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Getting Results
The document discusses three key aspects to getting results: persistence, planning, and focus. It provides details on each: persistence involves deciding on a goal and taking immediate action until it works; planning requires getting disturbed by your current situation, setting a specific result and purpose, developing an action plan, and changing limiting beliefs; focus suggests choosing just one thing to work on and making it a habit above all else. The document aims to provide guidance on applying these three principles to achieve goals and get results.
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Getting Results
- 1. Getting Results Persistence,Planning, Focus Jay Elkes, DTM District 40 2012 Fall Conference
- 2. How We GetResults Persistence Decide and Commit Planning Why and How Focus What ONE THING can I do? www.toastmasters.org
- 3. Persistence DECIDE what you really want Decide and Commit Take MASSIVE, IMMEDIATE Action Do it NOW! Is it Working? Check Your Results Try Something Else! www.toastmasters.org
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- 10. Planning (Steps 1to 4) Get Disturbed Use pressure to your advantage. Decide your Result and Purpose Be clear and specific! Develop a Massive Action Plan Decimate your problem Change Your Limiting Beliefs www.toastmasters.org
- 11. Planning (Steps 5to 9) Set the Game Up to Win Take Massive, Immediate Action Massive: Take no prisoners Immediate: Do it now Use / Create Your Peer Group Monitor Results Modify Your Actions www.toastmasters.org
- 12. Get Disturbed! Nothing gets better until you admit something is wrong Don’t Soften! Don’t Rationalize Don’t Lie Use pressure to turn what you should do into what you must do www.toastmasters.org
- 13. Decide Result andPurpose You haven’t made a decision until something has changed. Result: the outcome you want Purpose: Why you want it Benefits of Achieving the Result Consequences of Failure Put it in writing Be specific www.toastmasters.org
- 14. Change Your LimitingBeliefs Believe you can, or believe you can’t – either way, you’re right. ~ Henry Ford What did you believe that was holding you back? What do you believe now? The only thing keeping you from what you want is the story you tell yourself about why you can’t have it. ~ Anthony Robbins www.toastmasters.org
- 15. Set the GameUp to Win! Enjoy the process, not just the outcome. What can you add to make it fun? Reward yourself for being approximately correct at first Keep score your way www.toastmasters.org
- 16. Take Massive ImmediateAction Mindstorm: Consider everything you can do Who can help? What do you need to learn? What resources do you need to acquire? Identify everything you must do Include both simple and challenging tasks What can you do immediately? Call or email someone? Put the task on a schedule? www.toastmasters.org
- 17. Use / CreateYour Peer Group Love your family, pick your peer group. Pick a group that raises your standards. Create a virtual group online. Hire a coach Most people’s lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group. www.toastmasters.org
- 18. Use Feedback Monitor your results. Are you headed in the right direction? If not, look for new actions Feedback is the key to success. www.toastmasters.org
- 19. Planning: Key Ideas Get disturbed: use pressure to get yourself moving. Write it down. Make real decisions. Take massive action. Never leave the scene of setting a goal without taking some action to put it into effect. . www.toastmasters.org
- 20. Focus Some things don’t need a big plan What ONE THING would make the most difference? Ignore everything else – make it a habit What’s Your Next Habit? www.toastmasters.org
- 21. References Ultimate Power by Anthony Robbins Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen 18 Minutes Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman Contact Me Jay Elkes www.extremecommonsense.net jay@extremecommonsense.net www.toastmasters.org