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Cracking the Codes to Success! | 3 Step Benchmarking Strategy!

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Channel: Zerofatzreturns · 2015 · Howto & Style

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I'm a red-headed dude with freckles and a weird name...

I'm a red-headed dude with freckles and a weird name.  I grew up a poor kid who wore thrift store clothes and Pro Wing 500's.  Do you think I got picked on when I was in school?

lol.

So I started out with very low self-confidence in school.  As things went on and life shit on me a few times I started to figure out that I must rise up and love myself, in spite of how I was treated by others.  As a result of my circumstance, I became "over-confident."

A survival mechanism you might say.  I don't regret it.  I'd rather be over-confident than under-confident.  All that being said though, it's still very dumb.

Having confidence is great and it can serve you well.  Having over-confidence is the equivalent of being blind and is stupid.

I didn't just start out knowing myself this well.  Generally, people don't just inherently "know" their weaknesses.  Not their real weaknesses anyway.  It's hard to be honest with yourself about it and besides, your brain can fool you sometimes.

I use a form a benchmarking to understand myself better and to move forward in life to better places.   I want to show you guys my three step strategy to benchmarking to get ahead.

The 3 Step Strategy to Benchmarking for Success

Step 1.  Set your goal, with a date.

Now don't zone out.  I fully realize you have heard this step before.  Just do it.   The goal could be 1 million dollars in a year.  It could be the ability to quit your job in 60 days.  

Whatever the first step is make sure it is definitive and there is a time limit attached to it.  For this exercise I recommend setting a short term goal like something a month out so that you can measure your results quickly.  Make it as outlandish and awesome as you like.  What would the "perfect" incarnation of you be able to do in a month?

 SO step 1 is to write down your goal with a date for completion attached to it.


Step 2.  Be Honest...What Do You Expect Will Happen?

Okay, the next step is to be honest with yourself and write down what you truly think you can achieve when you hit that date.

For example, if I say my goal is 1 million dollars in a year, then right below that I want to write down what I expect will happen within that year as far as my financial expectations.  Realistically, I might say, "Okay I want to make a million, I can see myself making $60,000 though.  I can see that.   I see it because I am already making 40k so it seems if I do this and adjust that, then I could realistically bump it up 20k.

So that mental belief I have, where I can visually see the path to 60k, that becomes my benchmark.  In other words, it becomes something that I can measure my progress by.

It actually will do something more than that.  It will actually tell me about myself once I know what I will really hit as far as my goals are concerned.  That won't be figured out until after the third step though.

I need to know for sure to have that data.

So step 2 is to be honest with yourself and write down what you think you can do, as far as it relates to your goal.  How close do you believe you can get to that goal?  Write it down.


Step 3.  Let it rip.

The final step is to execute.  You know your goal, you know what you THINK you can do...now you need to GO!  You need to see what you can ACTUALLY do.  

I don't want you to think about this in terms of success and failure.  I want you to do your best and think about it in terms of data collection.  You are doing your best on this but there is NO FAIL.

Whatever your results you are going to measure it compared to what you THOUGHT you were going to do.

Is what you THOUGHT you were going to do alot more than what you did?

Maybe you are like me and suffer from over-confidence.

Is what you did actually alot MORE than what you thought you were going to do?

Maybe you underestimate yourself.


Both of those things will hurt you.


The thing is if you know you do it...then you can adjust and fix it.  It is very powerful to truly know yourself. 

I am over-confident and it is most assuredly hurting my business.  How can I adjust?  Stop thinking that I am good, and work harder in areas of networking and creating better products.  Stop being complacent and just doing what I have BEEN doing and start really thinking how to get better...because regardless of what I think...

I'm not good enough.


What about you guys?




That's all I got, I'll see you in the next one!


Kam J (aka ZeroFatz)

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