WEEK 118: LOVE WHAT YOU ARE DOING

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love what you are doing and learning to do. Pele 

REFLECTIONS (learnings and actions): This week I want to share with you how you can find clarity on the path to achieving massive success!

Often times it feels we are a Six Flag amusement park riding a crazy roller coaster when we set out to achieve something meaningful...ie, close the gap between where we are and achieving our dreams to create a life we love!

Unfortunately, most people don't even get to ride the ride, as they are stuck in line waiting to get on.

Or worse yet, they do get on and had totally different expectations of what it meant to actually strive for such worthwhile goals and success. They enjoy the anticipation of the climb, but puke on the decent and can not take the stress caused from the turning and twisting in between.

WHY?

They block themselves from the experience of achieving success. You might ask "why would someone actually want to block themselves from achieving success?"

Yet, a majority of people do this on autopilot daily!

HOW...

they react to everything which happens to them, which causes them to move farther away from success, rather than moving closer to it.

I have said in the past success, or failure, are mechanical. They are produced by the consistent actions you take on a daily basis.

For example, your current state of your finances, health, or whatever indicator you are looking at, is where it is at due to the daily decisions and actions you take.

Now, imagine if you are daily reacting from one event to the next, believing you really have no control. No clarity on how you can achieve success, let alone survive your day!

Do you think you would move closer to achieving more success or moving father away from it?

Now let me share a secret with you about achieving success.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, that happens in another persons mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and change in the world around you (EXTERNAL things, they are always in flux).

Then what can? You ability to see it. You must understand whatever happens to another person - good or bad alike - is neither good or bad.

You must not react to it, but see the result in the lens of LAG and LEAD indicators.

A reminder, LAG indicators are results caused by LEAD indicators, daily decisions and actions you take. 

Let me just give you an example. I have lost 10 kilos, that is right, 10 kilos in the last two months. 

In the past I would ride the emotional roller coaster of weight loss dependent on the LAG indicators, whatever my weight was that day. 

This would shift my focus from my LEAD indicators. What was the result?

Well, the ups and downs would cause me to be all over the place. Happy if I lost, frustrated and angry if I gained (even a little). All of this allowed me to think I could not do it, which would eventually drain al of my will power and I would jump right back into the unhealthy habits which caused me to be overweight.

Success 0, Failure 1!

The Leap Process (TLP) has armed me with this new perspective of LAG and LEAD indicators to achieve success in any realm. For example, I have found and sustained success for the longest period of time in the last decade with my weight. This also being in the middle of the holiday season.

It is powerful! No longer up and down or being driven of what my weight will be (LAG). Whatever my weight, I now focus on the LEAD indicators which created those results, and then roll with the punches to ADAPT and FIGURE it out!

Less stress, less frustration, less...everything and the confidence that success in inevitable!

This lesson is being passed onto all areas of my life. 

1. Not to react but see situations clearly in terms of LEAD and LAG indicators.

2. Do not to let the opinions of others and especially yourself cloud the situation. Do this by aggressively separating FACT from opinion to get to the truth.

3. Use the truth to "zig and zag" or take action and autocorrect to achieve any SUCCESS you choose. 

(READ the last three steps over and over...it is the key to unlocking your amazing ability to achieve any success!)

Top three activities that move me forward?

1. Completing my morning routine everyday. I am met with success everyday before most get out of bed.

2. Listening to audible and life hack podcast. Both are helping me make exponential growth in areas of my life.

3. Discipline to zen. Unlocking abilities of the body I never knew I had.

Biggest lessons and learnings?

Ability to aggressively to separate FACT from opinion. Focusing on LEAD indicators to zig and zag, to achieve any outcome. 

What are you grateful for?

Being able to travel home and spend the holidays with family!

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PLANNING (Implementation Intention):  You will follow through 2X to 3X more likely to complete your weekly task than you normally would just by filling in the following statement.

I plan to complete the weekly task [day] at [time] in [location]. 

A reminder you might have to use multiple Implementation Intentions in order to follow through.

EXECUTION (strategies used):  From week to week, I use a combination of many strategies. There are always some which are used more than others depending on what comes up, but I wanted to offer a link to all them at once. 

My advice is to identify the I CAN'T statement you tell yourself during the most. Then find a strategy below the statement which resonates with you, and then start using it. 

Enjoy!

STRATEGY LIST

WEEK 116: SUCCESS IS MECHANICAL

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, create a life you do not want to escape from.  Seth Godin

REFLECTIONS (learnings and actions): I saw the quote this week and it was so powerful.

This week I want to write to you about some powerful insights I am learning about success, so you can close the gap between where you are and achieve your dreams so you can do just that...create a life you do not want to escape from.

Success, a much sought after thing, yet most of us have no real way of knowing how to achieve it on a consistent basis.

Similar to the mythical unicorn, everyone says they have seen it from time to time, but only a select few know where they can find it on a consistent basis.  

Now, in the past I have talked about the idea that success is mechanical. What I mean, is you are at your current place of success or failure, due to the consistent actions you take on a daily basis. (Lead Indicators). 

For example, if you are in the best, or worst, shape of your life it is because of what you do on a daily basis, not what you do every once in a while.

Today, I want to take this a step further and connect it to some DEEP insights I have lately.

What I have already shared is very powerful, yet what I am going to explain next is similar to seeing the rest of a partially submerged iceberg in its entirety. Mind blowing.

Like I mentioned above, success is mechanical. 

Now this requires you to take consistent, daily action to achieve it. Additionally, you will need to autocorrect and take the the appropriate actions frequently in order to make the necessary changes to move closer to achieving your goals.

Autocorrecting involves the integral task of separating FACT from opinion. This is so important, as if we let our opinions cloud the situation, the actions we take can lead us astray.

For example, you study for two hours for an exam, only to get a C. Your opinion is studying for long hours does not make a difference, thus you decide to study less for the next exam, which produces an even lower grade.

Or, you could have separated FACT from opinion first to produce a more favorable result. In the case above, you could have analyzed how you spent those two hours and eliminated things which did not help you (chatting on social media) and replaced those with more beneficial actions. 

This process of autocorrecting and taking action is similar to how a plane gets from one location to the next. We often times feel we get into the air and then it is a linear path to our destination. Where as, in reality, we are constantly zigging and zagging according to the elements in the air, so we can arrive at our destination in the shortest amount of time.

Now the opinions which could our judgement usually show up in the form of negative emotions. Frustration, aggressiveness, insecurity...take your pick.

Often times theses feelings have a negative connotation as they take us out of our comfort zone. Thus, we try to avoid them at all costs if we encounter them, which often times means you quit. 

However, these negative emotions are actually an inherent part of taking on a meaningful goal, for example, closing the gap between where you are and achieving you dreams. 

Furthermore, they warning signs telling you need to plot a new path to achieve what you are trying to do. It is your automatic success mechanism, or ASM, saying you are heading in the wrong direction.

Now we all feel frustration and these other negative emotions, no one is immune. I mean NO ONE. The Pope, Richard Branson, everyone. However, the most success people on the planet are those who can identify these negative emotions as what they are...warning signs to analyze the FACTS and then to take corrective actions.

This process of reading negative emotions properly involves three steps:

1. Awareness. You need to understand no one is immune and will feel these emotions on the path to closing the gap between where you are and achieving your dreams (or any other worthwhile endeavor). They are inherent part of the process and signaling you to autocorrect.

2. Understand at a deep level fostering or magnifying these negative feelings (doubt, fear, anger, aggressiveness, insecurity...)  do not help you in solving your problems. 

It is like when a child throws a tantrum and just cries louder and louder to get a toy. It might of helped you when you were younger, but this infant like behavior will not serve you as you get older. Life will not come with a gentle hand when you cry LOUDER and complain when you do not achieve what you want. Understand it does not work!

3. Read them properly, as warning signs to take corrective action. Separate FACT from opinion and then use that truth to take the appropriate actions moving forward.

Thus, know success is mechanical and you will encounter negative feelings on the path of closing the gap between where you are and achieving your dreams. 

However, be vigilant to identify them properly so you can AUTOCORRECT and ACT accordingly!

Top three activities that move me forward?

1. Listen and implement ideas from the life hack podcast! Growing in my relationships daily.

2. Listen and implement actions from audible. Such powerful insights about success learned and being implemented. 

3. Being disciplined to keep zen for my body. More energy, more time to devote to my LP, so many benefits!

Biggest lessons and learnings?

CVVCR...Choices Validate Vision and Create Reality. I will write about this later, but it is huge!

What are you grateful for?

Optimal health. I am now at 67.5 kilos (148.5) pounds and reached my target weight in less than 2 months time. Yet, the most incredible thing is I have the CLARITY on how to stay here for the rest of my life!

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PLANNING (Implementation Intention):  You will follow through 2X to 3X more likely to complete your weekly task than you normally would just by filling in the following statement.

I plan to complete the weekly task [day] at [time] in [location]. 

A reminder you might have to use multiple Implementation Intentions in order to follow through.

EXECUTION (strategies used):  From week to week, I use a combination of many strategies. There are always some which are used more than others depending on what comes up, but I wanted to offer a link to all them at once. 

My advice is to identify the I CAN'T statement you tell yourself during the most. Then find a strategy below the statement which resonates with you, and then start using it. 

Enjoy!

STRATEGY LIST