Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.