peak performance principles


"The Six Attitudes Of High Achievers"

 Make no small plans

People that make small plans achieve small accomplishments. You will work as hard as you planned, so if u make big plans you will work big tome and achieve big. For example, athletes that work hard make big plans for training. When they train hard, then they are more likely to win. Also, we do not want to make small plans on other things. We can make big plans on our everyday things. It is also important that we have a good and positive attitude on the plans that we make. We must continue and not work to be better than everyone else, but instead to be a better version of ourselves everyday. We should make big plans to win big. Our dreams are just as big as our plans to achieve them.

"Your dreams are just as big as your plans"




2) Do What They Fear

Fear can stop us from doing many things. We all have fears. Some of the fears which we should conquer. We should not learn from other people's fears and fear the same thing. Even if we are afraid we should be brave and do something that we or others are afraid of. Fear will stop us from goals if we do not learn to conquer it. Then we will look back and be disappointed because we were afraid to do something we should have done. For example if someone is afraid to go to basketball practice because it is to hard then we must not be scared ourselves and we should go face the challenge. The practice will eventually make you better and later you will not regret it. To achieve our goals we must first overcome many obstacles. One of those obstacles is fear. We should understand that fear cannot hols us back forever.

" Fear is just as fierce as you let it be"

  "The way we prepare will determine performance"

3.) Are willing to prepare
Preparation is very important because you cant just rush to something expecting to be the best. We must be determined to accomplish something and prepare for it. Preparation is planning ahead. For example, if you want to be a basketball player you have to train ahead. We train to get better every time and improve ourselves. That is preparation. Preparing is not really the most exiting part of something, but it is very crucial. The way you prepared for something can determine how we do on whatever we were expecting to do.  It is good to prepare as soon as we can and not leave things for later, It  is better to prepare when we can so we don't have to worry about it later. 

4)Are Willing to Risk Failure
Failure is most of the times in the process of winning. It is something that we must not fear because it will make us better.Sometime when we fail we will be inspired to face even bigger challenges and to improve our selves. By failing we will see our weaknesses and improve on them. We must not let failure bring us down, but inspire us to do better. Many of the people that we see succeed such as athletes have failed before. We will not always win at everything we do. 
Failure can be a teacher. We can use our failures in a positive way to win and improve. For example, if a team looses a basketball game, and they do not let that drag them down. Instead they review what they did wrong and work on it to improve it. They put effort to practice so they can be better prepared the next time around.


  I will apply this because I admit that many times I let failure drag me down and mess with my attitude. Now, I will understand that failure is also a part of winning.I will have a good attitude.   "We can loose a battle, but win the war"

5) Are Teachable 

We can always have something to learn. It is not okay to think that we already know everything and to refuse to learn. Some people might know something we do not. When someone tries to help us we must not be rude and cut them off. For example, if your coach tells you that you are doing something wrong, then you should not get mad and walk away. Instead, we must listen to them explain how to do it correctly.The thing that you were corrected on and you learned might
make the difference later on between winning or losing a game.We can show people that we are willing to learn by paying attention and showing effort. By learning new things we can simply get better. That is why we need to be teachable, by staying humble. We can also help someone once we know how to do something. So we should be willing and exited to learn. We must not under estimate a person and think that they cannot teach us anything.



"A day without learning is a day wasted"

 I will apply this to myself by humbly accepting to learn. By not getting angry and listening.







6) Have heart 
To be extra good at something you must have heart. The passion to improve everyday at something you like. If you do something just because you are forced then you will most likely not be the best you can be. Also if you have heart it will not feel like a duty anymore but the time spending getting better at something will start to be enjoyable. It is important to have heart and put our minds on a certain goal. Even if we do not enjoy the process of meeting a goal we can have heart and put effort towards the goal. We must not only have heart to want something but to work hard for it. For example many of the athletes we see today have heart for what they do. That leads them to practice harder and get better. But it is not only sports we should have heart in, but in other things. Such as personal things.

I will apply this personally by putting hear in the things I like doing.

 "Without heart the passion for something disappears"

High achievers must overcome many obstacles. To overcome the many obstacles there are certain attitudes that we need to have. In order to meet our goals we must have plans and work on them everyday to improve. We must not be afraid of what others fear but instead take the initiative to do better. Also, we must be willing to prepare and put on hard work. We must be ready and have the willingness to accept, overcome, and learn from failure. In addition we must be willing to learn and have the desire to improve. Lastly, we must have heart and passion for our goals.