Master Your Game: How to Prepare Like a High Achiever

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Welcome to today's edition of Level Up!

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Weekly Tip:

Set a high standard for your preparation process to ensure you consistently perform at your best.

Extensive preparation is crucial for exceptional results and optimizing performance. This week, you'll discover how to set high standards for your preparation and maintain consistency.

Setting high standards for your preparation ensures you’re always ready to perform at your best when it matters most.

Many people fail to reach their potential because they either lack a clear preparation system, spread themselves too thin, or fail to practice consistently. This week’s tip will help you overcome these common pitfalls and set you on the path to excellence.

Prepare purposefully to unlock your true potential and exceptional results.

Extensive preparation and hard work are essential to achieve exceptional results and optimize performance. Follow these steps to ensure you are always at the top of your game:

Define Your Standards of Preparation

High achievers set an exceptionally high bar for preparation. They systemize it and don’t leave anything to chance. Design a preparation system for anything worthy of your time and effort.

Your system could include:

• Identifying repeated tasks
• Prioritizing those tasks by impact and urgency
• Establishing clear routines and a step-by-step process for completion
• Documenting those processes
• Using checklists to ensure you don’t forget anything
• Reviewing and improving your system regularly

Setting a standard for how you prepare ensures that you approach every task with the same level of thoroughness and dedication.

Leverage the Power of Consistency and Repetition

Repetition and consistent effort are crucial for mastering skills. Create consistency in your preparation. Consistent preparation will lead to seamless execution when it matters most.

Don’t Over Prepare for Things That Don’t Matter

You can't be great at everything. If you can't commit the time and effort to be excellent at something, don’t waste your time on it.

Instead, pick one or two areas where you can truly excel. Focus your effort and preparation in those areas. Concentrating your energy maximizes your impact and avoids spreading yourself too thin.

Turn Insight Into Action

Here are three things you can do right now to benefit from this week's tip:

1. Commit to setting a high standard for your preparation
2. Identify one area that you can systemize your preparation
3. Use the Ultimate Preparation Checklist below

Resources & Tools

Do you want to learn more about the importance of preparation? In this video, business investor and author Alex Hormozi shares how This Idea Will Make Your Business Unbeatable.

You can listen to it as a podcast here.

Download my Ultimate Preparation Checklist to help you establish and maintain a high standard of preparation for all your important tasks.

Your Turn

What is one area where you feel your preparation could improve?

Reply with your answer and any specific steps you plan to take to enhance your preparation. We'll share some of the most insightful responses in the next issue.

In Case You Missed It

Last week I shared how to create empowering beliefs to unlock your potential.

I also shared how your comfort zone is the enemy of your success.

Let's play a bigger game, Dave ​​​

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