What creates high levels of performance? How can we make more things happen?
It takes 3 things:
These three things combined shape how we perform. It’s the only way we can outperform ourselves. Let us earn our credibility and perform at our best today. Genuine people usually have one thing in common. Their smile is authentic. An authentic smile doesn’t come from money or success or grand material possessions. It comes from helping others. Lifting others up. Not making life about themselves. Making the lives of others a little better, even if in a small way.
We can’t be genuine unless we put in the hard work of doing what we can to be helpful. Let our energy and actions be reflected in a smile with a genuine heart today. Everything we think is substantiated by our opinion.
What others think about us is none of our business. The only opinion that matters is our own: that’s our business. If we rely on what other people’s opinion is about us, we are living up to their expectations. We may be at risk of letting their opinions drive our success. Sure, we have mentors, success partners, trusted advisers – their opinion is always a consideration. The final determination is the opinion of our own. Let us substantiate our opinion about ourselves from a first-person point of view today. Creativity and chaos go hand in hand. If we plan to create something new, we must be comfortable sitting on the edge of chaos.
Creating new thoughts, new ways of getting things done, and new ideas are part of the creative process. Ordinary people follow a predictive pattern. Extraordinary people develop the pattern. They have the stamina to continue even when they don’t know what is coming next. They know “not knowing” is OK. Let us embrace the idea that we may have no idea what we are doing today. What is the worst thing that can happen in any situation?
Sometimes that’s the best question to ask when we are up against an obstacle. It's never that we fail, it's just we've found 10,000 ways that won’t work. The best answer is “I tried, and I was unsuccessful. I’m now preparing a plan to move forward.” Boom. No explanations needed. Let us trade “Wish I had” to “I’m glad I did” today. Successful people build an inner world as a top priority because the quality of our outer life is mostly a reflection of the quality of our inner life.
Is it too much to consider spending at least an hour a day working on ourselves? If we want our outer world to be in harmony we must feel peacefulness within. Peace can only be found in the balance within our inner mind. Let us cultivate an inner state of serenity and let everything else go today. We learn. We evolve. We raise our expectations. But sometimes we still judge others for things we’ve grown past. Worse, we may carry a grudge.
Judging and grudging is a waste of time and happiness. It’s the heaviest thing to carry in our mind. If we’ve grown through our situation, we’ve received one of the greatest gifts of all. Let us share our gifts by not judging or begrudging today. |
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