8 Steps in Mastering Processes
Far too many of my friends here at WA have fallen into the trap of rating themselves and their performances solely on their outcomes.
This flawed thinking approach is a major challenge we all must overcome.
Happiness and satisfaction in one’s work is often very illusory, and what we think should make us happy will only lead to our inevitable discontentment time and again.
Let’s bring greater contentment and happiness into our daily lives by changing our thinking
This is why it’s important that we start focusing on processes, and not outcomes.
After all, life is to be lived in the present, not the future, and happiness is a process, not a place.
John Wooden's Great Lesson
There is a great lesson in valuing processes over outcomes that we can learn from one of our most successful sports coaches, John Wooden.
The greatest and most winning college basketball coach in history never told his players they had to win. Never even once.
What he told his players everyday was to be the best they can be. And the rest would take care of itself. Everyday.
8 Steps in Mastering Processes
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Focus on the process with diligence and effortful study, then let the outcome take care of itself. - Bring awareness to your performance, either during or immediately after it, so you can learn to identify when bad results follow good processes, and vice-versa.
- Don’t pursue the rewards directly, trust that they will come.
- Rate yourself based on the effort, not the outcome.
- Determine what your best effort would look like, and then unleash it.
- Stop worrying about what others will think of your performance.
- Don’t only try to win today, try to become a winner.
- Be happier when your best effort results in defeat than when a weak effort results in victory.
Focusing on process will let you engage more deeply with the present and experience it more fully, which will help you learn faster and experience life and leaning more completely.
The more you focus on process over outcome, the more confident you’ll become, and there’s no greater measure for success than attractiveness and confidence.
Let’s apply this method to the SAC challenge, and the successful outcomes will be taken care of.
Thanks for taking the time to read this article friends, and to be highly engaged in the process.
As usual, all of your comments will be most appreciated!
Cheers,
Kaju
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I agree. Enjoy the journey of learning, take pride in the achievement of what you build with that knowledge.
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I agree with this principle. In organizations to run it with processes is to follow the constitution and by-laws. If you short cut it, your leadership is questionable.
To quote someone famous:
"Life is A Journey, Not a Destination"
... and
"Your Life is a story - Make it A Good One"
'nuff Said ?!?!
Joe
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Thank you for sharing this. I will be taking this on board I am guilty of thinking too far ahead.
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That is such a great post and very timely for me to be reading.
Many thanks, I needed to focus on the now!
Kind Wishes
Daisy
Thanks Daisy, it's very important to focus on"the now" which are the processes and have Fun with them:)
Kaju
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Love it! Focus on the process, not the outcome.
Thanks, Kaju.
C & P
10000%!!! It's in all in the Process, C&P:)
GO Tribe!!