Achieving success is something many of us look for each and every day of our lives. Success, success and success, nothing else will do; or will it? Is success the ‘be-all and end-all’ of everything? I don’t think it is, simply because a few failures in our lives won’t do us any harm. Slowly but surely, the word failure is now being accepted again as part of the process; it is becoming recognised as an important learning point,
The word achievement or any of it’s derivatives are freely banded about a great deal by people wishing to impress, advertise their results or maybe just for their own self gratification. Achievement falls into one the those trendy words categories, that people love to use; in management meetings, at social meetings with their friends or any where they can raise their profile to impress people.
We are all guilty of procrastinating at some stage in our attempts to achieve our goals. In his book “Eat that frog”, Brian Tracy uses an old metaphor to help people overcome their procrastination. The metaphor says, if the first thing you do in the morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day.
Whether at home or in the workplace we are continually being pressurised to become high performers and improve our results. In the home these pressures come from the changing face of family life and the demands being made on parents. In the workplace they come in the form of targets and reports from the boss.
Feedback about your performance is by far the greatest resource you have available to you for self development. However many people are critical of feedback and shy away from accepting it for one reason or another. The value from feedback whether it be positive or negative far exceeds any other tool for improving your performance.
Every incident and occurrence you interact with on a daily basis is given a level of importance by your internal assessment mechanisms. You will have your own criteria for the level of importance you place on the value of something you encounter.
I think it’s fair to say most people want to achieve success, but what does success mean to each individual. What is their version of success? Is there a right and wrong version? Which one is the best choice? How is success measured? Or more to the point how do you measure your success?
Achieving your goals will depend on celebrating the successes you have on your journey. Nobody likes to continue working on something when there are only defeats. It’s the successes that spur us on to achieve greater heights.
You’ve written your goals down for the year. You’ve identified the little steps you want to take to achieve the goals and you feel positive that this time you will be able to attain your goals. It’s time that you finally lost those extra pounds of weight.
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