A Complete Performance Framework for High-Stakes Moments

The Core Challenge

You get exactly one attempt. The meeting happens once. The performance is live. The race starts when the gun fires. You must be ready NOW—and your performance affects everyone around you.

What separates consistent performers: A mental framework that allows you to access your abilities when it matters most and recover powerfully when challenges arise.

TARGET STATES

Before Performance: Calm • Prepared • Easy
During Performance: Strong • Balanced • Smooth • Focused
After Mistakes: Quick Mental Resets
Your Target Mindset: Ready • Confident • Commanding

THE THREE TEAM PRINCIPLES

You always affect and are affected by the people around you.

BE TEAM — Present • Connected • Supportive
CREATE TEAM — Build • Contribute • Elevate
LOVE TEAM — Care • Commit • Celebrate

THE FIVE PILLARS

PILLAR 1: THE GED FOUNDATION

Grateful • Excited • Devoted

Your mental baseline before you perform. Grateful creates appreciation for the opportunity. Excited generates controlled energy without nervous tension. Devoted provides mental strength under pressure.

Team Integration: Your calm becomes the team's calm. Your excitement becomes shared momentum. Your devotion reminds others why they're here.

PILLAR 2: THE SCIENTIFIC PRAYER

Disciplined Breathwork Practice

A systematic protocol combining breathwork, visualization, and affirmations.

Preparation: Center through controlled breathing (2-3 minutes)
Execution: Wim Hof Progressive Breath-Hold Protocol—three progressive sets
Recovery: Return to calm breathing, acknowledge performance (2-3 minutes)
Affirmation: "I am calm under pressure. My breath is my strength. I perform with clarity and confidence."

Team Integration: Your practiced composure becomes a resource for your team—an anchor point when chaos threatens.

PILLAR 3: THE "BE WITH" EXPERIENCE

Emotional Mastery

The ability to be with difficult experiences rather than be consumed by them separates those who perform under pressure from those who collapse.

What "Being With" Means: You're neither fighting emotions nor drowning in them. You're present—observing, feeling fully, without judgment or resistance.

Example: The violinist's hands shake before the career-defining audition. Instead of thinking "I can't be nervous," she acknowledges: "My body is activated. This is normal. I can play while feeling this." She performs alongside the fear without being owned by it.

Team Integration: Your ability to be with difficult emotions creates psychological safety. When you acknowledge fear without collapsing, you demonstrate that emotions are manageable.

PILLAR 4: THE DEBRIEF

Continuous Improvement

Performance without reflection is just repetition. Debriefing transforms experience into wisdom.

Psychological Safety — Be honest without fear of blame. Look for truth, not fault.
Structured Flexibility — What did you do well? What could you improve? Did you follow your process? Does your process still serve you?
Forward Focus — Emphasize what you'll do differently, not what went wrong.

Team Integration: One person's insight becomes everyone's advantage. Individual experiences transform into collective wisdom.

PILLAR 5: THE PERFORMANCE SEQUENCE

Tactical Deployment Under Pressure

PHASE 1: BE DELIBERATE
Prepare with intention. Execute with precision. Activate your GED Foundation in real time.

PHASE 2: FINISH
Form — Maintain technical excellence
Tempo and Rhythm — Find optimal pace and flow
Performance Breathing — Integrate controlled patterns
Sensory Focus — Tune into body awareness
Passion — Express full emotional commitment

PHASE 3: BATTLE
Manage Distractions — Maintain focus despite challenges
Battle Breathing — Use rapid, controlled nasal breathing for acute stress
Energy Return — Feel energy cycle back through committed effort
Flow State — Enter the zone where performance becomes effortless

Team Integration: When the team battles together, energy return multiplies. Your composure under fire gives others permission to stay composed.

ACCEPT LOVE: THE UNIFYING ELEMENT

The five pillars create structure. The three team principles create connection. Accept Love provides the spirit that animates everything.

Accept Love reminds you why you're here: The work itself—not as burden, but as privilege. The challenge—not as enemy, but as teacher. The reward—not just outcomes, but deep satisfaction of showing up fully. The people—fellow travelers worthy of your best.

Accept Love protects against burnout and relentless self-criticism. When combined with Love Team, it becomes exponential.

THE TRUTH ABOUT CONSISTENCY

Consistency isn't about being perfect. It's about being reliable in your ability to show up mentally ready, execute with strength and focus, battle effectively when pressure intensifies, recover quickly from mistakes, finish strong with capacity to learn, and elevate everyone around you.

This is chasing consistency: building a mental framework that positions you to perform well more often, recover quickly when things go wrong, and amplify all of this through conscious team engagement.

YOUR TURN

The Final Truth: This is hard. That's the point.

Easy things don't require frameworks.

You'll forget parts during your first real test. That's normal. Come back and try again. Your butterflies won't disappear—but you'll get them flying in formation. You won't be perfect. You'll still make mistakes and feel fear and doubt.

But you'll have a process. A way back to center. A team around you. And love for the pursuit itself.

NOW IT'S TIME

Accept Love. Do the work. Embrace the challenges. Experience the joy.

Be Team. Create Team. Love Team.

The system is complete. The process is proven. The choice is yours.

The team is ready. Are you?

Unlock Your HiLevel Performance

Get your free copy of "Chasing Consistency" and discover the proven framework I use with elite athletes and high-performing teams to deliver their best when it matters most. This pamphlet is your first step toward mastering pressure, building unshakeable mental resilience, and creating sustainable excellence.
Inside you'll find:

• Practical strategies for performing under pressure
• Mindset techniques used by championship athletes
• A step-by-step framework for consistent excellence
• Tools to elevate both individual and team performance

Want personalized guidance? After reading the pamphlet, explore how we can work together to customize these principles for your specific goals. Contact me to discuss coaching, workshops, or team training programs.

Brad Yates | HiLevel Coaching Service

Phone: 808.295.2136 | Email: hilevelHawaii@gmail.com