How the First Stages of High Performance comes From Your Imagination
Like a key to a car, everything starts with a thought but after that there must come action to move in the right direction
The more you expect to succeed at something the more it increases the likelihood that you’ll succeed.
And that relates to everything.
Because psychology is a study of the mind.
And the mind can lead you to wherever you want to go. It can bring you down but it can elevate you to higher levels of performance in whatever field you aim to achieve.
For when you want to achieve something you have to put yourself in the driver’s seat to take control of it. But of course, you may not have the keys to the car or even have fuel in it to be able to drive it forward but at least you’re sitting in the driver’s seat. To push yourself forward you initially need to put yourself in the position of achievement.
Until someone sees you in the control position they are not going to presume you want that control and power to move forward.
For it takes hours, weeks, months, and even years to perform at the highest level.
You may think that you want to be a high performer but thinking it and doing it are two very different things.
The old saying that a person spent:
“blood, sweat, and tears”
To achieve something is very true in most cases.
Because once you start something in a new field whether you’re young or old, you’re starting at the bottom of the pack. There’ll be experts in that field and you won’t be one of them. Sure you may have the ability to be an expert but until you start working in the field and learning what it takes to improve you will not even be respected in it.
And even when you do begin to compete at the top table for the area that you’re in there will be leaders at that table.
And getting to their level of performance takes a higher effort altogether. That’s when you’re talking about separating those that are good at something from being truly great at it.
Yet that’s only at that point in time.
Because whatever you are performing at will have had others perform at the highest level before you ever came into the industry. So even though you think you’ve made it to the top, you’ll then be compared to others that have come before you and made the highest level before you even tried to.
There’ll always be competition in higher performance so you need to grasp a learning process.
For example, remember back to when you were very small and learned how to write. Even though you now accept writing as being a basic skill for the vast majority of adults, you still had to go through a process of learning to get that initial experience.
When you first learned how to write as a child you were more than likely first thought how to hold a pencil.
Before you walk you need to stand. And before writing, you needed to understand that holding a pencil properly was vital for beginning to write your first words. And before words were written you needed to figure out how to write letters.
Writing demands movement from a different part of your brain than when you compose the words in the first place.
So the actual process of writing needs to be learned in stages. And your brain needs to be patient and learn one stage at a time. But once you’ve learned each stage that’s when you can use another stage with it and learn how to compose and then write the words that you intend to write.
And when eventually you understand the mechanics of writing you then have to learn to think about what you’re going to write about.
Even then when you decide that you have to structure the topic carefully so that others will be able to see what’s the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Because writing something is no good unless there’s a reader of what you create. So you have to think of others when you are writing.
It’s the same with everything you do.
If you don’t think of others you’ll never know your competition.
You will only be considered the best if you master your skill or performance level. And the level is dictated by those that are attempting to perform against you too.
Yet writing your future is not the only way of beginning to create it. You can draw it out too. Sure, from there you may become an artist if that’s what you intended to do in the first place. But it’s not the only career that your writing or drawing will guide you to.
Because you can use your words and your imagery to guide you to other levels too. And what’s far more important than the words or the pictures is when you are using your imagination to create what is on the page. When you create you can be the viewer of your work and from there use it as your mind’s plan to begin to perform at the highest level of where you want to go in life.
So dream it, create it, and keep on doing it until you get to where you want to go.
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