Episode 108 - Katie Stoddart | Ready, Set, Focus! Tools, Strategies and Shifts to Enhance Your Balance and Your Performance

Are you seeking to achieve peak performance? Are you looking to achieve alignment between your priorities and your actions? Do you want tools and strategies to enhance and accelerate your balanced performance in life and business?

Our special guest Katie Stoddart (Sweden) answers these and other questions about peak performance, balance and removing the obstacles that get in our way.

Katie Stoddart is the Founder of ‘The Focus Bee’ and an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie supports founders and executives on sustaining peak performance in their business.

Katie started her career as an engineer, working offshore, mapping the seafloor. From her time at sea, she gained the experience of managing teams under stressful circumstances and this led her towards coaching. She has coached in English, French, Spanish and German.

For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews leading experts in high performance. She’s passionate about leadership, performance and resilience. Katie challenges every person she works with to re-focus on what matters most. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through one-on-one coaching and workshops on focus, leadership and performance.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

Peak performance is overall balance while pursuing excellence (striving and thriving)
Balance is adjusting areas that you’ve underprioritized
Self-leadership requires doing your identity work and creating healthier habits
The ego challenge to making identity shifts
The importance of identifying and acknowledging the “wins” of the behaviors you want to change
Our subconscious defaults to certainty and comfort zone unless we’re aware and willing to shift
Ways that not “knowing” what to do is a form of resistance to change and pursuing what you desire
Ways we get stuck in the doing
Naming your internal saboteurs as a strategy to be more aware of them and avoid them
Not enough is the foundation for all internal saboteurs
The role of emotions in personal change and transformation
We hesitate to acknowledge the truth of choices because then we can’t blame or be the victim (blame doesn’t exist)
Strategies for inviting others to take responsibility and change themselves (versus demanding that they take responsibility and change)
The critical role of why and purpose in change (including taking the focus off themselves and onto others)
The vital role of energy in leadership and performance
Paying attention to the energy of your space
Beware energy thieves including unfinished tasks
Beware the words you use to enhance or diminish your energy
The “busy excuse” is an excuse for not making something a priority
Alignment of values, priorities and actions is essential
The reality of conflicts between long term vision and short-term gains (dopamine hits)
Regularly assess your time allocation based upon priorities
Important role of focus in managing energy and time, and a lens through which we choose to see things through
Strategies for enhancing their focus
Clarity is essential for peak performance and achieving your goals and objectives