Disrupt Mediocrity: Your 2025 Gameboarding? Intent

Imagine it’s December 31st, 2025.

What are the BIG Results you created?

Envision the career-defining successes you've orchestrated.

All across America, and across the globe, winners are tapping their intent.

The also-rans are getting on the hamster wheel and working hard,

?but without the power of intent, without the exercise to create their future.

Intent transcends mere goal setting.

Intent connects the dots and is foundational.

Intent isn’t incremental.

Intent creates, it doesn’t compromise.

You can’t start with compromise and expect breakthroughs

Compromise is for also-rans.?

You may survive but you won’t thrive.

There's always time for compromise, but not today.?

Declare your intent—first to yourself, then to those who support you, and to your team.

In a world rife with uncertainty, mediocrity is not an option. You weren’t born to be mediocre.

At 74, I have conversations with elders who either quietly or with others

answer the question beyond- how’s it going? – instead, they take stock of their life,

“How was your life?”?

Mediocre was never the answer by a person who feels fulfilled.

Or the person who goes for it, builds momentum and movement.

Fulfillment is the real measure of success.

Intent drives you to reach for more—to become an Impact Player, to achieve beyond the ordinary. Your brain's neurochemicals, like dopamine, crave this expansion.

You're destined for more. But what kind of "more"?

I recommend focusing on three areas:

1. Mastery
2. Meaning
3. Money

They all can work together with your Intent.

Your consciousness wins the game at the level of intent.

Simple 2025 exercise:

1. Reflect on 2024:?

Identify what you aimed to achieve this year and where you fell short.?

Consider all areas: financial, relational, familial, professional, recreation

2. Set Your 2025 Intent:?

By December 31, 2025, what do you intend to have accomplished??

Define clear metrics for mastery, meaning, and money.?

Consider the leadership impact you achieved, the products your team will have developed, the results accomplished, the quality of your relationships, the barriers you've broken, and the fun things you’ve done.

Now make a fundamental decision, your intent to create a difference that makes a difference.

A fundamental decision to achieve your intent is not a nice to have.?

It’s at the fundamental level of your soul, of your consciousness.?

This is not about working harder or stressing yourself out!

Pick what is fulfilling and meaningful. It’s not either money or meaning. It’s both/and.?

Money and mastery and meaning.?

Instead of starting with what you know you can do, and backing down from there,

begin with the outcome you want to create in mind. This is about creating, not settling.

You can figure out how after you know what you are after.

Now let’s build momentum.

3. Build a Momentum Map:

December 31, 2025: Visualize what you’ve achieved.

September 30, 2025: Identify what needs to be in place.

June 30, 2025: Specify accomplishments necessary by this date.

March 31, 2025: Outline prerequisites for this point in time.

Today: Compare current realities to your vision.?

Make sure what you intend to bring into the world by December that there is a beginning place in relation to that objective in January. So state the truth, the reality of where you currently are in relation to where you want to be.?

As you look into the future consider the resources, skills, people, processes, and decisions must be available at each point, each calendar period to fulfill your intent?

This should create tension between where you are and where you want to be.

If there is no tension, there will be no creation. Period.

Tension seeks resolution.

The leaders' job is not to get rid of tension, it’s to create constructive tension.

Once you know what would be fulfilling, set your brain on resolving the uncertainty.

What foundational steps will you take this week?

You now have set yourself up for success. You have a momentum map.

Need guidance setting up your 2025 Gameboard and Momentum Map? Let's talk. It's game on.

About Steven Feinberg, PhD

Steven Feinberg, PhD., is a distinguished Neurostrategist, Executive Coach, and High Performance Team Builder, renowned for enhancing the capabilities of some of America's sharpest and smartest brains and businesses. His current work is on Mastering Your Game: unlocking the hidden game of patterns to excel. With an extensive portfolio of work with CEOs, senior executives, and business founders, he has contributed to the success of organizations ranging from billion-dollar Corporate 500s to vibrant entrepreneurial startups, including notable brands such as Apple, Nvidia, Google, Oracle, LinkedIn, Wells Fargo, and Xero, ranked the Number 1 innovation startup.

For over three decades, Dr. Feinberg also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco School of Management. Steven guest lectured at prestigious institutions like Stanford and Cal Poly. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Amazon bestsellers, "The Advantage-Makers” and "Do What Others Say Can’t Be Done: Play The Meta-Game”

With more than 40 years of direct experience in high-pressure, high-stakes business environments. Dr. Feinberg specializes in Mastering Your Game, to excel by transforming uncertainty into opportunities for high-velocity advancement, achieving remarkable impact for both individuals and teams.