Patrick Lerouge here, your Productivity Specialist. I help you get more things done in less time. I do that by breaking through your glass ceilings, enhancing your mind, and getting you to perform 10% better. Now you’re probably a high performer. You probably do a lot. I’m going to tell you a place that’s a hidden curse for you. It’s this world of maintaining this is The High Achievers Kryptonite.

As high achievers, we can produce a lot because we move fast. We think we can maintain our current position, our current place. That is a big fat no-no.

Think about starting to work out. Did you do it five days a week forever? No, it doesn’t work like that.

You may have started working out five days a week and that was hard. It took you to your wall. Once you reached your goal, you actually have to bring it down a little bit. So instead of going five days a week, you might go three days a week, because the long-term game is to make this a lifestyle.

Whatever you’re doing is a lifestyle in my world, enhancing your mind and body is you. It’s your lifestyle. So we have to take you to your wall and then bring it back down. So in the workout analogy, you would actually bring yourself down to three days a week. So you now can maintain that pace. Do that for a certain amount of time until you hit another wall, which then you change it up again.

But now, you’re no longer even thinking about actually working out. It’s how you’re changing up the workout that you’re already doing in a certain amount of time-the parameters change. Those parameters are always building on a foundation that you already built after the first time. What I see continuously is everyone going balls to the wall, until they break, until they burn out. Set your goal so you can thrive.

Do what you do well. After that goal is done, stay with it, but do it to a lower degree. That’s what’s going to help you maintain at a ridiculous level. Like the turtle and the hare, you have to keep on doing something slow and steady. Slow and steady. As you learn, that’s where things start to change for you.

Start to learn and grow exponentially. It will start compounding on itself. Learn how to maintain properly, don’t just go, go, go.