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PREFACE<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Authors are advised to avoid writing about politics or religion to improve book sales.\u00a0 However, how my book was created is my backstory.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I am a true believer. I believe there is something bigger than us in the universe.\u00a0 I believe we are all messengers of some kind to each other, or how would God speak to us?<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In my experience, 95% of the people who are given a messenger to answer a problem they have been thinking about blow off the message.\u00a0 The rationale is \u201cI don\u2019t know you.\u00a0 How could you know my problem?\u00a0 Why should I trust you?\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I am about to provide you with a message how to improve performance in less time for any job, task, skill, or relationship.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I am a behaviorist and transformational speaker.\u00a0 My doctoral study has been in behavioral, educational, and personality psychology. I am NOT a licensed clinical psychologist.\u00a0 I do not need to learn what is between your ears. If I do not get the correct output, I change the input cue or method, and once correct reinforce that behavior or skill.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I will teach you how to be self-motivated using your feedback to understand and modify your behaviors to be accountable and keep improving to become a top performer. What I teach you in this brief work will help you improve the quality of your life and those around you for the rest of your life.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Like most people, I do not pray and give thanks on a daily routine.\u00a0 I do feel blessed to have acquired my knowledge and skills to be a top performer and share with you now.\u00a0 Whether you choose to accept or reject my teaching is your right.\u00a0 I am a messenger none-the-less.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Twenty-five years prior to publishing Purposeful Intent my first book in 2009 I was depressed.\u00a0 I had two failed marriages and five sons.\u00a0 I love my kids, but I could not be with them like a normal father.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My mother was the spiritual leader of our family.\u00a0 She instilled in me and my brother the values of family.\u00a0 She called it acting like the three musketeers \u2013 \u201cAll for one and one for all.\u201d\u00a0 All she wanted was for her two sons to become good citizens.\u00a0 She taught us values, and belief in God was one of them.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I was about to turn 40.\u00a0 I had recently left my teaching and coaching position to enter business as a medical distributor sales rep calling on hospitals and clinics.\u00a0 I knew medical terms having been a health education teacher and swimming coach.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Like any depressed son I went to visit my parents who had retired to northern Wisconsin.\u00a0 My lament to my mom was who would even want to date me?\u00a0 I may have well put a big \u201cL\u201d for loser on my forehead.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Her advice was to explain who I was and had become.\u00a0 I was a good father, an All-American in swimming, and I had a good job and Ph.D.\u00a0 My problem was not being patient.\u00a0 Her comment was, \u201cHow can the good Lord keep up with you?\u00a0 If plan A does not work immediately you go to plan B, then plan C.\u201d Then she advised, \u201cYou go into your bedroom and pray alone like I taught you.\u00a0 And if you want to know more read all of Matthew 6.\u201d\u00a0 What she said next really got my attention.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My dad grew up in Chicago.\u00a0 I had heard every cuss word before I was 10, but mom rarely said a cross word.\u00a0 But this time she said, \u201cBe prepared to wait a year for your answer and keep your eyes and ears open.\u00a0 Only this time, you get the HELL OUT OF THE WAY!\u201d\u00a0 It was as if she had slapped my face.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Three days later I came home to my empty apartment in a suburb west of Chicago, and I broke down.\u00a0 I missed my sons.\u00a0 I wanted to be a family. I did not have much time to date, and the unwritten rule in sales is you never date anyone you call upon. That narrows your search a lot.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I went into my bedroom and shut the door and unloaded my pain.\u00a0 It was not pretty on my knees bent over my bed, my face in my hands tearfully asking God for help.\u00a0 But I had my shopping list because the old me was thinking I was still in charge.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Then halfway through my list of what I wanted – a blonde with blue eyes and nice figure – I stopped.\u00a0 I remembered that God is loving and all-knowing.\u00a0 Who was I to demand anything?\u00a0 So, I ended with a final request for God to help me find the woman and partner whom I could spend the rest of my life with and grow old together.\u00a0 I reasoned that God showed us miracles and Noah to go through life two by two as partners.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It did not take a year!\u00a0 Eighteen-days later I met my wife.\u00a0 We have been married for 35 years!\u00a0 And, finally after five sons we have our daughter.\u00a0 So, now fast forward.\u00a0 I was out of education for twenty years but went back to school in 2000 to get my school administrator\u2019s endorsement to become a principal. After additional graduate courses and two years as a principal I became a licensed K-12 school superintendent.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I grew up with a work ethic and improved large aquatic programs and winning teams. For twenty years in business I advanced from a national sales trainer to rep and regional manager and CEO of my own rep company.\u00a0 I went back to school because I was motivated to make a difference as a school leader.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0After four more years as a school superintendent I retired in 2008 to complete my first book Purposeful Intent<\/u> I had started in 2004.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I wrote it like a textbook few people like to read after school. The design was to show teachers how to self-motivate \u2013 intrinsically motivate – their students to higher achievement.\u00a0 I had the book 65% completed when I realized my huge mistake.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0From 400 personality and psychological variables I singled out 14.\u00a0 I thought if I could teach you these 14, you could be self-motivated.\u00a0 What I failed to see was all the variable interaction effects.\u00a0 For example, 6 with 9 or 10 with 12 and others. It was impossible to explain 14 to the 13th power.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Again, I was depressed and upset.\u00a0 I was driven to find an answer how we could best teach people to be self-motivated.\u00a0 I was frustrated and mad having spent a year of my life trying to create the right message.\u00a0 I made three stacks of papers on my dining room table and shut down my computer.\u00a0 I was done.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Then I sat in my chair and cried for a half hour.\u00a0 In that time, like Job in the Bible, I had some harsh words for God.\u00a0 I was really trying hard to do the right thing to help people.\u00a0 As an educator and administrator and former coach I saw methods how coaches motivate their athletes, but teachers were missing that skill.\u00a0 So, are most parents, managers, and leaders off the mark.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But as it was twenty some years earlier in the beginning, I again realized I was not the one in charge.\u00a0 So, my final request was, \u201cGod, I need your help.\u00a0 I can\u2019t do this on my own. I am a health and physical education teacher.\u00a0 We use visual, verbal, and kinesthetic cues to teach how to perform physical skills and take care of your health.\u00a0 Why can\u2019t we come up with a simple strategy to teach people how to be self-motivated?\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I did not think of my request as a prayer in my bedroom with the door shut, but God must have heard my emotional plea for help.\u00a0 It was 4:30 in the afternoon, and eleven hours later at 3:30 in the morning not 18 days later like before, I awoke and started to jot down some trigger words on a note pad next to my bed.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I use trigger pad notes to recall what I had been thinking and put those thoughts into action the next morning.\u00a0 Only this time, I was writing pages with sentences!\u00a0 I realized I was getting my answer NOW! So, I ran downstairs and got eight pages out of my printer.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For the next three hours I wrote the foundation for \u201cThe Triad Performance Improvement System.\u201d These are the three secret skills of top performers. They are teachable and learnable and transformational.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I kept an open mind and no sooner sat down was told, \u201cIncrease Awareness.\u201d\u00a0 I thought about how to teach that and roughed out an outline.\u00a0 Ninety minutes later I felt I had grasped that, so I sat quietly.\u00a0 In only a few minutes, I was told, \u201cEnhance Self-Evaluation.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I remember printing and underlining that header at the top of the page.\u00a0 Then, I created an outline for pre, during, and post-performance evaluation chapter headings. Again, I sat quietly a lot longer this time, and was told, \u201cConnect Reward with Reinforcement.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0God answered my prayer.\u00a0 I am just the messenger.\u00a0 In the next eight to ten hours reading and absorbing this book you can make personal conclusions and decide to transform your life, improve your performance in less time, and become the top performer that is within you.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Chapter 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Overview<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cYour education and personality identify you for a lifetime.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/span>Andrew Christian<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Applied Transformational Leadership Design <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The 3 Secret Skills of Top Performers<\/u> is self or intrinsic motivation leadership designed to improve your performance in less time.\u00a0 I refer to these three teachable and learnable skills as The Triad Performance Improvement System, a.k.a. The Triad.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Theory and Hypothesis<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The theory is when you are aware of a conscious cognitive motive to value and satisfy a personal need or goal you experience repeatable success and gratification.\u00a0 Personal needs, values, and goal setting behaviors will be reviewed.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The hypothesis is valued<\/u> information is more readily stored and retrieved in the brain through the development of cognitive associational neurons that connect positive, pleasurable, and successful stimulus-response activities.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The theoretical construct for The Triad is that you can more readily recognize, receive, organize, store, and retrieve (RROSR) information you learn to cognitively choose as valuable, meaningful, and relevant from your familiar past experience and your unfamiliar future predicted experience.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Top performers take immediate action while other performers lose time considering what to do or wait to be directed by others.\u00a0 Top performers are motivated by satisfying personal needs and valued goals.\u00a0 When those needs are identified and goals are met, they activate pleasure centers in the brain to repeat those kinds of behaviors.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Big Four Applications<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The benefit of learning The Triad is applying these skills to improve your performance in less time to \u201cThe Big Four\u201d: a job, task, skill, or relationship. Like riding a bicycle once you learn The Triad you do not forget it. Few applications fall outside of those \u201cBig Four\u201d to be reviewed later in more detail.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The cornerstone of all motivational behavior is your desire to see continuous improvement in your performance to enhance your \u201cquality of life.\u201d This begins with satisfying your personal needs and goals consistent with your values.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With awareness of continuous improvement, you activate and reinforce the pleasure centers in your brain.\u00a0 You connect the reward with reinforcement. This builds your confidence and motive to experience more pleasurable success repeating like behaviors.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Assumptions<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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  1. \n

    Leadership is applied to groups and individual performance.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n

    Knowledge from reading about top performers will transfer to the individual.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n

    Learning The Triad improves performance in less time and takes fast action.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n

    The Triad shortens the learning curve.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n

    The 3 secret skills will transform leaders and performers.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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    All top performers do not make good role models.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  7. \n

    Top performers\u2019 work ethic and strategies are worth copying.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  8. \n

    Intrinsic comes from within and extrinsic comes from outside.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  9. \n

    Quality of life is the underlying driving force in all motivation.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  10. \n

    Leaders are assumed for the purposes of this book to be company CEO\u2019s, managers, supervisors, directors, teachers, coaches, and parents.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  11. \n

    Performers are employees, workers, students, athletes, and people.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Premise<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    The intent of this book is to transform leadership using The Triad Performance Improvement System. <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Most of us are conditioned to think of motivation as something someone does to us or someone else, or a pep talk from so called \u201cexperts\u201d with variable credibility. I believe we are born with an innate drive to improve.\u00a0 Observing top performers in all fields, they consistently report a need to keep improving their knowledge and skills.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The primary motivation for personal performance improvement is to enhance the overall quality of life. There is little motivation to work hard to achieve anything with low value. The value of hard work is to enjoy the rewards rather than be victims deciding there is no hope or future.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Many motivational speakers use the same clich\u00e9s, persistence, commitment, and others \u2013 you have heard them. The message of inspirational speakers is, \u201cIf I can do it, you can do it.\u201d\u00a0 Both offer enthusiastic sometimes celebrity entertainment but reflect on what your behavior was like 72 hours later. Did you create permanent personal performance improvement beyond 72 hours?<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Both are extrinsic and less valuable. Intrinsic motives are always stronger than extrinsic motives. Telling someone how to do it like they did is a lot different from a transformational talk that teaches you methods and strategies to permanently improve your performance.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Learning the three secret skills is transformational. These leadership skills are modeled from top performers to create permanent changes in your behaviors and improve your performance over time. Like riding a bicycle, you will not forget how to apply those secret skills because they work.\u00a0 You can be the judge.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0This is a study teaching powerful lessons in transformational leadership to improve performance in less time. Intrinsic motivation is a personal leadership skill taught with \u201cThe Triad Performance Improvement System.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The oldest method to improve performance is trial and error.\u00a0 You make a mistake and keep correcting your performances.\u00a0 But this takes time you may not have to succeed. A better old-time method is to model and copy top performers. Over the years, I have observed top performers everywhere. They unconsciously follow these three secret skills.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Stephen Covey used this same observational approach as described in his best- selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<\/u> 1989. That work was transformational.\u00a0 People were happy to say they were a \u201cCovey guy\u201d because they could already do two or three of the seven habits.\u00a0 And they told all their friends about the book.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In my observations, top performers are successful usually doing two of the three secret skills, but not all three.\u00a0 There is a reason why they do not emphasize the third secret skill.\u00a0 Are you curious?<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In human behavior, people quit activities when they continually fail and feel pain.\u00a0 Or, as the case with mal-adaptive behaviors, they may cover up the pain using drugs. When you learn The Triad, you gain pleasurable success to repeat and keep improving.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Primary Benefits and Aids to Learning<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Triad are three secret skills used to benefit learning and improve your performance in less time. Self-motivated people identify and provide for their own needs to keep improving their skills.\u00a0 Do you know any top performer who is not self-motivated?<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Shortening the Learning Curve<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0To acquire an education and learn skills to meet your own needs there is a premium placed on \u201cshortening the learning curve.\u201d\u00a0 W. Edwards Deming stated years ago, \u201cKnowledge is king.\u201d\u00a0 Those who acquire The Triad skills early value the knowledge and information and make it more meaningful and relevant.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The main idea for learning The Triad is to improve performance in less time for any job, task, skill, or relationship.\u00a0 Generally, with greater knowledge and skills you have a performance advantage over your competitors.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Definitions and Use of Terms<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Triad – refers to the 3 secret skills of top performers.\u00a0 It is the system to learn performance improvement in less time applied to any purposeful job, task, skill, or relationship.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Needs \u2013 are factors that affect your behavior, education, and personality in the environments you choose to live in. Maturity is your ability to provide for your own needs.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Drives \u2013 are innate built-in on a subconscious level you are unaware of their operation affecting your behaviors.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Motives \u2013 are the conscious awareness of a drive stimulus to purposefully satisfy a personal need or goal.\u00a0 Motives are associated with your intent and behavior patterns.\u00a0 A strategy to increase your motive strength is to be more consciously aware of your needs, values, and goals, and hold yourself accountable to achieve them.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Motivation \u2013 is the defined strategy you use to satisfy a personal need or goal.\u00a0 Two performers can have the same personal need or goal, but the stronger motivation will come from the performer who makes a conscious awareness effort to value their achievement. The strength of your motivation is hard to improve when you have no satisfaction of an underlying personal need or goal.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intrinsic motivation is the performer\u2019s internal desire to satisfy a personal need or goal.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Extrinsic motivation is another person\u2019s need or goal imposed on an individual or group.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bias is the unreasonable personal judgment or prejudice of an expected outcome prior to the performance or events.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RROSR is an increase awareness strategy I introduce as a meme to easily remember its use. Each letter represents a word \u2013 Recognize, Receive, Organize, Store, and Retrieve information.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The Value Concept<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Value is the cornerstone of The Triad.\u00a0 There is a big difference between what someone tells you to value (extrinsic), and what you consciously decide to value (intrinsic).\u00a0 A leader, manager, parent, teacher, or coach can tell you the value of a bit of knowledge by creating a need to learn.\u00a0 The trick is making the new information meaningful and relevant to your current level of understanding.\u00a0 This uses your prior knowledge and familiarity with each task so you will intrinsically value and remember how the new information can be applied for your benefit.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hypothetically when you do not intrinsically value new information, you store these data in less retrievable parts of your brain.\u00a0 This is like creating a word document file on your computer and placing it in a folder inside another folder.\u00a0 By the time you perform those three iterations to retrieve the document file, the timing of the performance to be successful may be lost.\u00a0 You can learn to organize and store valued information in a more readily retrievable structure via associational neurons and specific access parts of your brain at will on demand.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Brain mapping studies indicate visual patterns are stored and associated with like patterns in the occipital lobe.\u00a0 Verbal and kinesthetic feeling skills are stored in other lobes. This suggests information input must be as accurate as possible in demonstrations and explanations.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The Extrinsic-Intrinsic Controversy<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Leaders must understand the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. An extrinsic<\/strong> motive is provided by someone else in the form of a tangible product or service with the expectation the one providing the extrinsic motive will gain something in return.\u00a0 This is a Quid Pro Quo. Examples are money, paid vacations, candy, gifts, jewelry, clothing, praise, special recognition, grades, plaques, bonuses, and so forth in return for more productive work, affection, better behavior, and leadership conformity.\u00a0 An extrinsic motive is another person\u2019s need or goal imposed on the individual or group.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0An intrinsic<\/strong> motive is the performer\u2019s internal desire to satisfy a personal need or goal.\u00a0 An intrinsic motive comes from within the performer understanding their personal needs, values, and goals.\u00a0 Personal assessment of the physical and mental abilities, skills, and strengths to meet personal needs is required.\u00a0 The perceived performance value comes from feelings<\/em> of success, self-worth, and image exhibited by enthusiasm and passion to produce quality results.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Value of Intrinsic Motivation<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Triad skills adapt to all your needs as they change over time.\u00a0 For example, my neighbor told me his story about quitting smoking.\u00a0 He said when he was a young man, if someone had told him smoking was bad for his health, he would have ushered the person out the door.\u00a0 His health needs were invincible then.\u00a0 Years later the need increased his awareness for quality of life and he quit.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Unfortunately, we all have a hard time projecting our future needs.\u00a0 We often wait until it is too late to see greater benefits from changing our behavior because without the skills to know how, we are not motivated to do so.\u00a0 As you mature and grow with experience your Triad skills help you to project future personal needs to a higher relevant value to control this notion.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You also use these skills to be a better consumer to apply critical thinking skills.\u00a0 Advertising works against The Triad skills. Ads seek to lure you into being part of a bigger more accepted group behavior instead of thinking through the best value for you.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0When you focus on identifying and meeting your personal needs with The Triad, you achieve above average results. If you follow the masses and resist changing your behaviors putting stress on your personality, then little will change in your life.\u00a0 You are extrinsically motivated to meet the needs of others who manipulate your need for acceptance and will do what everyone else does. This is poor leadership.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The Triad Performance Improvement System<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The book is organized into three parts with several chapters to suggest how to learn and teach each secret skill in The Triad.\u00a0 In only a few hours you can grasp The Triad and take immediate action to modify your behaviors and begin your journey of self-improvement when and where you choose to be a top performer.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The three secret skills of top performers are learned independently but interrelated when applied.\u00a0 The skills overlap like the spheres in this figure.\u00a0\u00a0 As you learn each teachable skill, a light bulb goes on.\u00a0 Like water boiling it gets excited and agitates or bumps into the other two skills.\u00a0 Then one of those gets excited and bumps into the other two and so on.\u00a0 This continuous improvement process goes on for the rest of your life.\u00a0 You choose to apply when you feel the need to improve your performance for any job, task, skill, or relationship.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In your process of learning The Triad, I will explain the importance of needs, values, goals, paradigm shifts and strategies.\u00a0 They are essential to understand how and why to make permanent behavioral modifications to become a top performer.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0While reading, pause and try to visualize a mental movie using suggested strategies applying The Triad to specific jobs, tasks, skills, and relationships you are familiar with and need to improve performance.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Einstein imagined learning everything in multiple senses so he could create huge numbers of associational neurons.\u00a0 Then, if he couldn\u2019t recall a bit of information, he may have used a different sense to locate the knowledge in another drawer of his brain\u2019s filing cabinet.\u00a0 Top performers use this multi-sensory approach to make new information meaningful and relevant.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I introduce RROSR as part of that strategy and suggests increasing awareness can increase your intelligence.\u00a0 But remember intelligence is specific.\u00a0 You can be smart in one area and unknowledgeable in another.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The three parts of The Triad are the 3 secret skills: Increase Awareness, Enhance Self-evaluation, and Connect Reward with Reinforcement are the foundation for all motivation. Once learned you will never forget them.\u00a0 When events trigger your need to improve any of those Big Four \u2013 jobs, tasks, skills, or relationships, remind yourself with a mental image to practice applying the skills.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The first part secret skill is Increase Awareness<\/strong>. To appreciably increase intelligence, you must learn how to increase your awareness at will on demand.<\/em>\u00a0 Top performers do not operate at 100% all the time. They sense when to increase their awareness to recognize essential cues, mobilize their energy, and raise their level of performance to be successful.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Four key words are: \u00a0AT WILL ON DEMAND.\u00a0 You choose when and where to apply The Triad.\u00a0 Increasing your awareness also creates value to organize, store, and retrieve differentiated information you find meaningful and relevant to successful past performance experience.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You perceive value from associating past familiar to new unfamiliar experiences. The frontal lobe behind your forehead does the thinking, predicting, and reasoning.\u00a0 The pre-frontal cortex immediately in front of the frontal lobe acts like the cache ram memory in your computer.\u00a0 As you acquire more knowledge and experience with specific tasks, you create an array of associational neurons linking the information stored in various parts of your brain.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0When you learn to value information, you hypothetically store new information differently than non-valued information. But with more associational neurons you facilitate retrieval at will on demand to perform at higher optimum levels.\u00a0\u00a0 Top performers use the pre-frontal cortex to retrieve valued information and hold in short term memory.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Then they modify and correct past performance mistakes by reviewing the sub routines or specific parts of the whole skill using mental practice and visualization strategies.\u00a0 These strategies create slow motion mental movie videos to fully rehearse the stimulus cues and response connections about to be performed in each part.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0After the corrections have been made, the pre-frontal cortex executes the connected sub routines without having to think and interrupt the whole performance.\u00a0 Non-valued information is not as readily retrievable like a file stored in a closet instead of your brain\u2019s desktop.\u00a0 A long retrieval sequence hinders learning and performance.\u00a0 It is harder to associate pleasurable past experiences to self-evaluate past performance and improve your motivation to strive for a goal and connect to a reward.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The second part secret skill is Enhance Self-Evaluation.\u00a0 <\/strong>No top performer ever waits for the approval of another.<\/em>\u00a0 Creative performers and leaders value their self-evaluation criteria and feedback more than to wait on their critic\u2019s opinion who is less familiar with the work.\u00a0 Can you imagine the great modern painter Picasso, waiting for the critic\u2019s opinion to decide what to paint?<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Great leaders and performers consult with others, and they do not wait for the approval of a critic with less talent or skill to proceed.\u00a0 Our schools, organizational, and business systems condition and reinforce exactly the opposite.\u00a0 We explain to students, trainees, and performers what is meaningful, relevant, and valuable instead of showing and teaching them a self-evaluation system or rubric to objectively score their performance.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Learn how to discover the answers to learn how to learn and be self-sufficient.\u00a0 We all know quality when we see it, but we cannot always describe it or the reward we feel.\u00a0 Performance evaluations are often vague or non-existent because no feedback system has been taught to the performer.\u00a0 In the end, it is not the extrinsic evaluation the teacher or evaluator thinks. What matters the most is how performers intrinsically evaluate their performances.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The third part secret skill is Connect Reward with <\/strong>Reinforcement.<\/strong>\u00a0 Routine performances and familial relationships are subconsciously automated. They are unaware of a connection between reward and reinforcement to improve future performance.\u00a0 The strategy is to move from unconscious to conscious awareness and attach significant value for each performance.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mundane tasks are routine and boring, so you are not as motivated to improve until you become consciously aware of small improvements to value enough to feel any reward.\u00a0 You cannot reinforce a reward you do not feel or value from exerting a conscious effort.\u00a0 By increasing awareness to work with your innate drives, you immediately enhance self-evaluation and self-reward.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0This connection reinforces and increases your motivation to improve skilled performances with more purposeful training and effort.\u00a0 RROSR is the strategy to improve all parts of The Triad.\u00a0 It is your ability to properly recognize, receive, organize, store, and retrieve information to value as meaningful and relevant to improve any performance and feel rewarded.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Imagine your reward feelings in doing a task well.\u00a0 Now, imagine a task or event you did not do well.\u00a0 No one likes to fail. No one says, \u201cBoy that was fun!\u00a0 Let\u2019s do it again!\u201d\u00a0 The oldest behavioral notion is the tendency to repeat satisfying performances and avoid repeating painful ones.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0To override routine subconscious behaviors and condition positive conscious behavioral responses, selectively focus on the correct cues to associate with purposeful correct responses.\u00a0 In other words, get clarity why you are performing what you do.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0By enhancing your self-evaluation be aware of your personal feedback system to associate quality of effort with quality of reward.\u00a0 This builds value and a stronger personal reward system to overcome occasional failures.\u00a0 This is the best way to build your confidence and self-esteem.\u00a0 No one can convince you with words.\u00a0 It must occur by your own actions and intrinsic motivation.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The inner overlap (PI) is your purposeful intent.\u00a0 When you know your purpose for performing any job, task, skill, or relationship you improve your performances in less time.\u00a0 Compare this concept with lack of awareness simply going through the motions in your daily routines.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As you read these chapters stay focused on learning and applying these skills over time to put yourself in position to succeed.\u00a0 No great performance was ever created with a few trials.\u00a0 If you apply these principles and make them a part of your daily routine, you will see measurable consistent improvements in your performances and relationships over time.\u00a0 Use The Triad to learn your purpose and experience consistent improvement and success.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Without a purpose your odds for success are maybe 50-50 like flipping a coin to be heads or tails.\u00a0 This seldom motivates you to work hard to improve your performance and assure your success.\u00a0 If you subscribe to be a servant leader, and learn you are a messenger to others, I thank you for spreading the word.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Tenets of The Triad<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Some scholars believe you cannot teach intrinsic or self-motivation.\u00a0 Based on my observations, personal research, and experience intrinsic motivation is a learned skill. As an All-American athlete, teacher, coach, sales trainer and regional manager, business owner, and school superintendent, I learned useful methods from my professors, coaches, and mentors who created an awareness of personal needs and values to motivate performance improvement.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Needs and values are the primary tenets.\u00a0 They evolve over time with the kinds of experiences you create in your environment \u2013 good or bad.\u00a0 How you choose to spend your time to gain useful feedback determines your outcomes.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Intrinsic or self-motivation revolves around satisfaction of personal needs.\u00a0 The problem is understanding needs are different from wants and be aware of their operation in your personal system.\u00a0 Some innate sub-conscious needs are powerful.\u00a0 You can learn to identify and discover how to bring those needs to a conscious level to enhance your motivation.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As you mature and gain experience you learn to value or discard new information.\u00a0 You do not waste your energy trying to store non useful information. The key is to be aware and show others you lead how to make new information meaningful and relevant to value and store as experience to apply to future events.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The secondary tenets are you choose when and where to apply The Triad to improve performance in less time for any job, task, skill, or relationship.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Using The Triad to Improve Your Performance Skills<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As with any unfamiliar task, learning the process will seem confusing until you become more familiar with each task. The Triad concepts and skills you acquire will make more sense when you begin to apply them. You will become more aware of your subtle performance improvements to feel your success and enrich the quality of your life and those around you.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Triad is a performance improvement system:<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#1 A learned skill that must be practiced over time to achieve consistent results.\u00a0 Use it or lose it.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#2 Formed by the sum-total use of your personality, education, past performance, experiences, needs, values, and goals.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#3 Conditioned by your abilities, skills, attitudes, biased beliefs, and prejudices and motives in your responses.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#4 Not hard to learn but neither a quick fix nor opportune motivational system that lasts for 72 hours.\u00a0 Permanent changes take time and are motivated by knowledge and understanding of how intrinsic motivation works to improve performance in less time.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#5 Intrinsic motivation is based on proven psychological principles and observed behaviors common in top performers.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#6 The skills learning process can seem complex because many interrelated variables are difficult to control. Become conscious of the specific variable interactions to control and use their intrinsic motivational effect on performance improvement.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#7\u00a0 The 3 secret skills are described in chapters under Part One, Two, and Three. These skills are learned independently but applied interdependently.<\/span><\/h3>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The following chart shows 7 steps to improve your performance with The Triad. Some personality adjustments will take time to condition and self-reinforce to make routine. You will notice these changes when you begin to master the awareness skills taught in Part One.\u00a0 As you read, practice applying these skills to yourself and those you lead.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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