“It takes courage to be legendary” – but is that all? Is it all about your mindset? Or are there specific behaviors underlying top performers? And if so, how can profiling be used as a shortcut to top performance? Does ‘smart’ or ‘heart’ make a difference?

About “Success Shortcuts”

This blog has been made to enable a co-creative approach to my upcoming book “Success Shortcuts”. A book in which we seek to explore and find answers and guidelines to questions such as:

• Is there a ‘perfect profile’ and if so – what does it look like – and are there similarities across different disciplines / sports?
• Is there a ‘perfect trainer profile’ and if so – what does it look like – and are there similarities across different disciplines / sports?
• What does ‘perfect’ look like – from the athlete and the trainer perspective – do they concur?
• How does the world’s best athletes fit into these ‘perfect’ profiles?
• Are the athletes with the ‘perfect’ profiles also the most successful athletes?
• (How) can you use profiling to shortcut success?

 

My aim is to write a book that offers actionable insights into success that can easily be transferred into your own training or coaching habits.

 

The challenges to beat

Today, most top athletes use some sort of traditional coaching, which in itself is also a very useful tool.  In my opinion, however, coaching has two challenges:

• Coaching is subjective and biased – colored by the experience and knowledge of the coach and his/her interpretation of you.
• Coaching is expensive with prices ranging from 10s to 100s of thousands.

 

Being a top athlete is extremely expensive, and I have often seen how the personal development tools are deselected or down-sized to cut down costs, in order to prioritize the highly important skills-based training and equipment. The problem is that skills can only take you so far. At some point, it is your attitude, behavior and resilience that makes you stand out from the rest of the competitors – either as the winner or the looser.

 

The toolbox to explore

By using profiling as a tool to optimize your performance you get affordable, effective, scientifically valid and reliable insight into your preferred drives and behaviors. A personal profile offers a shortcut to possible strengths and challenges that you can work on to improve your performance – and it gives you access to simple tools that can be used by yourself and your trainer with a minimum of support, such as the Success Shortcuts Workbook.