Necessity means that you feel a deep emotional drive and commitment to succeeding, and it consistently forces you to work hard, stay disciplined, and push yourself. When you have high necessity, you feel success or high performance as a must and not just a preference. Below you will learn how to increase your commitment and emotional drive which will motivate you to perform well.

HOW

IDENTITY

Take some time to set your identity which means you define for yourself who you will aspire to be and how you’ll show up. Hereafter remind yourself of who you want to be and align your actions with it.

Your task should be to set new standards, self-monitor yourself more frequently and learn to become comfortable with taking a hard look at your own performance. Self-monitoring is crucial to stay on track and keep performance high. Areas in which to raise your standards: Commitment to excellence, Health, Focus, Courage, Joy, Kindness, Growth,… If something is tied to “who you are”, you just do it!

SET REAL DEADLINES

Having a deadline motivates you to give full focus to finish of a project on time so you can let it go and focus afterwards on a new challenge. A real deadline is a date that matters because if it isn’t met, real negative consequences happen. If it is met, real benefits come to fruition (e.g. excitement of seeing your work out there). Setting deadlines can more than double the likelihood of achieving a goal.

Know the dates when things are due, and the real consequences and payoffs associated with those dates. You can increase the importance of a deadline by making it public to the world which give it some type of social pressure. Finally don’t fall into the trap of false deadlines which are due dates that are someone’s preference, not a true need with real consequence if it’s not met.

KNOW WHO NEEDS YOUR “A” GAME

Ask yourself the question: “Who needs me on my “A” game the most right now?” Being on your “A” game means that you are giving your best effort with full focus on the singular task at hand. This question forces you to do an internal review: What is my A game? Have I been bringing it today? What would my A game look like in the next hour or so? Who is worth fighting for?

AFFIRM THE WHY

High performers talk to themselves and remind themselves why they do what they do. The WHY is the reason you work so hard, it’s your purpose. Why MUST you do this? “To affirm” means saying with confidence to yourself and to others that something is true. By telling to others what you do and why, you create a social consequence and obligation because you told it will happen. Keep your Promise!

Questions: What do I want to excel at? Why is this so important to me? To who I’ll tell? What can I tell out loud to myself to affirm these whys? How can I remind myself about my goals and whys?

LEVEL UP YOUR SQUAD

You can win without an ideal peer group but social support just makes growth and success easier, faster, and more enjoyable. If you can spend time with a group of people who challenge and inspire you, it will change your life. An easy win is to just spend more time with the best and most positive people in your group. Next, add new people to the squad with greater experience than you.

Remove the following personal belief: “I don’t have access to successful people”. Go find them! What you can do: Add one more awesome friend, Volunteer, Play sports, Seek mentorship.

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