How Can You Pursue High Performance and Not Lose What is Important?
Mar 28, 2022You have less than 6 weeks in 2018. I have 3 important questions for you.
- How are you doing with the plan you set out for 2018?
- Are you clear on what you’re trying to accomplish as you finish out 2018 so you can head strong into 2019?
- Most importantly, does your life look and feel how you want it to?
The reason I ask this last question is because I find that too many coaches, myself included, after they have pushed to make progress on their goals all year, find that they may be closer to their goals but had to sacrifice their passions, health, and their family to get there.
Take a look at this great What Drives Winning video Urban Meyer Interview: “I Became The Man I Didn’t Want To Be.”
Here are 2 critical exercises to do that will help you get clarity as to what you truly want and then set rules and boundaries for how you should work as you make your final push towards the end of the year.
Exercise #1 I want this, I don’t want that.
Before you plan anything new for 2019, I want you to be razor sharp and crystal clear about what you want and want you don’t want.
A lot of coaches don’t deeply consider what they don’t want. They rush toward some goal or objective and often hit it, only to be miserable at the end.
This is the cliché of the coach who wants all of the wins and works harder than hell to get it and does—but at the cost of their real passions, health, and their family. This coach gets the wins and the glory that comes with it but realizes that the wins weren’t the only thing they wanted for their life.
A better way for this coach to approach this is to say, yes I want the wins, but I don’t ever want to get stuck traveling every weekend during month out on the road, I don’t want to gain weight and get unhealthy, and I don’t ever want to lose connection with my family.
If this coach had the vision to keep this in front of him and follow through on it, I’m guessing that his life would have turned out differently because different choices would have been made day by day.
Answer these 2 questions-
Based on this principal, the rule I’m going to set up for myself regarding the goal/new change/or challenge I’m going after in life is . . .
The reason this rule is important to me is . . .
Exercise #2 Do More of This, No More of That
To reach any desired goal, we must start or continue some things, and we have to stop others. Being clear about these start-stop actions is critical to know as you plan your route to victory.
Let’s continue with our coach friend who became super successful at the expense of their passion, health, and family. Wouldn’t this coach have been better off if they had set a few rules that said:
Do more this: delegating, creative work that engages me, eat more healthy meals, more date nights with my partner and more weekend outings with the kids.
No more of: browsing for hours on the internet, watching TV, playing video games.
Once again, answer these questions.
Based on this principal, the rule I’m going to set up for myself regarding the goal/new change/or challenge I’m going after in life is . . .
The reason this rule is important to me is . . .
I hope that I at least got you thinking what is important to you as you finish out the year.
These last 6 weeks are pivotal for creating momentum for 2019. This is your FINISH LINE.
As you continue to pursue high performance as a coach, it is important to keep clarifying what you want, don’t want, what you will do, and what you will stop doing for the next 12 months.
By knowing what you will stop doing, you will create MORE TIME where you can live purely in alignment with your top priorities.
Increasingly, your life will look and feel how you want it to. Let’s finish 2018 strong.
P.S. If you have found this article helpful, please share it with your staff or other work colleagues! Studying time and energy management over these last 8 years and applying it to my coaching and recruiting has been a game changer for me. I am committed to helping coaches get more important work done in less time so more time can be spent with family and friends. Thanks!
