Last week, I reviewed six key variables that impact the level of result we produce in our lives:
1. Starting place
2. Investment of time and energy
3. Strategy
4. Level of skill/Level of challenge
5. Other people
6. The random factor
This week, I’d like to explore a seventh variable….
One of the first major insights I had about myself and my clients over twenty years ago was this:
When it comes to creating results in our lives, most people are pretty much exactly where they ought to be.
What I mean by that is that over the years I’ve rarely seen anyone who consistently outperforms their own efforts. On the whole, life doesn’t really lift people up who haven’t earned the lift or hold them down when everything else is pointing towards success.
When I first began sharing the principles behind the inside-out understanding with clients and on our professional training and development programs, I came up with an unofficial, highly subjective, yet fairly reliable way of evaluating whether someone was really seeing the revolutionary implications of this understanding:
If they weren’t at some level thinking “Holy F*#king Mother of God”, they probably weren’t yet really seeing the power of the principles in action.
