The High Performance Mindset At Work, Home and Life

Our mindset is the lens we use to perceive, interpret, and evaluate our world. Learn how to excel at and enjoy more happiness in your work, home, and life by unlocking the power of the High Performance Mindset. The High Performance Mindset contains practical and easy-to-use strategies and has been written for people who want to learn how their mind operates at its best—and worst. If you’re keen to know more about yourself, how to reduce stress and become more efficient and effective in all areas of your life, The High Performance Mindset is the manual you’ll need to gain power and control as well as become more proactive and positive using the commitments of success, others, and self. A highlight of this book are the variety of easy-to-complete surveys developed by Michael that have helped hundreds of thousands of people of all ages gain greater self-awareness of strengths and areas for growth. Michael draws on his many years of counseling, coaching, and consulting in the fields of sport, business, leadership, parenting, and education. He discusses how the energy and action that high performers have developed to overcome difficulty and that propel them towards their goals is found in their resilience. Additionally, the author shows how one key to a successful mind is the ability to minimize internal blockers such as anxiety, feeling down, anger, and procrastination.

Michael E. Bernard, Ph.D. is an international consultant to universities, organizations, educational authorities and governments. Since 2004, he has been a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Graduate School of Education and is an Emeritus Professor, California State University, Long Beach. He is the Founder of You Can Do It! Education (youcandoiteducation.com.au), a program for promoting student social-emotional well-being and achievement that is being used in over 6,000 schools in Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Singapore, England, Romania, and North America.

PART 1 MINDSET MATTERS
Psychology Brain science and neuro-plasticity
Mindset discovered
What drives highest workplace performance
Blockers to high performance
Professional sport
You Can Do It!
Education
The high performance mindset formula

PART 2 COMMITMENTS
Without commitments, we can’t achieve much
Commitment to Success
Commitment to Others
Commitment to Self
Strengthening a commitment

PART 3 BLOCKERS
Meet the blockers
Anxiety
Feeling down
Anger
Procrastination
Steps for overcoming blockers
Tips for overcoming blockers
The performance cycle

PART 4 RESILIENCE
Stress It’s your resilience
Resilience. The big picture
The ABCs of self-management
Challenging and changing the way you think
Strengthening resilience: Three-step action plan

PART 5 WORK
Strengthening high performance mindsets
High performance problem solving
Overcoming fear of failure, indecisiveness and perfectionism
Procrastinate later!
Being ‘at cause’ or being ‘at effect’
Coaching Learning and development
Leadership
Successful selling
High performance mindset mentoring for university students

PART 6 HOME
Strong relationships
Relationship problems
Happiness at home
Parenting strengths
High performance mindset for your kids
Parent education

PART 7 LIFE
Rationality and the pursuit of happiness
Self-acceptance
Rational beliefs for life