High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 523: 3 Ways to Lead With Positive Energy

Episode Date: November 27, 2022

In this episode, Cindra shares how high performers choose positive energy because it makes them and others around them better. They do this by focusing on what they have, not what is missing. They choose to develop a positive culture at work and with their team. And they prime themselves with powerful emotions to start your day.      Power Phrase of the Week: “I generate energy and positivity. I bring energy in each situation. I am full of enthusiasm, energy, purpose, and happiness.”    Quote of the Week: Dalai Lama – “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” 

Hi friends, my name is Dr. Sindhra Kampoff, a national leader in the field of sport and performance psychology. Every week I'm on the local radio sharing my top tips on exactly how to develop the mindset of the world's best, so you can accomplish all your dreams. Get ready for a jammed, packed episode focused on practical tips to help you get after your goals and step out of your comfort zone. Let's go. Time to check in with Sindra Kampoff today. And today's topic is ways to lead with positive

energy. Sindra, start us off with a quote. I like this quote by a Dalai Lama who said, just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. So what exactly are we talking about today with positive energy? So we're talking about building positive energy with any group or team or even with you as a person and how that can create really a psychological edge. And I think positive energy makes other people better. And think about that you lead yourself, but you also lead your team. And so we're going to be talking today about leading with positive energy.

Why is this an important topic? Well, we actually know that our performance and our happiness is higher when we feel more empowering emotions throughout our day. And today we're going to talk about how positive emotions do more than just help us feel good. They actually help us be more innovative and creative. We're more productive. We experience more success in general. We're less likely to quit when we choose to feel in a more empowering way. And can you give us any examples of the power of choosing positivity?

Well, one really classic study that's pretty powerful is a study by Marshall Lusata. And he looked at high performing leadership teams, and then low performing leadership teams, and he was looking at what the difference was between them. And he found that the high-performing leadership teams had a five-to-one ratio. So that meant like five empowering comments to each other to one negative. And the lowest-performing team had a ratio of like 0.363 to one, which they had almost three negative comments, like this will never work to everyone positive comment like that, you know, I agree with that, or that's a great idea. And so the bottom line is that, you know, positive positivity with others does make a difference. And this ratio is

actually pretty similar to even thriving marriages, those that thrive tend to have more positive comments than negative comments. So what can we do to have more positive comments than negative comments. So what can we do to choose more positive emotions? I think the first thing that we can do when we lead ourselves and we lead others is to focus on what we have instead of what we're missing. And our brain tends to have this negativity bias where it focuses on what's missing rather than what we have. So the key is to really direct our mind to our strengths, our team's great qualities.

Focus on the key is to kind of think about what you have in your life instead of what you're missing. What's the second thing we can do to choose more positive energies? I think the second thing that we can do as we lead, especially in the workplace, is to think about how can we intentionally bring more positive comments. So there was a study done by Gallup that said about 50% of employees leave their job because they wanted to get away from their manager, which isn't good, right? So thinking about, you know, how can you, as you leave others, make positivity part of the workplace?

Maybe you set a small goal that every day you're going to, you know, give five comments, five positive comments to others to try to improve that engagement and culture. And what's the third way we're discussing today? I think the third way is to really prime our own self with powerful emotions. And by priming, I just mean starting your day with a powerful, powerful focus. And what you could do is just choose, you know, gratitude, choose to focus on things right away in the morning that you're grateful for. Talk to yourself powerfully. And I think in that case, you'll prime yourself with more powerful emotions

to help you kind of thrive throughout your day. Could you summarize today for us? Sure. I would say that, you know, high performers, they choose positive energy because it makes them and others better. And they focus on what they have, not what's on missing, what they're missing. And they choose to develop more of a positive culture within their group or team. They prime themselves with really powerful emotions to start their day. What's the power phrase this week, Sandra?

I generate energy and positivity, and I'm full of enthusiasm, energy, and purpose. If people want to know more about any of this or any of the topics that we talk about here on the radio, where do they need to go? You can go to Dr. Sindra, so drsindra.com. And you can find more about my book Beyond Grit, which I talk about these topics over in that book. Way to go for finishing another episode of the High Performance Mindset. I'm giving you a virtual fist pump. Holy cow, did that go by way too fast for anyone else? If you want more, remember to subscribe and you can head over to Dr. Sindhra for show notes and to join my exclusive community

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