dlouhy For The Next 30 Days And See The Results For Yourself

What are we talking about? It's called a 30-day mental cleanse. Yes, that's right. Too often we let things into our minds that should not be there and it hinders our progress. The best way to get your mind focused is to clean it up with what it should have. Think of it like rebooting your hard drive.

We have found this process to be more effective when people can do this together and share the result. What are you going to get? By joining this 30-day cleanse, we will send you ebook(s) to read and have weekly calls associated with this specific 30-day mental cleanse to assist you along the way. All that is required by you is your commitment to doing the program. If you are ready to become the right kind of person, then complete the form below. You will be sent the full instructions and Michael & Linda will keep in touch with you by email and on the weekly calls.Or join us in our forum here : http://30daycleanse.com/

The Secret Revealed! Or Is It???

This is a direct quote from a "lesson" that My good friend Russ Aker posted in our 30 Day Mental Cleanse forum :  

Think & Grow Rich Chapter 12

The Subconscious Mind - The Connecting Link

THE ELEVENTH STEP TOWARD RICHES

My whole lesson was copied from excerpts directly from the book.  Using

your conscious mind protect your subconscious mind from negative 

influence.  Feed your subconscious mind with positive suggestion of your 

Desires and expectations.  Then open yourself to the secret.

Napoleon Hill ~ 

IN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of the 

moneymaking secret which has made fortunes for more than five hundred 

exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long 

period of years.

The secret was brought to my attention by Andrew Carnegie.  When he 

saw that I had grasped the idea, he asked if I would be willing to spend 

twenty years or more, preparing myself to take it to the world, to men and 

women who, without the secret, might go through life as failures.

This book contains the secret.

Even before twenty years had passed the secret was passed on to more 

than one hundred thousand men and women who have used it for their 

personal benefit, as Mr. Carnegie planned that they should. Some have 

made fortunes with it. Others have used it successfully in creating harmony 

in their homes.

The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no fewer than a hundred 

times, throughout this book. It has not been directly named, for it seems to 

work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight, where 

those who are ready, and searching for it, may pick it up.

If you are ready to put it to use, you will recognize this secret at least once 

in every chapter. I wish I might feel privileged to tell you how you will know 

if you are ready, but that would deprive you of much of the benefit you will 

receive when you make the discovery in your own way.

A peculiar thing about this secret is that those who once acquire it and use 

it, find themselves literally swept on to success, with but little effort, and 

they never again submit to failure!

There is no such thing as something for nothing! The secret to which I refer 

cannot be had without a price, although the price is far less than its value. It 

cannot be had at any price by those who are not intentionally searching for 

it. It cannot be given away.

The secret serves equally well, all who are ready for it. Education has 

nothing to do with it.  It serves equally well for those with a good formal 

education as those with little formal education.

The secret is more important, as a part of the knowledge essential for self-

determination, than any which one receives through what is popularly 

known as “education.

Somewhere, as you read, the secret to which I refer will jump from the page 

and stand boldly before you, if you are ready for it! When it appears, you 

will recognize it.

One brief suggestion which may provide a clue by which the Carnegie 

secret may be recognized? It is this, all achievement, all earned riches, 

have their beginning in an idea! If you are ready for the secret, you already 

possess one half of it, therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the 

moment it reaches your mind.

Do not become discouraged if you do not fully comprehend all that has 

been stated. Unless you have long been a student of the mind, it is not to 

be expected that you will assimilate the principles upon a first reading.

Imagination, a hunch, an idea, then plan for its realization, in writing,  you 

have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to 

convert the thought into its physical counterpart.  The earth on which you 

live, you, and every other material thing are the result of evolutionary 

change, through which microscopic bits of matter have been organized and 

arranged in an orderly fashion.

Coca Cola, the old kettle and the wooden paddle, and the secret message 

on a slip of paper were incidental.  The strange performance of that kettle 

began to take place after the new owner mixed with the secret instructions 

an ingredient of which the original owner knew nothing.

In your search for the secret of the method, do not look for a miracle, 

because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of Nature. 

These laws are available to every person who has the FAITH and the 

COURAGE to use them.

The secret is always inseparably attached to each principle.  Look through 

this book and you will see the secret words attached to these principles.

~ End Quote.

The secret is the prime component of success.  The secret requires a 

mastermind group of its own…the mastermind bringing the secret to a 

physical reality is comprised of the thirteen principles described in this 

book.  The tenth principle dances all around this secret.

Are you open to the secret and WILL YOU TAKE ACTION AND CARRY 

THROUGH REGARDLESS OF THE OPPOSITION?  To do so, you must 

protect your subconscious mind.

Russ Aker

Portland, Oregon

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Join Michael & Linda Dlouhy For The Next 30 Days And See The Results For Yourself

What are we talking about? It's called a 30-day mental cleanse. Yes, that's right. Too often we let things into our minds that should not be there and it hinders our progress. The best way to get your mind focused is to clean it up with what it should have. Think of it like rebooting your hard drive.

We have found this process to be more effective when people can do this together and share the result. What are you going to get? By joining this 30-day cleanse, we will send you ebook(s) to read and have weekly calls associated with this specific 30-day mental cleanse to assist you along the way. All that is required by you is your commitment to doing the program. If you are ready to become the right kind of person, then complete the form below. You will be sent the full instructions and Michael & Linda will keep in touch with you by email and on the weekly calls.Or join us in our forum here : http://30daycleanse.com/

Are You Living As A Result Of Your Neglect?

This is a direct quote from a "lesson" that My good friend Tuula Rands posted in our 30 Day Mental Cleanse forum :

Chapter 12 - The Subconscious Mind

Hill writes "The subconscious mind will not remain idle! If you fail to plant DESIRES in
your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as
the result of your neglect."

I don’t think anyone really wants to live their life as the result of neglect.
But have we, and are we living our life as a result of neglect?

Have we done things in our lives because we knew others expected us to live
a certain way?  Did we do things in our lives because we were too concerned
about what others may have thought about us?  Do we still conduct our lives
the way we do because of how much we are thinking about what others think?
If we have or are doing these things, I believe we are living as a result of our neglect.

We can also live as a result of our neglect by not doing the things we know
we should be doing.
 
Michael tells us, if you don’t have the results you want in your business,
get more e-book downloads.  Yet we can fool ourselves into thinking we are doing
all we can do, when in fact, we waste a lot of time on things that really don’t matter
and thereby what we get  are the results of our neglect.

Hill tells us “You may VOLUNTARILY plant in your subconscious mind any plan,
thought, or purpose which you desire to translate into its physical or
monetary equivalent.”

What we see, what we hear, what we learn, what we allow into our minds
has a tremendous effect upon every one of us. It has an effect on how we grow
and develop.

To change the habits we have acquired, we need to practice doing the things
we need to do, to result the change we want.  We need to practice beyond
the point of learning so the task becomes habit,  whether it be in
thinking or in action.  First get good at it, and only then can
we practice doing it better.

Tuula Rands

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Join Michael & Linda Dlouhy For The Next 30 Days And See The Results For Yourself

What are we talking about? It's called a 30-day mental cleanse. Yes, that's right. Too often we let things into our minds that should not be there and it hinders our progress. The best way to get your mind focused is to clean it up with what it should have. Think of it like rebooting your hard drive.

We have found this process to be more effective when people can do this together and share the result. What are you going to get? By joining this 30-day cleanse, we will send you ebook(s) to read and have weekly calls associated with this specific 30-day mental cleanse to assist you along the way. All that is required by you is your commitment to doing the program. If you are ready to become the right kind of person, then complete the form below. You will be sent the full instructions and Michael & Linda will keep in touch with you by email and on the weekly calls.Or join us in our forum here : http://30daycleanse.com/

Life in the Present: A 10-Step Approach

This is a direct quote from a "lesson" that My good friend Shirley May posted in our 30 Day Mental Cleanse forum :

CHAPTER 11

THE MYSTERY OF S E X TRANSMUTATION

The Tenth Step toward Riches

This doesn’t have much to do with this week’s lesson, I know some people have a problem learning on how to live in the now. I found this explanation on Google search I reworded to suite my explanation of Living in the Now. I also realize it has nothing to do with The Mystery of Sex Transmutation. But there is a driving force telling me to just put it out there.

Michael tells us to be in the now. To learn how to do this you have to practice on being in the now, and soon it will become natural to you. Just Practice, Practice doing it.
Being present is the only way to enjoy life to the fullest. By being mindful, you enjoy your food, friends and family more. Here, the path to mindfulness.

Life in the Present: A 10-Step Approach
The idea of being mindful -- being present, being more conscious of life as it happens -- may seem contradictory to those who are used to sacrificing living for pursuing their goals, but cultivating mindfulness will help you achieve your goals and enjoy life more. In fact, you're more productive when you're mindful. But more importantly, being present is undoubtedly the only way to enjoy life to the fullest. By being mindful, you enjoy your food more, you enjoy friends and family more, you enjoy anything you're doing more. Anything even things you might think are drudgery or boring, such as housework, can be amazing if you are truly present. Try it -- wash dishes or sweep or cook, and remain fully present. It takes practice, but it's incredible.

1. Do one thing at a time.
Single-task, don't multi-task. When you're pouring water, just pour water. When you're eating, just eat. When you're bathing, just bathe. Don't try to knock off a few tasks while eating or bathing or driving. Zen proverb: "When walking, walk. When eating, eat."

2. Do it slowly and deliberately.
You can do one task at a time, but also rush that task. Instead, take your time, and move slowly. Make your actions deliberate, not rushed and random. It takes practice, but it helps you focus on the task.

3. Do less.
If you do less, you can do those things more slowly, more completely and with more concentration. If you fill your day with tasks, you will be rushing from one thing to the next without stopping to think about what you do. But you're busy and you can't possibly do less, right? You can. I've done it, and so have many busy people. It's a matter of figuring out what's important, and letting go of what's not.

4. Put space between things.
Related to the "Do less" rule, but it's a way of managing your schedule so that you always have time to complete each task. Don't schedule things close together -- instead, leave room between things on your schedule? That gives you a more relaxed schedule, and leaves space in case one task takes longer than you planned.

5. Spend at least 5 minutes each day doing nothing.
Just sit in silence. Become aware of your thoughts. Focus on your breathing. Notice the world around you. Become comfortable with the silence and stillness. It'll do you a world of good -- and just takes 5 minutes!

6. Stop worrying about the future -- focus on the present.
Become more aware of your thinking -- are you constantly worrying about the future? Learn to recognize when you're doing this, and then practice bringing yourself back to the present. Just focus on what you're doing, right now. Enjoy the present moment.

7. When you're talking to someone, be present.
How many of us have spent time with someone but have been thinking about what we need to do in the future? Or thinking about what we want to say next, instead of really listening to that person? Instead, focus on being present, on really listening, on really enjoying your time with that person.

8. Eat slowly and savor your food.
Food can be crammed down our throats in a rush, but where's the joy in that? Savor each bite, slowly, and really get the most out of your food. Interestingly, you'll eat less this way, and digest your food better as well.

9. Live slowly and savor your life.
Just as you would savor your food by eating it more slowly, do everything this way -- slow down and savor each and every moment. Tune into the sights and sounds and awaken your senses to the world around you.

10. Make cleaning and cooking become meditation.
Cooking and cleaning are often seen as drudgery, but actually they are both great ways to practice mindfulness, and can be great rituals performed each day. If cooking and cleaning seem like boring chores to you, try doing them as a form of meditation. Put your entire mind into those tasks, concentrate, and do them slowly and completely. It could change your entire day (as well as leave you with a cleaner house). Keep practicing. When you get frustrated, just take a deep breath. When you ask yourself, "What should I do now, Self?" The answer is, "keep practicing."

Singe in the U.K. Shared a book with me called Secrets by Rhonda Byrne they have a Pdf you can look at if you think it might be of some inspiration to you.   https://unrelatedposts.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/the-secret-free-pdf/ it’s 206 pages long.

This is a quote from that PDF that I like.

LISA NICHOLS  
When you follow your bliss you live in a constant space of
joy. You open yourself to the abundance of the Universe.
You're excited to share your life with those you love, and your
excitement, your passion, your bliss become contagious.

Shirley May-Ohio.

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What are we talking about? It's called a 30-day mental cleanse. Yes, that's right. Too often we let things into our minds that should not be there and it hinders our progress. The best way to get your mind focused is to clean it up with what it should have. Think of it like rebooting your hard drive.

We have found this process to be more effective when people can do this together and share the result. What are you going to get? By joining this 30-day cleanse, we will send you ebook(s) to read and have weekly calls associated with this specific 30-day mental cleanse to assist you along the way. All that is required by you is your commitment to doing the program. If you are ready to become the right kind of person, then complete the form below. You will be sent the full instructions and Michael & Linda will keep in touch with you by email and on the weekly calls.Or join us in our forum here : http://30daycleanse.com/

How to be more “attractive” to prospects

This is an extract from Tom "Big Al" Schreiter's newsletter :

My bodyguard story.

Let's say that you are rich and famous and you want to hire a bodyguard. Would you hire me if I told you:

“I don't have a clue, but I am motivated and I can learn. Let me hang around for a while and see if I can learn by trial and error, or learn on the job. Maybe I'll do some research on the Internet.”

Ouch.

You wouldn't want me. I wouldn't even qualify for a “Pink Belt” in karate. You would want someone like Chuck Norris, Rambo, James Bond or someone that is already trained and knows what they are doing.

So how about a prospect?

Does your prospect want someone they will have to train? Someone who doesn't know the answers?

Or, does your prospect want a sponsor who knows exactly what to say and do?

Hmmm, so sponsoring isn’t really about “finding” good people, it is really about being a “good person” who your prospects will be attracted to. Yes, it seems prospects are desperately looking for someone to follow, and especially want to follow someone who knows where he is going.

Since it is more about us, let's do this.

Let's become better people with better skills.

Now, that is attractive.

At Mentoring For Free we specialize in teaching you the skills you need to become a better sponsor.   We are a team of mentors, we hold 10 free live, interactive skills training calls each week.  We encourage you to participate!

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