One of your biggest strengths as a high achiever is that you love WINNING.
Your drive to succeed is inspiring. And the sacrifices you are willing to make to win is humbling.
But as a coach to high achievers, here’s something I know about you – your biggest STRENGTHS also lead to your biggest STRUGGLES…
As much as you love WINNING, you secretly never taste the full satisfaction and joy from that victory.
Even though from the outside, it looks like you’ve done remarkable things, you don’t feel a true sense of accomplishment.
I was recently coaching an entrepreneur who had a record-breaking month in sales – his company just made more money last month than in an entire quarter of the previous year.
And another who had just signed a contract for a major book deal – her lifelong dream.
In both instances, they celebrated their BIG WIN – but for just a few minutes.
Soon after, the TASTE of their recent victory had been overtaken by their THIRST of a bigger goal.
There’s nothing wrong with this. In fact, it’s this drive and mindset that makes them high achiever in the first place.
But here’s the real problem – No amount of successes will make them feel happy about their current progress, TODAY. Because in their IDEAL FUTURE, there’s always something bigger and bolder to achieve and get done.
How do I know this is true? Because, as a high achiever, I struggled with this too. And I still fall into this trap from time to time.
Psychologists call this Hedonic Adaptation. Where we humans quickly adapt to our “new normal, even when that new normal is very different from what our life used to be.
And as high achievers, once we get fixated on that new goal, we fail to see every other progress that has been made around us. Psychologists call this Inattentional Blindness.
So how do you coach high achievers to not just WIN but to also feel HAPPY about their successes every single day?
In this newsletter, I share the 1 mindset shift and 3 simple habits that enable you to do this masterfully as their coach.
Everything starts with this critical realization:
It’s not the QUANTITY of your client’s goals or the QUALITY of their achievements that creates this sense of dissatisfaction. It’s how they MEASURE their own PROGRESS.
There are only 2 ways to measure your progress: