Insights

At NEP we come across many people who are choosing or required to do more study. And let’s face it – these days continuous learning is one of the pillars of success.

When you hear the words “high performance” or “success”, what picture/vision comes to mind for you? Is it something you aspire to, or something totally unattainable? What does it actually mean to be high performing and successful?

I was delivering a workshop recently focusing on energy and how to structure your days, weeks, months etc. for performance. We were discussing the physical attributes of what makes up our energy and one of the attendees asked if it was all just a little too much to try and focus on everything – nutrition, movement, environment, the people around us etc.

Fundamentally our brains are wired for survival rather than high performance. So we always joke in a kind of serious way, that high performance isn’t that hard given the benchmark is actually kind of low.