A Mental Performance Coach Helps You Reach High Performance Levels. Here's How!
If you are here, you are probably a high-level executive or a high performing athlete. Congratulations on how far you’ve come, I know it has taken a lot of work to get this far. But if you’re here that means you’re looking for ways to increase your performance level. Understandably so.
Having the right support team in your corner makes a big difference. It's tempting to let the full weight of everything you do rest on your shoulders. However, having a support system has been shown to have an impact on your ability to meet your goals.
The Importance of a Support System in your Field of Play and in the Boardroom
As hard as it is to face, we are not meant to do life alone. As humans, we function best in the right community.
According to research, having the right support system lowers anxiety and improves your social skills and overall feelings of happiness. These then improve your ability to perform.
The right support helps you grow faster and creates more ease when things get tough. Things will get tough. They always will.
With the proper support behind you, you will feel more confident and capable of reaching your goals.
It also helps you to be a more well-rounded person, which long term, helps you to be better in every area of your life. Identifying the people in your life who value your dreams and purpose, and learning to trust/lean on those people is an important skill.
It’s also important to recognize when you need to bring more people into your support system. Even when things are going well. Both of these skills will impact your growth tenfold.
We are not meant to exist in a vacuum. We all do better surrounded by people who are rooting for us and challenging us.
Finding the Right Support System for High Performance
So now that you know you don’t want to do it alone, you may be wondering, “What kinds of people are included in a healthy support system?” It could include the people you immediately think of when you think of a support system. For example, family, significant other, and friends.
It can also include the people in your life that help you do what you do. The best athletes and business leaders, including CEOs of top Fortune 500 companies, have coaches to help guide and support them in doing what they do better.
As an executive, this might include peers who believe in you and your goals and fellow high performers who may not work directly with you, but understand the pressure you’re under. As an athlete, this might include your coach, your team, health staff, trainers, and teachers.
Your support system should be full of people that help you perform at your best.
They don’t just encourage – they also push and challenge you.
Mentors, mental performance coaches, and others who understand the expectations on your shoulders might also be a part of your support system.
They understand that when you aren’t your best, the team isn’t at its best.
What a Healthy Support System for Your Best Performance Looks Like
A support system by itself isn't enough. To perform at your best, your support system needs to be healthy. There are some basics that we all think about when we hear the words support system.
Most often, they’re supportive and do what they can to help you build your dreams. But there’s definitely more to it. A healthy support system has these characteristics:
Encourages you to be consistent
Growth-oriented – for example, focuses on what you do well and how to do more of that
Team player – they recognize that one person's growth does not take away from someone else's
Present – is able to be in the moment without discounting future possibilities
Collaborative – comes from a place of collaboration and service to a greater good
Promotes Self- Leadership and takes responsibility for themselves
Believes in your ability to achieve your individual goals and mutual vision
Responsive – gives thoughtful and constructive feedback
The people in a healthy support system do not:
Encourage having a single-faceted life focused on only the game or the job
Create tensions between you and other team members1
Promote selfishness or unhealthy behaviors
Put you down no matter what kind of results they get
Behave poorly as though they don’t believe in you
Criticize and leave you feeling like you are never enough
Create distractions from your goals
A support system should be exactly that- people who support you in reaching your goals. If you find that someone is checking a box under the do not list, then they aren’t a good fit in your life. Non-supportive people will only bring you down and get in the way of your success.
How a Mental Performance Coach Could Be One of the Right People to Have On Your Team
A mental performance coach will help you sharpen your mental game so you can perform better on the field or in the boardroom. They can help you perform better whether you’re stuck, struggling, or are already doing well.
You’ve gotten to where you are because you know that, no matter how well you’re doing, there’s always room to grow. A mental performance coach focuses on guiding you in developing a strong emotional and mental foundation for everything you do. They highlight unexamined emotions and behaviors that might be impacting your performance.
I am Shami Benjamin, a therapist and mental performance coach, and I specialize in working with high performers like you.
Hiring me as your mental performance coach, ensures you have a guide who helps you get to a higher-performing mindset. A mindset that helps you be the best you on and off the field and job. Our work includes helping you identify negative thoughts and core beliefs that may be getting in your way.
We will also identify your higher purpose so you can take the conscious steps you need toward the life you’re called to lead.
I highlight mistakes and expose blind spots. We all have them and I’m excellent at noticing them and helping you create effective solutions and an action plan. We’ll work on breaking negative thought patterns and developing a healthier mindset.
We’ll also increase your self-awareness so you can recognize the patterns and beliefs getting in your way. As your mental performance coach, I help you identify areas where you need consistency and set up systems/routines so you can grow in these areas.
I focus on a holistic approach, so together we will look at all areas of your life. We work on your mindset but we also work on the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of you. We’ll find the places in your life where we can intervene to help you be the best you. In order to stay competitive and be your best, you need to continue to grow.
I can help you do that. As a licensed therapist and mental performance coach, I bring to the table an extra set of skills. I tend to go deeper and utilize evidence-based practices to help push you even closer to your goals.
Check out my ebook: Three Questions to Help You Win to get more information about how self-awareness and self-reflection can help you truly win at life.
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