Review The Wins You Have Each Week
24. Review the wins you have each week.
As we play the game of life, we will have wins and losses. We must first accept that both exist and will occur. You will have things you did right and things you did wrong. What we are trying to do during the game is to have more wins than losses. In using this logic, we think of wins and losses as two sides to a scale or a balance sheet. This thinking is flawed when evaluating success.
This Tool works by giving added weight to wins and devaluing losses to the realm of redirection. For the sake of this Tool, let’s simply say each win is a step forward and each loss is a step sideways. What I want you to do is look at wins as positive and losses as neutral. Now I understand that some losses can be bigger than others. I also understand some major losses can be larger setbacks in our crusade towards success. For now just humor me in my endeavor to make a point. The point, you are doing a lot right and you don’t even know it.
For many of you this should be one of the first Tools you choose to install in your blueprint. Reason, identifying wins accomplishes many things. The first being you may not even realize that you are doing things right. When we focus on all the shortcomings we have, we only work on shortcomings. When we accentuate and celebrate the things we are doing right, we strengthen those things that are working. We need to give more power to wins and use losses as ways to refocus. You first need to know you can run to know you can run a mile. In the same respect, you need to see that you are doing things right to know you can do other things right. The only way you can know this is to celebrate the “right.”
This Tool is used by forcing you to change your assessment of how the week went; meaning instead of dwelling on negatives, celebrate positives. You will find this hard to do at first. The negatives are easy because they cause pain and we have come to accept them and expect them. We need to retrain our mind to look for wins and expect them to happen. By doing so, we open the door for more wins and allow them to happen.
Also, when we identify wins for the week, we increase the probability they will continue, thus increasing the likelihood of them becoming habit. Simply list all the wins you have each week. Don’t worry about how big, small or obscure. The point is to enforce the direction of wins and successes. By doing more to pave the road towards success, you will open the door for additional achievements. Knowing you can accomplish will allow you to accomplish.