Tales Of Leadership: When Do You Perform Well?

What's up, Cadre family? Luke Wendtland. Here it is, Thursday. It is February 1. It's also black History Month. Really excited to be here with you today to chit chat with you on tales from leadership, as we're talking about, excuse me, when it comes down to how you perform and when you perform, is that something that's kind of consistent in your life? You know, all I'm going to share is some things that what I believe have really helped me and identify. I would call it my peak performance hours, when I excel versus when I don't, and also that self awareness to understand, like when you do versus when you don't.

So I'm just going to share a couple kind of tricks or tips that hopefully you can resonate with or identify with. Okay, so, again, thank you for joining in today to chit chat a little bit. Again, my name is Luke Wentland. As I talk about tales of leadership every Thursday, again, it is black History Month. So let's, you know, really think about that as we continue on this leap year for these 29 days. What's up, costas? It's always good to see you. Also, habit tracking. There was a post that went out this morning from team Cadre talking about building habits and what a great opportunity to do so.

So, one thing that I'm doing this month, and if you'd want to join with me, that'd be amazing, but it's 530. I'm waking up 530 every single day of the month. And then I'm going to start out with my rules, routines, and rituals for my life, my three r's. What are those going to be? It's gonna be 530. It's going to be stretching, and it's going to be 50 pushups. So that's what I'm going to build my habit for. Heading in for all of February. So, 530 in the morning, 50 push ups and stretching. So I want to do that every single morning to build that habit into my life.

Okay? So now I get my habits going. I get my morning routine. I have my cup of decaf. I have a couple things that I get rocking with. And if you ask me between seven and nine to do something, get something done, have a meeting, get an 08:00 meeting on the books. I can look in the eye right now and tell you I won't be my best self. Why is I need to kind of, like, get the engines revving right. I get the engines rending. That's my leadership style. I feel good about the morning. I maybe get my emails, read through, incorporated replies, and then here you are.

Before you know it, I'm feeling really, really good of what I call getting into my flow. And when I'm into my flow, I would like to try to do the best I possibly can to take as much of my plate off my plate when it comes to one on one meetings, team meetings, etcetera, from ten to two. So between ten and two, it's just, it's get it done time. That's where I feel like I am absolutely on fire and I can, I can get as much done. I'm in flow. I feel like I'm just, you know, knocking things out left and right.

If I do have one on ones, if I do communicate, if I. If I do have group meetings, if I am involved in presentations or otherwise, then by all means, this is an opportunity for. I believe this is where I excel and I continue to excel. So my, my mornings go like this and then I go like this, heading into about ten to two, I plateau and then I start dropping and I know that about myself, right? So when I'm at 03:00, 04:00, 05:00 I would call that not quite as, you know, productive as seven, eight to nine, but I'm on the decline.

And that's where I, if I'm scheduling the one to ones, you could probably hear annoyance in my voice at times. I want to get home. I want to get to my family. I want to try to participate in my kids activities to the best of my ability. I'm multitasking. I'm like, got a call. Getting the kids out, kids coming home from kids coming off the bus. I'm doing all of these things in one. m.. Naps. I hear that. Kudos to you for doing this live. So again, thank you for saying that. I think it's just really important to note where is your accelerant of your time and where are you decelerating.

And it's okay. It's okay that sometimes you're not on at three, four, five, but through self awareness and identifying that oneself, then you'll be realized like, okay, probably not the best time to schedule those really important meetings. When is ten to 210 to 02:00 that's where I can excel. That's where I can be my best. That's where I can really show up and dominate a meeting or walk into a sales presentation or be the best for the team that I need to be to show up with inspiration, motivation, or otherwise.

Sometimes you even hear about sports players, and sports players are going to be traveling east coast to West coast. They're going to say, I just wasn't on today, I was off my schedule. Well, what does that really mean? You think? Sports players, all you got to do is show up and play basketball. But if they're, if they're, you know, peak performance is seven, eight o'clock and they're traveling west coast, and so really it's five. Like, they're off, right? They're off. And that's. And so I just, you know, I.

Or, excuse me. So it's 07:00 game there. It's like 09:00 in Minneapolis St. m. In east coast. So really know when you dominate and. Right. So, you know, again, my mornings, rules, routines, rituals, here's the time. I'm up. This is what it looks like from up. Then I'm hopping into these three habits. Well, actually, there's, you know, ten plus, but I'm incorporating three more. So I got my habits going. I'm always trying to see my kids off. You know, there's nothing better in the world than my little boy Cameron, when he comes flying and running into my arms in the morning.

It's just what I live for, you know, helping out with cereal, getting everything ready to rock, pushing the kids out. And then my day starts, right? And then I'm starting in with my emails, getting into my flow before. You know what it's like, whoa. I get to 10:00 and it is ten to 210 to two, and I'm just on fire. And I just hope you find that time when you're on fire. It's in my humble opinion, if you work eight to 10 hours and only really 2 hours are truly peak performance, wait till you find your flow.

And you got, like I said, like that four hour window for me from ten to two, I put myself up against anyone for the amount of output that I continue to move and shake during those timeframes. So think about this. When you're running your business, when you're operationalizing throughout your organization, really think about those ten to twos, you know, or maybe you're eight to ten, and that's cool. I mean, there's nothing here saying, follow my schedule. I'm just saying that's my flow. And then again, coming off 02:00, I know that that's where I'm starting to, like, wind down a little bit, where I know I'm getting anxious and excited to get my b*** home.

See my family see those kids and participate in anything and everything that we have for the night. Then I also know that I like to flow again at night through my exercise routines, through meeting with my wife, connections with my wife, going in the sauna, doing our exercises, whatever that looks like. So I really, again, want to encourage you to maybe track over the course of the week, where do you find your peak performance? And try that. Try that throughout the week. Before you know it, you know, maybe the month will show and say, gosh, you know, my time is two to five, and I'm.

I'm on fire, and I feel great. And I feel like I can attack the world. Great. Good on you. Right? Go get it. Make it happen. So, with that being said, y'all, I'm gonna now be prepared for my kids to come home, which I can't wait for, so. And we have viola, we have basketball, we have piano, we have soccer. We have all of it. It doesn't stop. And that's exciting. And so if I'm going to show up from ten to two and be my best, I need to show up from 435, 36, 30 to seven to be my best for my family as well.

So I've got to put in that same level of output in my work as I got to put in at my home, and I got to own that and always be that 50 50, a plus, a plus. And also identify when I'm not. And when I'm not. Why? Really check myself, check myself spiritually, check myself emotionally, check myself physically, check myself all the time. So really, really push yourself on self awareness to identify when you perform well and why. All right, take care. You guys have a great rest of your week. And I don't know if you saw that post again from.

From Cadre, but I encourage you to think about those habits. What a great time. Leap year, month, February. Maybe you want to incorporate a couple habits in there. You can start right now. You don't have to wait till tomorrow. You can start now with something. Incorporate something. So something's better than nothing. Bye bye, you guys. Have a wonderful rest of your day and even a better week. Okay, bye bye, you guys. Peace.