What is HPC?
HPC (High-Performance Coaching) is the neuroscience & art of unlocking biases to help you perceive more and achieve your greater goals faster.
How it works
There are 3 main areas of excellence that my style of coaching enhances:
Action
Time management
Productivity optimization
Flow state maximization
Information
Critical thinking
Credibility vetting
Decision making
Motivation
Vision building
Roadmap planning
Environment structuring
Productive Action
You already know that “doing a lot” is not the same as “getting a lot done”, right?
Good, because this is critical, and how you manage your priorities, time, and flow makes virtually all the difference to your success.
Priorities
Is what you’re doing accomplishing what you want?
And is what you want beneficial to your goal?
If your answer to both of these isn’t a confident “Yes”, then your real priority is being neglected. Do you know what it is?
Time management
How much are you getting done each workday? Do you know?
And how much time are you taking to get it done?
If you’re not happy with your answers to both of these questions, then you have a lot of potential here, because imagine if you were.
Flow state
During work, are you spending most of your time completing tasks, or organizing them?
And when starting work, are you able to jump in and immediately get stuff done, or do you have to find things first?
What if you could?
Reliable Information
There’s a lot of information out there, and one person can’t know everything.
But, you can use what you’ve learned in ways that outperform the rest, by how you think critically, vet credibility, and make decisions.
Critical thinking
There are people you like, and who you dislike, sources you trust, and ones you distrust, but they all have information, and all information is useful in the right context.
There is information you know you have, and information you know you’re missing, but are you aware of a third type which is even more important: the information you don’t even realize you’re missing?
These “unknown unknowns” can be the difference between “luck” and a “black swan event”
Credibility vetting
How do you know if something is true or false, real or fake, natural or scripted? The answer may be surprising: you can’t. No one can. All facts are simply shared (or projected) opinions justified by rationalizations.
However, this changes nothing, because people don’t act on information; they act on confidence about information. But, whether their actions are helpful or harmful depends on the credibility of this information, which is impacted by 3 things (first = most significant):
- Minimizing DTR (distance to reality),
- Maximizing DOS (diversity of sources), and
- Recognizing patterns within information
Understanding these, or working with someone who does, helps you identify gaps before they become issues, as well as reveal opportunities, and adjust to take full advantage of them.
Decision making
How do you make your big decisions?
What about your small ones?
Did you realize that you make them both exactly the same way, because everything you do is a decision. The only difference is the consequences of the decision, its importance & impact. The cognitive process of making the decision is the same.
Understanding and optimizing the mental micro-steps you take to make decisions, or working with someone who does, helps you increase confidence in your decisions, recognize when a decision is no longer beneficial, and adapt quicker.
Limitless Motivation
Sometimes, even thinking about doing something is draining, even if we know what to do, and know that it’s helpful. This is a problem, and it has a solution.
Motivation is the visibility of the connection between what we’re doing and what we want.
If we can’t see how the things we’re doing give us what we want, then we don’t have motivation. The clearer we can see this connection, the more motivation we have.
Vision building
What do you want the most in life, for yourself and others?
What does having this look like, sound like, and feel like both within you and around you?
This is your top priority. If you don’t have an instant, confident, and detailed answer to this, then taking the extended time to do this, either on your own or with guidance, will give you immeasurable clarity, direction, and fulfillment for every decision you make and outcome you create.
Roadmap defining
You know what you want, but do you know how to get it?
What steps will bring you to it?
If you don’t know what to do in order to build your vision, then you want to create a roadmap as a clear path to your vision. You, on your own or with guidance, can create this by breaking down your vision into requirements (“What must exist for this to be possible?”), and then sorting those requirements into a linear order. Using this roadmap as your GPS, you focus your time and energy on only that which brings you closer to your vision with every step you take, and helps you reach it faster.
Environment structuring
Are you surrounded by things that help you remember and focus on your goals, or distract you from them?
Is where you are located helping you grow, or is it limiting you?
Your environment is the space in which you operate, it contains the resources you can use, and it’s the area into which you can expand. Do you know if your current environment is doing these things for you? If not, then what would it be like if everything around you supports you, is available for you to access, and accelerates you along your path?
This is how you can structure your environment.
How we get started
1. Getting to know each other as people
We’ll have an open conversation, sharing and learning about each other, to know if we’re aligned and would be comfortable and happy working together. With enough alignment, we may even jump into step 2 right away
2. Understanding your situation and goals
We’ll talk about the current state of your business and/or life, to know exactly where you are and where you want to be
3. Exploring pathways to your goal
We’ll brainstorm possible ways to achieve your goal that create real value for you, your business, and/or your relationships
4. Deciding how to work together
Depending on the pathway, you might want to do some parts yourself or work together in some areas, because at the end of the day, what matters is having your goal accomplished