Important Keys to High Performance.

Important Keys to High Performance.

Whether a high performer or just a regular Gal or Guy at some time in your life, Important Keys to High Performance are going to make a huge difference in your performance. Not knowing them means you constantly have the feeling you are missing something but never seem to know what.

Trainers, and coaches for sports, professional performance even personal needs like losing unwanted fat or other personal issues, know that change behaviour has to include various elements. These include learning new behaviours also getting rid of old restraining redundant and limiting behaviours.

The overriding question is why what should be straightforward and relatively simple is in fact all too frequently, so difficult to master.

Both medical and neuro science research over the past 25 to 30 years has led to the unlocking of some important answers to this question. In the recent 5 years a deeper understanding of the significance of many discoveries is now making a real and practical difference to learning how to change behaviours quickly also permanently or as appropriate or desirable.

In changing behaviour there are three principle controlling factors. Trainers and coaches tend to focus on one and ignore the importance of the other two. Naturally they concentrate on the desired new behaviour while largely forgetting to deal with other Important Keys to High Performance, redundant or limiting already integrated behaviours that hold the person in a safe comfort zone. More important, the underlying cause of the safe comfort zone.

To explain this let me take you back to the late 1950s and early 1960s when a British company Hawker Aircraft were testing the first prototype of what was to become the VTOL (Vertical Take-Off & Landing) Hawker Harrier Jump Jet Fighter. At the time this was the cutting edge of new performance in fixed wing aircraft performance. The first prototype consisted of a square metal frame with four jet engines fixed at each corner. The controls and test pilot were seated in the centre. It was nicknamed the flying bedstead. To keep this contraption in a safe comfort zone, it was anchored to the ground with 4 steel cables, allowing it to rise only about 6 feet in the air, also to prevent it from turning upside down and crashing (limiting behaviour).

The important issue as far as changing behaviour is concerned other than a new concept, are the 4 limiting behaviour restraining cables. These represent safe practice derived from past experience or in other words, safe comfort zone thinking. They are installed to pacify the fear of what could or what was expected to go wrong.

Important Keys to High Performance.

Okay, so those familiar with the potential constraints of fear will immediately be thinking, Oh yes, I know all about fear but it does not work. Yes, quite right. Only dealing with fear and a new behaviour is like building a three legged stool with only two legs. Certainly like the first trials of the flying bedstead it is not going to be very stable therefore performance is not good or what is expected. Expectations built on two legs do not often work. As the new jump jet developed along with new control protocols, the scientists and technical engineers gradually and meticulously lengthened the restraint cables then reduced them to one before letting the flying bedstead explore its freedom. Now while this metaphor is meant to illustrate a principle of thinking behaviour, the brain is not a new flying contraption. It has evolved over millions of years also it works at lightning speed. Furthermore, it is not going to get out of control or flip over and crash. Yet old and fearful dominated thinking patterns hold it down just like steel cables can restrain a possibility or oportunity from becoming a reality. Well that is unless you know how to cut free from those limiting mind restraints.

There are a number of subliminal fears, which form the overall fear emotion that tethers a new behaviour to the ground and prevents it from flying on its own to its full potential. First of all, there is the fundamental fear of interfering with the mind or brain. This is the fear of becoming what is loosely known as mad. Next, there is the fear of upsetting and spoiling any current level of skill or performance competence. Beyond these two fundamental restraints to flying to great heights, anyone may have any number of subliminal or very consciously related ancillary fears. So finding, recognising and dealing with these fears in a symbiotic manner, is one of the three important legs in establishing a new or high performing behaviour.

Important Keys to High Performance.

Next is the matter of knowing what you want also the important detail of how to achieve it. Attached to this is intuitively or in practical terms that you know you can do it. This is a subtle issue evolved from observing people who achieve great things. Whether intuition or instinct they know deep down that they can achieve what they want even if to others it seems impossible. Possibly the fact they recognise at the outset of the idea that they have not a clue how they will achieve it, they just know they will succeed. However they do achieve their goal, invariably this requires focused attention to the detail planning of the new behaviour. In addition knowing how it works, what enables it to exist then finally how to install it in the implicit brain as a habitual behaviour. For the majority of the time the majority of us have to learn these skills. There are the few who do it all quite naturally, they simply seem to know instinctively what to do. The last issue of how to install it is more than learning and practicing. New neuro-science recognition observes how and what the implicit brain needs in order to allow a new behaviour to be installed. It turns out that this process works in much the same way as rejection in medical spare part surgery. This is to say that unless all the detail of how the implicit brain works has been fully addressed there is a high chance the new behaviour will be rejected and the old behaviours re-emerges. When this happens, performance drops, confidence and skills level can hit the floor with the following consequence that a good strategy or the trainer or coach or all three can be written off as useless. Part of this equation is in knowing how the brain/mind works also the relative languages needed to communicate with them.

The third important leg of the success performance stool is in deleting the redundant or limiting behaviour/s (the chains that keeps you in old habits and comfort zones). This is what the 5%ers, the real movers and shakers of this world also the real stars of performance are very good at. First of all they live in a field of what I call brutal honesty with themselves. Brutal honesty can be referred to as self leadership, self determination, 20-20 focus, etc. The 95%ers see this as very negative and beating themselves up behaviour. Quite the contrary, it is highly positive also the route to perfection. Far from negative these 5%ers know that, ‘if they can think it, they can do it.’ It is just a question of planning and not allowing the tiniest iota of self delusion to creep into their strategy and detailed planning. In a word this means using experiential knowledge to break though behaviour or performance patterns or barriers while not allowing old safe comfort zone thinking to creep in.

As briefly mentioned above, while this is how the 5%ers overcome old or past behaviours, the 95%ers can learn to do the same thing, though it has to be via a complete understanding strategy. This is to learn to do by design what the 5%ers can do quite naturally without even having to think about it. The good news for everyone is that the years of understanding and learning have been whittled down to manageable strategies.

Another lesson of high performance to be learnt from medical science is that of senescence. Senescence is the word medical scientists use to describe the healthy program that guides every cell in your body as to what they are and what their job is. It is the information program that keeps each and every cell in a state of healthy balanced control. Previously it was thought a cancerous cell had lost its senescence or  management program thus is totally out of control. Now it is known the senescence program is still within the cancerous cell but it has been switched off. Consequently a massive amount of research is currently being directed into finding how to switch those programs on again. Also there is a widely recognised internal mental and medical process known as spontaneous healing. This is where the body’s innate healing system for unrecorded reasons, has switch those programs on again all by itself. Understanding how cellular programs can be switched on or off points us to understanding how to also manage (switch off) limiting mind/brain behaviour programs.

It is frequently seen that potential budding high performers, in all areas of life, have the uncanny, inexplicable behaviour of snatching defeat or failure from the jaws of victory. That is when some event spontaneously activates a redundant or unwanted behaviour program such as fear, doubt, uncertainty, confusion, etc. That is to say; a behaviour program that is limiting or out of control, which is weakening the system’s intention to achieve its (natural) capability for high performance by blocking the implicit brain from fully performing a desired behaviour.  Therefore, by switching any relevant limiting behaviour program off and holding the key so that it cannot be accidently switched back on again,.  it thus becomes immediately possible to allow the implicit brain to activate any desired newly installed behaviour without interference, rejection or fear of anything going wrong unexpectedly.

With these Important Keys to High Performance MindPower Recognition has achieved the process of switching off redundant mind and brain programs also installing and switching on new performance programs by the use of mind languages in conjunction with specifically tailored coaching strategies, which respect these key strategies..

Robert Denton

MindPower Recognition

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