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Introduction “Don’t Wish It Was Easier…Wish You Were Better”. Wise words right there from the Late, Jim Rohn. I was listening to one of his audio recordings and these words really resonated with me deeply. The entrepreneurial journey is filled with many wake-up calls and there’s certainly a lot to be learned inside of us and of the business world around us.
But in the midst of all the glitz and glamour that pursuing real success promises, the journey in itself is a whole different story isn’t it? It certainly has been that way for me. The lessons are tough, things don’t go to plan, and sometimes it feels like you are being shaken up to your very core!
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That said, is there a model that we could focus on for guidance that could see us through to the end of this tunnel? In here I share a 3 step model, that I apply every day and find incredibly powerful.
Peak Performance Model 1.
The Strategy
Strategy is a great word. We use it all the time but do we really apply strategy to our personal competence? Yes, it sits in our business plan; we speak of marketing strategies, financial strategies but what is your personal strategy for success? How do you approach your day every day? How do you approach your business every day? How do you approach the human connections around you every day?
My strategy is to approach my day any day with as much personal power as I possibly could. I do this by practising a set of daily activities directed at ensuring that I am Power-Full most of the day. These include planning the day with clarity and visualising tasks as already done especially the difficult ones. I also meditate for 15-20 minutes, maintaining a decent meal plan and listening to music at set intervals.
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The Story
One thing that I found so profound since I started my entrepreneurial journey 3 years ago is; I needed to work hard on my mind and my daily “stories”. It’s easy to focus on hard tactics and strategies in our businesses but if we don’t
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work hard on the mind…pooof! All the hard work is lost in execution. As Earl Nightingale puts it in his book, The Strangest Secret, “We Become What We Think About All Day Long”. Took me a while to get my head around this one. What is the dominant story going on in your mind as you go through the day? How do you speak to yourself? What consistent thoughts do you have? As an online marketer who spends a lot of time online - having a dominant thought pattern or story that it’s difficult to find quality traffic and then go out and focus on the tactic which is actually supposed to get me more leads totally negates my efforts. So I tell a different story. “I am getting a lot of quality traffic today”.
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The State
The medical dictionary defines this as a state in which a person performs to the maximum of their ability, characterised by subjective feelings of confidence, effortlessness and total concentration on the task. It is a euphoric mental state, a moment of peak experience. Now, I ask, is it possible to have many of these moments one after the other? I don’t know the answer but I do know this is where my “A - Game” happens. As an example, when I am Djing, this is the moment where I am ‘lost’ in the music and my crowd loses all control just at this point! At that moment there's no forcing tunes, there’s no ‘work’, no ‘fighting’, just total flow. And it is contagious. Watch out for this moment next time you are in a concert of any kind. The boys and girls at Ibiza and Tomorrowland could tell you about it only they won’t have the words to describe it! Can this be applied in the business World? I think so. I make it my business to be in a peak state by doing the things that induce that. The right strategy and a great story are a good place to start. Then there’s our body language, how
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we stand, how we talk, the words we use, how we walk etc.
Final Thoughts With this knowledge, I don’t really require anything to be easier, I choose to focus on becoming awesome at these 3 things by practising and doing them every day! Do you think you can do it? Have a strategic day!
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Eddie Guchu is a Digital Marketer, a Lifestyle Brand Owner & DJ. He is based mostly in Perth, Australia & Nairobi, Kenya. Former life: A Consultant Network Engineer in the IT outsourcing and Mining Resources Industries in Western Australia. Holds an MSc in Information Systems Management From Curtin University, Western Australia. "It Always Seems Impossible Until It is Done - Nelson Mandela"
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