Make Brendan Burchard Your High Performance Coach

"flow" came out of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What you need for flow

1. Challenging but attainable goals
2. Strong concentration and focused attention required
3. Activity intrinsically rewarding
4. Serene loss of self consciousness
5. Lose track of time
6. Immediate feedback on performance
7. Challenge matches skill level
8. Sense of personal control over situation and outcome
9. You stop thinking about your physical needs
10. Ability to focus completely on the activity (now you know why Zuck is your enemy)

High performers aren't just good at a singular task or skill. They usually learn adjacent competencies to complement a particular expertise. They are not a one hit wonder. They have multiple skill sets that allow them to succeed over the long term and, importantly, lead others. They practise meta habits that allow them to succeed in multiple areas of their lives.

TBC..

Stephen Covey Was an Idiot. Wait! Hear Me Out!

Why? Because he made it complicated.

Sure, you can take on these sophisticated behaviours and learn to "synergize" and watch the people who've grown up on sports teams make it look easy.

Or, you can look at what you're already doing and see what you can give up.

Which is easier for the hundreds of millions of people in the world who have neither the time, the access or the energy to read or grow?

If you wanted to transform your country by putting up habits posters in the buses and train stations, would you have stuff like

Think Win Win

Seek to Understand before You Seek to Be Understood

which means the people who already don't want to spend the energy thinking are going to have to think about what these mean, or would you rather have stuff like

The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective People

?

Think about it Kim Jong None!

Inspire Your Co-Workers with a Screensaver

So you want to display quotes on your computer's locked screen when you're not at your desk. There's one way I know. Looking for a powerpoint that will sequence through slides like in kiosk mode? Sorry, that's not an option (yet) in Windows 10 for the lock screen.

Save your ppt as JPEG images (File > Save As > change the format - the name you provide will be a folder containing each slide)

That done, click on the Window (Start button) on the left of your taskbar and then on the Gear (settings). You'll launch Windows Settings.

Here, in the search box, type "lock" (it might suggest "add a folder to your lock screen slideshow", but don't jump the gun.

At the new menu, change the "Background" option from "Windows Spotlight" to "Slideshow" (drop down)

Then, under "Choose albums for your slideshow", add your new folder.

Then, click on "Advanced slideshow settings" and adjust "When my PC is inactive, show lock .." and "Turn off screen after slideshow has played for".. to your choice.

And that's it. Hit WIN-L and see the result!

Yes, the slides will be displayed in random order - nothing you can do about that :(