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An Introduction to Impact Performance!

“Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.”
– Harold S. Geneen

Impact Performance! is for everyone. No matter your present station in life or your present circumstance, you can achieve greater performance outcomes and live with Impact Performance! Your nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, political views, your looks, net worth, and your opinions do not matter. Demonstrated measurable performance is your reality.
Impact Performance! is your ability to develop and live a process that yields continuous personal performance improvement. Here you will achieve the ability to measure your Impact Performance! and help others to achieve as well. You are on a new pathway of living. To live a successful life that is full of Impact means you live with a performance focus and strive for balance across Life’s Categories: Health, Relationships, Career, and Finances. Elephant Eaters measure their performance and take action-control to improve performance in each of Life’s Categories.
A performance focus with measurable and demonstrable improvement results across the Life Categories is a clear path to greater achievement in any endeavor you undertake. The improvement model presented in Eating Elephants, Living a life of Impact Performance! is proven in helping you reach your Impact Goals with improved Life Outcomes. Importantly, we are inviting you to become part of something greater than yourself; that is, to help others achieve Impact Performance! as well.
Every person can improve their Life’s Outcomes; i.e. their performance in each of the Life Categories. There are countless self-help books and most people know fundamentally that their negative thoughts, decisions, behaviors and actions produce poor results. So why do most people continue to live a sub-optimal life? Most people are not well equipped, not well guided and not committed enough to sustain positive change. They are simply unable to eat the elephant.
The good news, all of us can develop a process for continual personal performance improvement. In Eating Elephants we address the reasons for sub-optimal personal performance:
1. Lack elephant identification and denial of that which stands in the path of improvement
2. Lack of a performance focus on the Power Source, Self-Leadership and the Life Categories (i.e. the Self-System)
3. Imbalance across the Life Categories
4. Lack of measurement and tracking
5. Minimal alignment of actions to goals
6. Minimal accountability (denial of consequences)
7. Lack of on-going motivation and support

Why eat the elephant?
Elephants hold you back from accomplishing and achieving. They stand intimidatingly in your way. Elephants are the number one reason for sub-optimal performance. Elephants limit us in every way possible and ultimately define us. There are times when elephants can defeat us, if we let them. Assuredly, we shall eat these elephants; hence, never to appear again. There is nothing that you cannot accomplish, once you conquer that which constrains you and limits your potential.
Elephants appear daunting; we become paralyzed to the point we cannot see beyond them. Our vision becomes limited and defined by that which stands in our way. We yield, acquiesce, become stymied and stagnant; we live constrained and programmed. Most of us do not know how to overcome simply because we were never taught a process for continual personal improvement. Unfortunately, we settle for subpar performance.
If you were to conquer your greatest fear, would you not become more capable of overcoming any adversity you face or achieving anything you desire? Open your mind and your heart to the possibilities.
There is no problem or challenge so big or intimidating that you cannot solve it and overcome it once you break it down into its component parts and digest those smaller pieces.
In Eating Elephants, you will learn how to apply proven principles to achieve personal performance improvement with demonstrable results by breaking down your performance across the Life Categories into respective sub-categories. The Impact Team is here to help you eat the elephant, institute a process for continuous improvement, and achieve greater Life Outcomes. If you are saying to yourself, “Oh no, not another self-help book,” soon you’ll be proclaiming, “Wow, this is not another self-help book.” You know you have the ability to produce greater Life Outcomes. You know that negative thought patterns and negative behaviors yield negative outcomes. Here we are going to adopt a performance focus and hold ourselves accountable with no more excuses.
Why try to improve? What is in it for me?
These are legitimate questions. To be clear, there is no such thing as maintaining the status quo or a free lunch. You are going up or going down, progressing or regressing, never stagnant. Since life is ever changing in every way, you have to adopt a success model to manage change; else, change will manage you. You are either a victim of circumstance or a master of your destiny. It is your choice. We are here to help. Ultimately, you are the one who will earn it.
The three primary reasons to adopt the Impact Performance! - Personal Improvement Model:
1. Excel in Life
2. Satisfy basic human needs including self-actualization
3. Help others to achieve Impact Performance!

The spirit of living Impact Performance! is that you hunger to Eat the Elephant and help others to improve their lives. The more effort you put into living a life of Impact Performance! the more you shall gain.