Becoming a Game-Changer: Balancing Life and World-Class Performance
To become a game-changer, it’s important to strive for world-class performance. However, this doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice everything else in life. It’s possible to make your rise to greatness while maintaining balance.
Breaking Free From the Box of Mediocrity
We all possess greatness and genius, although it is often smothered by the well-intentioned messaging of our parents, teachers, media, and society.
This messaging encourages us to fit into a box, think like everyone else, and avoid dreaming too big.
Pick Your Battles: Choose Your Obsessions
To become a world-class virtuoso in any field, experts agree that you must identify your “vital few” – the top five skills that you want to focus on honing and mastering.
These could include becoming a great parent, maintaining peak physical health, becoming an expert in your chosen field, making an impact in the world, and leaving the fifth one up to personal preference.
Become World-Class by Mastering the ‘Vital Few’
The key is to narrow down your focus to just a few things and put in the time and training – 3.4 hours per day, according to science – so that after 10,000 hours and 10 years you can become gifted at what you do.
Put in the work and don’t rely solely on natural talent – this is how you can rise to a place where people say, “She’s unbelievable,” or “He’s so talented.”
Improve Your Sleep Hygiene with Simple Yet Effective Tips
Getting enough quality sleep is essential to overall health and wellbeing.
To improve your sleep hygiene, you can stick to a consistent sleep schedule, use comfortable bedding, minimize light and sound disruptions, limit your intake of alcohol and caffeine before bed and disconnect from electronic devices an hour before bedtime.
The Highest Impact Leaders Are All Contrarians
High-impact leaders are contrarians who choose to focus on their own development and mastery of a few select skills rather than succumbing to the seduction of the world’s distractions.
Van Gogh did not become a great chef, Edison was not a rockstar, and Roger Federer wasn’t a racer – instead, each chose to master their own unique craft.