Procrastination – The pit where opportunity is buried.

Blind Spots – Not being aware of additional opportunities that may be available.

Comfort Zones – More motivated by pleasing methods rather than pleasing results.

False Priority – These goals are not as important to you as you make them out to be.

Not Organized Effectively – Slowed down by confusion and bottlenecks.

Value Conflict – Action steps may conflict with personal values or priorities.

Time Management Conflicts – Spending to much time in lower priority activities.

Attitude Conflict – Have not emotionally accepted and embraced the activities that to be done.

Training Needs – Uncertain of the best course of action needed to execute objectives.

Fear of Failure – Afraid a setback or mistake will be the end your opportunity.

Accountability – Not being held accountable to your most important personal action items.

Lack of Confidence – Lack the courage to take action for fear of making a mistake or rejection.

Lack of Commitment – Unwilling to do what you need to do to take care of business.

Athletes continue to improve, by competing against some type of scoring system. Everything an athlete does is attached to a statistic of some kind.

That accountability engages our subconscious mind to always reach or excel past previous accomplishments.

Studies have confirmed that scoring heightens mental concentration and improves creativity. Your score competes against weakness, obstacles, and mediocrity.

As Vince Lombardi was known to say, “Leaders are made – they are not born.” It’s about leading the progress and growth in our own life experiences.

Working against time on a clock or keeping a tally helps us mentally squeeze the best out of our abilities.

Measurement inspires transformation. When an individual keeps score, the score improves.

When we are held accountable to that score, it will inspire us to focus more intently on our goals and objectives.

Keeping count of significant activities provides for the transformation of self around personal skills, habits and performance.

There’s a natural scoreboard that exists in our head that keeps us progressively pushing ourselves to equal or better our previous score.

We reach a little further into our potential when we recommit to another series of attempts, routines, or activities.

Even playing a simple game of catch often becomes a game of numbers and our sense of achievement is directly related to improving the number of catches between drops.

Tracking our numbers helps us increase our level concentration, adds emotion to the task and improves our previous performance.

When we tally numbers and explain them to others, it goes deep inside our subconscious. It directly affects effort. What happens is that most of the time our scores will continue to improve.

When the score improves our performance improves. When our performance improves our results improve. When our results improve our goals are progressively achieved!

This simple but powerful principle is the key element to personal transformation and progressive achievement.

An interesting study was done by Werner Heisenberg, a Nobel Prize winning physicist whose field of science is something called Quantum Physics. This is a branch of science that deals with indivisible units of energy called quanta. Heisenberg’s mission was to explain what is called Quantum Theory.

The essence of what Mr. Heisenberg and his team were known for was their attempt to measure the movement and velocity of atomic particles. They reasoned that there was “an exchange of energy” when any measurement of atoms occurred.

How this relates to personal achievement is profound. By scoring critical activities associated with our goals, we will “better our behavior” on the actions that will make the greatest impact on results.

When we stay focused on the numbers, we are less likely to be thrown off track by life’s distractions.

The object of the game is to progressively improve our score over a period, as we discover how to better integrate these activities or behavior patterns into our personal and professional life.

Gradual improvements take place. Goals are progressively achieved. As you best our score you become your best self.

Measurement creates management.

As a rule, this refers to high pay-off needs identified through the Power Lines.
We measure PACs based on relevant real-time data.

We can make major or minor adjustments based on how well our results match our intentions.

The rationale is to organize strategic shifts to problem solve to make weekly progress.
The results justify the importance of accountability.

As we build our goals, our goals build us!

The two most common mistakes we make when dealing with commitment is first, we take the commitment too lightly. Then we lose the personal power that commitment offers.

The second most common mistake is not to recommit often enough to sustain momentum and build the circumstances needed to complete the goal.

Nothing takes the wind out of our sails faster than realizing, over a period of time, that we lost the power and enthusiasm needed to achieve the goal we were at one time so excited about.

We look for reasons or excuses that enable us to not follow through with our commitment. This is all totally unnecessary. It is perfectly natural to lose focus and attention on a new process or behavior. We just need to know what to do about it when it happens.

The key to commitment is re-commitment

We need to be able to start over often enough to stretch our behavior, awareness, characteristics, and habits.

The SPEAR Success System is a system of re-commit­ment, progress, and continuous momentum toward worthwhile and predetermined personal goals.

These commitments may come in the form of isolated accomplishments or progressive positive change in behavior patterns.

A routine cycle of reevaluation and recommit­ment is the way to do it.

The more frequently we reevaluate and recommit, the faster we move along in our growth process.

Weekly seems to be the key. Once a week presents a new opportunity to identify progress, address weaknesses and redirect weekly efforts.

Concentration levels seem to diminish if we wait any longer to adjust and refocus.

Those who evaluate and recommit on a weekly basis, progress much more quickly than those who only evaluate and recommit monthly.

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