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I am sitting here today thinking about what success looks like. For two of my sons, their success is enjoying their first snow day of the school year today with no responsibilities and no on-line learning to get in the way of a highly desired day off that didn’t seem like it would ever come. For my other two sons who are in college and have far fewer, if any, snow days, their success is good grades this week to show for their efforts as they head out for spring break this weekend for their well-deserved week off.
As Lent started today, the priest challenged us to set a goal and then share it with an accountability partner. Success is achieved when we make ourselves better. However, if we could do it on our own, we would have already done it. Accountability helps us define, communicate and commit to our goal and have a higher probability of achieving it. We don’t need to share it with the world unless we want the world to help us achieve it.
I love this post from Leadership First. It’s not a competition with others, it’s a competition between me today and me yesterday. Yes, we are competing with others every day but it is really our best against their best. What are we doing to give our best? We need to define success to be our best.
At AgriStrategies, I can help you define success, which sometimes can be more difficult than actually achieving it. It is important to get out of the mindset of competing with others where you have less control and focus instead on competing with yourself yesterday where you are more in control of achieving success. Once we’ve defined success, we can create the plan to communicate it to others that will help you achieve it and hold you accountable for it to increase the likelihood of success.
