The HP6 gave me (Brendon Burchard) a proven game plan for succeeding at my projects in life. Now they are a standard operating system for entering any new situation. I’ve been using them in my professional career, and the results have been astounding and quite public.
Beyond myself, the habits and concepts in this book have measurably improved the lives of tens of thousands of our students. These students take the HPI before and after our online programs, live training events, and coaching experiences. They love seeing demonstrable data that they are improving their lives. We regularly see our students significantly increase their overall high performance scores (and overall life happiness). We’ve also used the HPI in organizations to help them pinpoint where their employees and teams should focus their development.
Further, we’ve seen remarkable results through client coaching interventions. Over three-thousand hour-long coaching sessions led by independent Certified High Performance CoachesTM reveal that people can dramatically change their behaviors and reach higher performance in many areas of their lives in weeks, not years.
This isn’t to say that high performance habits are a silver bullet for all life’s challenges. Over the past decade as a high performance coach and researcher, I have sought plenty of disconfirming evidence for the HP6, and I’ll happily share that here. In seeking disconfirming evidence, we have looked for people who are not high performing despite practicing the habits in this book. Are there individuals in the world who actively seek clarity, generate energy, raise necessity, increase productivity, develop influence, and demonstrate courage who in fact underperformers, or even failures? I have never seen that to be the case, but common sense says there is bound to be an exception somewhere. Can someone lack one of the habits and still become successful? For example, can someone be a wild success yet still lack clarity? Absolutely. Can someone lack courage and still be a success? You bet they can. But remember, we aren’t talking about initial success here. We’re talking about the long term. Odds are, if you lack any of the HP6 for too long, your high performance scores (and happiness scores) will drop. You simply wouldn’t be as effective or as extraordinary as you could be.
* Source: High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard