WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?

Sustain Your Game is for anyone who is not only looking to improve their performance and productivity – but strives to do so consistently year after year without feeling burned out, hyper-stressed, or overwhelmed.

It is for high performers who want to learn practical strategies and actionable steps on how to maintain excellence across in the short, intermediate, and long term.  It assembles invaluable advice and lessons from successful athletes, entrepreneurs, social scientists, journalists, CEOs, motivational speakers, business coaches, and consultants, as well as Alan’s own unique personal stories.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

The key to consistently improving performance and sustaining true excellence comes down to what you do during the Unseen Hours (when ‘no one is watching.’). Sustain Your Game examines how the highest performers across a plethora of industries have been able to create long-term success while simultaneously managing unparalleled pressure and stress.  It unpacks their standards, systems, and strategies and provides proven principles that can be implemented immediately to create sustainable excellence… and sustainable fulfillment…  in every area of life.

WHY IS THIS BOOK NEEDED?

Most resources share ideas on how to improve performance. Some provide thoughts to sustaining performance. Very few, if any, do both of those while also addressing burn out, lack of work/life balance, and a general feeling of being overwhelmed and constantly stressed out.

These stats, which are alarming, have only been heightened since the COVID pandemic:

• 34% of workers consider themselves overworked
• 77% of workers feel burned out on the job
• The ‘average’ US worker spends 25% of their day reading/responding to email
• Fewer than 16% of companies have a program to help employees deal with stress
• 40% of the US population believes work/life balance is unattainable
• The ‘average’ US worker works 47 hours per week (49% work 50+, 20% work 60+)

Sustain Your Game offers a different approach. A way to improve productivity, impact, results, and fulfillment… while simultaneously decreasing burnout, attrition, and stress.

The goal of my first book, Raise Your Game, was to help readers achieve high performance in whatever they do. The goal of Sustain Your Game is to get them thinking about the next step: remaining there. The book is organized along a timeline of short term to long term because we are always battling all three: stress in the now, stagnation in the present, and burnout in the long term.  I believe that an easily decipherable structure is the best way to retain knowledge, so I’ve designed this book into three parallel sections:

PERFORM is about managing stress in the day to day (short-term)

PIVOT is about avoiding stagnation in your current situation (mid-term)

ACTION STEPS:

They say knowledge is power. That’s not true. Well, at least it is complete. Power doesn’t come from the knowledge; it comes from the application of the knowledge. The power is in the action. It’s not the knowing, it’s the doing! At the end of every chapter, I’ve provided a series of practical, actionable steps you can implement immediately to help Sustain Your Game.

Here is a sample of the Action Steps from Chapter 1 (Focus):

• Using a pen/pencil over a keyboard has been proven to help focus and performance. A study out of Princeton and UCLA found “students who wrote out notes longhand retained more and had a better conceptual understanding of the material than students who typed notes on a keyboard.” Writing it down sends a signal to your brain that it is more important.
• Listen intently when people talk—even when they can’t see you (like on conference calls). When you spread our mind into two different places, it creates stress. The effort to be elsewhere is not possible and anxiety-producing. Be where you are.
• De-Alert. Are you an ER Doctor? Firefighter? If not, how often do you actually need to be ‘on call’? Rarely. Maybe never. Shut off your notifications or leave your phone elsewhere during times you need to dig in. Your phone adds stress and breaks focus.
• You can also take a page from Jeremy Dean and become a “scheduled checker” of your phone. (He suggests every 45 minutes). Choose times during the day to shut off your alerts and notifications. No one—not even your boss—gets a monopoly on your time.

If you are committed to investing in your team, I can offer you these two options:

I can offer a 42% discount on any bulk order of 10+ books (and will sign each copy in advance). If you invest in 50+ copies, we can schedule a complimentary virtual 30-minute Author Q&A with me and a member of your leadership team (order must be placed by September 1, 2022, and the virtual ‘fireside chat’ needs to take place in 2022).

Simply email me directly at Alan@AlanSteinJr.com to take advantage of either of these limited time offers!