The difference between an average performer and a top performer

So what’s the difference between an average performer and a top performer? A top performer understands conditioning. The difference between an average performer and a top performer is that a top performer doesn’t wait for somebody else to tell them its okay to feel good. Let me ask you a question: did you brush your teeth this morning? Of course you did. Before you play sport, do you warm up? Course you do. In the business world, I’m wondering how many people condition themselves properly. Let me give you a different analogy: You go to watch your favourite football team, premiership football team. Those boys are on £120,000 a week so say it’s Arsenal. You support Arsenal and Man United show up on the pitch; do you think that Arsenal will need to warm up? Physically, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically? Of course they would because they want to make the best out of the game.So how do you condition yourself before you step onto your field? How do you get ready for your day? We understand conditioning in the hygiene world; we’ve been washing and brushing our teeth since we were two years old. We understand it in sport world, do we understand in business? You see invariably I speak to so many people and I find that they walk into the seminar or conference room and they’re hunched. Or they walk into the office and I say ‘How you doing?’ and they say ‘Not bad.’ By the way, when you take ‘not bad’ not what have you got bad. That’s how they start their day. And then they go and sit in a seat and somebody’s sold them Viagra through the night, they’ve got 70 emails, they start their day by going ‘delete, delete, delete, delete’. That’s how they kick off their day.Make sure that before you make that phone call, you breathe. You send oxygen to your head, you feel, you listen, you paint, you run, do exercise, get rid of the stress. Feel. Feel it in your heart before you make the call. Make sure every call – every call – counts. Make sure you’re not the one that’s conditioned when the big opportunity arises. Step up. Condition yourself like an athlete and you’ll perform like one.

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Warmest regards
Craig

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