Many people get less done in their lives than they really can, simply because they flounder about, lost in their forests, unable to achieve much, because they see no way to use all the trees around them. Any discussion of Greatness! would be quite useless if there was no good way to attain that Greatness! It would be patently unfair to reveal to you a superior level of existence and then fail to show you how to get there.
The definition of Greatness!, however, contains the manner and means of achieving it, namely the P10 Principle, which is a practically perfect method to use to own your life and be Great! All the time!
Like many of us, before I started using the P10 Principle, I was bobbing along, singing a song, but not really getting anywhere, because I wasn’t developing and executing a plan for my life. Then I started studying how to succeed and developed the P10 Principle based, among other things, on William Edwards Deming’s and Peter Drucker’s management theories.
The P10 Principle, the best method I have found for figuring out what you should be doing with your life and how you can succeed in doing it, can be applied by anyone and everyone to find peace and satisfaction in their lives.
The P10 Principle states “proaction, perception, planning, preparation, practice, and persistence promote practically perfect performance.”
Each one of the P’s is important. Leaving any one of them out of the system will adversely affect your ability to achieve your value-based vision and mission in life, to fully and completely own your life, and to be Great! All the time! The best way to learn the P10 Principle is to work through each P in order. When it comes to actually using the P10 Principle, you will be pleased to find out there are only 7 steps to the P10 Principle and each P gets easier to do as you progress through them.
- Making the internal change necessary to proactively live your life is the most difficult P to do.
- Perceiving exactly how you want to live your life, how you are currently living it, and the resources you have to make the jump from where you are to where you want to be is the next most difficult.
- Planning how to do what you have decided you want to do and can do is a bit easier than figuring all those things out.
- By the time you get to the preparation step, the details of getting ready to do your life’s work begins to take care of itself.
- If you have done all the prior P’s correctly, practicing what you have perceived, planned, and prepared is a natural extension of the process.
- Assuming all your prior proaction, perception, planning, and preparation have been properly done, being persistent will be much easier for you than it ever has been before.
- Once you have correctly done all of your proaction, perception, planning, preparation, practice, and persistence, promoting your practically perfect performance of your life is the easiest P of all.
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Never forget, you GOTTABGATT!, so go out there today and be Great! All the time!