Wisdom and Insights from Robert Cooper
The hard-wired brain craves coasting. Chrono-performance research shows how today’s top performers reject this tendency and act to reflectively reengineer their performance. Glance ahead and sense the clear difference.
Faith Shapes Our Destiny
Faith matters to highest human performance, yet it is uniquely and deeply personal. It can be religious or spiritual faith. It can be connected to specific holidays on the calendar, and it can also transcend that. Faith can evolve, deepen, and grow, transforming us along the way. It aligns with, and often encompasses, our deepest values and highest purpose.
Martin Luther King reminded us:
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Reflectively Reengineer Ways You Can Become an Ever-Greater Asset to Your Mission and Team
The greatest aspirations, responsibility, and honor come from being part of a team devoted to accomplishing the highest possible missions and goals. This fuels a deep intrinsic drive for each team member to be ever more indispensable to the team—rather than just centering on their own performance.
Here is one description of what a Tier One team values. Take a few minutes to ponder how you measure up to this—and what you could improve right away:
We are looking for a combination of toughness, heart, resourcefulness, ingenuity, adaptability, integrity, and relentless drive to be an ever-greater asset, never a liability, to the team. We must gauge a person’s selflessness, depth, drive, and true being.
Now, Elevate Your Reach Toward What is Possible
Top-performing teams embrace the commitment to plan and execute No-Fail Missions—On their top priorities and biggest goals, there is no Plan B.
The simple, neuroscience-based rationale is this: Having a smaller goal available enables the brain to hope for the best but increasingly be satisfied with performing small. Today’s top teams are always stretching forward and upward in their faith, commitment, learning, selflessness, and application, beyond “good” and “great” to the highest level of what is possible.
This is a perfect time of year for you to transcend the norm and go a little farther, carrying more than your share. What small, specific changes or adjustments will you make? And for your team? How can you ignite and incorporate more of this spirit into your life and work?
In The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Abraham Maslow wrote:
“To be ultimately at peace,
a person must keep becoming
all that he can potentially become.”
Commit again now.
Deeper and higher.
Earn it every day.
Never stop.
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Wisdom and Insights from Robert Cooper
