Post by xiaoxiao11 on Jan 10, 2012 3:39:11 GMT -5
In your personal quest for golden achievement, you will need to follow some old-fashioned advice: “Mind Your P’s and Q’s.”
In this case six P’s stand for Picture, Passion, Plan, Performance, Personality and Preparation. The six Q’s are all about quality: Quality of Choices; of Advisors; of Time; of Contributions; of Legacy; of Life. By minding your P’s and Q’s, you are going to move yourself closer to fulfillment of your personal definition of Gold.
Here’s how.
Picture: All the great motivational speakers and marketers talk about making a clear picture for yourself of what you would like to be, north face laptop backpack what you would like to have, what you would like to share with others. They say that you need to be able to feel it, smell it, take it in fully through your mind’s eye.
Great spiritual writers say that all you will ever need, you already have within you…within your mind.
Instead, many of us focus on what we do not have, and what we are not 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 believe is ours to achieve, we actually attract more of it into our lives. These writers use the “mirror” concept, saying that what you put out is what you get back.
Great athletes prove the truth of this. Over and over we hear about how Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Apolo Anton Ohno, Michelle Wie and Michelle Kwan visualized themselves as winning. We would never have heard of these world class champions if they pictured themselves as failing.
Know that attaining the perfect picture of you is a process and will not happen overnight, but keep holding that picture in front of you. It is a mirror.
Passion: You need powerful passion to keep your picture in front of you. Feed that passion. The best food is to attain a part of the picture each day or week or month. Put your goal on a schedule and refuse to be discouraged. Horse trainers talk about “baby steps,” about repeating small achievements over and over, graduating 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 your forward direction. Your negative voice may tell you that you are not smart enough, not prepared enough, don’t know enough, don’t deserve what you hope for, can never be “one of the lucky ones,” or some other piece of social surround sound that makes up the “monkey chatter” in your mind. Only passionate desire in combination with a clear picture can overcome this noise.
Plan: No great set of encyclopedias was ever created by an explosion in a print factory. All the pieces would simply fly around loose. Encyclopedic knowledge is organized, and builds one set of understandings upon another. Your personal plan is exactly like that. Start with the end in mind. What do you really want? What have you got that you can use to get there? What else do you need to get to achieve 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 handwritten set of papers or a sophisticated electronic file. It may include financial, physical, technical, mental and spiritual elements. This combined approach will help you defeat the background “noise” in your environment that is always saying you can not succeed.
Performance: Getting to your definition of golden achievement will require performance. You have to take action: you will perform. Choose your actions to suit your direction; take them right from your personal plan. Business professionals say “execute, execute, execute.” What they mean is that you can not sit around planning and thinking and dreaming forever. You need to take action. Then you need to look at what happened when you took action. Did you get what you intended? Do you need to apply a different action or revise the current action step? Whatever the result, never become discouraged. Recall the comment of Neil Armstrong when he stepped off the Lunar Lander onto the face of the moon, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Note that he said “small step” referring to his own movement, but the performance of all those involved in the plan actually created the giant leap, through years of the constant process of ‘tweaking’ their performance against a plan.
Personality: Your own personality is critical the north face hoodie to the success of your plan. Your plan reflects your personality. But neither one is frozen in time and place. You can change, you are free to make choices, 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 whom historians believed suffered depression, prior to the tragic loss of his fiancé, his child, and countless efforts to win public office. He North Face Apex Bionic Jackets also experienced bankruptcy. But he continued to educate himself. He did not give undue weight to the voices of despair and discouragement in his head or in his outside world. Many called him ugly. As a country lawyer he could argue well and tell a good funny story, but people commented about the rough quality of his voice. Yet this one 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, scorned for years, were desperately needed and could solve the explosive issues.
Preparation: Life will happen. Things do change unexpectedly. There are often unintended consequences to address. The more prepared you are, the more likely it is that you will enjoy tremendous success. “Be prepared,” is an adage of the Boy Scouts. It would be difficult in this surprising and rapidly moving culture to be over-prepared. What can you read? What tapes or videos can you absorb? What resources are out there that apply to your situation? What people can be identified that have walked in your shoes and could understand your issues? What notes can you tape to your mirror or place in your favorite books or put in your laptop that will help you overcome the “little daily defeats” and fatigue that face all of us? What supports can you find that will hold you up when everything else wants to pull north face xxxl you down? You need these, and if you surround yourself with ready messages in advance of difficult moments, you are much more likely to come though them and achieve your personal definition of Gold.
To Be Continued
In this case six P’s stand for Picture, Passion, Plan, Performance, Personality and Preparation. The six Q’s are all about quality: Quality of Choices; of Advisors; of Time; of Contributions; of Legacy; of Life. By minding your P’s and Q’s, you are going to move yourself closer to fulfillment of your personal definition of Gold.
Here’s how.
Picture: All the great motivational speakers and marketers talk about making a clear picture for yourself of what you would like to be, north face laptop backpack what you would like to have, what you would like to share with others. They say that you need to be able to feel it, smell it, take it in fully through your mind’s eye.
Great spiritual writers say that all you will ever need, you already have within you…within your mind.
Instead, many of us focus on what we do not have, and what we are not 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 believe is ours to achieve, we actually attract more of it into our lives. These writers use the “mirror” concept, saying that what you put out is what you get back.
Great athletes prove the truth of this. Over and over we hear about how Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Apolo Anton Ohno, Michelle Wie and Michelle Kwan visualized themselves as winning. We would never have heard of these world class champions if they pictured themselves as failing.
Know that attaining the perfect picture of you is a process and will not happen overnight, but keep holding that picture in front of you. It is a mirror.
Passion: You need powerful passion to keep your picture in front of you. Feed that passion. The best food is to attain a part of the picture each day or week or month. Put your goal on a schedule and refuse to be discouraged. Horse trainers talk about “baby steps,” about repeating small achievements over and over, graduating 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 your forward direction. Your negative voice may tell you that you are not smart enough, not prepared enough, don’t know enough, don’t deserve what you hope for, can never be “one of the lucky ones,” or some other piece of social surround sound that makes up the “monkey chatter” in your mind. Only passionate desire in combination with a clear picture can overcome this noise.
Plan: No great set of encyclopedias was ever created by an explosion in a print factory. All the pieces would simply fly around loose. Encyclopedic knowledge is organized, and builds one set of understandings upon another. Your personal plan is exactly like that. Start with the end in mind. What do you really want? What have you got that you can use to get there? What else do you need to get to achieve 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 handwritten set of papers or a sophisticated electronic file. It may include financial, physical, technical, mental and spiritual elements. This combined approach will help you defeat the background “noise” in your environment that is always saying you can not succeed.
Performance: Getting to your definition of golden achievement will require performance. You have to take action: you will perform. Choose your actions to suit your direction; take them right from your personal plan. Business professionals say “execute, execute, execute.” What they mean is that you can not sit around planning and thinking and dreaming forever. You need to take action. Then you need to look at what happened when you took action. Did you get what you intended? Do you need to apply a different action or revise the current action step? Whatever the result, never become discouraged. Recall the comment of Neil Armstrong when he stepped off the Lunar Lander onto the face of the moon, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Note that he said “small step” referring to his own movement, but the performance of all those involved in the plan actually created the giant leap, through years of the constant process of ‘tweaking’ their performance against a plan.
Personality: Your own personality is critical the north face hoodie to the success of your plan. Your plan reflects your personality. But neither one is frozen in time and place. You can change, you are free to make choices, 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 whom historians believed suffered depression, prior to the tragic loss of his fiancé, his child, and countless efforts to win public office. He North Face Apex Bionic Jackets also experienced bankruptcy. But he continued to educate himself. He did not give undue weight to the voices of despair and discouragement in his head or in his outside world. Many called him ugly. As a country lawyer he could argue well and tell a good funny story, but people commented about the rough quality of his voice. Yet this one 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, scorned for years, were desperately needed and could solve the explosive issues.
Preparation: Life will happen. Things do change unexpectedly. There are often unintended consequences to address. The more prepared you are, the more likely it is that you will enjoy tremendous success. “Be prepared,” is an adage of the Boy Scouts. It would be difficult in this surprising and rapidly moving culture to be over-prepared. What can you read? What tapes or videos can you absorb? What resources are out there that apply to your situation? What people can be identified that have walked in your shoes and could understand your issues? What notes can you tape to your mirror or place in your favorite books or put in your laptop that will help you overcome the “little daily defeats” and fatigue that face all of us? What supports can you find that will hold you up when everything else wants to pull north face xxxl you down? You need these, and if you surround yourself with ready messages in advance of difficult moments, you are much more likely to come though them and achieve your personal definition of Gold.
To Be Continued