The Art of Building Your Resilience and Adaptability by Néstor Gandara
Author:Néstor Gandara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
Perfection does not exist
Do not get down on yourself if you are not achieving something almost perfectly. Remember, perfectionism is the killer of productivity. Many people strive to achieve it. That is a mistake in terms of optimizing your work. You can spend hours and hours to try to have an activity perfect, but it ends up being nearly impossible to achieve. It could impact your motivation as you end up feeling frustrated and disappointed with your work even with yourself.
For that reason, it is important to differentiate between excellence and perfectionism. Excellence is an attempt to perform a task in the best way possible, whereas perfection is the definitive one hundred percent right way of doing anything. This means that excellence is something that we can aspire to and can achieve, but perfection is seldom achievable.
Be imperfect and work on excellence. A good practice is to learn how to set SMART goals and create verifiable trajectories towards a certain objective, with clear milestones and an estimation of the goalâs attainability. These are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely. Let us go into detail about each one, with a simple example of soccer that will be easiest to understand, maybe too simple but crystal clear for that proposal.
â¢S â Specific
Your goals should be clear and specific to give you the idea of what you really want to accomplish. Great goals are well-defined and focused. A specific goal describes the mission statement for your goal.
Example: I want to score 2 goals and more than 10 assists during the next match. These are specific goals.
Question that can help to identify the goal - What you want to accomplish?
â¢M â Measurable
The ability to measure the success or failure of a goal makes it more tangible in nature. The key word here is âmetricsâ. A goal without a measurable outcome is like a soccer match without a scoreboard. With goals, youâre trying to achieve them, and if there is no way to achieve them, then it is a waste of time.
Example: scoring 2 goals and having 10 assists is easily measurable. These are our metric, goals and assists.
Question - what metric are you going to use to determine success?
â¢A â Achievable
This is an often-overlooked aspect of goal setting; determining whether a particular goal is realistic and attainable. Here is how you will work on your excellent âwe could aspire to achieve itâ and not the perfection that is seldom achievable.
Example - Scoring 2 goals and having 10 assists is something possible to achieve. Based on your experience and understanding, the timing of a total of 90 minutes long makes it possible, but an unrealistic goal could be scoring one hundred goals in a match. This is most probably not achievable in a match of 90 min.
â¢R â Relevant
I totally recommend spending a bit more time thinking on this one. You, and only you, can decide the relevance of your goal and whether you or your team have the bandwidth and resources to achieve it.
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