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Do you ever feel like you're doing all the right things, but success still doesn't last?
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If you're struggling with trust, strange relationships or performance that feels harder than it should, then this podcast is for you.
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Here's your host, executive leader, and scholar practitioner, Dr.
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Anthony Simmons.
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Hey greetings and welcome to another episode of Apex Performance Podcast, where all pathways are cemented in authentic relationships through a common act.
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We must continue to appreciate, communicate, and trust.
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I'm your host, Dr.
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Anthony Simmons.
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Now, while I continue to offer accelerated pathways to excellence, today's pathway was centered on human excellence, which is anchored in what I frame as my five dimensions to realize enduring success.
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It's desire, determination, dedication, discipline, and discovery.
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In episode 13, you may recall I addressed being brilliant on principles, observing good habits and practices to cultivate a culture of excellence.
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Now, in that same vein, this episode will highlight pathways to individual excellence.
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How do we develop personal brilliance to realize this overarching excellence that we're talking about that takes place within cultures?
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Again, this human excellence is underscored by what I have authored as my five dimensions of being successful.
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Which desire is having a vision, and termination is taking the initiative to act on your vision, while dedication is knocking down those barriers to achieve your vision.
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It's all about commitment.
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And then discipline is a matter of being proactive and implementing a ritual-driven regimen.
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While discovery is the filthing process where we go and reassess, we reorient to reinforce our values and purpose for this.
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And you will realize this is very important in any process because you have to always determine whether or not you're on the right glide slope internally and externally.
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So the first three D's are more foundational, while discipline and discovery allow sustainment.
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That's where you get your enduring success.
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Interestingly, I first presented the foundational 3Ds during a presentation at Goodwater Middle School, which is my former high school in the early 90s when I was a junior naval officer.
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So then, after more gestalt learning and advanced study, I added discipline and discovery.
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So more on that later, folks.
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Let's go back and talk about being brilliant on the principles.
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This brilliance stems from having positive rituals, it's like acquiring behaviors that become part of your conscious.
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You know, this behavior is actually becomes catalyst to your regimen.
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It's your systemic plan to achieve the results you set out to attain.
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Also, it's discipline is essential to achieving success while there's a second order of managing these successes.
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I like to couch success as an isolated event while endurance success is a blend of discipline and discovery.
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We must remain keen on these habits and practices that enable these wins or successful events in order to have endurance success.
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I call this being successful.
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Now, to expand on some examples as I move through this episode, I would emphasize how to apply discipline to manage these wins for this endurance success.
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So, as we know, it's the same as good habits and practices.
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Discipline is what you do every day.
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Now, in his book, The Futures Begins With Z, Dr.
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Tim Aylmore suggests discipline should include more effort and rigor than your job itself.
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As I referenced in previous episodes, it's proactiveness and housekeeping by house cleaning, which is reacting.
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Now, as excellence is a habit that generates success, endurance success is an evolutionary process where evolvement reflects repetition of what you repeatedly do based on the discipline regimen and learning from mistakes.
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Discovery is an assessment phase that informs the input for this evolutionary process.
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It's the sounding board to reassess your vision and purpose to ensure alignment with your values.
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Now, as I move into my bona fideas, I like to start with the handbook of coaching, which is written by Stephen Palmer and Allison Weibrow.
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They posit that coaching is a spin-off of positive psychology and it serves to optimize human and organizational performance.
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And this resonates with me because it aligns to my long-standing conviction that the glass is always half full.
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Now to reflect on my days as an athlete, being one that was fleet afoot earned me the moniker blast.
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Blast remains to this day the vehicle that helps me achieve success under all circumstances.
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I like to tie it into my end means ways concept where I have B as to believe, which is embody the confidence to realize a vision, then learn and is embracing professional development as a journey.
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And then I go through the A as the end, which is achieve the ultimate output of what you set out to accomplish.
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Then where my ways is my essence strength, which is knocking down barriers and overcoming challenges, and then the other ways is T is in toughness, possessing the resiliency to recover from adversity.
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Now, the last part of my bono for this I like to expand on this also ties into being a collegiate student athlete.
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We always talk about good study habits or highlighted as imperative for any college student.
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But for student athletes, there's a second stage that you cannot avoid a discount, which is time management.
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I had to develop a time management regimen.
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It became my ritual while I was, you know, trickleating through Austin P State University.
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I would set aside time for training.
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We had a cadence for Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Tuesday and Thursday classes.
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So I had to facilitate those classes around being at the football facility at a prescribed time.
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We could not take classes after 1 p.m.
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So the one had to be very disciplined.
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And this daily schedule extended into my discipline, into my time management ritual, which really was allowed me to matriculate, you know, through an engineering curriculum over the course of four years while playing varsity football.
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Now, having said that, let's move into the logos here.
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Let's start with in emotional intelligence habits.
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Dr.
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Travis Bradbury posits that opportunities would not just fall in your lap.
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You know, one of the most important things a person can do is stick their neck out and seek opportunities.
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You know, you have to make events happen by putting in the hard work and also knowing the steps necessary.
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You have to have the desire to act and to be willing to take those required steps against obstacles that may occupy your path.
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You have to have the dedication to move those obstacles, willing to defeat these obstacles by any means necessary.
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So this process is realized and sustained through discipline and discovery, which is a matter of execute and reassessing the value added.
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Ask, is it the right endeavor?
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Is it purposeful?
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Now to set the stage for the five D's, I like to say you got to sometime reflect and say, and convince yourself that I want to do it, I'm gonna do it, I will do it, I am doing it.
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Now, how is it?
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And how am I doing it?
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So once again, I talk about desire starting with curiosity and eagerness to do something.
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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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That's anonymous.
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Now, determination is about that fierce mental resolve to push past obstacles without quitting.
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You have to ignite those competitive juices that's going to get you through all the obstacles to the other side.
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Genesis 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
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That's Thomas Edison.
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Dedication is like a steady drive, it's a loyal commitment of your time.
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It's a matter of standing course through stamina and resiliency.
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It's that frantic desire to achieve success, but you have to make sure that your work ethic and your ambitions are in alignment.
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I always say success is a two-part proposition.
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You must know how to achieve success and how to be successful.
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That's Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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Enduring success is about discipline.
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It's a sustaining two-phase proposition where I said it consists of achieving success and then managing that success.
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Now, as I discussed in episode 13, discipline is what you intentionally do every day.
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It's about being proactive and committing to doing what's right because you know it's the right thing to do.
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It's like simple stuff like picking up a piece of paper or returning your buggy at the grocery store.
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Now, I feel achieving success is more straightforward, it's just a matter of having the discipline that morphs into a ritual.
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It's a way of life that pulls at you.
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Where your regiment is a prescribed plan or system of living.
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Now, in a book, The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Laura and Tony Schwartz suggest the limits of discipline is offset through building positive rituals.
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I like to paraphrase this and say discipline is bolstered through rituals that automates action into habits.
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This is what I call individual excellence.
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In essence, the authors actually say rituals is a highly structured behavior that becomes who you are.
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It's what you routinely do every day.
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So good practice and habits must be applied daily in guiding principles, as I depicted in my organizational ethos during my command at Sea Days.
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To offer some additional insight on excellence, in his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell presents excellence as performing tasks requires a minimum level of practice, where psychological research by Kay Anders Eriksson believed the magic number to reach expertise, a true mastery of any trade, requires 10,000 hours of focus effect.
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Now, in that vein, Gladwell uses two examples: one of the Beatles and the other one of Bill Gates.
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Speaking of the Beatles, he said over the course of two years, the Beatles were forced to play eight hours a day, seven days a week in Hamburg, Germany, which set them apart.
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And in Bill Gates' case, it was a matter of attending a high school that had a computer club back in 1968 and having unlimited access to Washington University Computer Lab seven days a week.
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He would dedicate a minimum of 30 hours a week just performing while he was a high school student.
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Now let's go into managing success or knowing how to be successful.
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I see it as a life cycle.
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I look at Coach Nick Sabian, how he handled wins.
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He says your celebration has to be short-lived.
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You got to get back to doing what it took for you to reach that level.
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Another good example of managing success lies in the late Red Audible and Bill Russell, as they worked with the Boston Celtics, and they had a stem of success that expanded over seven years where they were avoiding complacency.
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They were sticking to their rituals by ingratiating new players into the culture of hard work and having humility, which we ought to say humility, it allows others to flourish.
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Another good example I'd like to reference when they talk about Hamlin's success.
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It was found when I was reading through the performance NFL player Malcolm Jenkins' book on What Winners Will Not Tell You.
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He says that the measure of a true competitor is not by the number of wins he has, but what he does to surpass what he has already accomplished.
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I thought that was very, very profound.
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Now let's go into discovery, which is the filtering process where you have to measure your success against your vision and values and purposefulness.
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You have to assess, assess, assess.
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Over time, we must re-evaluate our path in order to ascertain whether we're doing the right thing.
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We should never relegate our recourse to just merely surviving.
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Now let's move on to the pathos of this discussion.
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Let's do some storytelling, some of the fun stuff.
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Now, according to psychologist Angela Dartworth, most successful people possess grit, which is a unique combination of passion, say tenacity and desire.
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Having said that, in emotional intelligence habits, Dr.
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Travis Bradbury submits that passion, tenacity, and stamina they work in conjunction, you know, to achieve goals.
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They generate this mental toughness necessary to do the things that others are not willing to do.
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Now, I found it appropriate to connect these personal attributes to my three D's of desire, determination, and dedication.
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Now, from a just thought vantage point, as I learn more, they pretend also discipline.
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However, over time, the system must be revalidated to fit and understand the purposefulness, you know, through the assessments that I mentioned earlier through this discovery phase of these five D's now.
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Go back to what I was talking earlier about Goodwater.
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I was just speaking to the students, and I was a pretty young officer.
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It was my first time really having the stage to address a group of students, and we was just talking about how do you really realize success?
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How do you set goals and make your vision come to reality?
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And I said, you know, it just ties into just having these basic 3Ds.
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I just look out the window on the other side of the window where all this greatness exists.
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So first we must look out there and we must have a desire to be great.
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And then we must have the determination to conquer what's on the other side in order to take advantage of that opportunity to ultimately commend to doing what it takes to get to the other side.
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Then I said the hardest part at that point was the dedication, the level of effort.
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It's determined by your drive.
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It determines by the thickness, you know, of that window, the reinforcement, you know, also the height sometimes of obstacles in order to scale to the next side.
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For example, for his effort, President Abraham Lincoln says if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he would spend six sharpening the axe.
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And Winston Churchill, who was really adept at both doing labor stuff and also intellectual stuff, so he had a regiment that consisted of laying 200 bricks a day and writing 2,000 words a day.
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Just to add some diversity to his regiment.
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Now, although curiosity and competitive spirit has catapulted my path in life, my success was really underscored, you know, by these five dimensions as they was used to evolve my progress and improve throughout life.
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Now, however, my biggest lesson is really discovery, it's understanding the importance of your staying the core, staying connected to your values and purpose.
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Your vision cannot be antithetical to your values, both must be aligned in order to thrive for excellence, advice, just striving to merely stay afloat.
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And I say, you know, you have to look around the room, and if you don't see anyone in that room as a mentor, a coach, or an example, a model that you aspire to be like, then perhaps you're in the wrong room.
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So I look at this as a case in point.
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That's why I say it's important to reassess and know where your purpose and values are aligned.
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Now, towards the end of my neighbor career, my failure to continuously assess my path really proved fatal.
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I didn't realign my values.
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Rather, I was merely surviving, you know, for the next promotion, the next career milestone.
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So my values was not in lead.
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You know, your values must triumph.
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Otherwise, this can lead to poor judgment and suboptimal reasoning.
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Passion comes from purposefulness and value alignment.
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So we must always stay true to that.
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This goes back to I look at the onset of NIL and the transfer porter.
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You know, I like to use a lot of Coach Nick Saban examples.
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He immediately went into discovery as he gleaned a new model then the line with his values of building young men into professionals, you know, through a graduated development process.
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Also, another example is Coach Don Staley.
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She assessed the opportunities to move into the professional levels when a Portland Trailblazer's job became open.
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And she went through the process.
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She vetted it and she went through this whole discovery before deciding that I need to remain at the college level because it fits my value system.
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So although you may feel you know you have mastered your current feature or merely desire to extend your reach or seek new hikes, the disrequirement may run counter to your values and principles.
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So always be mindful of that.
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Now, what are the future implications and what's out there?
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What's the so what of these five dimensions?
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I always like to say curiosity is the wick in the counter of learning.
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That's Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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And discipline morphs into habit.
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That's Twilight talk.
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Observe success in two lenses: earning it and living it.
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Stick to your values, as according to Lorce and Swartz, once again, your values are the fuel that becomes the energy on which your purpose is built.
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So achieving success versus managing success is very vital.
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You know, act like you've been there.
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You know, stay humble, stay hungry, and reinforce your armor.
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You have to have resilient dedication.
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It comes from this passion and purpose.
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You have to excel through these mistakes.
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So through discipline, you can do anything.
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That's Miss Esther Staley to her daughter, Don Staley.
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Now consider then the dynamics of the career pivoting and the micro-credentialing that's we are facing today, discovery and recareering will become more commonplace.
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So our values and purposefulness must be validated in this environment.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
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It is the courage to continue that counts, Winston Churchill.
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So achieving success involves the process of becoming successful.
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While being successful is managing successful events.
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The key is to continue to do what you did to generate more success.
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You don't have time to celebrate.
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Make your victory lap the jump start to the next race, Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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Opportunity will find those who are prepared, Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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Hey, thanks for listening to today's episode, and please subscribe to this channel to enjoy accelerated pathways to excellence and game-changing insights to mark your true north.
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The next episode will feature career championing where success is the confluence of preparation and opportunity.
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Thank you for listening, and I will see you next time.
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Bye for now.
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Do you ever feel like you're doing all the right things, but success still doesn't last?
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If you're struggling with trust, strange relationships or performance that feels harder than it should, then this podcast is for you.
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Here's your host, executive leader, and scholar practitioner, Dr.
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Anthony Simmons.
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Hey greetings and welcome to another episode of Apex Performance Podcast, where all pathways are cemented in authentic relationships through a common act.
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We must continue to appreciate, communicate, and trust.
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I'm your host, Dr.
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Anthony Simmons.
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Now, while I continue to offer accelerated pathways to excellence, today's pathway was centered on human excellence, which is anchored in what I frame as my five dimensions to realize enduring success.
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It's desire, determination, dedication, discipline, and discovery.
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In episode 13, you may recall I addressed being brilliant on principles, observing good habits and practices to cultivate a culture of excellence.
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Now, in that same vein, this episode will highlight pathways to individual excellence.
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How do we develop personal brilliance to realize this overarching excellence that we're talking about that takes place within cultures?
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Again, this human excellence is underscored by what I have authored as my five dimensions of being successful.
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Which desire is having a vision, and termination is taking the initiative to act on your vision, while dedication is knocking down those barriers to achieve your vision.
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It's all about commitment.
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And then discipline is a matter of being proactive and implementing a ritual-driven regimen.
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While discovery is the filthing process where we go and reassess, we reorient to reinforce our values and purpose for this.
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And you will realize this is very important in any process because you have to always determine whether or not you're on the right glide slope internally and externally.
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So the first three D's are more foundational, while discipline and discovery allow sustainment.
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That's where you get your enduring success.
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Interestingly, I first presented the foundational 3Ds during a presentation at Goodwater Middle School, which is my former high school in the early 90s when I was a junior naval officer.
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So then, after more gestalt learning and advanced study, I added discipline and discovery.
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So more on that later, folks.
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Let's go back and talk about being brilliant on the principles.
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This brilliance stems from having positive rituals, it's like acquiring behaviors that become part of your conscious.
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You know, this behavior is actually becomes catalyst to your regimen.
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It's your systemic plan to achieve the results you set out to attain.
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Also, it's discipline is essential to achieving success while there's a second order of managing these successes.
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I like to couch success as an isolated event while endurance success is a blend of discipline and discovery.
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We must remain keen on these habits and practices that enable these wins or successful events in order to have endurance success.
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I call this being successful.
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Now, to expand on some examples as I move through this episode, I would emphasize how to apply discipline to manage these wins for this endurance success.
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So, as we know, it's the same as good habits and practices.
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Discipline is what you do every day.
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Now, in his book, The Futures Begins With Z, Dr.
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Tim Aylmore suggests discipline should include more effort and rigor than your job itself.
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As I referenced in previous episodes, it's proactiveness and housekeeping by house cleaning, which is reacting.
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Now, as excellence is a habit that generates success, endurance success is an evolutionary process where evolvement reflects repetition of what you repeatedly do based on the discipline regimen and learning from mistakes.
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Discovery is an assessment phase that informs the input for this evolutionary process.
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It's the sounding board to reassess your vision and purpose to ensure alignment with your values.
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Now, as I move into my bona fideas, I like to start with the handbook of coaching, which is written by Stephen Palmer and Allison Weibrow.
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They posit that coaching is a spin-off of positive psychology and it serves to optimize human and organizational performance.
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And this resonates with me because it aligns to my long-standing conviction that the glass is always half full.
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Now to reflect on my days as an athlete, being one that was fleet afoot earned me the moniker blast.
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Blast remains to this day the vehicle that helps me achieve success under all circumstances.
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I like to tie it into my end means ways concept where I have B as to believe, which is embody the confidence to realize a vision, then learn and is embracing professional development as a journey.
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And then I go through the A as the end, which is achieve the ultimate output of what you set out to accomplish.
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Then where my ways is my essence strength, which is knocking down barriers and overcoming challenges, and then the other ways is T is in toughness, possessing the resiliency to recover from adversity.
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Now, the last part of my bono for this I like to expand on this also ties into being a collegiate student athlete.
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We always talk about good study habits or highlighted as imperative for any college student.
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But for student athletes, there's a second stage that you cannot avoid a discount, which is time management.
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I had to develop a time management regimen.
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It became my ritual while I was, you know, trickleating through Austin P State University.
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I would set aside time for training.
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We had a cadence for Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Tuesday and Thursday classes.
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So I had to facilitate those classes around being at the football facility at a prescribed time.
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We could not take classes after 1 p.m.
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So the one had to be very disciplined.
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And this daily schedule extended into my discipline, into my time management ritual, which really was allowed me to matriculate, you know, through an engineering curriculum over the course of four years while playing varsity football.
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Now, having said that, let's move into the logos here.
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Let's start with in emotional intelligence habits.
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Dr.
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Travis Bradbury posits that opportunities would not just fall in your lap.
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You know, one of the most important things a person can do is stick their neck out and seek opportunities.
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You know, you have to make events happen by putting in the hard work and also knowing the steps necessary.
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You have to have the desire to act and to be willing to take those required steps against obstacles that may occupy your path.
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You have to have the dedication to move those obstacles, willing to defeat these obstacles by any means necessary.
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So this process is realized and sustained through discipline and discovery, which is a matter of execute and reassessing the value added.
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Ask, is it the right endeavor?
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Is it purposeful?
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Now to set the stage for the five D's, I like to say you got to sometime reflect and say, and convince yourself that I want to do it, I'm gonna do it, I will do it, I am doing it.
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Now, how is it?
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And how am I doing it?
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So once again, I talk about desire starting with curiosity and eagerness to do something.
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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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That's anonymous.
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Now, determination is about that fierce mental resolve to push past obstacles without quitting.
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You have to ignite those competitive juices that's going to get you through all the obstacles to the other side.
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Genesis 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
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That's Thomas Edison.
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Dedication is like a steady drive, it's a loyal commitment of your time.
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It's a matter of standing course through stamina and resiliency.
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It's that frantic desire to achieve success, but you have to make sure that your work ethic and your ambitions are in alignment.
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I always say success is a two-part proposition.
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You must know how to achieve success and how to be successful.
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That's Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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Enduring success is about discipline.
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It's a sustaining two-phase proposition where I said it consists of achieving success and then managing that success.
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Now, as I discussed in episode 13, discipline is what you intentionally do every day.
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It's about being proactive and committing to doing what's right because you know it's the right thing to do.
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It's like simple stuff like picking up a piece of paper or returning your buggy at the grocery store.
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Now, I feel achieving success is more straightforward, it's just a matter of having the discipline that morphs into a ritual.
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It's a way of life that pulls at you.
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Where your regiment is a prescribed plan or system of living.
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Now, in a book, The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Laura and Tony Schwartz suggest the limits of discipline is offset through building positive rituals.
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I like to paraphrase this and say discipline is bolstered through rituals that automates action into habits.
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This is what I call individual excellence.
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In essence, the authors actually say rituals is a highly structured behavior that becomes who you are.
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It's what you routinely do every day.
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So good practice and habits must be applied daily in guiding principles, as I depicted in my organizational ethos during my command at Sea Days.
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To offer some additional insight on excellence, in his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell presents excellence as performing tasks requires a minimum level of practice, where psychological research by Kay Anders Eriksson believed the magic number to reach expertise, a true mastery of any trade, requires 10,000 hours of focus effect.
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Now, in that vein, Gladwell uses two examples: one of the Beatles and the other one of Bill Gates.
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Speaking of the Beatles, he said over the course of two years, the Beatles were forced to play eight hours a day, seven days a week in Hamburg, Germany, which set them apart.
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And in Bill Gates' case, it was a matter of attending a high school that had a computer club back in 1968 and having unlimited access to Washington University Computer Lab seven days a week.
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He would dedicate a minimum of 30 hours a week just performing while he was a high school student.
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Now let's go into managing success or knowing how to be successful.
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I see it as a life cycle.
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I look at Coach Nick Sabian, how he handled wins.
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He says your celebration has to be short-lived.
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You got to get back to doing what it took for you to reach that level.
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Another good example of managing success lies in the late Red Audible and Bill Russell, as they worked with the Boston Celtics, and they had a stem of success that expanded over seven years where they were avoiding complacency.
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They were sticking to their rituals by ingratiating new players into the culture of hard work and having humility, which we ought to say humility, it allows others to flourish.
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Another good example I'd like to reference when they talk about Hamlin's success.
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It was found when I was reading through the performance NFL player Malcolm Jenkins' book on What Winners Will Not Tell You.
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He says that the measure of a true competitor is not by the number of wins he has, but what he does to surpass what he has already accomplished.
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I thought that was very, very profound.
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Now let's go into discovery, which is the filtering process where you have to measure your success against your vision and values and purposefulness.
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You have to assess, assess, assess.
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Over time, we must re-evaluate our path in order to ascertain whether we're doing the right thing.
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We should never relegate our recourse to just merely surviving.
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Now let's move on to the pathos of this discussion.
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Let's do some storytelling, some of the fun stuff.
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Now, according to psychologist Angela Dartworth, most successful people possess grit, which is a unique combination of passion, say tenacity and desire.
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Having said that, in emotional intelligence habits, Dr.
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Travis Bradbury submits that passion, tenacity, and stamina they work in conjunction, you know, to achieve goals.
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They generate this mental toughness necessary to do the things that others are not willing to do.
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Now, I found it appropriate to connect these personal attributes to my three D's of desire, determination, and dedication.
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Now, from a just thought vantage point, as I learn more, they pretend also discipline.
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However, over time, the system must be revalidated to fit and understand the purposefulness, you know, through the assessments that I mentioned earlier through this discovery phase of these five D's now.
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Go back to what I was talking earlier about Goodwater.
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I was just speaking to the students, and I was a pretty young officer.
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It was my first time really having the stage to address a group of students, and we was just talking about how do you really realize success?
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How do you set goals and make your vision come to reality?
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And I said, you know, it just ties into just having these basic 3Ds.
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I just look out the window on the other side of the window where all this greatness exists.
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So first we must look out there and we must have a desire to be great.
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And then we must have the determination to conquer what's on the other side in order to take advantage of that opportunity to ultimately commend to doing what it takes to get to the other side.
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Then I said the hardest part at that point was the dedication, the level of effort.
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It's determined by your drive.
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It determines by the thickness, you know, of that window, the reinforcement, you know, also the height sometimes of obstacles in order to scale to the next side.
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For example, for his effort, President Abraham Lincoln says if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he would spend six sharpening the axe.
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And Winston Churchill, who was really adept at both doing labor stuff and also intellectual stuff, so he had a regiment that consisted of laying 200 bricks a day and writing 2,000 words a day.
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Just to add some diversity to his regiment.
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Now, although curiosity and competitive spirit has catapulted my path in life, my success was really underscored, you know, by these five dimensions as they was used to evolve my progress and improve throughout life.
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Now, however, my biggest lesson is really discovery, it's understanding the importance of your staying the core, staying connected to your values and purpose.
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Your vision cannot be antithetical to your values, both must be aligned in order to thrive for excellence, advice, just striving to merely stay afloat.
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And I say, you know, you have to look around the room, and if you don't see anyone in that room as a mentor, a coach, or an example, a model that you aspire to be like, then perhaps you're in the wrong room.
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So I look at this as a case in point.
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That's why I say it's important to reassess and know where your purpose and values are aligned.
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Now, towards the end of my neighbor career, my failure to continuously assess my path really proved fatal.
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I didn't realign my values.
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Rather, I was merely surviving, you know, for the next promotion, the next career milestone.
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So my values was not in lead.
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You know, your values must triumph.
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Otherwise, this can lead to poor judgment and suboptimal reasoning.
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Passion comes from purposefulness and value alignment.
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So we must always stay true to that.
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This goes back to I look at the onset of NIL and the transfer porter.
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You know, I like to use a lot of Coach Nick Saban examples.
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He immediately went into discovery as he gleaned a new model then the line with his values of building young men into professionals, you know, through a graduated development process.
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Also, another example is Coach Don Staley.
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She assessed the opportunities to move into the professional levels when a Portland Trailblazer's job became open.
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And she went through the process.
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She vetted it and she went through this whole discovery before deciding that I need to remain at the college level because it fits my value system.
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So although you may feel you know you have mastered your current feature or merely desire to extend your reach or seek new hikes, the disrequirement may run counter to your values and principles.
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So always be mindful of that.
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Now, what are the future implications and what's out there?
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What's the so what of these five dimensions?
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I always like to say curiosity is the wick in the counter of learning.
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That's Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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And discipline morphs into habit.
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That's Twilight talk.
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Observe success in two lenses: earning it and living it.
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Stick to your values, as according to Lorce and Swartz, once again, your values are the fuel that becomes the energy on which your purpose is built.
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So achieving success versus managing success is very vital.
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You know, act like you've been there.
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You know, stay humble, stay hungry, and reinforce your armor.
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You have to have resilient dedication.
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It comes from this passion and purpose.
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You have to excel through these mistakes.
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So through discipline, you can do anything.
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That's Miss Esther Staley to her daughter, Don Staley.
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Now consider then the dynamics of the career pivoting and the micro-credentialing that's we are facing today, discovery and recareering will become more commonplace.
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So our values and purposefulness must be validated in this environment.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
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It is the courage to continue that counts, Winston Churchill.
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So achieving success involves the process of becoming successful.
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While being successful is managing successful events.
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The key is to continue to do what you did to generate more success.
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You don't have time to celebrate.
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Make your victory lap the jump start to the next race, Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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Opportunity will find those who are prepared, Anthony L.
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Simmons.
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Hey, thanks for listening to today's episode, and please subscribe to this channel to enjoy accelerated pathways to excellence and game-changing insights to mark your true north.
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The next episode will feature career championing where success is the confluence of preparation and opportunity.
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Thank you for listening, and I will see you next time.
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Bye for now.
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