Mike Howarth Coaching

Behaviour Change Lifestyle Coach

Fitness and Performance Behaviour Change Coach

Weightloss and Well-being Wizard

Mind and Body Transformation Coach

Making high achieving men unstoppable. Welcome to The Peak Performance Project.

If you’re a CEO, Director or MD of a multi-level organization and you want to look and feel your best, avoid burnout and be a better role model for your family..

..I have some very bad news 

You’re under pressure at work and home as it is

Your schedule’s packed, you’re stressed out and your energy levels are shot

Caffeine fuelled days of back-to-back meetings followed by a takeaway, some beers and a bit of tele at night is just too easy a habit to fall into. 

Before you know it that’s your normal and you’re left questioning how you ended up like this.

Even with the best of intentions to make changes you find yourself going through fits and starts never really making progress.

Deep down you know something needs to change and you know you can do better but with all the conflicting information online you just don’t know where to start this time

That’s where I come in…

I’m Mike Howarth, founder of The Peak Performance Project and I help high-achieving CEOs to look and feel their best and become better role models for their families in my 1-2-1 transformational coaching experience

Having lost 104lbs myself and coached hundreds of clients just like you I’ve created a proven strategy of mind and body transformation

A former British champion and international weightlifter my highest values are honesty, integrity, and authenticity

My motto is “clients first, clients last”

Check out what they have to say..

“The best decision I’ve made in my entire life, I’m present for my family and hitting my goals in business at the same time” – Pietro Guarino - serial entrepreneur

“I wished I’d done this 20 years ago” Brendan Linanne – MD 

“Definitely do it, you’ll be a completely different person at the end of the program” Christ Bailkoski Creative Director 

“Mike’s program has sorted my life out I can’t thank him enough” George Slicker MD 

“I just can’t believe how much I’ve achieved in just 12 weeks” Govinder Raghuraman Deputy Director of Kings Lynn Hospital

If you’re serious about becoming the best version of yourself, feeling and looking great and being the perfect role model for your family I can help.

Note: If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and it’s not. So if you're expecting a quick overnight success, stop reading now

However.. If you want to work with me you must be: 

- A male CEO or a business owner.
- Running an honest and ethical business
- Willing to step out of your comfort zone
- Want to be a better role model for your family
- Wanting to change your lifestyle right now 
- Prepared to do the work

If this is you, DM and let’s talk

Mike Howarth

Helping the 1% of leaders regain peak focus. Become the leader everyone wants to follow.

Your mind is on overdrive
Your good habits are elusive
Your life & business can be chaotic & turbulent
And your close relationships are on a knife's edge.

Granted, you’ve done well for yourself
But you have much more to give in life & business...

...Without sacrificing your health, relationships and social life.

Your goals & aspirations require a new mindset.
Setting your mind is the first step.

But how? 
- Elevate your thinking
- Align your behaviour
- Improve your systems

Stress and overwhelm enhance ego and limit your success and happiness.

A disciplined life & focused mindset provides freedom.

Start your journey towards a more successful life & business today…

Think, feel & perform at your best. 
MIND | BODY | BUSINESS

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What’s involved?
- Discover limiting beliefs & behaviours⁣
- Challenge current mental patterns & processes⁣
- Implement high-performing habits & behaviours⁣
- Adopt a growth mindset in all walks of life⁣

As a result, you’ll become:
- A more successful, higher-performing business leader & person⁣
- A more present and positive individual⁣
- A healthier, more energised version of yourself⁣
- A highly focused & productive individual

If you’re ready to take ownership and start leading yourself to reach peak mental performance in life & business, then let’s have a chat.⁣

Harri Pereira

26 things you MUST delete to make 2026 the best year of your life. 

Adding more is the old way.
Deleting more is the modern way. 

Most of what’s slowing you down isn’t a lack of effort — it’s tolerating things that no longer match who you’re becoming.

Instead of asking what you need to build, here’s a better question:  
What needs to go?

1. People who doubt you consistently and subtly  
2. Procrastinating on the few important things that bring relief once done  
3. Cheap dopamine: constant reacting, scrolling, binging  
4. Decisions driven by ego instead of direction  
5. Relationships anchored to an old version of you  
6. Doing things for others that conflict with who you’re becoming  
7. Waiting for external wins to justify feeling happy  
8. Explaining yourself when no explanation is required  
9. Re-explaining boundaries you’ve already made clear  
10. Drinking alcohol when you don’t even want to  
11. Being available all day and wondering why nothing meaningful moves  
12. Constantly chasing the next thing  
13. Consuming information instead of acting on what you already know  
14. Saying yes to avoid discomfort  
15. Carrying other people’s expectations as your own  
16. Confusing movement with progress  
17. Letting urgency dictate your priorities  
18. Staying in conversations that go nowhere  
19. Overthinking decisions  
20. Sacrificing your mental health for money, work & people  
21. Avoiding solitude because it feels unproductive  
22. Using distraction as emotional regulation  
23. Measuring yourself against people playing a different game  
24. Keeping habits that reinforce an outdated self-image  
25. Treating focus as optional instead of sacred  
26. Setting small, linear goals based on last year’s progress  

Just watch your life transform when you delete the ones necessary to you.

Deletion is more powerful than implementation.

Coaching founders & leaders to regain control of their inner world for outer success & fulfilment | Discover Your #1 Internal Block [+ what it’s costing your business/performance] ↓

10 subtle mental patterns making your life 10x harder than it needs to be: 

1. Over-explaining to avoid being misunderstood.

2. Confusing urgency with importance. 

3. Collapsing rest with laziness and feeling guilty for it.

4. Assuming friction& discomfort means you’re on the wrong path.

5. Believing clarity should arrive before movement.

6. Mentally rehearsing worst-case scenarios and calling it preparation.

7. Believing everyone else has their shit together.

8. Replaying conversations to win arguments that no longer exist. 

9. Waiting to feel confident before acting. 

10. Thinking progress should feel linear. 


♻️ Save this if you need to upgrade your mindset today.

Being a founder isn’t what you do, it’s who you are.
That's why 'work-life balance' never resonated with me.

I hated the fact you had to split the 2, as though your work is separate to life?

Work is life.
Love is life.
Socialising is life.
Health is life.

It's all life because without one, you don't have a fulfilling life.

What I started to understand when coaching other founders is that they don’t experience work as a job.

They experience it as an expression of creativity, identity & purpose.

It’s not “I run a company.”
It’s “I am a founder.”

That difference is big.

Because most mindset & life coaches advise founders to have more ‘balance’.
But that assumes ‘separation’.

Most founders don’t want separation.
They want alignment, coherence.
They’re ALL in on what they’re building.

This is something I call: “identity-driven work” and it has a cost.

When everything runs through one identity: the pressure to be successful ccummulates whilst deep relationships way whisper away, and health & fitness becomes excused due to workload.

Yes, many founders have high meaning & purpose, but they also inevitably accept massive pressure & stress.

And this isn’t conducive to a life of freedom until you’ve figured your sh** out.

The issue isn’t working too much:

The issue is a lack of t health / relationship / mental / personal systems.

Sustainable founders don’t spend less time building, they spend less time in anxious, guilty states because their health, life & relationships are in control.

If your work is the centre of your life, other systems become stabilisers.

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If this resonates, share it with a fellow founder ♻️ 


I built a short assessment to help founders identify what’s keeping them stuck.
https://lnkd.in/gTs3k4Ye

Most people explain habits in one of two ways:

When they are consistent, they call it discipline.
When they are not, they assume they lack it.

That's the standard explanation for failing habits. 
It’s convenient, and it’s usually wrong.

You don't have a discipline problem.
You have an identity problem.

You can force behaviour for a while. Everyone can.
But behaviour always defaults back to whatever feels normal [and comfortable] for you.

That is why this sounds familiar:
“I know exactly what to do, I just don’t do it consistently.”

It looks like discipline.
It is usually identity.

Lasting habits are not maintained through effort.

They are expressed because they fit who you believe yourself to be.

You do not motivate yourself to brush your teeth.
You do not negotiate with yourself.

Not because it is easy.
Because it is settled.

Over time, the resistance to habit implementation reinforces the wrong story.

→ I am someone who needs to push myself
→ I am inconsistent by default
→ Consistency requires effort and pressure

The question is not how to become more disciplined.

It is what kind of person this behaviour would feel normal for.

When you can believe and become that person, the habit will feel effortless.

My coaching programme helps people do exactly this; 
become the best version of yourself; mind, body and business.

Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dXwh2DZP

11 things in business that feel productive but aren't
Busyness is a very convincing distraction.
It's fooled me many times.

A lot of what we call productivity is just movement.
Activity creates a false sense of progress, which is why it feels satisfying.

Most high performers are not lazy.
They are overactive, doing too many of the wrong things.

Peter Drucker said: 
"Efficiency is doing things right.
Effectiveness is doing the right thing."

Cal Newport’s work discusses how shallow work creates visible effort.
Deep work creates disproportionate results, but demands discomfort before flow appears.

But too many of us are measuring against effort rather than results.

11 behavioural patterns that feel productive but block progress: 

1. Planning instead of deciding
2. Consuming content instead of executing
3. Trying new systems instead of committing to one
4. Replying quickly instead of acting deliberately
5. Optimising small tasks to avoid important ones
6. Starting new projects instead of finishing old ones
7. Over-preparing to avoid possible failure
8. Measuring time spent instead of outcomes created
9. Improving tools instead of improving focus
10. Saying “I’m busy” instead of setting boundaries
11. Researching instead of choosing

None of these are mistakes.
They are coping strategies when you have no clarity.

Progress accelerates when you stop avoiding decisions, commitment & clarity.

Want my Daily Review Protocol that keeps me focused & working on the things that actually move the needle in business? 

Comment the number that resonated/felt uncomfortable below & I'll send it over.

13 Mental Patterns of a Psychologically Mature Individual
[That make you more successful & resilient]

1. They don’t personalise everything that happens around them 
↳ Their mentality: "Life happens through you not to you."

2. They pause before reacting, even when emotions are strong 
↳ "Your first reaction should be a breath."

3. They don’t confuse discomfort with danger 
↳ They become comfortable with discomfort & don't avoid it.

4. They take responsibility without carrying unnecessary guilt 
↳ They lead through difficult times, even if they've made a mistake.

5. They can hold 2 conflicting ideas without rushing to resolve them 
↳ They're mentally present with different perspectives.

6. They stop explaining themselves to people who aren’t engaged 
↳ They don't need the reassurance of others who aren't going to understand.

7. They make and own decisions quickly
↳ Whatever path they choose, they own it without hesitation.

8. They tolerate uncertainty without constant reassurance 
↳ In turbulent periods, they maintain self-belief.

9. They don’t outsource self-worth to outcomes or approval 
↳ They're sense of self is robust and not determined by good or bad days.

10. They allow others to feel discomfort without needing to fix it 
↳ They lead others by not giving them an easy way out.

11. They recognise when effort is avoidance 
↳ They're self-aware and can identify differences on a deeper level.

12. They separate who they are from what they do 
↳ They're not attached to labels, they allow themselves freedom.

13. They don’t purely seek validation from external sources
↳ They rely only on themselves for validation.

Look at the list and reflect on your behaviour.
Are you who you say you are?

This list is what I've learnt from some of the most resilient and mature minds I've studied and worked 1-to-1 with.

If you can practice& & improve just 20% of this list, you'll do pretty well.

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ps. Take my free CEO of your mind & performance assessment to discover your #1 internal blocker: https://lnkd.in/gTs3k4Ye

I’ve coached 100s of founders
And found 1 devastating pattern for performance. 

Self-monitoring. 

Complete exhaustion from self-monitoring.

What I mean by that is the constant self-talk going on in the background:

Am I doing enough?
Am I showing up how I should be?
Am I supposed to be here?

AM I ENOUGH…?

If we can all agree that founders must be the best executers in the world.

The most successful founders are likely the ones who are able to take idea to execution in the shortest period of time [along with other factors]

So when i came across the neuroscience research on this I found that the brain burns more energy on self-referential processing than on execution.

When identity lags behind reality, the mind stays switched on.

Not solving problems & putting in the work but scanning for danger.

That’s exhausting…and i know this because I have been there as a founder.

What usually helps isn’t another recovery protocol.

It’s letting go of the constant spiral of self-destruction.

Understand that a question without too much emotion will keep you grounded, eg: 

“Are you focusing on the right things, Harri?”

vs.

“Are you good enough to be coaching CEOs, Harri?” 

“Are you experienced enough to handle those problems, Harri?”

My process is simple; 
ask yourself the question, answer it, make changes if necessary, move on.

A question that is answered with another question, and another one, is a dangerous mental spiral that must be met with action at some point.

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If this resonates, I built a short assessment to help leaders identify their #1 internal blocker.

Take our free assessment: CEO of Your Mind & Performance 
https://lnkd.in/ddwucZhc

I’ve watched intelligent, experienced leaders make very bad decisions.
Here's why:

Stress. 

To be more specific, their internal state, their nervous system was under stress & pressure. 

When in fight, flight or freeze, the brain drops long term thinking and focuses on survival, NOW.

In that state, decisions reside in reactivity & insustainability.
The vision is lost in that moment.

As you can see from my example, it’s not a mindset issue, it’s a physiological issue.

Most leadership advice is great when you’re calm but breaks the moment pressure mounts.

What consistently improves judgement isn’t a better framework.
It’s lowering physiological load before making decisions.

Small changes matter more than big insights.

If your thinking feels more reactive than usual, maybe your body is feeling the stress & pressure.

It’s worth taking time to diagnose the system, not your intelligence.

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I use a short assessment with founders & leaders to surface these pressure points.

The CEOs of Your Mind & Performance Assessment highlights your internal blockers, access it here: https://lnkd.in/d48PxzpN

Airports taught me more about emotion than any book ever did.

They're one of the most emotionally charged places on earth.

In the same vicinity, you'll find:
→ Someone in deep sadness leaving a loved one behind
→ A boyfriend welcoming their girlfriend back
→ A young man coming home a better version of himself
→ A mother scared when they’ll next see their son
→ An elderly couple confused & lost in the chaos

A combustion of love, longing, sadness, happiness, stress, uncertainty, anticipation, excitement...

I believe emotions are the entire point of life - to feel, be present & experience the highs and lows. 

You're never mentally absent when you feel something deeply. 
Whether it's negative or positive emotions, you're simply immersed in the experience of the feeling with no space for anything else.

Most people are avoidant of such emotions, they distract themselves and cover up how they feel.

They never quite bathe in the experience of emotion, and therefore, the experience of life.

Most people just see people, chaos & instructions...i implore you to look deeper [in airports, and in life].

There's an insight into how my mind works 🤣

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