Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life

But when the focus is only on results, you aren’t necessarily building the actual skills you need to be successful. You aren’t really learning the whys and hows that produce those results, which makes it hard for you to pull yourself out of a slump—and adds pressure you don’t need.

In other words, focusing on results—or the end product—actually makes it harder to produce those results, and makes any results you do produce take longer to achieve. And that’s the paradox. A focus on results doesn’t produce results. Reformatting your thinking to emphasize the process is the only way to effectively set goals that will actually pro

There’s no question that results are the main driver of almost everything we do or see in modern society. We’re all constantly being evaluated on job performance, earnings, looks—even the type of car we drive. It isn’t a big mystery, then, that most people have developed a very strong focus on “results thinking.” Process goes out the window, and re

USING THE SUCCESS LOG FOR SELF-EVALUATION

When you define success by your effort, anything is truly achievable. And when you consistently work toward your goals—and honestly evaluate that effort—you will begin to deserve the success that comes.

There is no magic success pill. Success requires strong and consistent effort, and the act of evaluating yourself on that effort.

THERE ARE NO SPECIAL PEOPLE . . . ONLY THOSE WHO DESERVE

Using the techniques we’re going to be talking about here, you replace those perfectionist tendencies with what we call the “performance mentality.”

THE PERFORMANCE MENTALITY