Have you seen this? How do highly successful people evolve to be the way they are?
One the people who has inspired me is Robin Sharma. I love his videos and his philosophy. He is famous for his excellent book “The Leader Without a Title”. He works with top CEOs, billionaires and high performers.
I sometimes feel I suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out) whilst juggling with information overload!! The skill of discernment is a good one to build up to a high level to be able to focus on what is flashing up in front of us at any one time – what to notice and what to disregard.
Sharma produced a video is called “The Super Producers Secrets” – great title!
Here’s what it says in a nutshell…
- World class performance is a combination of inspiration and execution
- The execution is what separates exceptional achievers from average ones
- Execution is developed by mastering three aspects of performance: the philosophy, the psychology and the practise.
- World class performers develop world class habits, rituals and routines.
- There are 24 hours in everyone’s day, but they use theirs more wisely.
- Based on Anders Ericsson’s research (University of Florida) it takes 10,000 hours to become an exceptional master of a craft.
- This 10,000 is spent installing habits, rituals and routines so that performance becomes easy.
- It’s not just about talent, genius, or flair. It’s about choices.
- The work done installing these three elements of how to choose to behave are built in three steps: 1: the struggle and war of changing after deciding; 2: the dismantling of old behaviours; 3: automaticity
- It’s not just about a mind set, which you read a lot about
- It’s the behaving that makes the difference
Here’s the bit I loved the most: It’s easier to behave your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of behaving.
It’s about practising. Anders, and thus Sharma, says it takes 66 days to make a habit into automaticity.
He says that we should start this today……
He goes on to explain in the video that:
- He has a 20/20/20 system. This involves the first 20 minutes of your day getting sweaty in exercise, followed by another 20 minutes of journalling -re-writing your goals and activating that part of the brain which will help you notice the key opportunities: the reticular activator. Finally, 20 minutes of gratitude
- He also emphasises that learning is a game changer. Be ready to learn. Make time to learn. (When was the last time you did some personal development ?)
- Then, he explains the need to focus on the Daily Five.- i.e. you five important outcomes you desire from each day that will help you move forward.
- He also dwells on the need to exhibit acts of kindness to build self-esteem and to live a worthy life.
- https://www.robinsharma.com/about-robin
If you think along these lines and would like to develop exceptional leadership skills I’d love to talk to you.