CONTROL is an acronym for the instruction to, “Critique oneself nicely to repair occasional lapses.” Moving toward Greatness! requires power and focus as you practice applying some of all the types of your life’s precious resources to a chosen task persistently. Quality control is important to promoting practically perfect performance. Nonetheless, the critique that follows any quality control data gathering, requires kindness in order to achieve that Greatness!
Both the sub-atomic and global elements of life all spin in a very coordinated manner. Promoting Greatness! in your life involves interfering with and overcoming the status quo that is holding you back. Interfering with the spin of things in your life can and usually will have consequences.
Whether those consequences will be positive or negative depends on how well you practice your plan. Almost no one, however, achieve Greatness! the first time they are POWERing with FOCUS. Greatness! takes persistence, the 6th P of the P10 Principle. And, whether you can continue to persist depends a lot on how you critique your self.
Controlling the spin of the objects in your life involves putting at least some of all the types of your resources to work on those objects in the right way at the right time. That is to say you must intelligently focus your power in order achieve the most effective and efficient results.
Apply the P10 Principle notwithstanding, people almost never hit a line drive home run their first time at bat. Therefore, you have to constantly monitor your inputs and outputs as you are practicing persistently your practically perfect performance and then tweak it to improve your effectiveness and efficiency along the way.
Where many people go wrong with self-critique, however, is being way too hard on themselves for not bringing a new goal in on time, under budget, and right the first time around. If they don’t get it absolutely, positively perfectly done from the outset, then they call the project, and, often worse, themselves a complete failure and then abandon the task in toto.
In life, just as it is in sports, control is a conceptual technique that can be both taught and learned. No matter how much you are didactically taught or learn about it, however, mastering control requires practice and persistence. This is so because the life-owning techniques required for any particular situation vary with the facts and circumstances life presents you and knowing what to do in any particular situation requires experience, which is not something that can be taught by reading a book alone.
Greatness! requires experience, which I define as breaking stuff and then having to fix it. While you are gaining the experience you need in order to be Great! All the time!, practice quality control by constantly assessing how you are doing and how you are doing it. While you are assessing, however, critique yourself nicely and only for the constructive purpose of repairing the occasional lapses that have kept you from being as Great! as you possibly can be.
Exercise proper control. Critique oneself nicely to repair occasional lapses.
In Part 4 of the 4 Factors of Greatness!, we will discuss BALANCE.
In the meantime, you GOTTABGATT! so go out there today and be Great! All the time!
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