For a long time, I thought that I was a 'high performer', but it was only when I started to fully let go that I understood a new level of fulfillment that I never knew existed as an entrepreneur. In this episode, I take you through the four levels of performance so that you can identify where you are on the scale. It will also hit you with some hard questions. High performance needs to be refined and hopefully, this episode will open your eyes. I’m going to bring your attention to something that could change everything for you – a term used a lot in the entrepreneurial community is ‘high performance.’ I want to redefine that phrase and take it to another level because it can have serious consequences. A lot of suicides happen with entrepreneurs you look at and think have everything. So many people take their own lives each year and many of those people were high performers. I want to be really honest and look at what’s beneath that and think about emotional intelligence and energetic intelligence in relation to high performance. The Levels Of Performance Low performance is when energy is being taken away from you, maybe you’ve gone into a business, and you’re just not happy. There are other things happening maybe in your relationships, and you’re just not where you want to be. Your output is not optimal. When you’re performing things are going okay. You might be working paycheck to paycheck and you’re coasting. The next level is high performance – I think it starts to get slightly dangerous with this terminology because when a lot of people think about high performance, they think about being really focused and hitting certain targets. The reality is that there’s still a lot of burnout, depression, anxiety, and very destructive thought patterns happening even when people are performing at their highest. Your Optimal Level Of Performance I want to introduce a new level, this is ‘super high performance.’ This is about letting go and resolving things that have happened in your past. People who are very successful, making the money and living in the home they want, still have things from the past they haven’t been dealt with. That takes up a lot of energy. When you deal with that energy and start to have difficult conversations, you bring to your awareness something that needs to be tackled that you may not have known was an issue. Having that awareness is so important. When you discover what needs to be uncovered (it could be a relationship with a family member or an issue around shame) it’s dealt with energetically and it can be resolved. That release moves you into a whole new level of performance so things flow more easily, you’re in alignment, relationships are better and you even have better sex because of it! Financial Success Is Not Enough That energy is very different from when you’re focused, making money, and achieving but you know within you that something is wrong because things just don’t feel right to you. I got to a place when I questioned where I was leading people. I had everything I thought I wanted and I’d reached all the goals I thought were going to make me successful. I reached a material success but I knew deep within me that there was so much more I needed to do. If you aren’t aware you have things to heal you continue to push through until you hit your next target. You think you’re going to reach the top of the mountain and suddenly your life will be perfect. Nothing can become perfect but you can manage things differently and you don’t have a negative charge around something. This is very common when it comes to anger. If something happened in the past and it doesn’t get resolved you show up the present moment being angry, snapping at people, and have no idea why it’s happening. You think something in the business is going on, so you continue to push forward, but actually it’s something that’s happened in the past.