Straight to the Key Points
"The Process for Success in Life or in Competition is Identical: Strategy, Training, Commitment, Execution. Know What it is You Want, Prepare With That End in Mind, Commit to the Goal and Take Action!" - David Martin
If someone were to create an 'Elevator Speech' about the Pursuit of Excellence it would probably go something like this. The person doing explaining would say, "Ladies and Gentlemen of the elevator, to be successful in life you need only to remember three things."
"Firstly, know what you want; have a clearer idea of your outcome in any situation.
"Secondly, be alert and keep your senses open so that you notice what you are getting.
"Thirdly, have the flexibility to keep changing what you do until you get what you want."
Then somewhere in the elevator he would write on a white board that shows up out of nowhere:
First is the skill of knowing your outcome. If you do not know where you are going, it makes it hard for you to get there.
An important part of your Pursuit of Excellence is training in sensory acuity: where to place your attention and how to change it in larger filters so that you notice things that you had not noticed previously. It is present moment sensory awareness.
When communicating with others, this means noticing the small but crucial signals that let you know how they are responding. When thinking, that is communicating with yourself, it means heightened awareness of your internal images, sounds and feelings.
You need the acuity or sensitivity to notice if what you are doing is giving you what you want. If what you're doing is not working, do something else...anything else. You need to hear, see and feel, what is happening and have a choice of responses.
The Pursuit of Excellence aims to give people more choice about what they do. Having only one way of doing things is no choice at all. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't, so there will always be situations you cannot cope with.
Two choices will put you in a dilemma. Having a choice means being able to use a minimum of three approaches. In any interaction, the person who has the most choices of what to do, the greatest flexibility of behavior, will be in control of the situation.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. In other words, if what you are doing isn't working, do something else.
The more choices you create for yourself, the more chances you have for success.
The way these skills work together is rather like what happens when you hire a rowing boat to explore a stretch of water. You decide where you want to go: your initial outcome. You start rowing and notice your direction: sensory acuity. You compare this with where you want to go and if you are off course, you change direction. You repeat this cycle until you reach your destination.
Then you set your next destination. You can change or outcome at any point in the cycle, enjoy the journey and learn something on the way. The course is more likely to be a zigzag than a straight line. Rarely is there an absolutely straight path to where you want to go.
So know what it is you want, pay attention and be flexible. These are core concepts in any area of your life in which you seek improvement. In your Pursuit of Excellence you can use accelerate the process and the results.
Until next time, remember the BEST is yet to come!
Best of Success,
David Martin
EmpowerMax PCS, Inc.
info@empowermax.com
The Performance Zone
If someone were to create an 'Elevator Speech' about the Pursuit of Excellence it would probably go something like this. The person doing explaining would say, "Ladies and Gentlemen of the elevator, to be successful in life you need only to remember three things."
"Firstly, know what you want; have a clearer idea of your outcome in any situation.
"Secondly, be alert and keep your senses open so that you notice what you are getting.
"Thirdly, have the flexibility to keep changing what you do until you get what you want."
Then somewhere in the elevator he would write on a white board that shows up out of nowhere:
- Outcome
- Acuity
- Flexibility
First is the skill of knowing your outcome. If you do not know where you are going, it makes it hard for you to get there.
An important part of your Pursuit of Excellence is training in sensory acuity: where to place your attention and how to change it in larger filters so that you notice things that you had not noticed previously. It is present moment sensory awareness.
When communicating with others, this means noticing the small but crucial signals that let you know how they are responding. When thinking, that is communicating with yourself, it means heightened awareness of your internal images, sounds and feelings.
You need the acuity or sensitivity to notice if what you are doing is giving you what you want. If what you're doing is not working, do something else...anything else. You need to hear, see and feel, what is happening and have a choice of responses.
The Pursuit of Excellence aims to give people more choice about what they do. Having only one way of doing things is no choice at all. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't, so there will always be situations you cannot cope with.
Two choices will put you in a dilemma. Having a choice means being able to use a minimum of three approaches. In any interaction, the person who has the most choices of what to do, the greatest flexibility of behavior, will be in control of the situation.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. In other words, if what you are doing isn't working, do something else.
The more choices you create for yourself, the more chances you have for success.
The way these skills work together is rather like what happens when you hire a rowing boat to explore a stretch of water. You decide where you want to go: your initial outcome. You start rowing and notice your direction: sensory acuity. You compare this with where you want to go and if you are off course, you change direction. You repeat this cycle until you reach your destination.
Then you set your next destination. You can change or outcome at any point in the cycle, enjoy the journey and learn something on the way. The course is more likely to be a zigzag than a straight line. Rarely is there an absolutely straight path to where you want to go.
So know what it is you want, pay attention and be flexible. These are core concepts in any area of your life in which you seek improvement. In your Pursuit of Excellence you can use accelerate the process and the results.
Until next time, remember the BEST is yet to come!
Best of Success,
David Martin
EmpowerMax PCS, Inc.
info@empowermax.com
The Performance Zone
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