Habits
by Brendon Burchard
Why do some people keep winning?
Lots of people succeed once. Brendon Burchard wanted to know why some keep succeeding for years without burning out. His answer is six habits, drawn from his own institute's surveys and coaching work, so read them as a coach's findings more than settled science.
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Three habits are personal: seek clarity, generate energy and raise necessity. Three are social: increase productivity, develop influence and demonstrate courage. Burchard's claim is that anyone can learn them, whatever their personality or job.
High performers keep asking who they want to be, how they want to treat people and what they want to feel. Burchard treats clarity as a practice. You ask again before each week, meeting or project, instead of waiting for a sense of purpose to arrive.
Then decide how you want to show up for whatever comes next. Burchard suggests doing it every time you switch tasks.
Burchard's word for it is necessity, the point where doing well stops being a nice idea and becomes something you have to do. High performers tie their work to who they are and to the people counting on them.
Every field has a kind of output that counts most, like the chapters an author writes or the products a company ships. Burchard calls it PQO. High performers spend more of their week producing it and less on busywork.
Clarity
Before each day, meeting or task, decide who you want to be and how you want it to go.
Energy
Take a short pause between tasks to let go of tension and set an aim for what comes next.
Necessity
High performers feel they must do well, because the people behind the work matter to them.
Productivity
Spend your hours on the few things that really count in your field, and get very good at them.
Influence
Help people think bigger and challenge them to grow, and they start to follow your lead.
One thing to try
Before your next meeting or call, shut your eyes for sixty seconds. Then ask yourself how you want to come across in the next hour, and go in with that.
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Get the whole book on KnotdOpen in the appWhy do some people keep winning? Lots of people succeed once. Brendon Burchard wanted to know why some keep succeeding for years without burning out. His answer is six habits, drawn from his own institute's surveys and coaching work, so read them as a coach's findings more than settled science.
Six habits, two kinds; Clarity is something you do; Release tension, set intention; Make it a must; Prolific Quality Output.
Before your next meeting or call, shut your eyes for sixty seconds. Then ask yourself how you want to come across in the next hour, and go in with that.
Yes. Knotd has the key ideas from High Performance Habits in a few minutes, in plain words, plus a Name That Idea round to test them. It's one of 250+ non-fiction books in the app.
