MM002 - Self-Assesment: Gut Check Time

Описание: One of the keys to success and achievement in any endeavor is self-assessment. Self-assessment is also one of the most difficult undertakings for humans, particularly in this day and age. Modern man is so ruled by emotion that honest, intellectual self-assessment can be difficult to do. This podcast is a Think On! Production.

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Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator & trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your Mindset, and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel. 

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Hello and welcome back to another edition of Morning Mindset. I am your host Paul Markel and thank you for joining me today. As we said at the outset, we’re going to attempt, with the Morning Mindset podcast, to do things that are, or discuss things that are positive and productive and proactive, so that it will benefit us in our lives. Whether it’s our business lives or our personal lives or our family lives.

Now today we’re going to discuss “Self-Assessment”, that’s right. It’s gut check time, and this is, quite frankly let’s be honest with ourselves, self-assessment is the most difficult thing we can do as humans. As adults, or children or men or women or what have you. Especially in this world we live in today. Today we live in a world where you’ve been told, or I don’t know how old you are. If you’re >30 y.o., you’ve probably been part of the “No Score Soccer”, everyone gets a trophy, “how do you feel about” things.

For at least 10 years, maybe more, maybe going on 15 or 20, there’s been this hard focus in our society about feelings. “How do you feel about that?”, “How does that make you feel?” The fact of the matter is, your feelings don’t really matter when it comes to performance, and when it comes to gut-check time, when it comes time for self-assessment, honest self-assessment, it’s difficult to do that in our modern world, because we’ve been taught for so long that facts, aren’t as important as feelings.

But if you want to learn, to advance, to improve in a skill, we need to engage in honest, no kidding self-assessment, and this is the biggest stumbling block that some people will find when it comes to mastery or advancement. I’ll give you a good example. Let us say that, well it’s the beginning of the year, at least it’s the beginning of the year as we’re releasing this, right? And what do many people do around new years.

Well, they make resolutions, and even if they don’t make formal resolutions, they tell themselves “Well, this year, during this new year, I’m going to Blank.” Now the most common one is health or fitness. Many people will say to themselves during the new year, in January ya know, “This year I’m going to lose weight. This year I’m going to get stronger. This year I’m going to exercise more, or I’m going to-” whatever. But let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that your new year's resolution and your goal is to lose weight.

That’s probably one of the biggest things people struggle with in the United States of America because, let’s face it. This is not the world that we lived in 200 years ago, where if you had food you were lucky. Or you had to work every single day to make sure there was food on the table, and there was food in the house. Today in America, or wherever, in the world quite frankly. Unless you live in places like Africa and South America maybe, but getting food on the table is not that difficult of a task. Very few people are legitimately starving or hungry in America. Matter of fact, it’s generally the opposite, people consume so much food that they get lethargic, and large, and overweight and so forth.

 So that’s probably one of the hottest topics around the new year. Well when it comes to honest self-assessment, let’s say you’ve decided that “Yes, I am going to lose Blank.” You know, whatever, 10 lb, 20 lb, 30 lb. Now part of the self-assessment is to look at yourself and say what do I really need to do? You know, am I 5’10 and I weigh 262 lb, or am I 5’4 and I weigh 262 lb, and you say I need to lose, whatever. Well if your goal is to lose 20 lb, part of your self-assessment is am I gonna be able to do that and how am I gonna be able do that?

Many people, what they’ll do, they’ll fail in their new year’s resolutions or goals, because why? Because they make the resolution, they set the resolution, they set the goal, at least in their minds, and they start out but they have no real, genuine self-assessment. There’s no gut check that went on there. You say “Okay, I’m...