In this first module, we’ll discuss the idea of reaching our full potential and the mindset shifts needed to make progress toward this goal. We’ll use the framing of peak performance throughout the course to help you take tangible action toward your goals.

To set the foundation for the rest of the course, we’ll be talking about some of the most common traps we run into as humans—like procrastination—as well as the keys to overcoming these challenges. Finally, we’ll dig into the 3 domains of your life to focus on during your journey: your health, wealth, and relationships and the mindset shifts needed to reach your goals.

Goals:

• Discuss the idea of our universal purpose—to reach our full potential—and how we can use the peak performance framework to get there

• Identify the 5 most common peak performance traps and the 3 keys to reaching peak performance (IPA)

• Discuss the 3 domains that make up a fulfilled life

• Identify the mindset shifts we need to prepare for our journey toward peak performance

In this module, we’re going to be looking at what really drives our behavior. We’ll discuss the interplay between identity and habit formation, then dig into the three domains we touched on in Module 1: your health, wealth, and relationships. We’ll be brainstorming who we want to be and how we want to show up in each of those domains so we have a clear idea of how to move toward our full potential. 

Unlike some resources that say that change will take a long time, we want you to take away the idea that change is possible and that you can start making changes right away by making a decision about your identity. You don’t need to be perfect, but you can start taking action right now.

Finally, we’ll look at some practical and tangible ways to ensure we’re showing up how we want to be showing up in our daily life, including the three alarms method, a dedicated morning routine, and champion proofs: the specific ways we will implement our chosen identities in a given day.

Goals:

• Describe the power of and relationship between identity and habit
• Build your dream team–set identities and values for how you want to show up in each of the three domains: health, wealth, and relationships
• Use proven strategies like champion proofs to transform your new identities into specific daily actions
• Set up three alarms to incorporate your new identities into your daily routine

In the next two modules, we’ll be talking about productivity. The first tackles planning and the second module will cover execution.

At its core, productivity requires a concrete plan of action – doing the right things in the most efficient amount of time. Without a plan and goals, we can end up spinning our wheels, procrastinating, and hitting the end of the day feeling like we haven’t accomplished anything we set out to do.

We’re going to be talking about how to create as many ‘winning days’ as possible to build toward a habit of getting back on track, even when we have a bad day. We’ll be covering the idea of creating structure through the Olympic Days framework: having specific morning, workday, and evening routines. Finally, we’ll look at the concept of magnetic goals and create our own, including plans for how to make our goal more likely to happen.

Goals:

• Discuss the idea of winning days and how to create the habit of staying on track with our plans
• Create an Olympic Day routine, including specific actions you’ll take during your evening, morning, and workday routines
• Draft one or more magnetic goals to inspire progress on both a daily and 90-day basis

In the last module, we looked at how to plan your day to maximize your productivity. Now, we’re going to focus on optimizing for action–in other words, improving how you execute, including how to stay focused on the right things, build better habits, and minimize distraction. We’ll also look at how to create a strong sense of personal accountability through measurement.

We’ll be looking at frameworks like the 80/20 rule (also known as the Pareto principle) to understand how time and results are often disproportionately related and how this rule can help us overcome the tendency toward perfectionism. We’ll also be driving focus through the idea of ‘single-tasking’ in a world that seems to glorify multitasking. We’ll dig deeper into the idea of energy management instead of time management and discuss the science behind building better habits.

Finally, we’ll look at how to measure our progress. We’ll track our goals, habits, and behaviors to drive accountability to our best selves, including the ‘win or learn’ game and our 4 power questions to review our progress.

Goals:

• Create more focus on the right goals and actions using the 80/20 rule and the idea of single-tasking
• Manage your energy to drive progress according to your natural rhythms
• Form good habits that will move you toward your goals with habit loops
• Create personal accountability by reviewing your progress and tracking your goals, habits, and behaviors

Antifragility is a new perspective on stress. It means we can become the opposite of fragile, so the more stress and hardship we experience, the stronger and more confident we become. This differs from the common conversation around being resilient to stress. We’re not just going to be resilient—we’re going to become stronger.

Developing an antifragile mindset will help us overcome the unexpected challenges we’re going to face on our journey toward becoming our best self and remain grounded when things don’t go to plan.

We’ll kick off by discussing Carol Dweck’s growth vs. fixed mindsets and the idea of taking a pro mindset toward what you need to get done. We’ll also be taking control over how we respond to setbacks and fear through the power of the ‘pause’ and the concept of stepping into our fears, as our actions build our confidence (rather than the other way around).

We’ll look at some specific frameworks like WOOP, giving you the tools to go beyond typical positive thinking frameworks and execute in a realistic way. Finally, we’ll talk about learning and growing through soliciting feedback, having difficult conversations, and finding help when you need it.

Goals:

• Reframe your mindset around stress to view it positively

• Strengthen your self-belief through frameworks like the growth mindset, 80/20 upskilling, and the pro mindset

• Apply tools like the bold action rule, WOOP, and the stress of loss to execute in challenging situations and turn stress into a source of strength

• Increase your courage and confidence by learning to step into fear, handle difficult conversations, find help, and solicit feedback

In the previous modules, we covered a lot of ground across our identity, productivity, and antifragility. Now, it’s time to go deeper into some of these areas.

We’ll be using the 80/20 rule to look at how to optimize some of the previous frameworks we covered across the domains of health, wealth, and relationships, prioritizing three major areas for each domain so that we can get the biggest return in each area. We’ll be looking at frameworks like CPR to build better connections, as well as making a plan to optimize aspects of our health and wealth to help us perform at our best.

Finally, we’ll be focusing on reshaping our personal story. The most powerful force either driving us toward our goals or holding us back is the story we tell ourselves—how we think of and describe ourselves, what we’re afraid of, and how we approach our life.

Goals:

• Create an 80/20 approach to becoming your best self in the 3 life domains of health, wealth, and relationships

• Implement the most important components of sleep, movement, and nutrition to optimize your health

• Make a plan for wealth around focusing on the right things, saving, and investing

• Build better relationships with yourself and others and grow your network of connections via the CPR technique

• Create a new story about yourself to build momentum toward the future and fortify your courage and confidence