Maximize Your Coaching Experience

Use these tips to get the most of your coaching.

1. Take ownership of your coaching experience.

   Remember, just like everything in life, the benefit you receive from your coaching experience will be tied directly to the effort you put forth.

2. Engage! Matt wants to hear you every day.

   The best way to ensure a great coaching experience is to communicate with Matt daily. Send him your top-3 and he will always respond (sometimes a response can take up tp 12 hours, but it’s typically much quicker).

3. Read Matt’s book, The Purposeful Planning Method. It will help you.

   Unlike other time management books offering anecdotal tips, tricks, and suggestions, this book provides a specific methodology for approaching your day more effectively. It will help you to spend more time on the projects, activities, and relationships that are most important and meaningful to you. Clients can access the book for free here. It will help you achieve your goals.

4. Embrace fundamental principles that drive high-performance and productivity.

   Basic principles drive our productivity much more than we believe.  An example of this is taking the time and effort each morning to determine your top priorities.  Through your daily top-3 we're trying to create a virtuous cycle of clarity, momentum, and daily forward progress.

Your top-3 priorities. Why we do them and how it helps drive high performance.

First, we know, clarity is necessary to perform at your peak. So, it's critical to be clear about what you want to achieve with your time and energy. By determining your top-3 priorities, you create clarity for yourself.

Second, your motivation is earned each day through the actions you take. By taking action on your top-3 priorities, you create motivation for yourself.  Contrary to what most people believe, motivation is created by taking action. You do not feel motivated and then act. You act, and then your motivation follows. To prove this. Consider a time you didn't want to go for a run, but regardless of that feeling, you fought through and started running anyway. And then 20 minutes into the run, you feel great, almost euphoric, and you think to yourself, "I can't believe I almost didn't run today; this has been the best part of my day." That's an example of motivation following action. If you waited around to feel like running, you would have NEVER started the run, the motivation to run followed running.

This works similarly with working on any challenging task or activity. If you can begin to trust your motivation to follow after you start a task or activity, you'll have a massive advantage for the rest of your life.

By completing your top priorities each day, you teach yourself how taking action creates motivation. And you learn it's a process that you can rely on.

Lastly, we know success creates more success.

After setting your top-3 priorities and taking action on them day-after-day, you will start feeling like you are making progress. Once you feel like you're progressing - momentum starts to build. Because you've begun to prove to yourself that you can take action and accomplish whatever you want each day. Even if the priority is a seemingly small task, this cycle of (clarity-taking action-creating motivation for yourself-accomplishing the priority) still creates incremental progress (that you recognize as success). This success leads to more self-confidence and a belief that you can execute on whatever you choose. And when you realize that, you can accomplish just about anything you want.

That's why I like to see your top-3 priorities each morning. And that's how setting priorities has helped so many of my clients achieve incredible success. Because over time, when you follow the process (and you trust yourself enough to start on and do the work) you create an unstoppable cycle of executing day-after-day-after-day. And that daily execution adds up. And that builds your self-confidence to take more action - and set bigger goals for yourself. And those bigger goals lead to more focused needle-moving priorities each day, which leads to more success for you.

And that's how it works. That's why I love to see your top-3 every morning—that's why I never want to start my day without knowing my top-3.

It's not always easy, it's not always fun. But the process ALWAYS WORKS if you're willing to put in the work.

Let's make it a great day.  Let's create clarity each day through your top-3 and let's execute at your highest level possible.