Achieving Peak Performance

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Great dreams, inspiring visions, creative innovations--these are all important pieces of the puzzle, yet they are worthless unless we can implement them. Knowing what to do is not enough--you must do what you know, and act, executive and translate your dreams into behavior. You must close the "knowing-doing" gap and take action to achieve your peak performance in life. In this new volume, Dr. Hall sets out the Neuro-Semantic processes for closing this "knowing-doing" gap by finding your passions and making them real in your life. Discover the Mind-to-Muscle pattern, the secrets of achieving expertise, and also how to benchmark your program in achieving your goals. ACHIEVING PEAK PERFORMANCE: The Science and Art of Taking Performance to Ever Higher Levels: META-COACHING - VOLUME V (2009) Contents PREFACE 01: PERFORMANCE AT A HIGHER LEVEL Consistent Perfonnance? An Idea Whose Time Has Come Implementing for Enhanced Performance The Neuro-Semantics of Performance Accelerating Performance with Meta-States Action Plan 02: CLOSING THE KNOWING-DOING GAP Let what's in the Mind be in the Muscles The Mind-to-Muscle Pattern How We Extend the Gap between Knowing-Doing Deceived by Pseudo-Actions ** Jargon Alert! ** Transforming Knowledge into Action Embodying for Behavioral Competence Next Stop: The Mind-to-Muscle Pattern THE MIND-TO-MUSCLE PATTERN There are two cautions before you run the pattern: The Pattern: Alternatives for the Mind-to-Muscle Pattern Procedural Knowledge Action Plan 03: GETTING YOURSELF TO TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION Getting Ourselves To Take Action The Question Talent Search (S.W.O.T. Analysis) Taking the Talent Search to a Higher Level Do Y 00 Have a Strategy? Strategy Elicitation Strategy Delivery The Strategic Nature of Patterns * NEW BEHAVIOR GENERATOR * SKILL DEVELOPMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT * REPRESENTATIONAL CLARITY * META-STATING OWNERSHIP * SETTING RESPONSIBILITY TO/FOR FRAMES INTENTIONALITY * TAKING AN INTENTIONAL STANCE * META-STATING DECISIVENESS * FEEDBACK: RIDING SYSTEM LOOPS * ACCOUNTABILITY SHAPING * FIRST STEP APPROXIMATIONS * PROPULSION SYSTEM * ELIMINATING WIGGLE ROOM * APPLY TO SELF * TAKING PERFORMANCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL * PERFORMANCE REVIEWING 04: THE ART OF IMPLEMENTATION Defining Implementation From Knowing to Doing Installing Patterns The Design of the Pattern Mind-to-Muscle as Feed Back and Feed Forward Loops The Question of Ecology The Implementation Process An Implementation Model A Complete Model 1) Theoretical Framework 2) Components: elements, processes 3) Guidelines: 4) Patterns for Implementation : Installation Process Factor The Levels of Competency Moving Through the Competence Stages The Myth of Unconscious Installation * META-YES-ING * WILD EXPERIMENTING * PERSONALIZING * REHEARSAL * SWISHING TO AN IMPLEMENTING IDENTITY * META-STATING PROACTIVITY * TIME FOR A CHANGE 05: ELIMINATING PERFORMANCE BLOCKS AND INTERFERENCES * META-STATING EMOTIONS * DANCING WITH DRAGONS THE EXCUSE DRAGON The Nature of Excuses Level One of Excuse Making The Cognitive Content of an Excuse Then We Become Devious Meta-stating the Excuse-Making State Above and Beyond Excuses The Meta-State Frame of Disliking Excuse-Making Un-Awareness Becomes our Inner Game Welcome to the Meta-Muddle Dimension How you Relate to Your Excuse-Making * EXCUSE BLOW-OUT * META- "NO ! " FOR CREATIVE STUBBORNNESS ELIMINATING FEAR FROM DOMINATING YOUR LIFE The Problem with Fear as a Frame Driving Out Fear * FEAR BLOW-OUT * COURAGE * META-STATING PROCRASTINATION 06: THE EXPERIENCE OF PEAK PERFORMANCES * ACCESSING PERSONAL GENIUS Finding a Template for your Genius State Building a New Genius State THE META-LEVELS OF PEAK PERFORMANCE Detecting the Meta-Levels The Spelling Strategy Performance Questions Four Dimensions of Performance The Base Levels of Perfonnance The Meta-Levels of Perfonnance PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS AND LEVELS META-PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS * GESTALTING HIGHER STATES * SUPER-CHARGING ATTITUDES * META-ALIGNMENT * META-STATING EFFICIENCY * STRETCHING * LEVERAGING HIGH RETURN BEHAVIORS PERSISTENCE 07: LIFE IN THE ZONE OF PEAK PERFORMANCE Self-Actualization Quadrants The Quadrants Quadrant I: Undeveloped Quadrant II: Performers Quadrant III: Creators Quadrant IV: Self-Actualizers The Meta-Programs of the Self-Actualization Quadrants The Meanings within Perfonnance The Main Points 08: WHO WANTS TO BEAN EXPERT? THE ULTIMATE SECRET BEHIND EXPERT PERFORMANCES The 10-Year Rule What else is Involved in Acquiring Expertise? From Practice to Meta-Practice Practice alone an Expert does not Make Three Problems The Magic Challenge of Deliberate Practice 1) Structured set of activities for improving performance. 2) An effortful stretch. 3) Self-Monitoring and Measuring of progress. 4) A focused concentration. 5) Mindful practice Deliberately Practicing Summary - The Expertise Secret Par Excellent Exposes 09: EVALUATING AND MEASURING PERFORMANCE A Problem of Language The Language of Precision Benchmarking: The Art of Measuring Excellence Benchmarking for Accountability Benchmarking Skills The Benchmarking Model The Benchmarking Process of something Intangible Criteria for a Benchmarking Project Examples of Benchmarking * MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION * KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Benchmarking the KPI Process Benchmarks: 10: MEASURING THE SYNERGY OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION Measuring Self-Actualization Potentials and Reality Testing the Measurement Tool Reflections about this Measurement Tool Scaling the Meaning and Perfonnance Axes - Preliminary Benchmarks Scaling the Meaning Axis and its Sub-skills Scaling the Performance Axes and its Sub-skills Scaling Meaning and Performance Synergy Summary APPENDIX A NLP models Neuro-Semantic Models APPENDIX B: META-QUESTIONS APPENDIX C: Welcome to the Matrix The Matrix Model States and the Matrix BIBLIOGRAPHY L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.