“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.” – Paulo Coelho
“Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the
right people to be part of your inner circle.” – Kimberly Guilfoyle
Life can be flat out tough! Overcoming major obstacles, rewriting scripts accepted by most people (which only leads to a mediocre-to-good life) and grabbing your dreams by the horns are just part of the challenges.
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The bottom-line: To reach the pinnacle of your potential, you’ll need a great Talent Portfolio, die-on-their-swords for you Inner Circle, a few splashes of luck and a magical dash of great timing! Let’s look at each one of these four impact areas.
Talent Portfolio – Exceptional talent, obviously since it’s exceptional, is extremely rare. There are many competencies included in your Talent Portfolio. The must-have competencies include (but are not limited to) exceptional Decision Making Quality (DMQ), Execution-Excellence (Ex-Ex) and Vision for Possibilities (VfP).
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Overall DMQ-objective (vs. subjective), I believe is one of the Secrets to Life and it’s components (as discussed in previous blogs) include DMQ-Base System, DMQ-Inner Circle, DMQ-Vision of Future Self, DMQ-Self-Sabotage, DMQ-Courage, DMQ-Heart and DMQ-Soul. Your DMQ is critical, simply because it impacts everything you do, say, etc. DMQ guides you in selecting the people in your life (including your Inner Circle), determining what and how to Ex-Ex and enables crystal clarity of your Vision for Possibilities.
Die-on-Their-Swords Inner Circle – Unfortunately, you won’t find out if you’ve selected the right people for your Inner Circle, until, you actually need them. Most inner circles help when times are “good” or “not bad for too long”. However, when times are tough for a long enough time, but your dreams they once agreed to be with you on until they’re realized, don’t materialize, what will they do? Will they pick you up with a “firefighter’s carry” to help you succeed at fulfilling your dreams and reaching the pinnacle of your potential, vacate your Inner Circle or help you pursue something “safer” (i.e., exit your dreams which in turn establishes a basis for regret)?
A Few Splashes of Luck, or … – It’s critical to do the best you can while working your butt off; but, Lady Luck’s presence can help significantly. The God Factor, Karma, Fate, etc., will play a role in your success unless your Freewill DMQ (see previous blogs) sabotages the opportunities! It’s present, but not explainable.
A Magical Dash of Great Timing – Sometimes life just has a way of rolling out the red carpet for your ideas and other times the greatest ideas can simply die on the vine. Timing is relevant, nearly impossible to determine beforehand; yet, quite influential in determining your level of success or failure.
Reaching the Pinnacle of Your Holistic Potential – Let’s integrate these four impact areas into a relatively neat box and put a beautiful red ribbon on it. Most people reach various Serial Myopic successes. Great business, okay marriage; great marriage, okay career; great volunteer, okay parent, etc. The primary reason for not achieving the pinnacle of our potential, is a deficiency in one of the four impact areas.
Again, it all starts with DMQ, which is used to select three of the four impact areas (and indirectly, Lady Luck).
In HBO’s 2017 documentary, “Becoming Warren Buffett, ” the investing legend says the biggest decision of your life will be who you choose to marry. How many get this big decision right? If you get this one wrong, one or more times, there will be a lot of ground to make up to reach the pinnacle of your holistic potential.
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Yes; life can be flat out tough! Nail these four impact areas and you’ll have the opportunity to be in the elite group of Top-7%’ers who lead purpose-driven lives while mending the torn social fabric that connects us all!
Who changes the world? I believe it’s almost exclusively the Top-7%. They are the only ones with the Talent Portfolios and social consciences needed to actually implement significant positive social impact.
If you believe you’re one of these executives, we’d love to explore possible opportunities.
Get Making A Difference! ~ JR
