In your personal quest for golden achievements, you’ll need to follow some old-fashioned advice: “Watch your P’s and Q’s.”
In this case, the six P’s stand for Image, Passion, Plan, Performance, Personality, and Preparation. The six Qs have to do with quality: quality of elections; of Advisors; of time; of Contributions; of Legacy; of life. By paying attention to your P’s and Q’s, you will get closer to fulfilling your personal definition of Gold.
That is how.
Image – All the great motivational speakers and marketers talk about building a clear image of what you would like to be, what you would like to have, what you would like to share with others. They say you need to be able to feel it, smell it, absorb it fully through your mind’s eye.
The great spiritual writers say that everything you will ever need, you already have within you… within your mind.
Instead, many of us focus on what we don’t have and what we aren’t achieving in our lives. Metaphysical writers say that by maintaining that kind of focus, we simply attract more of this into our lives. They write that the opposite is also true: that by focusing on what we want, what we hope for, what we think we should achieve, we actually attract more into our lives. These writers use the “mirror” concept, saying that what you get out is what you get back.
Great athletes prove the truth of this. Over and over we heard how Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Apolo Anton Ohno, Michelle Wie and Michelle Kwan envisioned themselves as winners. We would never have heard of these world-class champions if they imagined themselves failures.
Know that achieving the perfect image of you is a process and it won’t happen overnight, but keep that image in front of you. it’s a mirror
Passion: You need a powerful passion to keep your image in front of you. Feed that passion. The best food is to achieve a part of the image every day, week or month. Put your goal on a schedule and refuse to get discouraged. Horse trainers speak of “baby steps,” of repeating small achievements over and over again, moving to the next steps with patience and attention.
Praise yourself regularly for the steps you are taking toward what you really want. Share your passion with advisors who will respect your trust and add positive energy, encouragement and good ideas to help you maintain your
passion. You need all the passion you can muster to drown out the negative voice that lives in your head and work to discourage its forward direction. Your negative voice can tell you that you are not smart enough, that you are not prepared enough, that you do not know enough, that you do not deserve what you expect, that you can never be “one of the lucky ones” or some other part of the social environment. sound that forms the “monkey chatter” in your mind. Only passionate desire in combination with a clear image can overcome this noise.
Plan: A great set of encyclopedias was never created by a printing press explosion. All the pieces would just fly loose. Encyclopedic knowledge is organized and builds one set of knowledge on top of another. Your personal plan is exactly like this. Begin with the end in mind. What do you want really? What do you have that you can use to get there? What else do you need to get to get what you want? How do you plan to get that? A plan is simply a map of where you are and where you want to go. A solid plan can be a set of handwritten papers or a sophisticated electronic file. It can include financial, physical, technical, mental and spiritual elements. This combined approach will help you overcome the background “noise” in your environment that always says you can’t succeed.
Performance: Getting to your definition of golden achievement will require performance. You have to take action: you are going to give up. Choose your actions to follow your direction; take them directly from your personal plan. Business professionals say “run, run, run”. What they mean is that you can’t sit around planning, thinking, and dreaming forever. You need to take action. So you need to look at what happened when you took action. Did you get what you wanted? Do you need to apply a different action or review the current action step? Whatever the outcome, never get discouraged. Remember Neil Armstrong’s comment when he stepped down from the Lunar Lander onto the face of the moon: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Note that he said “baby step” referring to his own move, but the performance of everyone involved in the plan actually created the big jump, through years of the constant process of ‘adjusting’ his performance against a plan.
Personality: Your own personality is critical to the success of your plan. Your plan reflects your personality. But neither is frozen in time and place. You can change, you are free to choose, you can grow and develop. As you grow, you have the power to change your plan. Are you subject to discouragement? Look at the number of times Abraham Lincoln failed. There was a man who historians believed suffered from depression, before the tragic loss of his fiancée, his son, and countless efforts to win public office. He too experienced bankruptcy. But he continued to educate himself. He didn’t give undue weight to the voices of despair and discouragement in his head or in the world outside of him. Many called it ugly. As a country lawyer, he could argue well and tell a good funny story, but people commented on the gruff quality of his voice. Yet this man was able to heal a nation at a critical time in its early history, because he brought himself to a place where his unique gifts, neglected for years, were desperately needed and could solve problems. explosives.
Preparation: Life will happen. Things change unexpectedly. There are often unintended consequences to address. The more prepared you are, the more likely you are to enjoy tremendous success. “Get ready” is a Boy Scout adage. It would be hard to be too prepared in this amazing and fast-moving culture. What can you read? What tapes or videos can you absorb? What resources exist that apply to your situation? What people can you identify who have walked in your shoes and might understand your problems? What notes can you stick on your mirror or put in your favorite books or put on your laptop that will help you get through the “little daily misses” and fatigue that all of us face? What supports can you find that will hold you up when everything else wants to bring you down? You need them, and if you surround yourself with ready messages before tough times, you’re much more likely to get through them and achieve your personal definition of Gold.
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