
by David Hancock
The first thing you’ll notice about being a Performance-Driven Thinker is that your goals will be different from the old-fashioned goals of a non-Performance-Driven Thinker. If you’re an entrepreneur or a business owner, for example, a Performance-Driven Enterprise is flexible, innovative, unconventional, low in overhead costs, dependent, interactive, generous, enjoyable, and profitable. The goal of the enterprise is to stay that way.
Look at the entrepreneurs all around you. If you can’t see many, it’s because they are not Performance-Driven Thinkers. Instead they’re buried in work, rarely coming up for the fresh air of free time. When you learn to truly perform, you become far more efficient and effective. In fact, the goals of Performance-Driven Thinkers allow them the freedom to pursue interests beyond work—while amassing an income beyond that of their workaholic ancestors
Performance Driven Thinking Is More Than Profits
You can always tell Performance-Driven Thinkers by their goals. They are not as money minded as the entrepreneurs who came before them. They seem to be happier with the work that they’re doing and appear to care like crazy about satisfying the needs of their customers. You’ve never seen follow-up done the way these people do it. They stay in touch constantly with their customers. It’s not as if they are working at their business, but rather demonstrating passion for their work. Their goal is to express that passion with excellence and transform it into profits.
Not surprisingly, Performance-Driven Thinkers achieve their goals on a daily basis. Their long-term goals are lofty. Those goals exist in the future. Their short-term goals are even loftier. Those exist in the present, for that is the domain of the Performance-Driven Thinker. That is where her goals are to be found in abundance.
Your ability to plan for the future and learn from the past will determine your level of comfort in the present, in the here and now. Being a Performance-Driven Thinker means realizing that these can be the good old days and that you don’t have to wait for the joy that comes with success. It’s there in front of you, in the present moment.
The New American Dream Has Changed For The Better
Wake up from the Old American Dream and realize that it has changed for the better—the New American Dream is more achievable, more enjoyable, and much healthier than the old one.
Although at this moment you may find the New American Dream unconventional, as all Performance-Driven endeavors are, you’ll soon see that it will come to be the mainstream American Dream, because it is achievable and brings increased benefits. Most of us can dream it and then delight in making it come true.
Originally, the dream meant having enough food and protection from the weather. Cave dwellers dreamt of hunting enough game or gathering an abundance of nuts and berries. That dream has changed, replaced by the hope of earning enough money to feed a hungry family. The Industrial Revolution took care of that and eventually gave birth to the American Dream: a house, a job, and financial security. Entrepreneurs of the twentieth century were motivated by a slightly different version of the American Dream. In place of a house, a job, and financial security, they sought fortune, security, expansion, and power. But that journey was characterized by workaholism, sacrifice, and greed.
Performance Driven Thinkers Redefine Success
The entrepreneur of the future will need to be a Performance-Driven Thinker—one who thrives on the non-traditional, does the unconventional if the conventional is nonsensical, and knows that working in the new millennium requires rethinking the nature of being a successful entrepreneur.
The performance goals of the twentieth-century entrepreneur were simple—securing a job, a family, a home. The goals of the Performance-Driven Thinker are considerably loftier than those of the past: attaining work that is satisfying, enough money to enjoy freedom from worry about it, health good enough to take for granted, a family or bonding with others in which you can give and receive love and support, fun that does not have to be pursued but exists in daily living, and the longevity to appreciate with wisdom that which you and those you love have achieved.
Balance will be the new dream. Performance-Driven Thinkers who go about creating a profit-producing enterprise will begin with balance, actually starting with work that makes them happy, the goal of all Performance-Driven dreams. Once that has been attained, Performance-Driven Thinkers will be able to pursue their other goals: making money, enjoying free time, maintaining health, and having fun. Most important, as I hope you realize, the goal of the Performance-Driven Thinker is the journey itself.
How do you maintain a high-performance mindset to achieve more goals faster?
To achieve on a long-term basis, you must work at sustaining performance driven thinking.
Performance Driven Thinking is the mental awareness that embraces the effort to get results.
Sustaining a high level of performance driven thinking is not easy!
Each new day presents new opportunities and new obstacles that will either propel you forward or hinder you from reaching your potential.
Each day offers new choices and unexpected breakthroughs.
But, each day is also filled with unforeseen demands on your time, distractions, and missed opportunities.
Often, life can derail you from realizing your goals and achieving your dreams.
How do you stay focused each day to perform at a high level to achieve more goals faster?
How do you eliminate the constant demands on your time and the unanticipated distractions that impede your progress?
How do you consistently stay laser focused to achieve your purpose?
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