The 2% with Eric Partaker

Does it feel like it takes you forever to get things done? Maybe you feel you just don't have enough time, that you need more hours in your day. But the truth is you don't need more time – what you need more than anything is to learn how to leverage the power of deep work. In this episode I'll explain the concept of deep work and show you how to work in a focused way on the things that matter most, so you can supercharge your productivity and hit your goals. 

Have you ever felt like giving up? Like you just didn't have what it takes or you just weren't smart enough? If so, that's classic fixed mindset thinking and until you learn how to adopt a growth mindset, you'll never achieve your full potential. In this episode I'll explore Carol Dweck's research on the power of mindset and show you how to combat limiting beliefs and develop a powerful growth mindset so you can enjoy success in all your endeavors.

Do you ever feel like things are unbalanced in your life? Maybe all of your attention and effort is on work or your career but your relationships are being neglected and your health is suffering. The story keeps repeating over and over but unless you make a correction, your whole life is going to pass you by. In this episode I’m going to teach you how to achieve your best in your work, relationships and health, without sacrificing what matters most. 

Do you feel frustrated with trying to get your team to perform? Sometimes it may feel like you're just beating your head against the wall and you wonder if it's worth all the effort. But as a leader, it's up to you to elicit that performance and if you don't manage to do it, eventually someone else will step in and do it for you. In this episode I’ll teach you five things that I’ve found increase team performance the most. I’ve called upon these principles as a CEO myself and I’ve also seen them create the greatest impact with the leaders that I coach so I’m confident they’ll help you get the best out of your team as well. 

In life you’re always negotiating whether you like it or not - whether you're negotiating with your children to do their chores, negotiating with friends about where to go for dinner, or negotiating with our boss to get that promotion. But most people go about negotiation all wrong and leave so much on the table because they don’t understand the principles behind the process. In this episode I’ll teach you the principles of negotiation that have helped me in my business and life so you can get more of what you want and achieve your goals faster.

If you're like me, I'm sure you've come across somebody at a conference or in a meeting and thought you’d love to meet that person. Or maybe you've read a book and thought you’d love to speak with the author one day. That's typically where most people's thinking stops but unless you develop that confidence to go out there and connect to these people, your competition will get ahead of you and you won't reach your full potential. In this episode I’ll share three habits I’ve developed to become a power networker that will help you tap the wisdom, expertise and networks of other people. 

Growing up, my parents used to say to me, “Shoot for the moon and even if you miss, you'll still land amongst the stars.” You’ve probably heard this expression before but if you’re like most people, chances are you’re playing smaller than you could. What I've learned in my life is that massive goals truly do generate massive results. In this episode I’ll share my experience with setting ambitious goals that inspired big action and culminated in me becoming the UK’s CEO of the Year. I’ll also teach some practical tools and tips to help you set massive goals that will bring you the massive results you want in your work and life. 

Everyone these days wants to have a great start to their day so they think about installing a morning routine, but that's not the place to start. If you want to have a great day, you actually need to start the day before with a great evening routine. For years I focused on my mornings, trying to join the 5:00 AM club and trying to get everything done before my kids woke up. But then I realised I was approaching things all wrong. In this episode I’ll share the evening routine that has helped set my days up for success as well as helping you construct your own. 

All of us have heroes or people that we look up to, but we spend most of our time admiring them from afar rather than trying to deconstruct what drives their success and decoding that into actionable practical steps. I recently read the book Elon Musk by Ashley Vance, which is a biography of the legendary entrepreneur and in this episode I’ll take you through six peak performance habits I’ve identified that Elon displays in his life and work. For each of those habits, I’ll give you three practical tools, which if implemented will help bring you more success and help you achieve what matters most. 

I'm sure you've heard of sports stars being in the zone where they're totally on top of their game, time, just flies by and nothing can disrupt their focus. They're on, they're hitting every shot, they're winning games. And you may have heard of that flow state when it comes to just ordinary, everyday people about trying to activate a sense of flow, where you can relentlessly focus on whatever you're doing and not be distracted much like a sports star does, or perhaps you haven't heard of this, and you've only associated with sports and didn't realize that a flow state, a state of flow is something that you can activate within you to work more effortlessly at a higher level of production and essentially win more.