6 Emotional Habits of Peak Performers

This is part 2 in a series of posts about Habits of Peak Performers.  Last week we looked at the Mental Strength Habits.  Today we’ll look at the Emotional Habits of Peak Performers.

Habit formation is the process by which new behaviors become automatic. If you instinctively reach for a cigarette the moment you wake up in the morning, you have a habit.

Let’s take a look at the Emotional Habits of Peak Performers

Emotional Habit #1. Confronting and Conquering Fears:

• They face every day fears, uncertainty and doubt head-on.
• They see their fears as a weakness they cannot tolerate (this excludes jackass type stunts) and conquer with mental strength.
• A crisis enables a peak performer to discover the higher power within themselves.
• They see every problem an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.
• They understand that there is no failure, only feedback, so there is no fear of failing.
• They see fear ad an opportunity to conquer and develop more mental strength.
• They live by the moto, “There is nothing in life to be feared, only understood” – Madame Curie.
• They know that every fear, pain, stumble, “failure” etc. is an opportunity and they look for the learning in the experience.
• They are daring in games that require skill.

Emotional Habit #2. Inner-Directedness:

• Peak performers have a burning desires to achieve, excel, expand and improve.
• They are intrinsically motivated.
• They take responsibility for their actions and their results and determine how to get the results they want if they didn’t get them.
• They recognize that no one can make them feel anything; they allow themselves to feel any and all feeling.
• If they don’t like a feeling they set out to change it.
• They ride and control the crest of life’s wave instead of being helplessly washed ashore by it.

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Emotional Habit #3. Capacity to Develop Warm & Lasting Relationships

• Peak performers see people as being good and have intrinsic worth.
• They take time to get to know someone.
• They have a sense of human responsibility for and an ability to respond to the needs of others that are close to them.
• They have the capacity and desire to establish intimate relationships with their spouse, children and family, relationship built upon love, respect and mutual understanding.
• They maintain a balance between material goals and family relationships.
• They value the art of listening, with both mind and heart, by actively listening the peak performer expresses wealth they sense in others.

Emotional Habit #4. Time Competency

• Peak performer take strength from the past.
• They learn from their mistakes.
• They gain confidence from their achievements.
• They plan for the future with clear sensory goals and action plans.
• They live in the present.
• They treat each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
• They live each moment and day fully.
• They wake-up excited about what the new day will bring.
• They wake-up with a desire and purpose and see’s each day as an adventure and challenge.
• They get up early and know the morning is the time to put the finishing touches on the days plan.
• They develop time competency by thinking if I wake up and hour early each day I can add the equivalent of 15 days each year.
• They understand that time competency builds a string of successful days, weeks, months into years and then a life.
• They know successful time periods are the accomplishment of goals either, short, medium or long.
• They look at their future goals from the present, “Today I am…”

Emotional Habit #5. Constructive Criticism

• Peak performers take constructive feedback openly with a sense of “how can I use this to improve?” without any emotional attachment or ego boosting.
• They realize there is always room for improvement and uses the feedback as a way to maximize their potential.
• They measure the feedback against their strength’s and weakness and develops a plan of action for growth.
• They have a sense of control and can change themselves with the help of feedback.

Emotional Habit #6. Power:

• A peak performer accepts the role as a leader because it is freely given to them, a tribute to their personally self-mastery.
• They possess the qualities other want and they show and lead the way.
• They make other people feel important.
• They understand about that hard work is required for success and can relate to others striving for the same.
• They are calm, assured and assertive.

Next time we’ll go over the Physical Habits of Peak Performers.