Setting Yourself Up To Win

We live in a world fixated with doing and productivity. I am BIG into getting stuff done but there is something that underpins it.

 

 

Start by answering 3 questions:

1 Preferred Environments: Where do you thrive?

2 Triggers: What engages and disengages you?

3 Intentions: Why are you pursuing this now?

 

Use these insights to create your protocol for setting yourself up to win in life and daily as you approach important tasks and projects.

 

You need to do some intentional preparation on the people bit as much as the task planning. Amidst the excitement and pressures of new projects, it’s easy to skip this crucial step, but the cost can be steep.

 

1 Mindset: Cultivate the outlook and state to give you the right energy and confidence.

 

2 Environment: Create enabling surroundings conducive to what you are doing.

 

3 Team: Identify, nurture and enlist your support tribe.

 

4 Plan: Think it through first – what does winning look and feel like?

 

5 Execution: Only then dive into the project.

 

Approach it like an explorer – constantly seeking habits, resources, helpers, and hacks to bolster your success. It’s about enabling and empowering yourself through creating optimal conditions.

 

Avoiding failure often lies in resisting the pressures and urge to jump into tasks hastily, doing this prep work and having the courage to pivot when necessary – and redo this prep work before you go again.

 

It is not just about what you do – it is also how it makes you feel more confident and impacts on how you approach everything.

 

This question guides my project planning project too. It goes:

 

1 IDENTIFY THE OPPORTUNITY AND ITS IMPACT: What problem are we seeking to solve?

 

2 DEFINE THE OUTCOME: What am I aiming for? How and when do I measure progress?

 

3 PERSONAL ALIGNMENT: Who do I need to be to achieve this? (A BIGGIE!)

 

4 COLLABORATION: Who can help me on this journey and how can we best utilise all our strengths? Who can we add? How do we work together to set ourselves up to win?

 

5 LEARNING: The people more than the process bit. What is our way? What about team orientation? Where are our feedback loops and reflection spaces?

 

5 MODELLING: Who has done this before & better that we can learn from? What are our vital few and what is potentially missing?

 

6 WOOP It: Wish, Outcome, Obstacles, Plan – think it all through, do your ‘what if’s …?’ and plan for the potential challenges.

 

7 PRIORITIES: What matters most right now, and what are the first steps? Think one brick at a time and start.