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Peak Performers Day Planner
This post is an explanation post on how to use peak performer’s day planner and become a peak performer every single day.
Peak Performer’s Day Planner was created by studying the Rituals/Routines followed by some of the world’s best performers in various fields ranging from Sports to Business, who are highly successful in their respective field.
I created this template for my personal use, and it was a game changer in my life. So here it is for you to help you become a peak performer in your field.
Below is the explanation video on how to use the peak performer’s day planner:
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How to use:
- This Planner is in an editable format, so you can use it in digital version instead of printing to use. Just make sure to keep a separate folder on your computer and store your daily planner with a date specific filename.
- You can also take a printout and write your schedules and track your routines. I highly recommend you to maintain a binder to file each day’s planner.
- Finally, “Out of sight is out of mind” So if you are using a digital version, keep the folder on your computer desktop and if you are using print version, carry it along with you all time. Set a specific time to use this day planner both in the morning and evening and create a routine.
Date – Fill in the Date
Big Win – If there is one task that if you complete, will make your day great, then that is your Big Win.
Morning Power Ritual:
Hydrate your Body – Drinking water as a first thing in the morning, hydrates your body and refreshes your mind.
Clear your Mind – 10 Minutes of morning meditation, has shown to improve our ability to focus and reduces stress throughout the day.
Move your Body – 10 Minutes of quick Stretching, Yoga, on the spot running or even wall pushups, proven to increase the blood and oxygen supply to each of our cells and activates our Lymph nodes which are an important part of our immune system.
Review your Schedule – 10 Minutes reviewing your day’s schedule will help you get prepared for the day instead of feeling overwhelmed at work. (Once you reviewed your day’s schedule you must sign the planner at the bottom right corner)
Energize your Body – The first meal of your day can either make you energetic or lethargic based on what you eat. Though Food is very subjective and varies for each individual, it’s better to avoid carbohydrate heavy meal and instead include lean protein, healthy fat (charges your brain) and green veggies.
Schedule and Recharge Ritual:
Plan your day in three Time blocks
- Time Block # 1 – Concentrate
- Time Block # 2 – Connect
- Time Block # 3 – Complete
Time Block # 1 – Concentrate – Tasks that comes under this time block are the Most Valuable Tasks, which means these tasks have the highest lifetime value or the highest priority tasks which are expected out of you (in case you are working for someone). Most often, the most valuable tasks are the ones which require your creative energy and will power. Examples: Writing a book, creating a strategy for your business, training for the marathon, etc., which only you can perform. Ideally, you must allocate 2 to 3 hours a day and not more than three tasks per day.
Time Block # 2 – Connect – Tasks that comes under this time block are the ones which require you to connect with other people, like customer, teammates, etc. Tasks can range from clearing emails, following up on a sales funnel or meeting with your team. It’s all about responding to people, interacting with people and following up with people. Ideally, you must allocate 1 to 3 hours a day and this time block is also highly influenced by the nature of your work (Example: If you are in sales or customer care, this becomes your day).
Time Block # 3 – Complete – Finally, the tasks that come with this time block are the ones which are Urgent, and which need your attention to complete them ASAP. They start from any firefighting task to your usual household chores; everything gets done in this time block. Ideally, you must allocate 2 to 4 hours a day. If you have a to-do list, this is the time to get it done.
Estimated Time/Actual Time: Most often we are poor at estimating time, either we overestimate or underestimate. So it is important to write our time estimate while planning, then track the time while doing and finally write down the actual time taken to compare how accurate we are in our time estimation.
You must start with Time Block # 1, complete the tasks then move on to Time Block # 2 and then to Time Block # 3; There is no exception to this order unless someone is going to pay you a million dollar.
Recharge Ritual:
Hourly Break – Take a quick 5 to 10-minute break every hour while you are working. Take a short walk or stretch to help you renew your energy and focus.
Hourly Hydration – Drink a glass water every hour while working to keep yourself hydrated.
Self Reflection Time – Spend 2 minutes to gently observe how you are feeling and what thoughts are running through your mind. Ideally do this once right before you start working in the morning, once during the middle of the day after lunch and once when you complete the day. If you find yourself stressed continuously, then it is better to make a quick note in your journal.
Meditation and Deep Breathing – After Self-reflection time, take 5 minutes to Meditate while observing your breath and take a deep breath every time you inhale. This will help you refocus and concentrate.
Nightly Ritual:
Nightly Rituals are as important as Morning Power Rituals. Set aside 20 Minutes before you end the day for Nightly Routines.
Review your Day – Go through your Peak Performer’s Day planner and review how many of the planned tasks and routines you have completed. And gently walk through your day mentally from the time you woke up to until this moment you are reviewing. (Give a Rating for your Day)
Journal your insights – After you reviewed your day, capture your thoughts, emotions, insights and learnings from your day in your journal (If you are not writing a Journal, then I highly suggest you to start journaling).
Write your Gratitude – Write down things you are grateful for today. It can be people who helped you, an event that happened or it can be your positive mindset which you carried throughout the day. Anything you feel grateful for, write it down. Write at least five things, because most often we are blinded to the good things happening in our life.
Schedule next Day – Spend this time to review the goals you are working on and schedule your next day, write down the task for each time blocks, from the tasks you will concentrate on, people you will connect with and tasks you will complete.
Visualize next day – As a final step before you end the day, gently visualize your next day, see yourself being happy, vibrant and energetic, see yourself completing the morning routines, completing the scheduled tasks efficiently and ending the day like peak performer. This way you are setting yourself to become a peak performer the next day.
Three Steps to Massive Success
I always wondered what it takes to become successful? In anything we do. Initial days I thought Formal education from a well-known university would make people successful, but I was proven wrong when I saw Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Who are hugely successful being a college dropout.
Then I thought it is probably because of Rich Family background that helps people to become successful; again I was proved wrong, the moment I studied about Jay-z and Barack Obama who didn’t have any wealthy family background.
Then I thought maybe they are born super talented then again was proven wrong when I learned the all the successful people spent ten years/10000 hours in their craft before they become an overnight success.
So I was proven wrong again and again until I figured out that success is just another habit, which anyone can form with few simple steps. Some learn it naturally by their life experience and for others like me, it takes a lifetime wondering how to become successful and figuring out.
Every other book on personal development talks about the same principle in their unique expression, In my opinion,
Following are the three steps to success:
Clarity
We are very good at knowing what we don’t want versus what we really want, So the first is to create an absolute clarity on what you really want. If you can describe what you want in less than three words then that’s your goal, Keep it.
Decision
Most of the times the goal will just end up as a wish or a weak prayer because we don’t commit ourselves to achieve them. Either we are not inspired by the goal or we give a reason why it’s not the time to engage in achieving our goal. Either way, we need to make a decision to commit ourselves entirely to achieving our goal.
Action
Remember: Dreams don’t work unless you do. In my words, success is directly propositional to the amount of action you take in the right direction. Spend few hours in chunking down your massive goal into tiny small actionable steps, spread it over the few days, taking few small actions every day as a first thing in the morning. I promise you will see a significant progress over time.
My favorite quote from Bruce Lee
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
So reading this post is not enough you must take action to achieve massive success in your life.
How to Find Your Top 3 Strengths to Succeed?
People’s strengths serve as an essential key towards their success. And finding out your strength is a very crucial since it is one way of determining how convenient and efficient your strengths are in overcoming all challenges and trials in your life.
When it comes to leveraging your ability, it is always best for you to go with your strength. That is why; you need to make sure that you are aware of the best strength finder that could help you out in determining and recognizing what are your strengths. Through the help of strength finder, you can instantly identify your strengths and weaknesses.
For those people who are not aware of their strengths, there are certain tips they need to follow to learn such things. They can always have the ability to recognize these things even if they don’t have strength finder that could guide and support them in their endeavors.
To help you out finding your strength, here are some of the simple yet very effective tips for finding the top three strengths in your life for you to acquire great and immediate success.
3 ways to find your Strength:
- Watch out for the things you are always excited with. Strengths pop out when people are really excited about certain things. Engaging yourself in some exciting activities is essential since it will serve as an imperative way of recognizing your strengths.
- Determine the things that you are usually doing that are greatly different from other people. In instances where you are primarily using your strength, will it is always possible and easy for you to determine your strength. This is because your approach will be greatly different from the others. In naming or identifying your strength, you need to identify specific moments or activities and make some articulations on how you are different from the others.
- Finding your strength is also manifested with the type of skills and ability you are showing. So you need to come up with a broad idea that captures specific strength you had. You need to make use of your own skills and talents in finding the best three strengths of your life. This is very essential in order to determine who you really are through the help of finding your strength.
Strengths are greatly different from each other. That is why; you need to make sure that you are aware of your own strengths. This is one way of knowing the real identity of you. This is also an ideal way in determining the things that you can do and things that you can’t.
You also need not to make use of any type of equipment in determining your strength since you can already handle it by yourself. That is why, as early as possible spare time in finding your strengths. This is not only best, convenient and practical in your life since this might always change your life into something different and unique.
How to set a goal and achieve it effortlessly?
For people who are longing to get hold of fruitful and progressive goal achievement, they need to set all their goals in a compelling way, that you are pulled towards your goal of becoming successful. It is not just enough that you are aware of what you are dreaming of. You need to have an effective goal setting in a way that you are going to present your brain in an organized and systematic manner. It is essential to support and guide you towards your goal achievement in your life.
Goal setting is very important, and that is why people need to make sure that they are aware of the things they need to do regarding setting their life’s goal and achieving it effortlessly. When it comes to goal setting, there are several things people always need to consider with such type of endeavors and these are as follows:
• You need to focus your mind with your goal. You need to make sure that you are aware of your goal at all times. Apart from your goals, you also need to be familiar with the end results that might occur in association with your goal. This is very essential to prepare yourself for great possibilities of the events that might happen and things that might change some aspects of your life.
• You always have to visualize all the things you want. You need to have a clear picture with regards to the things that lie ahead your goal. You need to do it as an advanced step in determining if you can achieve your goal or not.
When it comes to achieving your goal effortlessly, the main responsibility lies with the person who planned the goal setting. They will be the one to make some necessary updates, changes, and actions to achieve their goal in a systematic and in an organized way. There are several things people always need to practice to assure that achieving their goals will always be at its easy and effortless manner for them and these includes:
• Get hold of great inspiration and motivation towards achieving your goal. Think of the people or the things that might always play an essential role in driving you towards reaching your goal. Learn to appreciate and accept things that will greatly help you in achieving your goals.
• You need to continue thriving through sparing your time and effort just to acquire great success and progress with your goal. You need to exert effort and time just to express how dedicated you are with your goal. This is very essential to show not only to yourself but also to other people of how strong you are in reaching your goals.
Knowing how to set your goal and how to achieve it effortlessly is very indispensable for all the people. This is because it is one way of training and developing certain skills in their life that could help them towards their life endeavors. This is also giving them great opportunity to do whatever they want yet with great commitment and motivation in their life.