Performance-Driven Thinking: A Challenging Journey That Will Encourage You to Embrace the Greatest Performance of Your Life

by David L. Hancock, Bobby Kipper, Joel Comm (Foreword)

Performance Driven Thinking is a challenging journey that will encourage you to embrace the greatest performance of your life. During this journey, you will experience the call to perform in both your personal and professional existence. The truth is you were born to perform. But the question is at what level will your performance take place? During this journey you will learn how your life from the day you were born until the day you started reading this book was all in preparation for the performance of a lifetime. This journey will challenge you to never accept a sense of entitlement but to embrace a level of performance that will take you to greater heights both personally and professionally.
Performance Driven Thinking will serve as your personal coach to a life of personal and professional prosperity. This journey will take you to a feeling of embracing life in the winner’s circle. It will assist you in overcoming the simple challenges of everyday issues to existing at a level which will benefit those who choose to take it. The key to this journey will begin when you discover the desire to perform and will end up with you embracing the will to perform. Non-performance in your life is no longer an option. Your stage is set. You have had a lifetime to prepare.
Performance Driven Thinking will be your ticket to your personal and professional performance of a lifetime. What’s stopping you? You were born to perform.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Shani Chen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book held my interest because I know David Hancock has achieved much and I wanted to read what he had to say in the area of Performance. I felt that he would have much advice to impart from his vantage point, and I was not disappointed. I learned quite a bit from picking the brains of successful and driven people.

Beware, the following will contain spoilers.

One of the biggest things I gained from this book was the concept of acknowledging and celebrating small wins. As a person who has a huge goal in mind, it often feels like I am falling short of my target and it can feel defeating. It feels like I'm going nowhere fast because there's only one destination. But with this new concept, I am reminded to set small goals and to celebrate them as they come, so the process is actually moving forward. This will propel me ahead and make it feel as if I am making great progress, which I probably am. Also, the authors reminded me that the journey is actually the goal, not the finished place. One must enjoy the journey of getting to where you want to go, because that is the most important thing.

I like how the authors, despite how driven they are, paint the picture of a whole and rich life in every area (health, wellness, freedom, happiness and etc). I expected this book to be all about performing and striving, which honestly would've felt a bit stressful to me. But they did not do that. Instead, they encouraged one to live healthy in every regard, valuing free time, family and leisurely time, claiming it's just as important. This was huge for me and I couldn't be onboard more.

Here are some other quotes from the book that I jotted down on my notepad:

-No matter how big or small, your next step could be the one that changes your life.

-I have failed so many times, failure grins in recognition when it sees me. (haha!)

-The way of the Performance-Driven Thinker generates several streams of income to support his life.

-One of the greatest rewards of being a Performance-Driven Thinker in the future will be the chance for people to recognize the pure nobility of work when it is pursued with joy rather than obligation.

-Now, Performance-Driven Thinkers are stepping back a few paces and seeing that work is not the entire picture. Other parts of that picture include: recreation, friends, family, faith, health, location, education, travel, and free time. Have I left anything out? Probably. It's a big and beautiful picture. These are the rewards of living. The rewards should not be reserved for your retirement, because Performance-Driven Thinkers never completely retire from work. They may cut back, but they're having too much of a blast to retire.

-Success can be achieved effortlessly. Within every desire lie the mechanics of its fulfillment, its accomplishment. Wishing can breathe life into them.

-To hit what you aim at, keep your attention on the present and orient yourself to the process, not to the outcome.

-Recognize that every time you delegate successfully, you are doubling your own effectiveness.

-The small wins theory stresses the point that very few achieve overnight success.

-The focus on progress in performance is leading this individual in the right direction.

-Embrace small victories!

-When life opposes you, you have to decide how badly you want it.

-The Performance-Driven Thinker is passionate about work. His enthusiasm for what he does is apparent to everyone who sees his work.

[Gayle Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoughtful, and well-written. I apply the concepts daily. I give it a 4 out of five because the first 7 chapters felt like a sales pitch. Although I underlined a lot of stuff in the first seven chapters, it it wasn't until chapter 8 that I started finding immediately applicable action steps. I was tempted to quit several times before I got to that point. I'm glad I didn't. The book will pay for itself very quickly.

[Kent Sanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you want to perform better in all areas of your life? If so, you have come to the right book! David Hancock and Bobby Kipper have created a resource to help change your thinking and get rid of the entitlement mentality that plagues our culture today. If you want to rise above the rest and embrace challenges instead of running from them, you need this book!

[Reino Gevers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not only a good book for entrepreneurs but for everybody in the self-development industry. The authors David L. Hancock and Bobby Kipper give an important insight into the importance of mindset and the sprint and recovery cycle.

[Khadiya Blanks · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a great read. The authors, David L. Hancock and Bobby Kipper gives us the foundation that we need to be the best performers we can aim to be both personally and professionally. If you strive to be an entrepreneur or just someone who wants to have an awesome work life without sacrificing lesuire time, this is the book for you. It basically promotes balance in your life. Which I am sure many of us are striving for.

[Lonnie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found it a good read!