Understanding What it Takes to Succeed, part three (#883)

If you missed parts one and two, you can read them here. Even if you’ve already read them, I encourage you to go back and re-read them now before continuing on…

To review, there are three things to understand about the nature of our state of mind (SOM) that will have a positive impact on pretty much every productivity issue you may be facing:

1. In a low quality SOM, our effective IQ, EQ, and pretty much any other quotient you can imagine drops through the floor. Which means that if we push forward from this place (or while those around us are in low quality states of mind), mistakes pile up and relationships founder. …

Understanding What it Takes to Succeed, part two (#882)

If you missed part one of this series, you can read it here.

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

The Paradox of Results (#860)

Before I gained some insight into the inside-out nature of experience, I used to assume that conditions and circumstances had inherent emotional feelings attached to them. Trading in volatile financial markets or working in an ER were inherently high-pressure, high-stress jobs. Getting what you want would always make you happy. Being rich and thin meant you would be confident…