Peak Performance: Mastering Self-Motivation Strategies

Performance is the end of a process that links thoughts, behaviours, emotions, brain structure, brain chemistry and actions with other aspects such as your physical presence, technical capability and what tactics you apply. Many of these aspects pair competitors the same and the difference is nearly always the psychological development of one who becomes the winner or has the ability to learn and bounce back in defeat.

This lecture shows in simple terms how this can be done immediately, quite simply and for no cost. You will understand that changes to your brain is within your capability and happens very fast. The advent of scanners and imaging prove these changes often within 24 hours.

• The link between Neuroscience and Performance
• Simple introduction to brain chemistry, structure and creation of behaviour
• Link between thoughts, emotions, behaviour, actions and behaviour
• The choice of Approach or Avoid in terms of motivation and outcome
• Simple introduction to Neuroplasticity and how this helps you succeed
• The importance of keeping your brain space free for glucose and mental usage

Brief summary of Section 2 recapping the main points of the brain and it's link to performance and introducing the next section on learning how to really understand yourself.

• Brief summary of Module 2
• Brief introduction of Module 3

To learn about how your body and mind reacts to pressure is important before it becomes essential to face. If you arrive at something very important to you and your reactions take all your attention away you will not deliver your optimal performance. Once you know how these feelings affect you under pressure, you can start to improve them not to fully go away but to be just right for you at that moment.

You will learn that these reactions in your mind and body are part of evolution and are there to ensure that you are safe and survive when under threat. However, most situations now are not as threatening as our ancestors faced and yet we perceive them internally as so.

• Understanding that you can change your reactions to pressure
• What pressure really does to the mind
• What pressure really does to the body
• We are wired for Fight, Flight or Freeze so let's unwire today
• What is a challenge state?
• What is a threat state?
• Reality or Perception? Same thing to the brain and us

Brief summary of Section 3 recapping the main points of you understanding how you feel and think under pressure and what can be done and introducing the next section on learning how to enjoy any challenge that comes your way.

• Brief summary of Module 3
• Brief introduction of Module 4

This lecture will highlight why we react as we do when we encounter something that is very important to us and that this model will give us a guide to deal with it. It lays it out in simple terms and gives you the confidence that it has been fully tested within science and will work for you.

Your reaction, performance and the ultimate outcome will depend upon what levels of confidence you feel that you have; how much control you feel you have and whether you are focusing only upon succeeding and not trying not to lose. To balance this you will assess the level of demand that you feel upon you and if you can manipulate one over the other to succeed.

• Reactions to important situations
• The 6 Steps of the REPEAT Model
• What are the resources we have to deal with them?
• What are the demands placed upon us?
• What is the balance between the two?

Brief summary of Section 4 recapping the main points of the challenge state and your resources/demands equation and introducing the next section on SMART thinking and how to keep it in check conducive for victory.

• Brief summary of Module 4
• Brief introduction of Module 5

Your thinking affects how you feel and how you feel affects your actions and your actions affect how you do at the interview, in the presentation, whilst negotiating, asking for a date, getting promotion or that job. Guess what, the easiest thing to change is how we think from now onwards.

This lecture will show you what is probably missing from your thought process and what you can do about it easily. Ignore this and you probably will never succeed in anything that you try or anything you wish to have.

• SMART thinking does not blame the situation or surroundings
• Your philosophy, thoughts and beliefs will set you up for SUCCESS or Failure
• You will change your AC to become ABC
• What stinking thinking looks like
• Learn a new and powerful SMART Thinking process

Brief summary of Section 5 recapping the main points of analysing and changing your thought process and how this relates to your outcomes and introducing the next section on improving the balance between your resources and demands.

• Brief summary of Module 5
• Brief introduction of Module 6

This lecture highlights the important balance between the conflict within your mind. This balance will determine which state you trigger. Each state has an expected outcome and is obvious as to which one you want. Success, wellbeing, achievement and happiness awaits at the end of the correct one.

Choose the wrong one or have no idea how to tip the balance back in your favour and failure, illness, disease, loss and unhappiness could come your way.

• The relationship between your resources and demands
• The resources crucial for performance: Self Confidence, Total Control and Focus Upon Succeeding
• Increase resources and keep demands in check with SMART thinking
• Learn to tip the balance in your favour

• Brief summary of Module 6
• Brief introduction of Module 7

You will learn how important confidence is in all areas and how it is thought of as the most important psychological skill that you can possess. Low confidence brings avoidance, half-hearted approach and lack of achievement in life and not fulfilling your true potential.

There are many strategies here for building confidence simply and easily and how different it will make to your life. It will help you develop robust confidence that lasts and will follow through to your feelings of self worth and self esteem that may currently be dented.

• Total Confidence is Resource #1
• Self Confidence strategies
• The type and quantity of your confidence
• Aspects of Self Confidence
• Strategies to enhance your confidence
• Build your confidence through imagery, from others and your own body language

Brief summary of Section 7 recapping the first resource for you to focus upon and to build and introducing the next section on taking control and only focusing on the right things.

• Brief summary of Module 7
• Brief introduction of Module 8

This lecture is concentrating on our second resource needed to succeed and that is one of control. When we speak of control in performance psychology we mean things and situations that are in our control and not as we call uncontrollable. If they are uncontrollable then we will waste our brain food on the wrong things and run out of reserves when we need them most.

The small space we have available for performance in our brain should only be filled with performance issues that we want, see and can control. This way the energy matches the right things and irrelevant issues leave the space. This is a perfect situation to succeed with and is a priority for you.

• Total Control is Resource #2
• Understanding the difference between controllable and uncontrollable factors
• Learn how to comfortably face uncertainty
• 5 Major controllables that you can manipulate easily

Brief summary of Section 8 recapping controllable factors and the mind issues that can easily be manipulated and introducing the next section on keeping our focus upon succeeding and to approach rather than avoid and trying not to fail.

• Brief summary of Module 8
• Brief introduction of Module 9

The lecture that links the resources to the demands in terms of only setting and focusing upon the right goals. It will highlight that to approach real goals needs courage and that to avoid what you really want is very easy.

It explains how athletes choke under pressure and really arise from lack of mental preparation and is totally their fault. Often in life opportunities only come around once in a lifetime and you need to be prepared to recognise when it is knocking on your door.

• Focus On Succeeding is Resource #3
• Approach goals v Avoidance goals
• Develop courage towards pressure
• Choking under pressure
• How to deal with those thoughts
• Take the opportunities that you create
• A Simple Strategy for starters
• The real crux of the Challenge Motivation State
• Focus on what you need to go well and not on what you don't want to go badly

Brief summary of Section 9 covering the main points of resource #3 and how it will ignite the correct motivation for you and introducing the next section on self regulation.

• Brief summary of Module 9
• Brief introduction of Module 10

An important lecture that finds what is the right performance state for you and how to change it if you are not succeeding now. It will show how stress affects performance and strategies to deal with it to allow you to thrive with it on your side rather than against you.

Remember that stress can be debilitating, first step towards certain diseases and can often be worse so by handling it within a context of your performance has a dual effect to help you succeed and to enjoy better wellbeing of mind and body.

• How to identify your optimal performance state (everyone is different)
• What is self-regulation?
• Stress and how the mind and body are linked
• Relaxation strategies
• Activation strategies
• Re-interpret strategies
• Stress response (life or death)

Brief summary of Section 10 that introduced you to how to relax, activate and to re-interpret reactions from stress, anxiety and pressure and introducing the next section on learning to adapt for you to have the ability to change your life today and to thrive.

• Brief summary of Module 10
• Brief introduction of Module 11