🥊 Mentorship Minute: How to Find Beast Mode

✅ Join Us In The Virtual Python Community ➡️➡️  https://virtualpythonmeetup.com One of the biggest blessings in life is having the clarity to know what you want and how to work towards it. Before we can start having impact with others, we need to build a foundation for our own habits.  Stephen Covey talks about this in his 7 Habits book. You must adopt the mindset of agreeing with this statement:  I am in life right now as a direct result of the summation all decisions I have made up in life up to this point. We are all team members, either in our family, our marriage, our the projects we collaborate on at work.  Before we can have impact among our team we must have stability in our own independence. Teams operate on a healthier level when everyone contributing has internalized their role as an independent thinker.  We might not agree with what other people are saying but we get to choose how we respond.   It's empowering to know that we all have that gap between action and reaction which is our choice of response. this is why it is so important to prioritize yourself before you can be good to others.  When you are practicing independence you are proactive, you are putting energy into planning and focusing on congruency with your daily actions in relation to your goals.  This is called extreme ownership. Effective, independent people begin with the end in mind by planning for the future.  When you have a team (or a marriage) the planning really benefits from having a materialized form.   This doesn't have to be fancy just get a piece of paper and write them down and review often. The other piece of being independent is executing on first things first.  It is hard to prioritize the week when there is no end in mind (a mission and vision for the future). Being independent is going to help in work and in life.  When you are more in tune with your vision it gives meaning to each weeks planning effort.  Often when we feel less productive on a give week, it just mains we our not aligned with our mission.  the good news realignment is something only you control and it starts by just putting in the work, effectively you can fix this as soon as you choose to. Do you believe you are the only one to blame for your success and failure?  Do your goals exists on paper?  Are you re-visiting your goals often and organizing your calendar to execute on the most important activity that will push you closer to your goals?  If you anything like me that answer changes from week to week but the good news is if we don't like the answer we know who to hunt down to get it fixed. The homework for this post is to work on becoming more independent by doing the following activities.  What is most important is to do each of these steps now.  You are placing these foundational stones in place, you are not cementing them in yet so they can be adjusted. Tell yourself how you own every decision you make Write down your goals Make a plan this week on a calendar that prioritizes your goals Flip that beast mode switch on and lets get to work on the most important things. Ben McNeill 💚https://profitablepython.fm👽 Ben McNeill is a personal brand coach for python software developers, practicing petroleum engineer, and podcast host of the Profitable Python show. His passion is solving problems with code 🐍, meeting amazing humans, and demonstrating leadership through self mastery. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/profitablepythonfm/message