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By Sara White posted 08-08-2011 10:45

  

Do you desire to be great? Alan Fine and Rebecca Merrill in their book, “You Already Know How To Be Great-A Simple Way To Remove Interference And Unlock Your Greatest Potential” suggest that the typical outside-in approach of getting more information isn’t always effective.  Rather an inside-out approach is better which employs three aspects; faith (our beliefs), fire (our energy/passion/motivation/ commitment), and focus (what we pay attention to). 

This approach results in;

·      Genuinely believing in the viability, competency and purpose of your organization

·      Being enthused about and engaged in your work

·      Knowing what to pay attention to and being focused on the key objectives that will make the organization successful

·      Being able to fully execute on the knowledge you already have

To one degree or another interferences affects our faith, fire or focus much of which is internal.  The internal is a result of our response to the typical external interferences because of the conversation we all have with the “800 pound gorillas inside our head”. The best approach is through focus by changing what we pay attention to and how we pay attention.

We all perform best when there is a balance between our perception of the challenge we are facing and our perception of the skill we have to meet it.  In other words, we need to have enough challenge to keep us excited, but not so much that it overwhelms or discourages us. You want to be in a zone where you are focused, fully engaged and intrinsically motivated because then you process things faster, learn faster and are often not even aware of time or space and things are effortless.

Removing interferences makes it safe for you to dare to dream, to dare to think about what’s possible and find the doable first steps. Shift your belief from “it can’t be done” to “maybe there’s a possibility here” Everyone has the potential to perform better because they have the phenomenal ability to learn how to maximize their internal resources.

Action Steps

Try using the following GROW questions to enhance your internal powers.

·      Goal: What issues do I want to work through? What are the consequences if I do not take action?

·      Reality: Briefly what is actually happening? What have I tried so far? What were the results? In what different way might others describe this situation?

·      Options: If I could do anything to make progress on this issue, what might I do? If I were watching myself work through this issue what would I recommend?

·      Way forward: Do any of these options interest me enough to take action? What might get in my way and how can I over come it? What are my next steps? Power comes from doing something.

As always, this is not intended to be a complete book review but rather selected points to stimulate your thinking. Comments are welcome 



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