What Gets More of your Attention?

Are you only focused on building off of your wins?

I started playing golf again this past year after years of letting my clubs collect dust.

One of the things about golf that I love (and simultaneously frustrates you to no end) is that you'll hit terrible shot after terrible shot, think you can never be good at the sport...

.. and then you hit a beauty of a shot, straight down the fairway.

It's the best feeling and one that will trick you into thinking you can play this game really well if you put more time and effort into it.

Many of us if we're honest, only focus on?that one great shot?when the game is done.

We try to forget the ten balls we launched into the water hazard, or the three we lost in the brush.

Our "makes" - those shots that we hit perfectly - make us feel good and stroke the ego.

But the misses??Those are where we actually get better.

It's only by taking the time to understand why we sliced a shot or why our ball went that way instead of this way that we're able to improve our golf game.

Life works the same way.

We often only focus on what we're doing well and try to brush our mistakes under the rug to forget them instead of?taking the time to review and learn from them.

We focus on the one good lift we had in the gym instead of the failed one prior and?why?we failed on it.

We brag about the one sale we closed instead of dissecting the five sales calls that we got rejected.

There is a time and place to celebrate wins, but our opportunity for growth - and?bigger future wins?- are found in our misses, not our "makes."

One exercise that could turn 2022 from "just another year" into the "year that changed everything" is spending just a few minutes after each "miss"...

• trying to pick up a date
• trying to sell that software
• trying to hit that lift

... to better understand?why?you missed so that you can learn from it.

It does us no good to go from miss to miss to miss to eventual "make" unless we learn?how?we got to that "make" and how to avoid future?misses.

Anyone can focus on their wins.

Champions dive into the?why?of their losses so they can get better.

Do the same this year.

Thank you for reading! I help companies build better cultures & leaders by helping their teams forge winning habits & daily processes.

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