You can name your revenue target. Can you name who you actually want in your corner while you chase it?
Most high-achieving leaders never stop to answer that question. They accumulate relationships along the way instead of choosing them, and they never ask what growth even looks like for them right now.
This short breaks down two questions that shape the character you’re becoming on your way to success, not just the outcome you’re chasing.
Transcription:
They could not describe success at all. So it’s going to bloo- What type of people… Here’s another question: what type of people do you actually wanna work around?
I’ll give you a hint. You wanna work around people that are also striving towards their success, ’cause it’s contagious. You probably wanna be around people that are inspiring. You probably wanna be around people that give a damn if you’re successful or not, and who are investing a little bit in you because you’re investing a little bit in them.
That, those relationships are amazing. So that’s another key question. Another thing I hear from unconventional leaders is that they haven’t, that they got lost in the process of striving for success which they defined 10, 20, 30, I had one recently, 40 years ago, and they forgot to… They’re, th- th- they’re used to making the business plans.
They’re used to setting some goals for the business. They forgot about themselves intrinsically, some goals, what success would look like externally, what success would look like in their life. And it shifts and changes as we grow, as we add new elements, as elements leave our life. It changes, and so it needs to be addressed, I say every three to five years.
It’s a wonderful thing to explore more. Another question, um, what do you want the relationships you are building on your way to success to feel like and to look like? You gotta think about that because that plays into the character of who you are as you’re building, and that’s a key aspect of understanding your success that is not talked about, and understanding what you’re striving for.
You’re also striving to be that person when you arrive there, and I promise you, it doesn’t just miraculously happen overnight. The process, the journey of getting there is actually how you arrive there. But you– And you need to be thinking about the character of the person you’re, you’re moving into, that you want to be.
So that also plays… How– wh- who are you in those relationships? How are you participating in the relationships in your life, in the relationships you’re building on your way to success? Another question I wanna ask that’s really important in this topic: What does growth look like for you? So often when I’m talking with people, I’m like, “So what are you growing?
What are you working on? What are you learning about right now? What are you exploring?