[00:00:36] Welcome to the Peak Revival Podcast. My name is Vesna. Today I'm gonna talk about the peak performance formula, what does it take to get to this highest version of yourself, this optimal version, and why productivity is outdated, right?
[00:00:50] We've got enough advice on busyness and how to be more productive and time management, and why capacity is the new currency.
[00:00:57] So the reason why I say productivity is outdated is because you could be busy, you could actually do a lot of work, but still not achieve the results that you want. So
[00:01:08] Productivity doesn't equal performance. Busyness doesn't equal results. Output doesn't equal outcome.
[00:01:16] Right. And that's why I say productivity is just so outdated now and trying to get us to do more work if also we are not doing the right things.
[00:01:25] But then we need the capacity to do everything right. So what determines how much you can carry? So for women, there is something far deeper that determines how much we can carry. So I don't know whether you've had this experience, but I've seen people who are running big businesses and big teams and. They look less stressed than me, So they're doing bigger things, but they looks less stressed than me.
[00:01:47] Like I've had this experience before and I always found that interesting. You know, you could work really hard, you get stuck in the weeds, you work harder on solving the wrong problems, and you don't move forward. And so there's something [00:02:00] else at play here that allows you to, You know, solve these bigger problems, create these bigger projects With a lot less stress and a lot less ease. And that comes down to capacity. It's our inner world. It's our energy, it's our identity.
[00:02:12] Whether we identify as someone who can do and be those things, it's our bandwidth. And then it's the frequency that you operate from. So these are the things obviously I talk about a lot, but these are the things that matter to push you into from where you are now, to be able to.
[00:02:30] Take on bigger things and you may be thinking, oh my gosh, I do not want more on my plate. Right? And that's a sign, that's a telltale sign. So it's not about having more on your plate. It's like, what is your vision? What is your mission? How do you get there? Who do you need to become in order to get there?
[00:02:43] Because I can tell you for sure, you cannot build big things or do big things in the world when your nervous system is stuck in high alert mode. When you're exhausted, when you can't create high level outcomes, and you can't create high level energy or high level thinking that is required to get to that stage.
[00:03:01] this is why people who look like they're doing less but often creating bigger results, not because they're smarter, but because they have more capacity. They have more mental bandwidth, they have more energy, they can get more done without it feeling stressful, urgent, too much without it feeling, feeling like the world is on their shoulders.
[00:03:22] And how do you do this? Well, there is a formula, and I have the formula. So this formula, and I'm gonna reference Tim Goway, who was a coach, a tennis coach that went into the corporate world, but he had a formula and I really loved it. And I had my, I've got my version of the formula, right? But this is how I see performance, right?
[00:03:39] For anybody, wherever you are at. You could be exhausted, you could be burnt out. You could be just operating at a, just an okay level, but how do you get to this? You know, really high potential of performance and it's
[00:03:51] Energy x Focus – Interference. that's my formula.
[00:03:55] So when we look at energy, well, this is kind of obvious, but it doesn't, you'd be surprised how [00:04:00] many people don't see this for themselves, right? Energy is your performance fuel. It is the fire that you bring into your work, to your business, to your relationships, to your family, to your hobbies, to the community, right?
[00:04:11] Without energy, you're not getting anything done. The more energy you have, the more you can output. The more then you can do than anybody else, right? So Energy is the life force behind every goal. We need energy to execute the goal. We don't see exhausted, burnt out people achieving big things in the world, right?
[00:04:29] if you don't have energy, you don't have capacity. Full stop, right? You just can't get that much done. in order to have that energy, you need to be healthy, right? So it needs to be, well, how are you taking care of yourself?
[00:04:39] Your energy is your frequency, and it matters, right? People pick up on your energy as soon as they meet you. When you walk into a room,
[00:04:46] Your presence communicates more than your words
[00:04:49] right? Your vitality is your business card. Like I said to the previous podcast, this guy was saying his fitness is his business card, but I think your energy, your vitality is your business card, right?
[00:05:00] It informs people more about you than anything else you say, and so it's really important to take care of it. So let me ask you, where is your energy at? Could you work all day without crashing? Can you do a full day and come home at the end of the day, walk through the door and have the same level of energy as you did at the start of the day?
[00:05:19] Obviously our energy kind of goes through wave during the day, but you know, you're not walking through the door absolutely spent and exhausted and like, how do I do the, So can you finish your workday and still have energy for your family, for hobbies, for doing other things?
[00:05:33] Are you waking up refreshed or are you waking up tired? So your energy is created by what you put in. So what you put in is what you get out. Okay? Your sleep matters. Are you getting good amounts of sleep or you draining your energy by sitting on the couch watching Netflix late at night? 'cause that's the only way that you can have me Time. Are you focused on nutrition, your protein, your glucose levels, and your glucose stability?
[00:05:57] What about water? What about strength training? [00:06:00] Supplementations? Have you had. Pathology test done recently to look at your eye and your thyroid levels, your stress hormone levels, right? Have you done those things because they are a predictor of the amount of energy that you have during the day and in the afternoon, and then also looking at removing energy drainers.
[00:06:16] Are you people pleasing? Saying Yes way too often, you know, having interactions where you know that there's that people pleasing energy where you're like, ah, this doesn't really suit me, but we'll do it this way anyway. Right? You've got no boundaries. Maybe your energy's being drained from wine at night, or Netflix, like I said, or too much caffeine during the day.
[00:06:37] Where is your energy at right now?
[00:06:39] What are you putting in? Because that determines what you get out. So the first part of the formula was energy. Now. Energy alone is not enough. So if you were to have, you know, if we were to fix your energy systems and you had so much energy, like energy on tap, you could do so much work during the day. But if you don't have focus. You are going to be all over the place, right?
[00:06:59] You're gonna use up your energy and all these things and still not progress further, still not reach your, your goals or the results that you want. I remember years ago, Sam Ovens, uh, had this formula, or this mathematical equation to show this, and it really made sense, right? He said, if you five x to your energy, but one x your focus, like you didn't, your focus maintain the same.
[00:07:20] So five times one. Equals five, Or if you had 10 times the amount of energy with 10 times the amount of focus 10 times 10 equals a hundred, Focus is the amplifier of energy right, in terms of your results. So. Focus allows your energy to be directed in the areas that you want it to be directed, to get the work done and achieve the results that you want.
[00:07:42] So it's a multiplier, right? So you can have lots of energy and no focus. You're still not gonna get anywhere. But the energy and the focus together will make sure that you can. Work solidly on a project without getting distracted, right? Without flicking between tasks, changing every 20 minutes or getting distracted by a text [00:08:00] message or an email, or a phone call, or scrolling, or a meeting, whatever that interra or distracted work process is not deep work, right?
[00:08:10] So if you can work solidly. For two, three hours on a task until you get it complete. There's good focus, right? Without getting distracted by anything or are you being distracted? Do you find it hard to complete a task you're jumping between different things. Are you not doing the deep work?
[00:08:27] You're finding it hard to get into that. I've gotta do this, but, oh, my head's just, it's not a good day for it, right? There's always excuses and so the deep work's not happening. That is really, really important.
[00:08:38] So what focus really means is that you can hold your attention on one thing long enough to produce the results that you want. It's mental clarity, it's higher level thinking, it's depth of thinking, and it's bandwidth. This ability to have so much bandwidth there that you can complete your work with a lot more ease.
[00:08:56] So I am gonna ask you now,
[00:08:56] How long can you work on a project until it's finished?
[00:09:00] Could you go a whole day working on something without being distracted? Could you go six hours or four hours? Or one hour or 20 minutes, like, how long can you focus for? And it's not about, oh yeah, but somebody called me. No, no.
[00:09:15] How long can you create, block out that time? So there is no distractions. And you can work solidly in that time without, like I said, without distractions. Or ask yourself how distracted am I during the day? How often am I answering emails or scrolling or, you know, SMSing or just keeping myself distracted.
[00:09:35] So we've got energy, we wanna five, 10 x your energy, but without the focus, you're just gonna waste your energy on things that don't really matter. So you need the focus, you need the depth there, right? You need that focus to get. Things done and hold that focus for long periods of time until you get the result that you want.
[00:09:52] So energy and focus are a massive amplifier. And the third thing is part of the formula is to remove interference or minus [00:10:00] interference. So interference is not external problems, it's the internal noise that blocks your potential. So going back to Tim Goway, the tennis coach, his formula was
[00:10:09] Potential – Interference = Performance and he basically said like every, we've all got potential, right? We've got higher potential than what we realize. And the problem is we have so much interference. for example, you know, if a basketball player, like someone like Michael Jordan was about to, to take a shot, looked at the net and in his mind.
[00:10:29] Entered so much noise about, oh my gosh, if I miss this, I'm finished, right? My sponsors will let me go. everyone's gonna be mad at me. This is it. This is like, everything depends on this shot. Now, if he had that level of noise going on, you could imagine that it would really affect his performance.
[00:10:46] Okay? So he, he's got the potential. But minus the interference. So none of that noise equals high performance. Okay? And so look at for yourself how much interference you have, how much anxiety, how much over analytical thinking, or just overthinking or unable to let things go. That mental kind of chatter, catastrophizing, worry, stuck in that loop.
[00:11:12] Open loop of worry, right? Imagining worst case scenarios, how often does that happen? a lot of women will say, oh yeah, that's me. Oh my gosh, I'm in my head all the time. And some women don't recognize it because they're so accustomed to it.
[00:11:27] not everyone like, but it's when I see the symptoms of stress, right? Like you, yeah, you're really showing the symptoms of stress. And if women are like, yeah, I don't feel that stress, but there is a lot going on in their mind that they become accustomed to that they don't notice anymore.
[00:11:41] But for those that you that do, how much can you see that this interference is actually not only an energy drainer, not only robbing your focus, but reducing your potential and therefore your performance? And honestly all, if all we did was remove that interference, that alone would be enough to shift us into high potential naturally.[00:12:00]
[00:12:00] Okay. because we have so much potential, but we just have so many barriers to it. Right. Not external. It's really what's going on in our head because often.
[00:12:08] If we just see it as external, we don't recognise
[00:12:11] the power that we have to overcome so many obstacles. for many women, they don't need more discipline, They just need less interference.
[00:12:21] So that is my peak performance formula. That, that, those are the things that I focus on and those are the things that I would, you know, if whatever place you are in, if you're not feeling like you're operating at your best, then those would be the things that I focus on. Energy, get more energy to get more done, have focus, right?
[00:12:37] To be able to execute and work on tasks for hours at a time until it's finished. Right. We have a problem in the world where we don't have people doing deep work anymore. And the simple fact that you can do deep work, you will outwork your competitors, right? Because it's such a deficiency for people today due to our short attention spans due to social media.
[00:12:57] energy x focus – interference
[00:13:00] that is your peak performance formula. That is your ability to get to the highest level in business and in leadership, but in your personal life, in your relationship. In your communities, in your families, in your mothering, right? That is a way to be present and do all the things that you need to do while still enjoying life, while it feels much less stressful and more easy.
[00:13:19] So let me ask you, what is the first thing that you need to do right now to live at that level? do you have a plan in place? Have you started it?
