We are all staring down the barrel of the same reality–the clock is ticking and no matter how you look at it, there’s but one quarter left in this calendar year.
You must consider the remaining 100 days of this year as a now-or-never opportunity to finish the year strong, exceed expectations and, for some, use it as a final chance at redemption.
Let’s cut right to the chase by looking at the results of your actions year-to-date. That reality tells you if you have been successful or not in achieving the goals you set earlier this year.
As it relates to your goals, your demonstrated actions have allowed you to be in one of three positions. You have either:
1. Exceeded your expectations of what you thought you could achieve,
2. Met expectations of what you set out to accomplish, or
3. Fallen below your desired expectations of what you wanted to accomplish.
Regardless of the position you are currently in, you CAN have the best quarter of your life. But you must do a few things in the manner presented in the next few pages.
As someone who participates in or leads more than fifty strategy sessions per year with leading companies like IBM, Starbucks, Disney and many others, I’m well aware that we all began this year with great hope and determination. I’m also well aware that many goals and plans fall far from being realized.
The Solution
So what specifically can you do in order to capture the brass ring? What can you do to ensure dramatic and ongoing performance gains? Work harder? Longer? Set realistic goals? You don’t stand a chance of succeeding with that strategy, yet that is exactly what the majority of people will do. Most people operate within a mindset that success comes one step at a time.
While unspoken, the court of public opinion says that we must move systematically from our present level of achievement to the next. This is a false and unfortunate misconception, and it’s clearly reflected in the way people function. They go about, day to day, striving to make incremental gains in their performance. They repeat the same unnecessary routines, which are the pathway of conventional growth.
The good news is that life does not always have to operate in that manner. In many areas of your life, you must reframe your beliefs and think in terms of radical breakthroughs.
I’m here to tell you that you can make a series of radical breakthroughs from your present level of achievement to one that is several levels higher — directly. What I’m going to share with you in the next few pages has the power to change your life and blow your mind as you are about to learn how to create your own Big BANG!
Creating your own Big BANG implies an explosive jump, a controlled explosion
in your personal performance that puts you far beyond the next logical step. The Big BANG is a strategy for stunning advances in the achievement of your goals and is a proven process that you can implement to finish the year strong.
You might want to compare it to multiplication instead of addition — it means a geometric, and if performed consistently, a perpetual progression in your effectiveness.
Are You Ready For A Breakthrough?
Right now, this instant, you are capable of exponential growth. You have the ability to multiply your performance, dramatically exceed your best expectations, and achieve goals on a scale that in the past seemed impossible. You can do all of this once you begin to implement the Big BANG strategy.
Life is prepared to give you a breakthrough-a spontaneous creation experience-any time you become willing to allow it. Few people or organizations ever come close to reaching their full potential. Most do not even come close, and barely scratch the surface of what they can possibly accomplish.
Let me be perfectly clear on this point, creating your own Big BANG is not about getting to the next level, what we’re talking about here is a powerful strategy for getting to the next orbit! I’m talking about increasing sales by 500%, about dominating your market niche, worldwide distribution and consumption of your product or service, financial freedom on a mind blowing scale, exceptional physical health and vitality, about finding a cure for the incurable.
So, hold on tight as you are about to learn how to make dramatic performance gains that will allow you to achieve every goal you desire and finish this year with a bang – your BIG BANG.
Let’s Do It!
For just a moment, I want you to put yourself in the shoes of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com. You have the idea to create a new kind of business, something the world had never seen before. You are starting from scratch, have absolutely no market presence, and are competing in a world of retail and publishing giants. To say that the deck is stacked against you is an understatement.
Yet, within a few lightning quick years, you sit on top of the mountain. You have created one of the most recognized brand names on the Internet, become one of the richest men in the world, and have been crowned “the king of e-commerce.” Your face is on the cover of Time, and you are a regular at White House and power elite dinners.
This, my friend, is a Big BANG.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com offer an ideal example of how visionary people and companies often use an over-the-top mission as a powerful mechanism to stimulate robust progress.
Big BANG is an acronym for Big Bold, Ambitious, Noble Goal. Applying the Big BANG formula to your life or career can allow you to create monumental, quantum-leap performance and profitability gains that are truly astounding.
About the Author:
Gary Ryan Blair, “The GoalsGuy®”, is one of the top strategic thinkers in the world. As an author, speaker, coach and consultant, he is dedicated to helping his clients win by creating focused, goal-directed lives.
Gary is the President of The GoalsGuy Learning Systems, a highly focused training organization whose mission is to help their clients build and sustain superior performance. They accomplish this objective by helping their clients increase their sense of direction, confidence, and capability in all areas of their personal and professional life.
