What is wellbeing and performance?

20 years ago when I started out as a personal trainer answering the question of ‘what do you do?’ was an easy one.

Over the course of the last 2 decades the scope of my work has expanded to include what can be broadly described as 'wellbeing & performance', but what do these words actually mean?

There are many definitions depending on who you talk to, and although I don't claim to have the definitive answer I do believe that a part of it must include something that relates to the 'dynamic tension between a desire for progress and a contentment with the present'.

But rather than try to come up with the perfect definition, this episode drills into the 5 'pillars' that I believe make up the concept of wellbeing & performance:

1) Wellbeing

2) Drive

3) Mindset

4) Resilience

5) Connection

I break each of these down into smaller chunks as follows:

Wellbeing - DASH - PERMA - Stress & Energy - Emotions

Drive - Goals - Motivation - Confidence - Purpose

Mindset - Global Mindset - Beliefs & Values - Optimism - Self-Talk

Resilience - Grit - Bouncebackability - Change - Acceptance

Connection - Relationships - Support - Belonging - Self

And then finally identify some of the common blockers that stop us from doing and being more of what and who we want to do and be!

Blockers - Procrastination - Self-Sabotage - Confidence - Overwhelm - Defaults

Finally finally, all of this is wrapped in habits, systems, planning and evaluation processes that if you're not careful can quite easily suck out all the messy joy from life so be warned: this is just a model!

My intention for sharing this is to encourage you to ask yourself the question: how am I doing right now with my wellbeing & performance?

Try rating yourself on a scale of 1-10 and make a note of any scores that come out lower than you are happy with, and then start to make a plan for what you could do to nudge them up by +1.

These are also all topics that I speak about regularly, at conferences, corporate events and in training rooms both in the UK and Internationally.

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