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Can you really defer prioritising your health and well-being for another year? In your professional life, do you wait year after year for the perfect time to act? Do you let a lack of time stop you from achieving a target that is critical to the success of the business?
On Monday I shared with you the first door of success: clarity. The second door is about aligning your goals with your desire.
Do you want to play the game of life like an elite athlete — to experience what is like when time slows down as the ball comes to you? To be a magnetic leader that inspires a team to greatness? To experience all the joy and fulfilment in your work, social and family lives?
When you read over your answers to the first door questions, is your desire to achieve these goals brimming with fiery, burning energy? Or is your desire frigid and cool like a lake in the mountains? If you rated your desire for each goal, would they mostly be 10 out of 10?
Have you created a list of ‘must-haves’, things that you want so much that life without them isn’t worth living?
FIND YOUR DESIRE
The strongest piece of advice I can give you here is not to be afraid of failing. As Steve Jobs explained, once you realise that you will die one day, every barrier becomes insignificant. If you are lacking the fiery desire that you know creates success, ask yourself (and be honest) — are you afraid to fail?
To find the hot desire required for success, you must walk through door one — clarity — a second time. At this stage, don’t let the fear of failure limit your beliefs. Slow your mind; deep down you know what the right answer is, it’s time for you to follow your deepest desires.
On Monday I shared with you the first door of success: clarity. The second door is about aligning your goals with your desire.
Do you want to play the game of life like an elite athlete — to experience what is like when time slows down as the ball comes to you? To be a magnetic leader that inspires a team to greatness? To experience all the joy and fulfilment in your work, social and family lives?
When you read over your answers to the first door questions, is your desire to achieve these goals brimming with fiery, burning energy? Or is your desire frigid and cool like a lake in the mountains? If you rated your desire for each goal, would they mostly be 10 out of 10?
Have you created a list of ‘must-haves’, things that you want so much that life without them isn’t worth living?
FIND YOUR DESIRE
The strongest piece of advice I can give you here is not to be afraid of failing. As Steve Jobs explained, once you realise that you will die one day, every barrier becomes insignificant. If you are lacking the fiery desire that you know creates success, ask yourself (and be honest) — are you afraid to fail?
To find the hot desire required for success, you must walk through door one — clarity — a second time. At this stage, don’t let the fear of failure limit your beliefs. Slow your mind; deep down you know what the right answer is, it’s time for you to follow your deepest desires.
Procrastination is the perfectionist’s shadow. If you are guilty of ‘waiting and deferring’ listen to the language you are using in your head. Is it positive or negative? Are you demonstrating a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? Are you winning the mind game or is the language that you are using defeating you?
In order to become successful, the first person that has to believe you will succeed is you. This is the end of negative self-talk and the fixed mindset. Without belief, you will not commit to your desires and your performance will fall short of your goal.
This is the moment when you believe — I will do this, I can do this, I must do this. This is the time where you adopt the growth mindset as your natural way of thinking. The growth mindset is within the skillset of the executive. You must look at the challenges involved in becoming an Executive Athlete in the same way you look at professional problems.
You know how to solve one, now go solve the other.
FIND YOUR BELIEF
What makes you good at what you do? Why are you successful at work, and can you do the same to become an Executive Athlete?
Can you commit to becoming an Executive Athlete and prioritise it in the same way? Give it the same importance that you would apply to anything else you do successfully.
Most importantly, get people’s buy-in exactly how you would in a business project. Don’t make the mistake of doing this alone. Everyone needs help.
Spend time with people who reinforce your self-belief with encouragement. You will know them as soon as you meet them; they make you feel good about yourself.
In order to become successful, the first person that has to believe you will succeed is you. This is the end of negative self-talk and the fixed mindset. Without belief, you will not commit to your desires and your performance will fall short of your goal.
This is the moment when you believe — I will do this, I can do this, I must do this. This is the time where you adopt the growth mindset as your natural way of thinking. The growth mindset is within the skillset of the executive. You must look at the challenges involved in becoming an Executive Athlete in the same way you look at professional problems.
You know how to solve one, now go solve the other.
FIND YOUR BELIEF
What makes you good at what you do? Why are you successful at work, and can you do the same to become an Executive Athlete?
Can you commit to becoming an Executive Athlete and prioritise it in the same way? Give it the same importance that you would apply to anything else you do successfully.
Most importantly, get people’s buy-in exactly how you would in a business project. Don’t make the mistake of doing this alone. Everyone needs help.
Spend time with people who reinforce your self-belief with encouragement. You will know them as soon as you meet them; they make you feel good about yourself.
The powerful ideas that are behind the Executive Athlete program may give you great insight and knowledge, but information alone doesn’t create success. To turn your best intentions into action you must walk through the five doors of success and overcome the two greatest tragedies of life — waiting and deferring.
A personal mentor of mine, Matthew Michalewicz, CEO of Complexica, is committed to bringing to light the urgency of starting now. He explained the tragedy of waiting and deferring me:
“I see people doing it every day, everywhere I go, in airports, restaurants, factories, offices, classrooms. They believe they’ve got all the time in the world, so they wait and defer, putting off things the ‘want to’ for another time, for ‘later’. And when later comes, they often feel it’s too late — that they’ve waited and deferred for too long.”
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The first door is the most difficult. You must accept that your weight is a problem that you must solve. The sacrifices you are making for success in your executive career are creating the fatigue, disengagement, pain, and obesity that are plaguing you. It is time to take control and define what you want.
If you want to become an Executive Athlete you don’t want just weight loss. Losing 20% of your bodyweight is the necessary step to becoming an Executive Athlete but what you want goes deeper than that.
To gain clarity, you must be able to define how your life will be different when you lose 20% of your body weight. You must be able to identify what you will be able to DO differently and how you will FEEL when you perform like an Executive Athlete.
When you walk through this first door you will experience the moment of resolution that powers the transformation to become an Executive Athlete.
FIND CLARITY
Dedicate some critical thinking to answer: what do I want? Complete your own personal strategy meeting. Assess your current position and consider; what do I want to do in 12 months time, three years time, or on my 50th birthday?
These questions can prove difficult for some executives who are so far down the path of ill health that they can’t find their way back. If this is you, ask yourself:
A personal mentor of mine, Matthew Michalewicz, CEO of Complexica, is committed to bringing to light the urgency of starting now. He explained the tragedy of waiting and deferring me:
“I see people doing it every day, everywhere I go, in airports, restaurants, factories, offices, classrooms. They believe they’ve got all the time in the world, so they wait and defer, putting off things the ‘want to’ for another time, for ‘later’. And when later comes, they often feel it’s too late — that they’ve waited and deferred for too long.”
CLARITY
The first door is the most difficult. You must accept that your weight is a problem that you must solve. The sacrifices you are making for success in your executive career are creating the fatigue, disengagement, pain, and obesity that are plaguing you. It is time to take control and define what you want.
If you want to become an Executive Athlete you don’t want just weight loss. Losing 20% of your bodyweight is the necessary step to becoming an Executive Athlete but what you want goes deeper than that.
To gain clarity, you must be able to define how your life will be different when you lose 20% of your body weight. You must be able to identify what you will be able to DO differently and how you will FEEL when you perform like an Executive Athlete.
When you walk through this first door you will experience the moment of resolution that powers the transformation to become an Executive Athlete.
FIND CLARITY
Dedicate some critical thinking to answer: what do I want? Complete your own personal strategy meeting. Assess your current position and consider; what do I want to do in 12 months time, three years time, or on my 50th birthday?
These questions can prove difficult for some executives who are so far down the path of ill health that they can’t find their way back. If this is you, ask yourself:
- How will becoming an Executive Athlete help my performance at work?
- How would losing 20% of my body weight improve my personal relationships with my family?
- How will having more energy and no pain increase my enjoyment when playing with my kids?
- How will have a body that looks and moves like an athlete’s make me feel?
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