This week we are continuing to celebrate the one year anniversary of our book, Splash!: Increase Your Life’s Impact. As a part of the celebration, we have released our book as a Kindle eBook. You can check it out here. Today I am highlighting another mindset from our book called, Results Oriented.
Our book states the mindset this way:
Old thinking: “I plan for activities, and hope I see some results.”
New thinking: “I plan for results, and tweak the activities until I get the results I want.”
In order to be as effective as possible in our calling, we must be very clear on the results we are trying to achieve. It’s easy to get caught up in doing “stuff” because those things seem like good ideas at the time. But the activities we do for our calling should be determined by the specific results we are working toward. After any activity, we should evaluate its results and modify any future activities until we get the results we want.
I included this mindset because we see a lot of us focusing on activities. We have a BBQ just for the sake of having a BBQ. We give to a charity just for the sake of giving to the charity. We have a block party just for the sake of the movie we wanted to watch.
None of this is wrong exactly. We just end up going from activity to activity. If we get some results from the activities that we like, it’s a bonus. And if we don’t get the results we wanted, well, then the activity didn’t work the way we wanted. We go from activity to activity, and the results are left up to chance.
Instead, when we are results oriented, there is a clear purpose behind our activities. If one activity doesn’t produce the result we want, then we try something else, and we keep trying until we produce the result we want.
Sitting behind a results oriented mindset is a clear sense of purpose. We aren’t just wandering through life chasing the next “shiny thing” – whatever that is for you. We, instead, hold a clear purpose and act with intentionality.
Do you know the purpose of your life? If so, share it with us.
