Just before Christmas 2022, I purchased Brendon Burchard's High Performance Coaching Program. The duration was 6 months. Once a week I had a 60 minute coaching call with one of his coaches. It was an intense experience. It was really amazing! One of the many highlights was focusing on my wins. Let me ask you, when do you focus on your wins? Do you ask yourself once a week what your wins have been? Do you stack them up? Do you tap into that beautiful feeling of winning - of being the winner that you are?
The game changer
Developing quick wins is a game changer. It tells us that we are on the right track. Quick wins are easy because we don't have to stretch too far to get there. And yes, it doesn't take much time to win them. As we win, we bootstrap our stuff. Task after task gets done and can be perceived as another great feeling. Yes, you can! Yes, you will achieve your big goal!
Breaking down our big goal into smaller steps is one of the best ways to overcome procrastination. By accumulating quick wins, we take it one step further. Not only are we moving, but we are teaching our mind that nothing can stop us from achieving what we set out to do.
The mind will manage
Our mind now has a new task, it will show us solutions to our challenges. It will help us overcome difficulties. It will make us aware of all the other people around us who have a similar struggle and may have different ways of approaching it. When our mind understands that we have set out to win. It will do everything to help us achieve our goals.
Today I read about 8 steps that are brain-based techniques for retaining information:
1. Learn in multiple ways
2. Teach what you've learned to another person
3. Utilize previous learning to promote new learning
4. Gain practical experience
5. Look up answers rather than struggle to remember
6. Understand how you learn best
7. Use testing to boost learning
8. Stop multitasking
Source: Loma Linda University | School of Medicine (https://medicine.llu.edu/academics/resources/brain-based-techniques-retention-information, 10.08.2023, 10:15 PM)
Learning in multiple ways
I have come to understand that these steps can also be useful in developing quick wins. We can use multiple ways to learn which tools/applications are best to support our efforts. This also applies to the size of our tasks. How do we need to frame them to make them appealing to us? What deadlines are realistic? What stresses us out?
Teach someone else what you've learned.
While we are at it, we can move forward and teach others around us what we have discovered. Through experience, what we explain to others will bring more clarity to ourselves. What a wonderful trick this is. We get better and win more when we share our knowledge. Thank you, universe!
Using past learning to facilitate new learning
We can also use our past learning to go deeper. This is where John Wooden comes in. He emphasizes: "It's what you learn after you know everything that counts". I'm sure I don't know everything yet. And I'm pretty sure I'll never know it all. I appreciate his sentence. For me, it means keep learning, don't stop, dig a little deeper, find more interesting stuff and learn about it. Grow your brain and put that knowledge to work. John Wooden encourages winners. Let's grow into winning more than ever!
Gain practical experience
In trying to win, we may experience failures. They are also important. Install a cycle here: try, have a result: win or failure, reflect on the process that led to the result, come up with innovations, write them down, make a new or revised plan, and do it again. The practical experience will be immense.
Look up answers instead of struggling to remember
Our brains are not perfect memory machines. We can only remember a limited amount of information at a time, and we often forget things over time. If we spend a lot of time struggling to remember something, we are wasting our time and energy. It is often better to just look up the answer and move on.
Understand how you learn best
Bard suggests that there are several ways to find out how you learn best. Here are a few tips:
- Think about your past experiences. Think about the times when you learned something particularly well. What did you do? What materials did you use? Who helped you? This may give you some clues about your learning style.
- Take a learning style quiz. There are many online quizzes that can help you identify your learning style. These quizzes are not always accurate, but they can give you a general idea of how you learn best.
- Experiment with different study methods. Try different ways of learning, such as reading, listening, watching, doing, and discussing. Pay attention to which methods seem to work best for you.
Use tests to encourage learning
I suggest that you focus not on testing but on reflection. Regularly ask yourself questions that help you reflect on your work, your impact on others, your energy level, your health, your finances, and your efforts. One way to do this is to create a set of questions and remind yourself to do this on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. You can make it a little easier with Brendon's GrowthDay app. It asks you questions that you can answer where you are. Then it helps you figure out what steps might help you move forward. I also use this app and like it a lot.
Stop multitasking
If you want to be more productive, make fewer mistakes, and reduce stress, stop multitasking. Instead, focus on one task at a time and give it your full attention. You might be surprised at how much more you can accomplish.
I feel like a winner tonight, and I hope you do, too. There are many reasons for feeling this way. Think back over the past week and tell yourself when you were successful. You will thank yourself.
