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them Feel." Maya Angelou
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article
- Stay Focused on the Big Picture by Harvey Mackay
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Balance, Basics/Fundamentals and Being the Best
3. Your Achievement Tips - A Special Kind of Courage by Brian Tracy
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1. Your Achievement Article
Stay Focused on the Big Picture by Harvey Mackay
A reader of this column sent me an email recently, thanking me for a
column I had written on getting outside the box. She then told me how she had
lost focus for a while, but had turned things around. She encouraged me to write
a column on staying focused.
I immediately thought of my varsity golfing days at the University of Minnesota
many years ago. Back then The Saint Paul Open was one of the top tournaments on
the men's professional golf circuit. Prior to the tournament, I had a chance to
meet Gary Player when he was taking a lesson from our team coach, Les Bolstad.
Later that evening I went to dinner with the world's future #1 player when he
was still an unknown.
The following day at The Saint Paul Open, I saw Gary after he teed off the first
hole and ran up to him to say hi. I wanted to tell him what a great time I had
the night before. His steely eyes remained focused on the fairway ahead and he
never broke stride. "Harvey, please don't talk to me. I must concentrate. I will
see you when I'm finished."
I remember how devastated I felt, but I learned a valuable lesson on focus. Many
years later when he was world famous, my wife, Carol Ann, and I ran into Gary
and his wife in South Africa. I reintroduced myself and reminded him of what
happened on the golf course. Gary's wife told me, "Don't feel bad. He doesn't
even talk to me on the golf course."
That's the focus that it takes to do your best. If you have the ability to focus
fully on the task at hand, and shut out everything else, you can accomplish
amazing things.
Arnold Palmer, another golfing legend, recalled a tough lesson he learned about
focus in Carol Mann's book "The 19th Hole":
"It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters tournament, and I had a one-stroke
lead and had just hit a very satisfying tee shot. I felt I was in pretty good
shape. As I approached my ball, I saw an old friend standing at the edge of the
gallery. He motioned me over, stuck out his hand and said, "Congratulations." I
took his hand and shook it, but as soon as I did, I knew I had lost my focus. On
my next two shots, I hit the ball into a sand trap, then put it over the edge of
the green. I missed a putt and lost the Masters. You don't forget a mistake like
that; you just learn from it and become determined that you will never do that
again." Trust me, your friends will understand!
A response Babe Ruth once gave to a reporter sticks in my mind. "How is it," the
Babe was asked, "that you always come through in the clutch? How is it you can
come up to bat in the bottom of the 9th, in a key game with the score tied, with
thousands of fans screaming in the stadium, with millions listening on the
radio, the entire game on the line and deliver the game winning hit?" His
answer, "I don't know. I just keep my eye on the ball."
In other words... Focus.
How many times have you heard an athlete talk about focus? It's a topic I also
hear about frequently in business. The most common complaints?
Too many irons in the fire. Too many projects spinning at one time. Too many
interruptions. Too many phone calls. Too many emails. Too many things to do. Too
little time.
The late Peter Drucker, management consultant and author, observed, "When you
have 186 objectives nothing gets done. I always ask, 'What's the one thing you
want to do?' In Mexico they call me Senor Una Cosa." (translation: one thing)
Decide what's most important. Make a list every day or every week and prioritize
your activities. Scale back the amount of time you spend on meetings; they can
be the biggest time-wasters of all. Learn to delegate, and make sure all members
of your team follow through on assigned tasks.
Set aside a specific time of day to return phone calls and emails, and keep
distractions to a minimum. In other words, set rules about how others use your
time. And if you're not the boss, work with your supervisor to make sure you
agree on priorities.
Stay focused as best you can, and don't let things happen to you - not when you
can make things happen.
Mackay's Moral: The person who is everywhere is nowhere.
Harvey Mackay is the author of the New York Times #1 bestsellers Swim With
The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His
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2. Your Achievement Quotes
BALANCE
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the
darkness for it shows me the stars." -- Og Mandino
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as
bad as they say when you lose." -- Lou Holtz
"To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and
the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get
by with. The maximum is the most you’re capable of. The optimum is the amount or
degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire." -- Nido
Qubein
"Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent,
and failure is never final." -- Brian Tracy
BASICS/FUNDAMENTALS
"Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night
instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." -- Jim Rohn
"Morale and attitude are the fundamental ingredients to success." -- Bud
Wilkinson
"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to
check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money
can't buy." -- George Horace Lormier
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -- Helen Keller
BEING THE BEST
"The most splendid achievement of all is in the constant striving to surpass
yourself and to be worthy of your own approval." -- Denis Waitley
"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for 'just
getting the job done.' Excel!" -- Tom Hopkins
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will
pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." --
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Good is not good where better is expected." -- Thomas Fuller
"Life is too short to spend your precious
time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.
Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for
his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with
optimistic people." Zig Ziglar
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3. Your Achievement Tips -
A Special Kind of Courage by Brian Tracy
There are several different aspects of courage. Perhaps the most important is
the courage to endure, to persist, to "hang in there" in the face of doubt,
uncertainty and criticism from others.
Practice Patience in Adversity:
This is called "courageous patience," the willingness and the ability to "stay
the course" in the face of uncertainty, doubt and often criticism from many
quarters.
Stay the Course:
In my experience, there is a critical time period between the launching of a new
venture and the results that come from that venture. During this hiatus, this
waiting period, many people lose their nerve. They cannot stand the suspense of
not knowing, of possible failure. They break and run in battle, they quake and
quit in business.
The True Leader:
But the true leader is the person who can stand firm, who refuses to consider
the possibility of failure. The turning points of many key moments in human
history have been the resolution, or lack thereof, of one person. Courageous
patience is the acid test of leadership.
To encourage others, to instill confidence in them, to help them to perform at
their best requires first of all that you lead by example.
Allow Honest Mistakes:
The second thing you can do to help alleviate the fears of failure and rejection
in others is to encourage them to take calculated risks and allow honest
mistakes.
Build People Up:
Give the people who look up to you regular praise and approval. Celebrate good
tries as well as success, large and small. Create a psychological climate where
people feel safe from censure, blame or criticism of any kind. Then do things
that make people feel terrific about themselves.
Become Unstoppable:
Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis. Your personal
development goal should be to practice the behaviors of a totally fearless
person until you become, in your own mind, unstoppable.
Action Exercises:
Here are two ways for you to develop courageous patience.
First, prepare yourself in advance for the inevitable disappointments and
setbacks you will experience on the way to your goal. Don’t be surprised when
they occur.
Second, resolve in advance that you will bounce rather than break and
continually encourage others to think and act the same way.
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