The High-Performance Habits That Helped Tiffany Julie Build Multiple 7 Figure Companies
- Brainz Magazine
- 2 days ago
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Updated: 5 hours ago
Written by Tiffany Julie, High Performance Coach
Tiffany Julie is a Performance Coach, 7-figure entrepreneur, and Founder of the Success On Purpose Podcast. Through her transformative coaching programs, she helps clients unlock their potential and achieve extraordinary success. She's been featured in Forbes, Yahoo, and The London Times as a Top Business and Performance Coach to follow.
We live in a world that glorifies hustle. Entrepreneurs wear exhaustion like a badge of honor, believing that longer hours mean greater success. Yet neuroscience proves the opposite. When the brain is overworked, creativity shuts down, clarity disappears, and energy collapses. What many call “drive” is often just running on adrenaline until the system crashes.
Early in my career, I was the perfect example of that pattern. I worked harder than anyone I knew, but I wasn’t getting further. My performance coach called me the “burnout queen,” and he was right. I had the drive but not the discipline to manage my focus, energy, or mindset in a way that created sustainable results. That wake-up call changed everything.
The truth is, high performance is not about doing more. It’s about aligning your habits with how the brain actually works. Once I began applying neuroscience-based strategies, my output increased while my hours decreased. My health improved, my energy stabilized, and my businesses scaled beyond seven figures. More importantly, I felt fulfilled instead of depleted.
Over the past decade of coaching high achievers, I’ve seen this transformation repeat itself across every industry. From founders and executives to top-producing sales leaders, the difference between burning out and breaking through comes down to mastering a few key habits. In this article, I’ll teach you the five high-performance habits that have helped me and my clients achieve extraordinary success with clarity, confidence, and energy that lasts.
Habit one: Clarity over hustle
Most entrepreneurs mistake activity for progress. They measure success by how many tasks they complete instead of the quality of the outcomes they create. But the brain doesn’t reward motion. It rewards meaning. Without clarity, all the hard work in the world only leads to exhaustion and mediocre results.
The neuroscience of clarity
Neuroscience shows that clarity activates the brain’s reward and motivation networks, specifically the prefrontal cortex and the dopamine system. When you have a clear goal and know exactly why it matters, your brain releases more energy and focus toward achieving it. That’s why clarity isn’t just a productivity hack. It’s a biological advantage.
My ritual: CEO Mondays
Every Monday, I dedicate time to what I call CEO Mondays, a strategic ritual for clarity and recalibration.
Here’s what it looks like:
Zoom out: Review what’s working, what isn’t, and why.
Realign priorities: Focus only on what moves the business toward the bigger vision.
Refine direction: Eliminate distractions and identify the 20% of activities driving 80% of results.
This 60-minute practice became one of the most profitable hours of my week because it kept me solving the right problems, not all of them.
The cost of confusion
When leaders neglect clarity, they fall into what I call achievement autopilot:
Chasing goals that no longer inspire them
Saying yes to opportunities that dilute their energy
Staying busy without moving closer to anything meaningful
True high performance begins when you step off that treadmill and start asking better questions.
Performance prompt
Where in your business are you mistaking motion for progress? What would change if you traded hustle for one hour of deep clarity each week?
Habit two: Manage energy, not time
Most productivity advice focuses on time, color-coded calendars, packed schedules, and endless to-do lists. But high performers know that time isn’t the real currency of performance. Energy is. You can plan every minute of your day, but if your energy is low, your results will always be limited. The most successful leaders don’t just manage their calendars, they manage their biology.
The science behind energy rhythms
The brain and body operate in natural energy cycles called ultradian rhythms, which are roughly 90 to 120-minute waves of alertness and fatigue. The concept of managing energy, not time, has been validated in performance research and executive studies by the Harvard Business Review. When you push through the dip instead of recovering, stress hormones build, focus declines, and creativity shuts off. Over time, that constant overdrive leads straight to burnout.
High performers, on the other hand, align their work with their natural energy flow. They focus deeply, then intentionally recover before diving back in. That rhythm of effort and renewal keeps the brain performing at its peak. Leaders who balance focused effort with renewal outperform peers across key productivity metrics, according to HBR.
Simple ways to protect and refuel energy
Building energy rituals doesn’t require a total lifestyle overhaul. Small, intentional actions between focus blocks can reset your brain in minutes.
Try these:
Breathe with purpose. Use deep or rhythmic breathing to regulate your nervous system before important meetings or decisions.
Move the body. Gentle Qigong flows or Vinyasa sequences improve circulation, release tension, and re-engage creative centers.
Get sunlight. Step outside for natural light exposure to reset your circadian rhythm and increase dopamine.
Pause for reflection. Use micro-breaks for awareness, not scrolling, to recharge focus and prevent decision fatigue.
Real-world results
In my high-performance coaching program, leaders who adopt this principle often report doubling weekly output while working half the hours. Their energy becomes their strategic advantage. They stop managing time and start multiplying performance.
Performance prompt
When during your day does your energy naturally peak, and when does it dip? What would change if you scheduled your most important work to match those rhythms instead of fighting them?
Habit three: Rehearse success until it feels inevitable
Most entrepreneurs prepare for high-stakes moments by perfecting the strategy but neglecting the state. They rehearse the content, not the confidence. Then, when pressure rises, logic fades, and the nervous system takes control. The result is hesitation, tension, and missed opportunity.
The truth is simple. If your body associates pressure with stress, it will default to survival mode every time.
The science of mental rehearsal
Neuroscience shows that mental rehearsal activates almost 90 percent of the same neural pathways as real-world practice. When you visualize a scenario vividly, your brain doesn’t know the difference between imagination and experience. It builds the same neural circuits for focus, timing, and emotional regulation.
According to PubMed, mental rehearsal recruits many of the same motor-cognitive networks involved in real execution, which is why consistent visualization improves poise and precision under pressure. This is why elite athletes, Navy SEALs, and top executives use visualization before critical events. They are not imagining success, they are training for it.
How to rehearse like a high performer
Before any major pitch, launch, or presentation, walk through it in your mind as if it is already happening. Include all sensory details so your brain experiences it as real.
Try this:
See it: Picture the environment, your posture, the faces in the room.
Feel it: Notice the calm confidence in your body.
Hear it: Imagine your tone of voice and the positive response.
Finish it: Visualize the successful outcome and the sense of accomplishment.
This process preloads success into your nervous system so that when the real moment arrives, you execute with ease and certainty instead of fear.
Tactical preparation beats wishful thinking
Rehearsal is not about fantasy. It is about familiarity. By experiencing success in advance, you train your body to stay composed under pressure. When that moment comes, your brain simply follows the script you have already practiced.
Performance prompt
What high-stakes moment is ahead of you this month? Instead of overthinking it, rehearse it daily until it feels second nature. The confidence you feel in practice will become the calm you carry into reality.
Habit four: Identity alignment, becoming the person who has the goal
Many entrepreneurs believe that better strategies will solve their problems. But even the best strategy fails if your identity does not match your goals. The brain is wired to stay consistent with what it believes to be true about you. If you see yourself as someone who struggles, your actions will prove it right.
Growth requires more than new tactics. It requires a new self-concept.
The psychology of identity
Behavioral science shows that people act in alignment with the identity they hold, not the goals they set. You can set a goal to earn seven figures, but if you still think and operate like a six-figure earner, your brain will unconsciously resist the behaviors that would take you further.
This is why lasting transformation always starts from the inside out. When you shift who you believe you are, your habits and results follow naturally.
The practice of identity priming
In high performance coaching, I teach a process called identity priming. It is the practice of anchoring your future self into your present behavior.
Here is how to begin:
Define the future you. Describe in detail who you are when your goal is already achieved. How do you think, decide, and lead?
Choose your anchor words. Pick three identity traits that reflect that version of you, such as calm, decisive, or bold.
Reinforce hourly. Set reminders to pause and ask, “Am I showing up as this version of myself right now?”
Adjust in real time. If not, decide what small shift you can make in the next moment to align with that identity.
When you repeatedly act from the mindset of your future self, your brain’s reticular activating system begins filtering opportunities that match your new identity. Over time, your external results catch up to your internal programming.
From striving to embodying
Identity alignment is about embodiment, not effort. It is choosing to live as the person who already has the results instead of waiting to feel ready. When your self-image rises to meet your vision, growth becomes automatic.
Performance prompt
Who is the version of you that already lives at your next level? Write down three words that describe that person. Keep them visible. Practice being them every single day until it no longer feels like a stretch, it feels like you.
Habit five: Vision casting, conditioning belief instead of doubt
Many entrepreneurs set big goals but secretly doubt they can reach them. That quiet uncertainty drains energy, slows execution, and makes every decision heavier than it should be. Doubt is not a mindset issue, it is a conditioning issue.
High performers don’t wait for external proof before believing. They train belief first so their nervous system feels safe succeeding.
The neuroscience of certainty
The brain doesn’t distinguish between vividly imagined experiences and real ones. When you visualize a goal in detail, your brain begins wiring new neural pathways that support confidence, focus, and motivation. This process, known as mental priming, reduces fear and increases the likelihood of follow-through. The more real your success feels internally, the easier it becomes to create externally.
How to practice vision casting
Vision casting is a daily exercise that programs your subconscious mind to expect success. It is not about fantasy, it is about familiarity.
Here’s how to use it effectively:
Write your reality. Each morning, script your next milestone in the present tense as if it is already true.
Engage your senses. Imagine what you see, hear, and feel when the goal is complete.
Walk with conviction. Take a short confidence walk while visualizing your success to activate the brain and body together.
Repeat daily. Repetition signals safety to your nervous system, helping your brain replace hesitation with certainty.
Why it works
When you consistently practice vision casting, your brain’s predictive coding system starts filtering for opportunities that align with your imagined success. You attract connections, insights, and actions that match your belief, not your doubt.
This is the secret behind how high performers move faster and recover quicker. Their belief is already built in.
Performance prompt
If you fully believed your next goal was inevitable, how would you act today? Take one action from that mindset and watch how it shifts your energy, clarity, and results.
From high achiever to high performer
High achievers work hard for success. High performers create it with intention. The difference is not effort, it is alignment.
When you master these five habits, clarity, energy, rehearsal, identity, and belief, your work begins to flow instead of resist. You stop grinding for results and start creating them through rhythm, focus, and presence.
Success becomes a natural byproduct of how you operate, not something you chase. Your days feel spacious. Decisions are clear. Energy lasts. You no longer sacrifice health or joy for achievement because performance and well-being finally exist on the same team.
After a decade of coaching leaders and building multiple seven-figure companies myself, I can tell you this: the most fulfilled people are not the ones who push hardest. They are the ones who understand how their mind, body, and purpose work together.
High performance is not about becoming someone else. It is about returning to your highest potential, which is the version of you that leads with clarity, moves with energy, and creates results that feel as good as they look.
If you are ready to step into that level of mastery, I invite you to book a high performance consultation call with me. Together, we will design your personalized strategy to scale your business, elevate your energy, and achieve the kind of success that lasts.
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Tiffany Julie, High Performance Coach
Tiffany Julie is a leading high-performance coach, 7+ figure entrepreneur, and creator of the Results Mastery Formula. Through this proven framework, she helps ambitious leaders reprogram their minds, master performance habits, and amplify their magnetism to create extraordinary success. Her expertise has been featured in Forbes and Yahoo Finance, and she has been recognized as a top business and performance coach by The London Times, LA Weekly, and the Coach Foundation.
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