What’s it take to be Your Best? 4 Keys to the Door of Greater Wisdom

by Larry Cockerel
Professional Member

Better than good is the objective. This message is about what it takes to be your very best, whether you’re a Professional Speaker, new and up-coming Speaker or a Client focused Meeting Planning Professional. If you’re reading this piece and you’re neither of the above mentioned titles, this could be for you just as well.

What does it take? Four simple key motivators, these four motivators are easy to kick into action. Sometimes it’s the simple things that are holding us back from being our very best. As my readers know, your best is all that you can give, as long as you are giving 100% of your very best effort and attitude at every task, request, process and relationship.

Let’s get moving with these four simple key disciplines that you can simply do to be your very best. Simple is the key, decision management is the action required.

Passionate Activation: This is a test, stop right now, grab a blank piece of paper and write down three things that you are truly passionate about. At one time in our life we all started out as a blank piece of paper, and as we developed and connected with others our blank piece of paper became the beginning of the story of our life. Each page, each chapter, others have added value, and throughout the years we have grown passionate about things that drive our motivation and inspiration that dictates who we are, and what and why we do what we do.

Passion is the key, passion helps us to care, give and be our best. Having passion about your profession allows you to share your enthusiasm with others. Passion ignites your inspiration to succeed in your profession. Passion helps you to listen to others so that you can give them your very best. Passion makes your motives global and not singular. Passion is the main key to being your best at all things you do. Your passion towards helping others is why you do what you do. It’s not all about the money, “Make your passion greater than your monetary rewards” your first key, to the door of greater wisdom.

Skill Acknowledgement: We all have goals, dreams and things that we want to do and accomplish in life. We also have certain skills that we are excellent at and others that we are so-so at, if you know what I mean. Our goals must be tied to our skills to be at our very best with the job at hand. What skills are you excellent at? Write them out and beside each one, describe why you are excellent at that skill and how you can expand on these assets. What must happen for you to get even better at the skills you have acknowledged as high value skills?

Wisdom Note: You don’t get ahead by doing the things that you aren’t the best at, but you do get ahead when you do the things that you do best. Make your mission to do whatever it takes to enhance your strengths and learn to manage your weakness, we all have them, and both are great assets. Second key to the door to greater wisdom; “Make your skills match your goals and vision.”

Decision Management: Decision Making is over-rated and “Decision Management” is under-rated. Yes that’s right, decision making is way over-rated. Examples; New Years Resolutions, Weight Management Decisions, kicking the smoking habit, I can go on and on for days. I’ve spent much time looking into my own mirror and have found that the enemy in my life is me. We all make decisions every day, up to 2500 decisions daily, and the quality of those decisions effect the quality of our life.

The ability to evaluate your decision making process, and make less decisions daily, can allow you to be much clearer and focused to the outcomes.. Making good decisions is great, but more important is learning to manage those decisions and evaluate your results daily. Third key to the door of greater wisdom; “Make your decision management greater than just making decisions.”

Life Management: Time Management is over-rated, and “Life Management” is under-rated. What do I mean with this aggressive statement you’re thinking? Everyday we hear “Time Management”, “We must manage our time better” can we really manage the time that we have? We all have the same amount of time every second of every hour each and everyday. We can get good at managing the things we do with the time that we have, but time is not ours to manage but to cherish. We can manage our life within the time clock of our day. We can get better at the things we do when we learn to not be so focused to trying to manage time as much as managing the decisions that we do with our time.

Life Management is about living life to our best possible level of excellence with the time that we are given. Not so much trying to manage the minutes or hours but managing the decisions that we make with our personal and professional life. Fourth and final key to the door of greater wisdom; “Make your life management your life time mission.”

The expert on “Aggressively Living Life”
Larry Cockerel