My SuccessGateway guest Blogger Tom McCarthy. I get a lot of newsletters and e-mail from a lot of people. Tom McCarthy is one newsletter I always read, he has information that sticks and is meaningful in my opinion and I wanted to share this with the My Success Gateway community. Tom also has an excellent
What would her chances be of achieving her full potential? The answer is that if she continued to think these same thoughts she would almost certainly underperform and not get anywhere close to her true potential. I asked her a very simple question to help her start to change her thinking. I said, “In the upcoming World Championships, if you could have anything happen, what would you really want?” And she had a great answer. She said, “I want to nail my performance! If I do that, I’m not even concerned what place I finish because I will know that I did my very best!” We then proceeded to work on her thinking. I asked her, “If you were going to nail your performance how would you have to think about the World Championships?” She said, “I would be excited about it instead of nervous.” I asked her, “How would you have to think about the judges if you were going to nail your performance?” She said, “I would look at them, make eye contact, and think ‘you’re going to love this performance’.” I asked her several more questions to help her clarify something I call her “Optimal Performance Thoughts.” These are the winning thoughts she would have to think in order to achieve her true potential. We then set up a routine for her to practice thinking and feeling these thoughts on a regular basis prior to and during the World Championships.
I worked with her one additional session and then the day after the World Championships I got an excited call from her thanking me for the work I had done with her in changing her thinking. She said she had practiced the new thinking and that it had worked perfectly in the World Championships. She was the new World Champion! She had not only beaten the #1 athlete in the sport, who she had previously thought was unbeatable, but she also broke the world record for points scored! The point of this story is that what you and your team are capable of is largely decided by the way you and they think. As a leader, I encourage you to constantly watch and improve the way you think and help your team members do the same. When you do this you open up a whole new set of possibilities and who knows, maybe even a World Championship caliber performance.
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