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Matt Lanfear, PhD

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Executive Coach to leaders driving change in global financial institutions and multinational companies, and entrepreneurs building high-growth technology startups.

How To Increase Performance AND Focus on What Matters Most: Identify Your Non-Negotiables
Matt Lanfear, PhD

Are you intentional with how you use your 24 hours each day?

Perhaps you want to increase your performance, but not at the expense of what matters most? To show up at your best as a leader in your organisation, community and family? What are those activities and responsibilities that you commit to each day—no matter what—that underpin your success as a corporate executive or entrepreneur?

Identify your non-negotiables to attain peak performance and honour that which is most valuable to you

Explore two categories of non-negotiables: First, those activities that are a foundation for attaining peak performance, and second, those responsibilities that matter most to you in life. And then commit time to both.

Foundations for peak performance

" … gratitude, mindfulness, exercise and sleep are non-negotiables for sustained peak performance. The non-negotiable part is key. When life gets complicated, these four practices are typically what we remove from our schedule. But the research shows that this is the last choice we should make. Instead, lean into these practices, as they're how you get the creativity needed to untangle the complicated." —Steven Kotler, The Art of the Impossible

Gratitude, mindfulness, exercise and sleep. What else would you add as a non-negotiable that is essential to your sustaining peak performance?

Reflections on what matters most in life

  • Health and Vitality: Your routines to maintain physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

  • Family and relationships: The precious time with your family, friends and community.

  • Core Purpose: Your self-defined reason for being and contribution to society.

  • Core Values: Living and leading in alignment with your values.

  • Personal Development: Investing in yourself to maintain your edge in today's VUCA world.

  • What else?

Ask yourself: What are my non-negotiables—for peak performance AND life? Have I committed time in my diary for them? What action can I take right now?

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