Halfway There

What do you do at the halfway point?

The year is half over already! Right? I know, crazy.

Have you looked back to see where you’re at, what you did, or didn’t do, who you became or stayed, and what you wished you’d accomplished?

Post assessment is a great tool for many things in our lives.

I teach my golf clients to assess a round a golf after its completion; find where they excelled, where they made great decisions and also where opportunities lay to be better moving forward.

Do you have a system in place?

Here are two 5-step processes to help you evaluate wins and get you back on track (in case you derailed a little).

Process One

Ask yourself the following and write the answers in an awesome notebook with a great pen you love to write with.

1. What’s the best thing I accomplished so far this year?
2. What enabled me to achieve this success?
3. Who helped me accomplish this?
4. What was the driving force (motivation) behind it?
5. Did I truly enjoy the process (the journey) or simply the result?

If you worked your ass off for this and stayed present throughout the journey, the process above was likely easy to complete and quite rewarding to do.

If you were strictly results-driven and results-focused, you probably didn’t get as much out of it. In fact, it might have seemed a little annoying.

Why?

Because when we do the work, put in the effort, the time, the blood, sweat and tears, we garner more from the journey than any feeling the result can provide. And, when we stay present in the journey, we enjoy all parts of the process, even the struggles become valuable to us. We experience more engagement and heighten our awareness to the factors that make us successful.

The failures throughout teach us to be better and we enjoy the wins after learning so much more.

Process Two

Now, if you had more opportunities than successes, ask yourself;

1. What held me back from achieving …?
2. Were those factors in my control or out of my control?
3. What can I do about the fact I didn’t reach my target?
4. What little, daily habits can I do now and moving forward to be better?
5. How can I encourage myself to stay focused?

We know we learn more from failures than successes, so embrace opportunities like these and find and apply the learning moving forward.

If you made a mistake, be ok with it. If you make it over and over, remember that’s now a choice. Make good choices!

I hope the second half brings more success, and/or new success.

What you focus on you attract!

Mike