Peak Performance

Peak Performance

The future is a fog for many of us right now, and it can be confusing how to move forward. In this final episode of the season, Bob encourages us to utilize the practical health tips we've learned from this series to develop a “core course for peak performance.” In this way, Bob assures us (and science confirms), we are the road to becoming happier and more productive than we ever thought was possible.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay Calm as a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
to Stay Calm, your daily dose of calmness. I'm Bob Roth,
and I've been teaching people to meditate for fifty years,
helping them to stay calm under pressure, reboot and re
energize their lives, and basically be a happier, healthier version

(00:22):
of themselves. And now I want to help you do
the same. Ready, sit comfortably, take a few deep breaths,
and let's begin today's journey. Hazel is six years old
and her sister April is four. They're the daughters of
my nephew Michael and his wife Rachel. When I see

(00:43):
Hazel in April over zoom or and photos, looking so
happy and excited and young, it makes me feel very happy.
But afterwards I find myself thinking, what's their world going
to be like in twenty years? What about next year?
Before the coronavirus hit, I had lunch with the deans
of two top East Coast universities. They were obviously very

(01:06):
concerned about the future, but their focus wasn't so much
on children at this time, but more on the eighteen
year old kid who's entering college with the prospect of
a very cloudy future at best. Now, I'm not here
to recount the grim statistics of what may lie ahead
for that student. Rather, I want to share with you
the good news of what these educators believe is a solution.

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And I tell you this because I think their ideas
are profoundly relevant to each of us today. One dean
said that for too long, colleges and universities have marginalized
mental health issues among students. If kids were having difficulties
with alcohol or anxiety, well, then in between classes or
whenever they could find the time, they could make an

(01:51):
appointment and meet with a counselor or a therapist. Where
Else they could take a yoga class or sit in
on a mindfulness session, and then when they were done
and theoretically feeling better, they would head back into the
fray of classes and studying and papers and exams. Well,
the deans admitted that approach has not worked at all.

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Their new approach is to develop a new core course
on peak performance that students would start the first day
they set foot on campus. The course would be fully
accredited and would provide them with a menu of tools
to help them navigate the inevitable changes in stresses, both
academic and social, as well as help them to develop

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their optimum health and harness their maximum creative potential. The
course would provide opportunities to learn evidence based meditation, yoga,
and exercise, as well as tips on how to sleep
better and eat well and other things. But here's the point.
This course would not be an elective. It would be

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central to all the other courses offered by the college,
and it wouldn't just be for that first year, but
throughout their entire college life. The conversation got me thinking
that all of us could use a core course for
peak performance in life. The courses would be different, but
they would be for everyone, from children like Hazel in

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April all the way up to our most senior of citizens.
Because life is full of changes and stresses, constant, inevitable,
unstoppable changes, changes in our health and how we look
in our career, in our relationships, partnerships dissolve, and kids
grow up and leave home. To navigate this change requires

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a steadfast inner stability, a ton of energy, really infinite
patience and resilience, deep inner happiness, and yes, calm. That
means we all need a core course for peak performance.
I so appreciate the time we have spent together during
this first season of Stay Calm. I hope you feel

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empowered to develop your own core course for life, and
if you do, then please use whatever tips you may
have learned here, but also discover and test out additional
new tips on your own. And if there's any way
I can help you along your journey, please email me
at Meditation Bob Roth at gmail dot com. Now let's

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take a minute, a full sixty seconds, to be grateful
for whomever we love and appreciate the most. All right,

(05:29):
thank you for joining me today. I hope you heard
something that inspires, that uplifts you and that you can
incorporate into your own life. This is Bob Roth, Stay Calm. Hey,
all of you out there, I'd love to hear from you.
You can send me your stories, your questions, or anything

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else on your mind. Just connect with me on Twitter,
Facebook or Instagram at Meditation Bob. You can also send
me an email at Meditate Acient Bob Roth at gmail
dot com. I look forward to hearing from you.