Ask yourself the following question and answer honestly:
"Am I resistant to becoming great at what I do?”
Whether it’s recruiting, coaching or any other work performance, there is great work, mediocre work and lousy work. If you’re not compelled to do your very best everyday, you need to address the underlying problem.
Winning in life and winning in business is really not that complex. It only becomes complex when we lose our motivation. Many people are frustrated by our current economic circumstances, and they let this frustration sap their motivation. But the keys to winning are the same in every economic environment.
One of the keys is Desire. You could call it energy, liveliness, or “get-up-and-go.” No matter what you call it, we've all felt it at some point in our lives.
Each of us is born with a natural desire to do things well. As children, we worked hard to walk, talk, run, jump and discover new treasures. We all, at least to begin with, experienced the world as an endless landscape of new possibilities.
As we grew, our interests and talents became even more apparent, and we began to specialize in our endeavors. The key here is that there was a willingness to venture beyond one's comfort zone and try something totally new.
That's where life is exciting. And it's when we experience that excitement that every other facet of our lives tends to fall into place. Almost every great thing that has ever happened to anyone has happened when they stepped outside of their usual comfort level and found something that reinvigorated that excitement.
Doing one’s best almost always includes having a difficult goal to strive towards. Every game worth playing, war worth fighting, or task worth completing has a goal. In fact, every great leader has the ability to tell people where the flag is (usually in a difficult to reach spot) and create a desire in the team to go get it.
Do a quick survey of your own life to this point and pinpoint when you had the most momentum, felt like you were tapping the best of your talents, and “hit it out of the park.” I guarantee that it was when you had a difficult goal and then rose to the challenge.
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