Tips & Insights for Top Performance

It’s all about choices. Which choice or strategy reflects your behavior around fear?
1) FEAR=Forget Everything And Run, or
2) FEAR=Face Everything And Recover (to get back; regain).

For something completely different, let’s try strategy number two. Your personal growth can be greatly stimulated when you ask yourself the following questions and then struggle to get the right answers. This process requires you to use critical thinking, creativity, open-mindedness and above all else, brutal honesty.

Considering the topic of what you want and what you fear, ask yourself these five questions that were posed by William Cottringer:

1. What can I really control?

2. How do I sabotage my own success?

3. What good things have I learned and know, and do I need to be applying them?

4. For whom (or what) am I doing all this?

5. What is the best I am capable of?

Having the courage to ask these five critical questions and then making the effort to find answers will open a large door ahead in your personal growth. Real growth then occurs when you become free to de-personalize it.

What we resist persists.

Consider your fears, face them and open yourself up to the possibilities!

Christy Geiger, Executive Business Coach & Trainer, Minneapolis, MN

I often hear problems from clients about setting and achieving their goals.  In this article I will address a few of them.

“I don’t want to set goals, but I like results. What should I do?” Often this is from a fear. Reality is that in order to set a goal; you must decide what you want. Many people prefer to leave all the options open, picking nothing, and defaulting to “life” to pick their destiny for them. Whether you resist goal setting because of a fear of failure, success, pressure, or whatever the reason, the fact remains; you cannot arrive where you have not set out to go. People who set goals have something to attain; and often do. You cannot attain what you have not set. Do yourself a favor, evaluate where you want to end up, determine a viable course to get there, pick a focus and work toward it. You can always adjust or change if after several months doors are closing, but at least then you can disregard this option!

“I have lots of ideas and goals, but I am overwhelmed where to start?” Often, goal setters can set too many goals. Three SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timed) goals are about the max a human brain can really focus on. I prefer to have ONE focus statement that combines several goals.

For example, if your goals are:

1. Earn 5K a month by being disciplined and focused on money making activities.
2. Refine skills (education) and processes to hold my clients more accountable to exceed goals.
3. Grow personally, more study time, expand family, eat better/work out, have an organized home.

Then you focus statement could be:
I am energized to be a focused and disciplined IBO, earning 5K/mo. coaching and training ‘Movers and Shakers’ to exceed their goals, while living in integrity nurturing and advancing my faith, family, health and home.