Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

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CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
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performance in each of these key result areas. Where are you strong?
Where are you weak? Be honest.
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SET STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE
If you want to lose weight, the first thing you do is weigh yourself.
If you want to improve in any area, you first measure how well
you are doing in that area today, and then use that as a 
baseline
for improvement.
Once you have determined the results that you absolutely, posi-
tively have to get to perform at your best in a particular aspect area
of your life or work, you then give yourself a score of 1 to 10 in each
key result area, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.
You must be at a 7 level or above in each area to do your overall job
in an excellent fashion. Wherever you are scoring 7 or below, you
must set a goal to improve in that area.
Always start your program of personal improvement where you
can get the greatest result the 
fastest
.This will invariably be in the key
result area where you are the weakest. Identify your lowest-scoring
KRA and then make a plan to improve in this skill area as quickly as
possible. Simultaneously, you develop a plan to gradually improve in
each other area where you are weak.
Every step you take toward improving yourself in one of your
key result areas will improve your results in your job. The better
you get at your job, the more you will like and respect yourself.
The more you like and respect yourself, the better you will feel,
and the more energy and enthusiasm you will have. You will soon
become unstoppable.
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