Your Ability to Succeed is Like a Chain
Find And Fix Your Weakest Link
MAKE THE CHANGE THAT WOULD HAVE THE BIGGEST IMPACT
Your ability to succeed is like a chain
Your life is made up of a lot of various elements that come together to help define your overall ability to be successful in life – think of these individual elements as links in a chain:
Your habits – What you eat regularly, what you buy, when you go to bed, nervous habits (biting your nails)
Your processes – How you hire people, plan your day, manage your money, relationships, business
Your character traits – Your attitude, outlook about others, ego, level of confidence
Your skill level – Things you regularly do but could do better with some training or delegate to someone else
Your sources of influences – Your friends, their attitudes, and what they believe/talk about, or what you feed your mind regularly, and its tone/content
Your beliefs – Change is hard, failure is bad, etc.
The collection of links (elements) form a chain, the strength of which represents your overall ability to be successful successful
Not all links are equal, and it matters!
While all links in your chain are important, they’re not equally strong – there is currently one link in your chain that is weaker than the rest and prevents you from reaching your full potential
It’s also the one link that, if improved/fixed, would have the biggest impact on your overall ability to get significantly better results – more than any other link
The problem with strengthening our strong links
When we’re good and something, we tend to spend a considerable amount of time getting better at it, thinking that doing that will improve our overall results
This is like strengthening already strong links in our chain – it has very little impact on improving the overall strength of the chain (your ability to achieve success)
When weak links remain weak, the overall ability of the chain doesn’t improve
CHALLENGE/NEXT ACTIONS
Write down 3-5 things you think it could be your weakest link, then pick one – just one (don’t strive for perfection)
For the next 30 days, commit to improving that weak link consistently in small ways – Use Google to discover tips, ideas, strategies, and how to’s that will help
Once your weakest link is improved for an extended period of time, find the next weakest link and fix it
