00:00 Hi, this is Mike Pettigrew, serial entrepreneur and author of the number one Amazon bestseller, The Most Powerful Goal Achievement System in the World. And a lot of people ask me this one question - "how do high performers become that way?" So firstly, what's a high performer? Well, a high performer is someone who succeeds above and beyond standard norms consistently over the long term. I'm not talking about peak performance states. If you're an athlete, you know all about peak performance, but high performance - it's something that you can sustain. And honestly, if you look out into society, unfortunately the statistics say that 95% of people by the time they reach retirement age are just barely above the poverty line - that's terrible. When you reach retirement, that's the time you should be doing all the things - you should be fulfilling all the dreams that you had when you were younger - travelling the world and having lots of fun.

00:57 But sadly, when most people get to retirement age, it's the opposite. They face years of poverty - very, very sad. And it doesn't have to be this way. So a high-performer - becoming a high performer is really important. It's not about working crazy busy - crazy hard and burning yourself out. It's completely the opposite. So high performers are people who excel in their career, excel in any area of your life because you can bring your high performance habits into your career, your relationships, your hobbies. Every error area of your life can be enhanced by these techniques, tools and strategies that high performers use. And one of my mentors, Brendon Burchard, he created the - he is the founder of the High Performance Institute and they'd studied something like 300,000 high performers all around the world and they found these specific habits that most of them adopt. So it's, as I say, it's not about working really hard.

02:08 It's about working smart, it's about saving energy, it's about having more focus. It's about reducing stress dramatically. It's about you becoming capable - about you becoming all you're capable of becoming. So high performance is amazing and I only discovered this very late in my career. I've been an entrepreneur since I was 15, that's over 40 years. And I've only just really come across high performance habits and High Performance Training and coaching in the past five years. And it has completely transformed my life. High performance is about, as I say, succeeding above and beyond standard norms consistently over the long term. So it doesn't matter whether you run your own business, whether you work for someone else, if you're a stay at home mom, if you're a student wanting to improve your exam results - high performance strategies can get you there and very, very quickly - they can enable you to achieve whatever it is that you want with less effort, less stress, and more energy and joy.

03:22 So one simple technique is energization breaks every 60 to 90 minutes as you go through the day. So at the end of the day, instead of being burnt out, you are not burnt out. And every 90 minutes you have more energy, more focus. So you progressed through your day and all your tasks much more easily with more brainpower and aliveness. So high performance is a game changer. No matter what it is that you do, no matter what you want to achieve, high performers are ordinary people who do extraordinary things, and you can be a high performer and it's so easy to learn these skills. And if you'd like to find out more, go to www.AchieveGoalsFast.com/USC because I have my Ultimate Success Club - get together online once a month and I teach these high performance tools, strategies, and techniques, and they are so easy to put into practice, so easy, but they can change everything radically for you. So again, that's www.AchieveGoalsFast.com/USC Thank you so much for watching and I look forward to speaking with you again very soon. Bye Bye.