Personal Perspective #1: Commit to “Self-Mastery”
Gary Keller curated a list of The 6 Personal Perspectives needed to excel in any area of life. Dive into the meaning & significance of each, and how they can transform your personal & professional pursuits from the inside out.
I've been fortunate to have a handful of great mentors who have made a focused, multi-decade effort into studying people and operations that succeed, and hunting for what the real key success factors were.
Ultimately, they were honing in on the question, what's the difference that makes the difference?
The really good news is that they found what differentiates high achievers isn’t their natural capability or talent, it isn’t the perfect opportunity given at the right time, or some supernatural luck… it is their mindset, it is a certain set of attitudes and beliefs that inform and direct how they approach their goals. A high achieving mindset is characterized as being…
strong,
focused,
positively-oriented,
and resilient.
Your mindset is much deeper than the physical body. Your mindset has to do with your spirit. It has to do with what drives you. It's the whole being of who you are.
The beauty is that when you really step back and take a look at it, life comes from the inside out. That is why a shift in mindset can be so impactful and transformative. How you're operating internally will ultimately determine what you experience externally. So, if you want to work on transforming something, the first place you go to transform it, is in your inner being.
A powerful example of this is found in the writings and teachings of Victor Frankl. He was a survivor of the Holocaust and wrote a book on his experiences titled, Man’s Search for Meaning. It is one of the most epic books around mindset that has ever been written.
The book details Frankl’s inner world as he struggled to survive in a concentration camp. In the midst of unimaginable horror, he personally committed himself to the idea that the people who persecuted him were not going to rob him of his soul. They could take everything else from him. He had absolutely no physical power to stop them. They could take his dignity, his comfort, his time, his life even… but they could not take his soul.
That is the commitment he made, and it is a commitment we would all be well-served to honor and uphold within our own inner being. It is best stated in his own words…
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” - Victor Frankl
Now the question becomes, how does this relate to Perspective #1, which is this idea of “self-mastery”.
Well, if you want to master anything it begins with the self first and foremost. Good luck mastering something when you have not yet mastered yourself. The commitment to “self-mastery” is foundational to everything else, and it begins when you can regulate your inner being despite external circumstances.
-Joe
Joe Arroyo is the expert on recruiting, selecting, training, and retaining world-class talent. As CEO of Vision Architect and Convert, him & his team have been "building business by building people” since 2001.
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