SUMMARYMaggie Perotin, a business and leadership coach and founder of Stairway to Leadership, joins the podcast to share her journey from corporate burnout to becoming a high-performance coach. With years of experience, Maggie brings practical insights into managing time and energy to achieve success in both business and personal life.Throughout the conversation, Maggie emphasizes the importance of task prioritization, tracking time, and delegating low-value tasks. She discusses how high performance isn’t just about working non-stop but about balancing intense work periods with strategic rest. The episode covers actionable tips for entrepreneurs who want to optimize productivity without burning out.CHAPTER TITLES02:01 - Maggie's Corporate Burnout and Path to High Performance04:14 - The Importance of Task Tracking for Entrepreneurs06:33 - Maximizing Time Utilization for Business Owners08:25 - The Golden Rule of Task Delegation10:03 - High Performance: Finding Balance Between Work and Life12:17 - How Rest and Relaxation Fuel Productivity14:12 - Periods of Intensity vs. Rest in Business15:00 - Mastering the Morning for Maximum Productivity16:00 - Weekly Planning to Conserve Mental Energy18:45 - The Role of Habits in Sustaining High PerformanceGUEST DETAILSFULL NAMEMaggie PeritonSOCIALSStairwaytoleadershipmaggieperitonWEBSITEstairwaytoleadership.comConnect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter
Chapter 1: What led Maggie Perotin to become a high-performance coach?
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Living the Red Life. Today we're going to talk about some habits, techniques and tips for high performance. I'm here with Maggie who is the owner of the Dream Plan Do method or the founder of Dream Plan Do, a business coach and helps a lot of people
do exactly what we're talking about today through her business, Stairway to Leadership, which is being a high performer, getting a lot done, being successful in business. So Maggie, welcome to the show.
Yeah, thank you so much, Rudy, for having me. Happy to be here.
Good. So I know you were on, you know, I just did a training, ironically, on Monday that you were on around like high performance productivity. And I think it's such a useful and important topic. And I'm so excited to have you join me on the episode today to talk about it on the podcast side, because a lot of people aren't, you know, in my private training.
Chapter 2: Why is task tracking essential for entrepreneurs?
And just to set the scene a little before I hand over to you, I would say my training, like you're the... you're the LeBron James or the pro athlete in your own business, right? And if you're performing bad and not productive and, you know, maybe low energy or whatever, it's like everyone suffers.
Your employees suffer, your customers suffer, your family suffer because now you're more stressed in business and getting less done. So you have to look after you. And I say, treat yourself like a rock star. And every, you know, cast down from that. So, yeah,
Chapter 3: How can entrepreneurs maximize their time effectively?
For anyone that doesn't, you know, before we dive in, if people don't know who you are, do you mind just talking a little about, you know, why you're here today talking to us about performance and productivity?
Yeah. So my name is Maggie Perotin, business and leadership coach. I really am very passionate and believe in high performance. And that comes from my backstory. I was a corporate leader for many years and at some point I burned out. And that burnout led me, A, to start my business, but B, to look inside and say, OK, what can I do now? to avoid that, but also manage my time better.
Chapter 4: What is the golden rule for task delegation?
And I ended up going through some high performance cabot coaching and really understanding my relationship with time, the focus and so on. And that changed my life. That allowed me to, A, start my business on the side while running a very, you know, being fully employed in my corporate career and having quite demanding role.
doing mba on the side having my business kids at school during covet and i still was able to do all that while having time for me because of it so i'm very passionate about it i include it in my coaching when i you know when i coach business owners because i think that and of course having regular clients those are two top challenges for majority of business owners
Chapter 5: How can high performance be balanced with personal life?
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So why is it that, let's start from the get-go, why is it most entrepreneurs aren't productive? Because I think they're all very busy, and I was teaching and saying, like, he confused that with productive, because I... The most entrepreneurs like calendars or they tell me what their average day is. I'm like, most of that isn't high ROI producing tasks. So what is it like most function that way?
Chapter 6: What role does rest play in enhancing productivity?
I guess is my first question.
So I think there is a couple of things. One thing is definitely we're culturally sort of programmed to like busy means important. Busy means productive, right? And as you say, like it's not true. You can be busy doing things that don't move your business forward at all.
Chapter 7: How do periods of intensity and rest affect business success?
I think it's Richard Covey who said like, you know, you can be – there's nothing worse than being busy doing things that are not effective, right? It's like – So that's when the culture sort of programming, oh, I'm busy, therefore I'm doing important things. And we don't really pause and stop saying, like, is that really important?
And then the second thing, what I find with entrepreneurs, we are very creative, right? So we have a lot of ideas and ideas. With that, it's easy to get distracted. If you're not clear on what's important and you don't create systems and habits to support that focus, it's so easy to get distracted. There's so many opportunities out there. And that's a natural thing for even for us humans, right?
Our brain likes novelty. It gets attracted to it. Yeah.
Yeah, I think and I think also what I was talking about on the on Monday was we then fall into this and entrepreneurs are really guilty of this into this ticking box thing. And I used to be a victim of this where you're doing you make your to do list, you got these 12 things you blast, you know, email, you write a blog, blah, blah, blah.
Chapter 8: What habits sustain high performance in entrepreneurs?
And you have this endorphin release constantly that we get from ticking boxes and doing stuff. And we're like super productive. And then two years later, it's like, hey, our business still isn't making that much money. And it's like, well, you didn't do the big needle moving things every day. Right.
So, how do you know I guess question then how if people are listening and they're like Rudy that's me I'm doing all these random little things I'm not, you know, where I need to be and I'm probably not doing the big things what's a tip or how do they start switching what they do.
So the first thing I would say, you need to be clear what is it that you are doing and what is it that you need to be doing. Right. So one very eye opening exercise is actually tracking your time for a week from like when you start.
wake up to when you go to bed, tracking your time, because that there's so many things that we do that we don't even realize, like scrolling on the phone here and there or watching TV for that matter without realizing that. And that, you know, that exercise can be eye opening. I remember when I did it back in the day when I, you know, burned out, I realized that
I was spending so much time in the evening, just vegging on the couch, watching TV and sometimes shoes that I hated that I was getting like, you know, at the end, I was like, what the hell am I doing? Getting retired, going to bed. And when I realized that I was like, that has to stop. Right. So that's one, like, just know how you're spending your time.
Then the second thing, what you want to do is know, okay, why, What's my best utilization of the time if I am the owner? And I was coaching one of my clients on that just on Tuesday saying, OK, if you had to pay yourself $10,000 for an hour of your time, just think about is what you're doing worth it? And if it's not, then maybe you need to stop.
Or, you know, if you have a team, you can delegate if it still needs to be done.
Let me just stop you because that is the golden rule that I've always used. And it's such an idiot-proof way of assessing your own time, right? Like I literally, and I think I learned this from like Tim Ferriss, like 15 years ago in the four-hour work week and never forgot it since. And it's like, And anytime I'm always analyzing, why am I doing right now this hour?
Could I have someone else do it? Right. And I'm constantly, you know, doing that. So sorry to jump in, but I just wanted to overemphasize, like if you're listening to this and you're not doing that, Do it instantly and do it all day, every day, right?
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