I’m currently listening to Winning: The Unforgiving Race for Greatness by Tim Grover, the elite performance coach behind Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dewayne Wade, and others.
It’s an excellent book that pulls no punches about what it takes to win and get to work.
In one of the first chapters, Tim makes the distinction between knowing what to think and how to think.
He makes this point early in the book, I think it was in the chapter titled “#1: WINNING makes you different, and different scares people.”
While practical information is helpful, it doesn’t mean much if all you can do is follow the script someone else gives you.
You can follow instructions, but can you create your own?
George Mumford, another performance coach that worked with Kobe Bryant, also makes this point.
He talks about cultivating the mindfulness to discriminate why something is happening. Thinking that leads to understanding.
This different type of thinking leads to the different actions winners take to get the results they are looking for.
Questions like:
Why am I seeing things this way instead of another way?
What are your thoughts?
In the story of what’s happening, or the hard, factual truth about it?
If you’re looking to reach a higher level in your life and work, zoom in and ask yourself:
Power Acronym 93: M.I.C.R.O.
Am I Motivated?
Am I Interested?
Am I Confident?
Am I Relaxed?
Am I Observant?
I think questions like these speak to Tim Grover’s idea of taking a different approach that is uniquely yours implemented and refined to get you the win you’re looking for.
George Mumford offers these questions as practical tools to take action.
What questions would you add?
Winning is calling. How will you answer?
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