OPTIMISING YOUR HEALTHY PERFORMANCE HABITS
What are your healthy Performance Habits? These will be activities that are important or meaningful to you and in the long run help you feel OK, stay OK, and optimise your performance.
What are your unhelpful habits? These will be things that might work for you in the short term but which make you feel worse in the long term.
Working with your Performance Habits Coach, plan your week using the Performance Habits Journal or your mobile phone. One goal is to increase the healthy performance habits in your week. A second goal is to gradually reduce unhelpful habits.
When you make a change, things might seem worse before they get better. Be driven by your plan not how you are feeling at a particular moment. This will lock in new habits.
Don’t wait to feel better before making changes to what you do. Start by changing what you do to feel better.
1. IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM
- What is the problem?
- What are my goals?
2. SOLUTIONS
- Think about possible solutions.
- What advice would I give to a mate about solving it?
3. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
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Think about the short-term and long-term pros and cons
4. BEST SOLUTION
- Settle on a solution
- If you do not feel positive about any of them then choose the least worst one
5. PUT THE PLAN INTO ACTION
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Monitor the outcome to see if it turned out as planned.
SET A WORRY PERIOD
Choose a time that would work for you (for example, 6pm).
POSTPONE THE WORRY
If you spot a worry, make a note of it, then postpone it to the worry period. If the worry comes back, remind yourself you will think about it later.
Return to your worry in the worry period
During the worry period, think about the worries, but only if they still seem worth worrying about. Spend no longer than the set amount of time worrying.