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Creating Positive Goals, Narrowing to ONE Thing, and Being Promotion Minded
Creating Positive Goals, Narrowing to ONE Thing, and Being Promotion Minded
✏️ We made it to September and the beginnings of Fall, which to me, means cooler temperatures, kids going back to school, and the return of College Football.
For you, it may also signal the end of a summer of fun and a renewed focus on your professional life.
Do you have big goals for the last few months of the year? Let’s help you reach them!
In today’s newsletter:
The power of creating goals focused on opportunities
How to narrow your goals to the most important thing
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Career tips
🧘🏽♀️ Using a Promotion Mindset to Drive Career Results
Do you find yourself more driven by opportunity or avoiding failure? Do you prefer to move towards your goal or away from something you don't like? These questions may seem simple, but they can reveal much about your mindset and how it influences your behavior.
The questions above may help you determine whether you have a Prevention or a Promotion mindset.
A Prevention mindset is primarily focused on preventing failure, loss, and change. Those with a prevention mindset are primarily focused on avoiding losses and may be driven by fear. While they may be protecting against risk, they may also miss out on opportunities that could help them reach their goals.
Here is the great irony of thinking this way — when you make decisions based on fear, you are actually more likely to cause the problems you are afraid of!
On the other hand, those with a promotion mindset are focused on winning, reaching their goals, and seizing opportunities. They are willing to take appropriate risks to make progress, even if it means stepping out of their comfort zones. Instead of saying "we can't afford it," they ask, "what can we do to afford it?" Goals are oriented toward what they want rather than what they are trying to avoid.
Of course, you can take this too far and be too risky, but embracing promotion-minded actions is almost always a good idea.
📝 If you want to shift towards a Promotion mindset, here are a few ideas:
Imagine the positive results of accomplishing your goals. Spend some time each day visualizing the outcomes you want to achieve.
Journal your goals and desires in different areas of your life such as career, health, relationships, spirituality, etc. This can help you narrow down on primary goals in each category.
Focus on what you can gain and develop, rather than what you lack. By seeing the opportunities, you can shift away from the fear of loss and towards the potential for success.
Make a commitment to take action towards your goals. This may require taking appropriate risks, stepping out of your comfort zone, and focusing on your objectives.
🎯 By shifting your mindset to focusing on opportunities rather than preventing problems, you can shift your actions and improve outcomes in your leadership, career, and personal development.
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book recommendation
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
📚 Do you struggle with narrowing your goals and focusing on one thing at a time? If so, this is the book for you.
The operating question of the book is:
“What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?”
This question and concept can help you focus, get clarity, and be more productive.
Stop trying to multitask and do it all. Identify what is most important, get it done, and see how it actually simplifies your life as you focus on just one thing.
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Written by
Jeff Perry
Engineering Career Coach
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