138: How to Achieve Important Results - a podcast by Jason W. Womack MEd, MA

A dear friend of ours just moved away from Ojai, and on a run we took together along the river here in Ojai a week ago, I asked, "How do you achieve on important goals?" Over the next 5 miles, we circled around that topic. One of the comments that I remember from the conversation was, "Is the goal believable?"

It got me thinking; I mean, what exactly does believable mean? You see, in this week's GET MOMENTUM Ojai Winter Leadership Retreat (getmomentum.co/retreat) we are talking about a very important aspect of human performance and professional productivity: Expanding the comfort zone.

Are you going to watch any of the Olympics starting today? If so, you will see athlete after athlete who has spent a lifetime expanding their comfort zone. Fortunately for us, we can do this to a lesser degree than the physical effort they all put in; we can do it with our minds and step in to bigger visions of ourselves, achieving bigger and more important goals. In today's podcast, you'll learn THREE ways to achieve on your important results.

1. Suspend Belief
2. Act As If
3. Ask, "How could this happen?"

I talk about a book I read (and have since re-read and talked about in almost every seminar) called, "Don't Shoot the Dog." (See page two of these recommendations: bookswerecommend.com). The entire book is about how to shape/guide behavior so that more of what you want to have happen…happens. The quote I read in this podcast is one that has stuck with me since I was a high school teacher in 1997!

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Links to resources in podcast:
GET MOMENTUM monthly coaching: www.GetMomentum.co/get-momentum
GET MOMENTUM Ojai Winter Leadership Retreat: www.GetMomentum.co/retreat
Book: Don't Shoot the Dog, by Karen Pryor: http://astore.amazon.com/wwwjasonwomac-20/detail/0553380397
Podcast: http://www.wmck.co/thebetterpodcast

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