{"id":19822,"date":"2017-03-09T20:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2017-03-10T07:55:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:55:40","slug":"10-steps-to-achieving-peak-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/2017\/03\/09\/10-steps-to-achieving-peak-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Steps To Achieving Peak Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

All leaders want to achieve peak performance and we want those on our teams to achieve peak performance as well.<\/strong> \u00a0It is not a question of desire. \u00a0It is a question of process and execution. \u00a0How do you do it?<\/p>\n

One week after this year’s Super Bowl, Sports Illustrated<\/a> writer Peter King<\/a> traveled to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s<\/strong> Montana hideaway searching for answers on the topic. \u00a0Brady had just engineered the largest comeback in Super Bowl history and is now generally considered the best quarterback who has ever played the game.<\/p>\n

King’s incredible two-part interview with the legendary quarterback can be heard on the MMQB podcast by clicking HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I listened to the interview, the following are\u00a010 Steps To Achieving Peak Performance<\/strong> I gleaned from their time together. \u00a0All quotes are from Brady.<\/p>\n

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  1. Peak Performers Eliminate Outside Noise. \u00a0They Do Not Get Bogged Down In Pettiness.<\/strong>\u00a0– “When you subject yourself to a lot of criticism, what I’ve learned from myself is, I don’t want to give my power away to other people by letting my own emotions be subjected to what their thoughts or opinions are.”<\/li>\n
  2. Peak Performers\u00a0Focus On What They Can Control<\/strong> – “There is only one fight I can win, and that is how well I play.”<\/li>\n
  3. Peak Performers Are Incurably Optimistic –\u00a0<\/strong>“I’m a very positive person.”<\/li>\n
  4. Peak Performers Love The Process Of Getting Better –\u00a0<\/strong>“Other than playing football, the other thing I love to do is prepare to play football.”<\/li>\n
  5. Peak Performers Are Experts At Their Craft –\u00a0<\/strong>“I have the answers to the test now (after playing over 200 games). \u00a0You can’t surprise me on defense. \u00a0I’ve seen it all.”<\/li>\n
  6. Peak Performers Put Focused Energy On The Things That Matter –\u00a0<\/strong>“Strength is very important to (my) job. \u00a0But how much strength do you need? \u00a0You only need the strength to withstand the hits and throw the ball and make your movements as a quarterback.”<\/li>\n
  7. Peak Performers Are Durable, Reliable, Resilient And Always Available –\u00a0<\/strong>“You need conditioning because you need to be able to do that over a period of time, certainly a season. \u00a0You need muscle pliability – long, soft muscles – in order to be durable.”<\/li>\n
  8. Peak Performers Take Care Of Their Bodies. \u00a0If It Fails You Lose Everything. –\u00a0<\/strong>“It’s going to be really hard for me to have a muscle injury, based on the health of my muscle tissue and the way I try to take care of it. \u00a0Your muscle and your body allow you play this great sport.”<\/li>\n
  9. Peak Performers Make The Right Choices –\u00a0<\/strong>“It’s about making the right choices. \u00a0It’s not more effort. \u00a0Everyone puts in effort. \u00a0Everyone wants to do the right thing. \u00a0They just don’t know what it is.”<\/li>\n
  10. Peak Performers Continually Produce Superior Results On The Biggest Stages –\u00a0<\/strong>In the last three seasons, Brady has a record of 42-10 with two Super Bowl victories. \u00a0During that same time, he has thrown 117 touchdown passes with only 27 interceptions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What is one lesson from Brady you learned that can make you a better leader?<\/p>\n

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    All leaders want to achieve peak performance and we want those on our teams to achieve peak performance as well. \u00a0It is not a question of desire. \u00a0It is a question of process and execution. \u00a0How do you do it? One week after this year’s Super Bowl, Sports Illustrated writer Peter King traveled to New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[463],"class_list":["post-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performance","category-sports-leadership","tag-tom-brady"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/51PMjKRgmXL._SX335_BO1204203200_.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19830,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions\/19830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}