Mental Strength Tip #111: Process vs. Results

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Exceeding your human potential, achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals starts with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual personal coaching and mental strength tips to help kick-start your week.  It is intended to create self-empowerment and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one mental strength tips and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct coaching questions.  The intention of this virtual personal coaching session is for you to write and answer these questions in your success journal and then reflect on them to gain insight on yourself, your dreams and what’s holding you back.

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To help you understand the value of execution and process goals and focusing on what you can control.

Let’s Get Started:

We take action for results and results are important. But focusing on things outside your control will drain your mental strength and can be demotivating.  Focusing on your execution…your actions and the results will take care of themselves.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• Do you believe focusing on execution creates momentum?
• Do you believe it makes a difference in your personal performance by focusing on execution instead of results?
• Since results are the bottom line, is it naive to focus on the process, i.e. execution?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Execution

• Activities don’t matter.  Results are all that counts.
• Focusing on execution deludes people into believing they’re closer to their personal goals then they actually are.
• It doesn’t make any difference if you focus on execution or results.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Execution

• Focusing on execution puts me in control.
• Focus creates activity, and activity builds skills and belief.
• Activity creates momentum and raises my personal rate of vibration.

Outrageous Questions:

• Explain the purpose of using units of mental strength on results you can’t control?
• When it comes to execution, in regards to your personal goals, would you consider yourself OK, good or great?
• When it comes to getting results, in regards to your personal success, would you consider yourself OK, good or great?

Reflective Questions:

• What would you have to let go of in order to become more process (execution) focused?
• What would you have to do more to become more process focused?
• What beliefs would you have to enhance to become more process focused?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Keep in mind that as you begin to shift your perspective from results to process you will be up against years and years of limiting beliefs and programming.   Keep at it, have faith and when you focus on your process the results will take care of themselves.

Final Thought

To help with focusing on process goals process based goals are best when you are taking on a new goal in an area where you aren’t already skilled or experienced.

Think of process-based goals as habits or activities.  Ultimately, you expect those habits to lead to outcomes but initially your goal should be simply to develop the habit itself!  Once you have the habit down, that’s when you’ll turn your focus to the outcomes those habits are intended to produce.

Let’s take a common one:  getting into shape. When you are just starting out, you simply need to get into the habit of eating better and exercising more.

An example goal could be, “For the next three months, I am going to get to the gym three times a week for at least 45 minutes each time, and I’m going to do these types of exercises: x, y, z.  Additionally, I will eliminate all beer and twinkies from my diet.”

It’s still measureable and time-bound.  But notice there is no specified outcome – no amount of fat lost or muscle gained, even thought that’s really your long-term goal – to lose fat and/or gain muscle.

Or let’s say you are trying to learn how to do computer programming.  If you know nothing about how to do it, you can’t possibly set up a realistic outcome goal.  Initially, you need to set up some process-based goals.  For example, spending a certain amount of time a week working on examples in a guidebook.  You can’t even set up an outcome goal about when to finish the book because you have no idea how long it will take!  You’re too new to the subject matter.  And as you know, all good goals have a time-based component.

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