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The Edge: How to Create Exquisite Peak Performance

Elevate your Performance. Accelerate your Development. Create Exquisite Results.
Instructor:
Steven Burns
123 students enrolled
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A proven step-by-step system for creating peak performance
The 5 Pillars of Peak Performance
Gain Crystal Clarity when it comes to your Goals & Outcomes
Create a Powerful Direction that Kickstarts your Peak Performance Machine
Accelerate your Learning & Self-Growth
Learn how to Practice Purposefully & Deliberately
Develop New Skills at an Accelerated Rate
Powerful Techniques to Boost Performance Levels
Learn how to manage your Inner Critic
Learn to trust yourself more
Learn how to make use of the Power of Improvisation
Master the Feedback Process to create an Upward Cycle towards Continual Success
How to use 'Performance Psychology' to create exquisite results

Unlock your Potential. Raise your game. Elevate your Performance. Accelerate your Learning. Get ‘The Edge’.

In this exciting programme by Trainer Steven Burns, you’ll learn the secrets of peak performance & how to systematically create the best results you’ve ever produced.

Drawing from 20 years experience in the fields of NLP & Hypnosis, coaching & therapy, Steven will lead you through a comprehensive & powerful process that will allow you to elevate your game and produce exquisite results both personally & professionally.

Over the duration of this 8-hour training course, you will:

  • A proven step-by-step system for creating peak performance.

  • Learn The 5 Pillars of Peak Performance.

  • Gain Crystal Clarity when it comes to your Goals & Outcomes.

  • Create a Powerful Direction that Kickstarts your Peak Performance Machine.

  • Master Motivation & Tap into your Colossal inner fuel reserves.

  • Accelerate your Learning & Self-Growth.

  • Learn how to Practice Purposefully & Deliberately.

  • Develop New Skills at an Accelerated Rate.

  • Learn to use your Psychology deliberately to unlock more of your colossal Potential.

  • Learn the secrets of the mind & how to use it to create precise results.

  • Powerful Techniques to Boost Performance Levels.

  • Learn how to manage your Inner Critic.

  • Learn to trust yourself more.

  • Learn how to make use of the Power of Improvisation.

  • Master the Feedback Process to create an Upward Cycle towards Continual Success

*Includes 13 different downloadable workbooks, multiple eyes closed audio techniques to listen to.

This Programme is for those serious about raising their game and creating peak performance whether that be personally, professionally, or both.

Get The Edge today and experience the Ultimate Peak Performance Training.

Introduction

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Welcome to the Course

In this video, Steven will welcome you to the course and set the learning outcomes


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Why Improve your Performance?

In this lecture, you'll learn why it's important to be able to create peak performance.


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What is Peak Performance?

In this lecture, we'll be defining peak performance.


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The 5 Pillars of Peak Performance

In this lecture, Steven will outline the 5 pillars of peak performane. This will be the overall model you'll be learning throughout the course.


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A Self-Reflection Exercise

From theory to practice. In this lecture, you'll start your journey into creating peak performance.


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Gaining Clarity – The First Pillar

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Kickstarting your Performance Machine

Let's start by taking a look at the first pillar of peak performance: Clarity.


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The 3 Essentials of Powerful goals

In this lecture, you'll learn the 3 Essential elements of Powerful Goasl. These elements will allow you to kickstart your performance machine.


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{Exercise} The 3 Essentials of Powerful goals

From theory to practice.

Now it's time to get stuck into setting your performance goals.


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Creating a Powerful Direction

In this lecture, you'll learn how to create a powerful direction & how this relates to peak performance.


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Planning out the Path

It's important that you spend some time planning out the path. What's a goal without a plan!


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{Exercise} Powerful Goals – going deeper

From theory to practice.

Once again it's time to work on your goals.


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The 3 Layers of Motivation – Introduction

In this lecture, you'll learn about the 3 layers of Motivation.


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The 1st Layer of Motivation – The Origin

Motivational Layer 1  - The origin.


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The 2nd Layer of Motivation – The Method

It's time now to look at the 2nd layer of motivation: The Method.


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Motivational Layers – A worked example

Now that you know the first 2 motivational layers, it's time to look at an example.


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The 3rd Layer of Motivation – the Mode

In this lecture, you'll learn about the 3rd layer of motivation: The Mode.


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A Motivational Experience

In this lecture, Steven will give you an experience of the third layer of motivation.


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Blending the Different Motivational Layers – advanced technique

Now that you know the 3 layers of motivation, it's time to look at how to blend them together.


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A Motivational Exercise – Part 1

From theory to practice.

Let's take your motivational theory and put it into practice with an exercise.


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A Motivational Exercise – Part 2

From theory to practice.

In this lecture, Steven will outline another exercise on motivation.


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Gaining Clarity – End of Section Review

Let's do a review of the section before moving on to the next pillar.


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Outstanding Preparation – The Second Pillar

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Getting Prepared – an introduction

Now it's time for the 2nd pillar of peak performance: Preparation!


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Exert & Rest

Exert & rest is a key principle that underpins outstanding preparation.


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The Importance of Challenge

Challenge is crucial to learning. If you don't challenge yourself, you don't develop.

In this lecture, we'll be discussing this idea.


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Creating your New Norm – A Challenge

Now it's time for something practical. In this lecture, Steven will outline a method for creating a new (and improved) norm.


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The 10,000 hours rule – Myths & Realities

The 10, 000 rule. It's often cited but what are the myths and realities behind it? Let's take a look.


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The 3 methods of Practice

In this lecture, Steven will outline the 3 methods of practice and give you the pros and cons of each.


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Purposeful Practice – an exercise

Let's now take a look at purposeful practice. A key method for achieving peak performance.


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The Power of Concentration

Concentration is so important. But it's difficult to do, right?

In this video, Steven will explore this subject and give you some tips.


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Practicing Single Tasking

Single-tasking is an amazing technique that can do wonders for your development. Let's take a look at what it is and how to do it.


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The Power of Priming

In this lecture, you'll learn about priming.


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Creating Practice Sessions

How do you create practice sessions that pack a punch? Let's take a look in this video.


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The Effort Threshold

The effort threshold is a wonderful way to find the right balance when it comes to your efforts and energies. But what is it? Let's take a look.


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Strategic Rest – Tips & Tactics

You've got to rest! Proper rest is a key ingredient of development and peak performance. But what's the best way to rest? Let's take a look.


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Psychological Preparation – The Third Pillar

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Psychological Preparation – Introduction

You need to prepare your mind. In this lecture, Steven will be looking at the importance of Psychological Preparation.


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Psychological Preparation – The Power of the Imagination

In order to prepare psychologically, you have to use your imagination.


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Using your Imagination Deliberately

In this lecture, Steven will be showing you how you can deliberately use your imagination in a way that prepares your psychologic for elevated performance.


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The Two Fundamentals of Learning

In this lecture, you'll learn the two fundamentals of learning.


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Using your Imagination – A Powerful Exercise

From theory to practice.

It's time to have an experience of using your imagination deliberately to prepare yourself for an exquisite performance.


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Deliberate use of the Imagination – going deeper

Let's now go deeper into imagination.


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The Power of Sub-modalities

Submodalities are the building blocks of our subjective experience. In this lecture, Steven will be introducing you to this powerful discovery.


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Sub-modalities – experience 1

It's time for a submodality experience.


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Sub-modalities – experience 1 debrief

In this video, Steven will do a debrief following the submodality experience you just had.


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Sub-modalities – experience 2

It's time for another submodality experience! In this lecture, you will deepen your understanding of submodalities and find how powerful they can be when it comes to creating peak performance.


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Sub-modalities – experience 2 debrief

In this lecture, Steve will do a debrief following the experience you just had.


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A Sub-modality Resource

A submodality resource that you can use.


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Borrowing Resources – Mapping Across

In this lecture, you'll learn how to 'borrow' resources from one part of your life and use them in another.


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Peak Performance Sub-modality Technique

Now it's time to learn a peak performance technique using submodalities.


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Psychological Preparation – additional pieces

In this lecture, you'll learn a few additional pieces in relation to psychological preparation.


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The Performance – an introduction

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The Performance – an introduction

And finally, the Performance itself! In this video, Steven will kick off the section by giving you some quick performance tips.


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Performance – Priming Tips

In this lecture, you'll learn about Performance priming tips.


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Creating Physical Relaxation (MP3)

In this lecture, you'll learn another technique for getting you into a relaxed state just before the performance.


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Your Internal Critic – introduction

We all have our own internal critic. How do you manage it? In this video, we'll start to explore this topic.


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Managing your Internal Critic

Let's now take a look at how you can manage your internal critic.


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Managing your Internal Critic – Advanced

In this lecture, you'll learn a more advanced way of managing your internal critic.


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Managing your Internal Critic – a strategy

An overall strategy for managing your internal critic.


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The Importance of Trust

Trust is important in all walks of life. But it's especially important when it comes to performance. But how do you let go and trust yourself to perform. Let's take a look in this lecture.


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Rekindling your Ability to Trust in yourself

In this lecture, you'll learn how to rekindle your ability to trust yourself.


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The Importance of Improvisation

You can't prepare for everything. You also have to improvise. In this video, we'll be looking at how to do that.


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The Window of Meaning

With every experience, there's a  window of meaning - a moment where you can choose what something means and how to respond to it. In this lecture, you'll learn about this 'window' and how to use it to increase your performance.


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The Art of Improvisation – Exercise

From theory to practice.

It's time to practice improvisation. Like everything else, it's a muscle. Time to build it.


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The Window of Meaning – an exercise

From theory to practice.

In this lecture, Steven will outline another exercise to help you strengthen your improvisation muscles.


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Creating your Performance Routine

Now it's time to learn how to create a powerful performance routine.


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Powerful Performance – End of Section Review

In this lecture, Steven will do an end of section review.


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Feedback – the Fifth Pillar

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Feedback – the Breakfast of Champions

Feedback IS the breakfast of champions. In this video, Steven will introduce this final pillar of peak performance.


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Feedback & Failure – an important distinction

In this lecture, Steven will outline the relationship between feedback and failure.


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Different Types of Feedback

There are different types of feedback. In this lecture, Steven will outline the different types.


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Feedback – a Starter Exercise

From theory to Practice.

In this lecture, you'll be flexing your feedback muscles with an exercise.


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Getting Clean Feedback

Getting 'clean' feedback is tricky. In this video, Steven will explain how.


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Feedback – the internal method

Let's now take a look at the internal method of feedback.


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Feedback – the internal method (Exercise)

From theory to practice.

In this lecture, Steven will outline an exercise that will help you implement the internal method of feedback.


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Implementing the Feedback

In this lecture, you'll learn how to implement the feedback.


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The Development Accelerator {MP3}

Now it's time for the technique, 'The Development Accelerator'. This will help you gain clean feedback and start the process of incorporating it into your behaviour.


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The Feedback Process – a review

In this lecture, Steven will do a quick review of all the main learnings of the section.


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Closing Comments

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Closing Comments & Book Recommendations

Congratulations! You've finished the course!

In this lecture, Steven will bring the course to a close and offer some final advice.


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