Highlights from the book by Dave Anderson
This book was a great, quick read that left me feeling amped
up and empowered to create change. Here
are the key parts I want to remember.
4 Types of Team Members
1.
Undertakers – Drain value. Others need to carry their load, clean up
their mess, and perform damage control in their wake.
2.
Caretakers – Baseline participants. Do just enough to get by, get paid, and go
home.
3.
Playmakers – Occasionally create
change. They have more energy and drive
but are inconsistent.
4.
Game Changers – Unstoppable. Consistently bring effort, energy, attitude,
excellence, and passion to the job.
Everyone can vary between these 4 mindsets, however one will
primarily dominate a person’s time, and is therefore reflected in their
performance. Transforming one’s mindset
upward is achievable and the main content of this book.
9 Things it Takes to Become Unstoppable
1.
Decide to
think differently. Stop blaming or
making excuses. Change your behaviors,
replace unproductive habits with healthy ones, and get focused on your dreams
(and why you want them).
2.
Do the
ordinary extraordinarily and consistently well. Reap the predictable harvest from the
consistent seeds of discipline, attention to detail, continual improvement, and
extra work over time.
3.
Add value
to the culture. Even if your level
of skill, knowledge, talent, or experience may be less than others, incessantly
apply what you do have. Take relentless
approach that is rooted in the right mindset.
4.
Be committed
to self-improvement. Be obsessed
with becoming better than your former best.
Every day consider what you can do today knowing it will help you be
better tomorrow.
5.
Err on
the side of being personally humble. By continuing to grow and excel, and being a
clutch member of the team, you can inspire and lift others to a higher level of
intensity, desire, and performance. Have
a voracious ambition for the team to do well.
6.
Focus on
what you can control. Have an
outlook of never giving up and quitting is not an option. Stop making excuses for why you don’t do it
or complaining if you didn’t get it. Earn
it, deserve it, or go without it.
7.
Embrace
revolution. Change and risk before
you have to so that you can do so from a position of strength rather than having
an impaired vision due to desperation.
Have the ability to be in a constant state of evolution and embrace
revolution.
8.
Seek to
be coached. Accept constructive
criticism as a compliment. Let every
disappointment become a lesson.
9.
Give
everything you can. Rather than
focusing on quantity of work, do all that is possible to turn out the best work
possible. To aspire to excellence, never
accept good enough.
Becoming a game changer depends on you alone. It’s a choice you make to focus on what you
can control, be more humble, hungry, persistent and focused, and to grow.
Game Changer Philosophy
Game changers are energized by their goals, the chance to
make a difference, the chance to lift a teammate, the chance to move the team
forward, and the chance to be better today than they were yesterday.
·
Focus on
choices that you have control over rather than conditions you don’t. Be driven, hungry, resilient, and stay
focused. When you get off track, get
back on ASAP. Be internally
motivated. Be early and prepared. Have a set routine. Push others along rather than being pulled. Focus
on behaviors rather than words. Look
within and take ownership.
·
Know your
why. Your WHY gives you purpose,
builds resilience, and makes you unstoppable.
·
Be in the
Zone as much as possible. There is a
state of heightened focus that enables peak performance. We are far more effective when we find it,
stay in it, and return to it quickly if we depart. Recognize your zone busters and shift them
with your mindset or by taking action.
·
Go A.P.E. Attitude: settled way of
thinking/behavior. Passion: feeling of
excitement about doing something. Enthusiasm: intense enjoyment or approval. These characteristics that start from within are
the greatest differentiator in results and speed.
·
Be
mentally tough. Developing oneself
to a game changer status requires persistence, tenacity, focus, resilience,
diligence, and the right attitude. Create
your own unstoppable philosophy by setting a standard that you strive to and measure
your growth against.
·
Develop a
daily mindset discipline. Process
facilitates focus, discipline, and consistency.
Get motivated about what the process will do for you and follow it every
time, over time. Engage in a mindset
routine in the morning that motivates you and aligns you with daily
priorities.
·
Set the example. The power of your example is
unfathomable. Hold yourself to a higher
standard of thinking and behaving that is in alignment with living at
unstoppable game changer status.
Commitment Continuum:
resistant, reluctant, existent, compliant, committed, compelled,
obsessed
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