In a high performance culture, learn the use of a low positive recovery after performing under pressure.
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Most people will probably think, “Well, do I really need to control positive energy?” I hope you do! It means you are creating really good, but …stressful situations for yourself. Here’s what world-class athlete and business leaders do in high performance cultures when they take on a big challenge and have to peak their positive energy and how they recover and stay positive and create a high performance culture.
People who are great, take maniacal control of their mindset. The explanation of this, you can actually see on the video better than I can explain it here in text.
High positive energy is excitement.
It’s when you’re really up for something, you’re all excited about it, it’s a big deal; it’s a presentation, it’s a big sales opportunity for you, it’s a promotion, it’s new mortgage, it’s a new house, it’s a new potential lover – it’s whatever – and it really creates a lot of positive excitement.
When you have a high positive energy peak, you need to recover by spending time in low positive energy. If you stay in high positive energy too long, you can burn out and end up in low negative energy with negative thoughts, or worse move into high negative energy where you are losing it!
High-performers learn to recover with low positive energy and every once in a while – because we are all infallibly human, high-performers slide into a negative space, but they know how to get out of it quickly. High-performers operate most of the time moving between high and low positive energy.
Here is a running analogy – if you think of racers going uphill, this is high positive energy output; they are putting a lot of positive energy into the race. And then running downhill they get to just stretch and relax a little bit – low positive energy.
Recovery with low positive energy is very peaceful.
It is what I call a “half-smile;” it’s an “Aaaah, that feels good…” And you just relax and lie back a bit – and keep moving forward but at a relaxed pace.
What happens sometimes, when there is too much excitement and you don’t recover, you are going to start having negative thoughts or destructive thoughts and emotions. If this continues for an extended period of time you may even become depressed.
Here is a question. Have you had so much positivity that when it ended, you crashed and you fell into a slight level of depression because you didn’t have enough recovery? If so, you deeply understand the value of low positive recovery!
