Here it is… one mistake top performers routinely make that often means the difference between good and great career performance.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hi there, I’m George Karris from Step Out of the Race. In this video, I’m going to talk about the biggest mistakes that top performers routinely make.
The mistake they the make is this. They tend to believe that their capacity will expand to meet whatever demands may bring. This is a mistake that you see across all sorts of different types of top performers, whether it is attorneys or physicians or executives. Whatever it is, there is this belief that whatever the challenge is that I have the capacity to go ahead and meet it. What the means is that these individuals are frequently working really, really, tremendously hard, and that is their baseline. And from time to time, it goes to sort of the extreme level. |
What you often see, and you probably know people like this, is this will go on and go on and go on for awhile and then they will eventually get sick. They will get really sick and have to take a couple days off and wear pajamas all day, right? You go, “That’s kind of strange.” It’s not kind of strange.
What it is is their body is looking for the opportunity to recover. I know I have done this to myself and I know other people who have. What tends to happen is you push yourself, you push yourself, you push yourself without giving yourself a chance to rest and recover. When you do that, eventually you just burn out and your body says, “Enough is enough.” |
You can think about this from the prospective of exercise. If you were to lift weights every single day, it wouldn’t develop your muscles, it will actually be very unhealthy. What you need to do to develop more muscles and more stamina is exercise then rest, exercise then rest.
Top performers really need to do this in our own work lives as well, which is really give ourselves permission to take some time and recover and rest. I don’t mean rest in terms of sitting in front the television set and drinking three beers. That’s not healthy rest. I mean more rest in terms of doing something that is more constructive, right? Going for a walk or getting some of that exercise. |
Or doing those things that give you the downtime so that you can rest between those sort of periods of up time at work. What is the mistake people make? They have this belief that their capacity will expand to meet the needs of the demands and that it will happen consistently.
In fact, what we need to do is really work at peak levels, take a break, whether that break is an hour or two hours or even 20 minutes, but routinely get that break so we can sort of rest and recover and then take our performance back up to a high level again. I hope that tip was helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me, [email protected]. Thanks a lot. |
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