# Become the High Performer you Admire

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Hello and welcome to the Malkan Show podcast. I am Meghana Malkan, thank you so much for joining me today for this episode of the podcast.

I know your time is valuable and I am really happy that you are listening to me today.

I have begun this podcast because after being coached by the world’s best, I wanted to share with you guys what success habits, success tools, and cues have helped me get onto higher levels of performance at work, have great relationships with my spouse and kids and what really helped me stay focused and motivated all the time.

Let us understand what high performance is all about. By definition high performance

If you see high-performance refers to succeeding beyond standard norms in any given endeavor and doing that consistently over the long-term.

So however you define success in any given field of endeavor work, a high performer is someone, you know, it could be a person or a team, a company, or a culture he simply, or it simply does it better for longer periods of time.

But the fact that high performance isn't just about never-ending improvement because mere improvement does not always result in high-performance.

Lots of people are improving, but not necessarily crushing it. I'm sure they inching forward, but so is everyone else. Lots of people make progress, but no real impact. So high-performers are people who break the standard norms. They're the ones who are consistently exceeding the standard expectations and results.

High-performance is also very different from mere expertise development.

The quest isn't just to learn a new skill or a language, or maybe just become a master at something maybe a world-class, uh, keyboard player or a CEO of a multi-national company, a high-performer in any field Isn't just good at a singular task or skill. It's not about that.

Maybe he or she has learned adjacent competencies to compliment particular expertise, which means these guys are not a one-hit-wonder.

They do have multiple skill sets that allow them to succeed over the long term and importantly lead others.

That's a really important part. They're the ones who practice those meta habits that enable them to excel in multiple areas of their lives for, you know, maybe a cricket game-winning or a normal player wins a  winter cricket game. Doesn't just know how you just how or maybe a bowl or a bat.

 He has to master mental toughness.

He has to master nutrition is self -discipline, team leadership, maybe strengthen conditioning, negotiating with fellow team players to build this brand, and so on and on.

So someone who reaches high-performance in any career must have competed once in many of the areas that touch that career. So when you define high-performance, the word consistently is followed by over the long term and it made really seemed redundant, but the true words in fact are different.

The word consistently is different from the word long-term. For example, high performance doesn't end up successful at the very last minute of decades efforts.

They don't become, they don't come crashing in after the finished line of success because they are steady.

They regularly beat expectations. And if you see there's a consistency to their efforts, that is way beyond their peers. And that's why when you look at them, post their success, you come to realize, and these guys are not surprised winners.

It's not overnight, or a one-time effect. And as we learn this definition of, you know, when you say succeeding beyond standard norms consistently over the long-term, that requires for high-performance to build those habits that will protect their wellbeing, that it helped them maintain positive relationships in their lives.

And that will ensure that they also serve others around them, on their ladder to success.

Because you simply can't beat the norms, if you've driven yourself into the ground, it doesn't turn that way. And as it turns out high performers that their success that sustained success is due in large part, the healthy approach to living. It's not just about achievement in a profession or just one area of interest.

It's about creating a high-performance life in which you experienced an ongoing feeling of being fully engaged in the life of that joy and confidence that invariably comes from being your best self.

And that's what the high-performance approach extends beyond such popular concepts.

As you know, just focusing on your strengths or just putting in tens of thousands of hours.

It's beyond that because lots of people have amazing personal strengths, but the thing is they destroy their health in their quest for success.

And that's why they can’t maintain high performance.

How many times do we hear about such stories where people have let go of their they've let go of the health of their relationship in that quest for success.

Lots of people obsessively practice or put in the hours to such a degree that they can destroy the relationships they need to support, the continuing growth.

They push away the coach who was helping them progress, they ruin their relationship and the emotional fallout. Maybe knocks them off their game. They upset their investors suddenly there's no money coming in to keep them growing.

So it's like when you succeed and when you have that healthy life positive, full of emotions and relationships that time, you know, you're on your way to high-performance.

Because the way my coach Brendan Bouchard describes the high performance and the way high-performance Institutes founded by him, the way they have the data that Institute conforms and this data is after researching thousands and thousands of such high-performing people. It's not about getting ahead. It's not about getting ahead at all costs.

It's about forming habits that help you both Excel and also enrich the full spectrum of your life.

Organizations also move in and out of high-performance because today in today's life, today's times the organizations worldwide, they're struggling to stay consistently out in the front, because if you see them closely, the senior leaders that are leading the teams are fighting with or are disengaged, underperforming organization cultures. 

They desperately want to make bold visions and push their people harder, but they already realized that the people aren't burning out. And that's why executives will love, you know, knowing more about high-performance.

They'd be thrilled to learn that organizations can be healthy and can be high-performing at the same time, the employees or executives or the leaders need not burn themselves out.

So do all those people, you know, who are claiming to be in that the best, the best zone of themselves and who really wish to reach the next level of success and do that more safely, more swiftly, and more confidently than last time.

I think high performance, a subject that we all should study and know more about and look at it with practicing that into our daily lives.

Because as I believe, there's always a better way to live and to lead. And the good news is that this better way is not a mystery because when you want to study high-performance, there are these habits that are precise, that are actionable, that repeatable, scalable, and sustainable in order that we can pursue the best life that we all can.

And I think that should be the endeavor of each of us.

March 31, 2021   #The Malkan Show