Hello, Dr. Howard Dennis here, your certified High Performance coach.
We're talking about the Charge Sessions today, and this is our final session —number 12, titled CELEBRATION .
The other day, I had forgotten that yesterday, February 16th, was my 30th anniversary of graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic.
And that reminded me of something crucial: It is very important to pause, take inventory, and celebrate your wins.
Because our wins are interwoven into our fibers. They become us.
Today we're going to wrap up these Charge Sessions—these 10 human drives that help us spark and charge ourselves going forward.
I'm not going to read each definition again, but I want you to pull out your journal and let's get busy being proactive in our lives.
I've said this many times: High performance is about maintaining positive relationships and our health while consistently exceeding norms in every part of our life.
And to do this, we need to be proactive .
So I hope you go back to the previous 11 sessions and review the statements I made for each charge. See if you agree with those statements and rank yourself on a scale of 1-10.
What do you rate yourself in control? Your agency? Your understanding of how congruent your actions are with your thoughts, feelings, and who you want to be?
Are you growing your skills and knowledge?
Are your actions aligned with your values?
Are you telling and showing people you care?
Are you connecting with those around you? Are you building that circle?
It's not "me," it's "we." The quality of our circle is huge. Relationships are number one for our health.
Dr. John Maxwell says it's very important who you surround yourself with. And it's very important that you have people around you who love you —because people who truly love you will call you out on your BS.
Many times we have good reasons to skip workouts or eat crappy food. But that doesn't make it right. And good friends won't let us do it for long .
How much are you working change into your calendar? We need to force change upon ourselves, keep it real, and grow.
We've got to challenge ourselves.
Remember we talked about taking that guitar lesson? Maybe it's painting. Maybe it's speaking.
When we're being creative or making time to think creative thoughts, that puts us into our best selves and the best part of our brain .
This is the epitome of everything. What are we contributing to society?
This can be with our time—it doesn't have to be money. What are we contributing with our money? With our love to others?
Being conscious and present about all these things.
For each of these 10 drives, I want you to think: What's one new thought or behavior I could do to increase this area?
For example, with control or autonomy—what could you do to take charge or be more accountable?
I can't remember if I told you this story in this session, but I once lost an extreme amount of money in my savings. One of the best things I did—a new thought, a new behavior—was this:
I literally wrote 250 statements down about why losing almost half a million dollars made me a better person.
And it got me into a better attitude and thought process. Sometimes we need to do these things to pull ourselves out of the trenches .
As you go through these drives, ask yourself:
Which of the drives do you enjoy most?
Write that out. Journal it.
For your business? For your family or personal life?
Calendarize that. Write it out. Keep it top of mind.
Is it your family? Your business? Maybe it's that special person in your life. Maybe it's becoming a better doctor, a better businessperson, a better person for your family.
What is it that motivates you the most?
Write that out. What does that feel like?
This is important—we need to visualize ourselves so we can be our best selves and be proactive in life.
If you've been wanting to write that book...
If you've been wanting to take that guitar lesson...
If you've been wanting to take your company to another level...
If you know you need to have that challenging discussion...
We want you to do that today.
Listen, if you've gotten something out of this—and I hope you have—if you've stuck with me this long, you've had to get something out of this.
And I want to reward you with a FREE strategy session with me .
Text us at 423.460.9757 to claim your free strategy session.
I'll look through your information and we'll work on a time where we can have a meaningful one-hour discussion and strategize:
This is what I do as a certified high performance coach.
We want to have high engagement in our relationships. We want them to be positive. We've got to have positive health. And we want to get you consistently exceeding the norms around you.
Text us at 423.460.9757 to get your free strategy session with me. We'll make it work.
Listen, go out there and be more.
If you want more, become more.
Dr. Howard Dennis, CHPC
Your Certified High Performance Coach