You Can Have What You Want: Proven Strategies for Inner and Outer Success by Michael Neill

Author:Michael Neill
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2006-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

Part III: L.E.A.R.N.

“Wisdom comes from experience, but experience alone is not enough.

Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.”

— John Grinder

Regardless of which actions you take, your ability to learn from everything that happens to you is the only competitive advantage you will ever need. Here’s a simple way to make sure you are learning what will be most useful to you as you move forward:

1. Look back over what happened

Take a few moments to review the highs and lows of your actions and the results you created through them.

2. Evaluate against specific criteria

If you haven’t decided on specific criteria by which to measure your performance, you’ll wind up judging yourself according to how you “feel” about what happened, which is a notoriously fickle barometer. Remember those intentions you set when you did your P.R.E.P.? Now you get to use them to evaluate your performance!

3. Acknowledge your mistakes

Let me guess . . . did everything not go according to plan? That’s because it’s not supposed to, at least not when you’re dealing with something as unpredictable as living creatures. It’s like my physics teacher used to say: “If you kick a football, you can predict exactly where it’s going to land by calculating mass, wind speed, velocity, friction, and a host of other variables. If you kick a dog, there’s no telling where he’ll wind up.” (He wasn’t a very nice man, but it’s a good point!)

4. Reinforce what you did well

When Vince Lombardi took over as coach of the Green Bay Packers, he insisted that the game highlight films be edited so that only the successful, well-run plays were shown. He wanted the players to reinforce what worked by watching themselves successful, game after game after game. The result? Two Super Bowl championships, an American footballing dynasty and a coaching legend.

5. Next time, I will ...

Everyone always talks about “the benefit of hindsight” as if it’s a bad thing. Knowing what you know now, having learned what you’ve learned, what do you want to do differently next time?

Let’s put it all together into a simple experiment . . .

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