At this time of year I run into a lot of people who set goals without really thinking about it.
2024 should be 2023 plus ten percent.
That would be a great goal, right?
Just like it was last year.
But how are you going to get there? Are you going to DO ten percent more?
How long can you keep that up?
Your Success Strategy
Most people have a go-to strategy—a way that they have always fallen back on when they need to meet a goal.
—Working more hours
—Being more productive
—Connecting with more people
—Doing more training, adding more skills, making more calls, having more meetings
More, more, more of the same thing that got you here in the first place.
But every winning strategy has a limit to its effectiveness.
At some point, more of the same will not work.
It will not be enough.
Then what do you do? To succeed at the next level, you’re going to need to do things differently. And if you are like most people, you struggle to see what you could possibly be doing differently.
You will say things like, “I know I need to hire but there are no good people available.”
“I know I need to delegate but it’s faster to do it myself.”
“I know my team can handle this but I need to be here in case they need me.”
The issue is not with your team. It’s with you. It’s with your leadership. And until you lead differently, see different possibilities, you will continue to get the same results.
Your Fulfillment
Let’s go back to the “ten percent more” strategy.
If you get ten percent more results, and earn ten percent more money, will you be ten percent happier?
Most people say no. Yet they continue to chase more of the same rewards.
Money, promotions, company size, number of employees.
None of these mean anything other than what you say they mean. And none of them will make you happy.
To get a different result you need to look in a different direction. Not toward an outside goal, but toward what’s creating that goal in the first place, and the feelings you have around meeting or not meeting that goal.
You.
You are the one creating the game and then forgetting that you did it.
You create the goals (or agree to be bound by them) and you agree to feel good or bad based on the result.
But you are enough no matter what happens outside of you. After all, you are creating your entire experience. How could you possibly be lacking anything?
What would you create if you could see that you have always been complete?
Happiness is a place to come from, not get to.
Seeing that changes everything.
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