# Achieving Peak Performance: The Balance of Process and Flow

The process focuses on understanding the parts we need to assemble to reach a desired outcome. This would be enough if we could control all variables. But we can't. This is why we also need the flow state to fit fragments of the parts together in a different way. Thus, peak performance is both **process** and **flow**.

We often gravitate towards the certainty that structured processes provide, forgetting about the flow state. While our dedication can help us push our mechanical limits in executing various parts of our chosen process, uncontrollable variables still lead to failure. This highlights the importance of allocating time to cultivate the flow state.

The flow state is a timeless, organic, and effortless experience where our actions and decisions transition seamlessly from one to another, without the sensation of active thought.

3 Steps to the Flow State...

Step 1: Stop looking for actions and decisions to control outcomes

Step 2: Observe how everything is in relationship with everything else. To see the whole.

Step 3: Initiate a movement, noticing how our actions influence the relationships between everything around us and adjusting accordingly, repeating this process, so that something we could not have known before - appears. A Wow moment.

We analyze what happened not for repetition, but to foster confidence that we can let go of the parts of a process...flow is about fitting the fragments of those parts together in a different way, and that is what we call flow. Performance is simply the result of allowing that to happen. We Harness the Flow State to Enjoy Improving at Whatever We Are Doing.

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