Double your failure rate if you want success in business
Double your failure rate if you want success in business
Recently I re read one of my favourite little books in my library. "If life is a game, these are the rules" by Cherie Carter Scott.
Her ten rules for playing the game of life are as follows;
1. You will receive a body
2. You will be presented with lessons
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons
4. A lesson is repeated until learned
5. Learning does not end
6. There is no better than here
7. Others are only mirrors of you
8. What you make of life is up to you
9. All answers lie inside of you
10. You will forget all of this at birth
During one of my presentations recently, a young business man asked me how he could reach his goals more quickly. I suggested he double his failure rate i.e. make more mistakes. We are all going to make many mistakes. That's just an unavoidable fact of playing this game we call life. Therefore we might as well make them quicker, learn from each one and improve sooner. Get in the game!
Lesson # 9 in Cherie Carter Scott's list is where I believe success is really to be found. We spend our time attending training programmes and conferences which are designed to teach us technical skills in our particular field of expertise. We go looking for the answers to our concerns and challenges outside ourselves. We're looking in the wrong place! All the technical skills training in the world will have little affect on a person with low self esteem/ self belief. All your answers lie inside of you.
PLAYER OR SPECTATOR?
Are you a player or a spectator in life? They say there are three types of people in the world. Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who say "What just happened?"
THE RUSSIAN SUCCESS FORMULA
I would like to share with you a formula for success in all areas of life.
Many years ago the letters CCCP were a symbol for Russia. To be precise, USSR i.e. United Soviet Socialist Republic. It disbanded some time ago now so I have taken the liberty of borrowing it as my own symbol for my success formula. The "P" is the foundation, so it needs to be read and understood from the bottom up.
P = Practice C = Competence C = Confidence C = Courage/ Commitment
PRACTICE
What is the one and only way to get good at absolutely anything? The answer is to practice. It fascinates me that so fe people are prepared to spend time practicing. The All Blacks rugby team spend 92% of their time on the practice ground as oppose to 8% playing time. We can do this with our self belief too!
COMPETENCE
If you practice anything for long enough and in the correct way, what happens? You get good at it! Hardly rocket science is it?
CONFIDENCE
If you are good at something, how is that going to make you feel? And yet confidence is the thing that so many people lack in life.
COURAGE/ COMMITMENT
If you're good and you know it, and if that competence gives you confidence, it will then also give you the courage and commitment to do what ever it takes to get where you want to go in life, safe in the knowledge that you have the ability to achieve success.
So where does it all go wrong for so many people? My Russian Success Formula sounds fantastic doesn't it? But what I found when I enthusiastically started to teach it, was that...........
IT DIDN'T WORK!
People nodded and agreed it made sense but when I returned to work with those same people again, nothing had changed. Back to the drawing board I went, looking for the missing piece on the formula. What I found was lacking was GOALS. Practice is too much like hard work, and human's are not normally in to hard work. The truth is that they would rather go to the pub or watch TV. The only thing that will motivate us to do what we know we need to do in order to get where we want to go are dreams, goals, aspirations and passion. Then and only then will we be prepared to spend time practicing and working towards those dreams. For more on goal setting and achievement, see my articel "The dynamite ten step goal achievement plan".
Paul Kernot
Double your failure rate if you want success in business - To learn more about this author, visit Paul Kernot's Website.
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The mistakes we make are not as important as the lessons we learn from them
Recently I re read one of my favourite little books in my library. "If life is a game, these are the rules" by Cherie Carter Scott.
Her ten rules for playing the game of life are as follows;
1. You will receive a body
2. You will be presented with lessons
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons
4. A lesson is repeated until learned
5. Learning does not end
6. There is no better than here
7. Others are only mirrors of you
8. What you make of life is up to you
9. All answers lie inside of you
10. You will forget all of this at birth
During one of my presentations recently, a young business man asked me how he could reach his goals more quickly. I suggested he double his failure rate i.e. make more mistakes. We are all going to make many mistakes. That's just an unavoidable fact of playing this game we call life. Therefore we might as well make them quicker, learn from each one and improve sooner. Get in the game!
Lesson # 9 in Cherie Carter Scott's list is where I believe success is really to be found. We spend our time attending training programmes and conferences which are designed to teach us technical skills in our particular field of expertise. We go looking for the answers to our concerns and challenges outside ourselves. We're looking in the wrong place! All the technical skills training in the world will have little affect on a person with low self esteem/ self belief. All your answers lie inside of you.
PLAYER OR SPECTATOR?
Are you a player or a spectator in life? They say there are three types of people in the world. Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who say "What just happened?"
THE RUSSIAN SUCCESS FORMULA
I would like to share with you a formula for success in all areas of life.
Many years ago the letters CCCP were a symbol for Russia. To be precise, USSR i.e. United Soviet Socialist Republic. It disbanded some time ago now so I have taken the liberty of borrowing it as my own symbol for my success formula. The "P" is the foundation, so it needs to be read and understood from the bottom up.
P = Practice C = Competence C = Confidence C = Courage/ Commitment
PRACTICE
What is the one and only way to get good at absolutely anything? The answer is to practice. It fascinates me that so fe people are prepared to spend time practicing. The All Blacks rugby team spend 92% of their time on the practice ground as oppose to 8% playing time. We can do this with our self belief too!
COMPETENCE
If you practice anything for long enough and in the correct way, what happens? You get good at it! Hardly rocket science is it?
CONFIDENCE
If you are good at something, how is that going to make you feel? And yet confidence is the thing that so many people lack in life.
COURAGE/ COMMITMENT
If you're good and you know it, and if that competence gives you confidence, it will then also give you the courage and commitment to do what ever it takes to get where you want to go in life, safe in the knowledge that you have the ability to achieve success.
So where does it all go wrong for so many people? My Russian Success Formula sounds fantastic doesn't it? But what I found when I enthusiastically started to teach it, was that...........
IT DIDN'T WORK!
People nodded and agreed it made sense but when I returned to work with those same people again, nothing had changed. Back to the drawing board I went, looking for the missing piece on the formula. What I found was lacking was GOALS. Practice is too much like hard work, and human's are not normally in to hard work. The truth is that they would rather go to the pub or watch TV. The only thing that will motivate us to do what we know we need to do in order to get where we want to go are dreams, goals, aspirations and passion. Then and only then will we be prepared to spend time practicing and working towards those dreams. For more on goal setting and achievement, see my articel "The dynamite ten step goal achievement plan".
Paul Kernot
Double your failure rate if you want success in business - To learn more about this author, visit Paul Kernot's Website.
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