<p><img decoding="async" title="Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/zig-ziglar-hs.jpg" alt="Zig Ziglar motivational speaker" class="alignleft" />Much of success is about performance. It&#8217;s about what we do and what we are able to inspire others to do. There are some simple performance principles I have learned in my life, and I want to share them with you.</p>
<p>They really bring success, and what it takes to be successful, into sharp focus. They are also the basis for developing and maintaining an expectation of success.</p>
<h2>The Five Principles of Performance:</h2>
<h3>1. We generally get from ourselves and others what we expect.</h3>
<p> It is a huge fact that you will either live up or down to your own expectations. If you expect to lose, you will. If you expect to be average, you will be average. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/02/the-five-principles-of-performance-by-zig-ziglar/" title="Permanent Link: The Five Principles of Performance By Zig Ziglar" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":955,"date":"2012-02-15T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T16:52:37","slug":"the-five-principles-of-performance-by-zig-ziglar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/02\/the-five-principles-of-performance-by-zig-ziglar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Principles of Performance By Zig Ziglar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/zig-ziglar-hs.jpg\" alt=\"Zig Ziglar motivational speaker\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Much of success is about performance. It&#8217;s about what we do and what we are able to inspire others to do. There are some simple performance principles I have learned in my life, and I want to share them with you.<\/p>\n<p>They really bring success, and what it takes to be successful, into sharp focus. They are also the basis for developing and maintaining an expectation of success.<\/p>\n<h2>The Five Principles of Performance:<\/h2>\n<h3>1. We generally get from ourselves and others what we expect.<\/h3>\n<p> It is a huge fact that you will either live up or down to your own expectations. If you expect to lose, you will. If you expect to be average, you will be average. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/02\/the-five-principles-of-performance-by-zig-ziglar\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Five Principles of Performance By Zig Ziglar\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}