The 6 success pillars of high performing founders
How to achieve high performance and boost founder productivity
🌱 Working hard is a good thing, right?
Out of all the founders and leaders I work with, every one of them is super hard working. They are visionary, ambitious, caring, and successful. Yet, quite a few have lost themselves along the way, leading to thoughts of quitting. Sounds familiar?
Growing a business is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Founders need to grow themselves to grow their business and be able to deal with increasing complexity, uncertainty, and their evolving role. They need to be grounded and moving forward at the same time.
That is where Brendon Burchard’s High Performance framework comes in.
High Performance is about achieving meaningful goals consistently over the long term while maintaining well-being and positive relationships. It’s about reaching your next level while avoiding burnout and false obligations. It’s about thriving, not just surviving. For this, you may need to ask different questions and adopt better habits and practices.
6 pillars of High Performance for founders
Here are 6 pillars inspired by High Performance and some exemplary questions to thrive in the long run:
1️⃣ Mindset & Courage: Do your thoughts serve you? Are you living your truth? A positive founder mindset is crucial for success.
2️⃣ Energy: Do you feel extraordinary physical, mental, and emotional energy? High energy levels are essential for sustained founder productivity.
3️⃣ Flow & Productivity: Are you working in or on your business? Optimise your focus to enhance your productivity.
4️⃣ Influence: Have you developed the skills and capacity needed to lead the next level of business growth? Effective leadership requires continuous skill development.
5️⃣ Presence: What are you avoiding? Being present and addressing challenges head-on is key to maintaining focus and progress.
6️⃣ Clarity & Purpose: What makes you feel fully alive? Understanding your purpose drives long-term motivation and success.
Thrive with High Performance habits
Don’t just work harder. Thrive in the long run by developing your mindset and high performance habits to serve with joy, confidence, and full engagement 🌱.
This is also the foundation to become a more conscious leader, building trust, empowering others, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development, and creating positive ripples in your business and beyond.
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Christina Peters, Founder and Executive Coach, The Art of Self
Christina supports leaders and innovators on their path to high-performance and conscious leadership. With over a decade in consulting at boutique firms and Accenture, she has developed digital transformation strategies and build new business models and innovation units for German DAX companies, working with c-level. Six years ago, she began exploring how truly “sustainable” business can work. This journey led her to focus on awareness and leadership development as being crucial to bridging the gap between people, nature & business. Achieving this requires a paradigm shift, learning organisations, and a systemic view of business & value streams.
Direct yet compassionate, and driven yet humble, she has navigated significant personal & professional change. Her holistic experience uniquely positions her to facilitate deep personal & leadership transformation. She is member of the European Association of Supervision & Coaching and has learned directly from various pioneers at the forefront of leadership, such as Gunther Schmidt at Milton-Erickson Institute Heidelberg, Carol Sanford, and Giles Hutchins. With roots in Hamburg and experience in South America, China, South Africa, and England, she is blending global thinking with local action.
