We all want to consistently reach our goals while remaining motivated, energized, and excited. But how do we make that happen? How do we lead ourselves in a way that will set us up for success in both life and leadership?

Well, to be a peak performer, you’ve got to focus on three critical areas. In this article, we discuss the mindset, routines, and skills of a peak performer, providing actionable tips to help you begin strengthening your performance so that you can be your best and give your best to those at work and at home.

At the end of the day, we all want to feel like we did our best work, but it can sometimes be an elusive feeling to achieve, can’t it? How do we find that sense of accomplishment, knowing that we did our best and achieved the results we were after? Well, it’s possible—but it requires first awareness and then effort.

In this article, we define peak performance, and share four steps to help you become a peak performer so that you can find success in your role, spend each day focusing on the right tasks, and experience a sense of accomplishment in both work and life. Peak performance is within your grasp, you’ve just got to get clear on how to reach it—and only you can make that happen.

Decision-making is an essential part of leadership; it comes with the job title. A leader’s day is chock-full of decisions both big and small, and sometimes those decisions need to happen quickly while sometimes they need to happen thoroughly—but often, both is needed. However, a leader’s decisions will only go as far as their influence takes them. To be an effective leader, you must possess influence and make good decisions.

In this article, we dig into the importance of decisions and influence, defining what they both look like in leadership and the impact they play in a leader’s effectiveness.

A high level of emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) is not only beneficial to you but also to those around you—because how we engage in the world matters. We all have the capacity to influence but we don’t always understand what that influence looks like. This is why emotional intelligence is key in effective leadership.

As a leader, you have the unique privilege and responsibility to lead people which makes it all the more critical to understand how you’re showing up and how you’re impacting those you lead and serve. And when you lead yourself in strengthening your emotional intelligence, your influence will be positive and your leadership effective. In this article, we discuss the five key components of emotional intelligence and the leadership benefit of each one.

We all know what it feels like to become emotionally triggered—often sparked by an event, a circumstance, or someone’s words. But it’s how we respond in the moment that truly matters. Our ability to control our words and actions following the emotion we experience determines the level of our emotional intelligence (EQ). And the great news is that we can all strengthen and develop our EQ.

In this article, we define emotional intelligence, share why it’s important, and discuss how it can impact your leadership effectiveness.