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What’s Blocking Your Performance?

David Cook, PhD, former “mental training coach” of the San Antonio Spurs, suggests that performance equals potential minus distractions. This is true. When I was younger friends of my parents used to tell me that I had lots of potential, but I was too easily distracted by a bright-shiny objects. Activities, accomplishments, and awards easily attracted my attention away from using my potential. The same is true today in my personal life, my family, my business, and my golf game. 

   Every day each of us encounters challenges at work and at home. Challenges that must be addressed using our skills, knowledge, or talent (a.k.a. potential). Knowing that we have potential produces a good feeling. Feelings keep us warm when situations seem cold and friends seem distant like the sun’s rays streaming through a picture window. They’re cozy, but don’t really create a fire until they’re brought into sharp focus through a magnifying glass. The same is true for our potential. Eliminate the distractions and focus your potential for real results.

   Want to maximize your performance? Minimize your distractions. This evening push back from the computer, pick up the phone, and place a call to your brother. To help you control distractions and focus your potential, find a quiet place (library?) and take an hour to list everything you need to or would like to do. Everything! When it comes to mind, just write it down. Reserve prioritization until after you’ve completed your list. Then take an hour every day this week to focus your potential on one item from your list. If an a distraction comes up, quickly add it to the list and get back to your focus. You’ll be surprised just how much you can get done. 

   Finally, at the end of the day just turn it off and play. Make it FUN!

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