September Practice Group

Find Your Inner Richard Branson
(How to Motivate Yourself to Win)

Thank you Charles Bradley for this blog:

viv-craske.jpgViv Craske lead the September Practice Group, extra chairs were brought in and notebooks opened as a full house prepared to find their Inner Richard Branson. We didn't all agree with everything that Mr Virgin does but most were inspired by his energy, vision, diversity and success!

Viv explained that he was passionate about "How to Motivate Ourselves to Win". He asked us to consider that S.M.A.R.T. goals, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely, are own goals. They are all map and no territory and they are not motivating enough. He suggested that we often set goals with only our current resources in mind despite the fact that our resources change and setting them in time creates pressure which demotivates us. In fact S.M.A.R.T. goals create a carrot and stick paradigm. Instead, he suggested, ask:

  • "What do you want?"
  • "What about this do you love and enjoy?"
  • "When have you experienced flow doing this before?"

The times when we experience flow in our lives, those timeless intervals that glow within us, pure intrinsic enjoyment, Viv described as being Zoned In. "Zone Focussing For Success", he went on to describe, consists of accessing and anchoring our zoned in state to what we want. Instead of creating S.M.A.R.T. goals we can create goals and anchor our inspiration and our purpose to them. The carrot and stick are overwhelmed by inspiration and purpose. The time line is created from the question: What is the most powerful thing to do now to have the greatest effect"


"Zone Focusing For Success"

(Creative Commons Attribution License by Viv www.vivcraske.com)

  • What do you want?
  • What about this do you love and enjoy? When have you experienced flow doing this before?
  • How does this journey inspire you?
  • Where are you now?
  • What purpose does doing this fulfill for you? For family and friends? For colleagues? For others? For the greater good?
  • What do you feel and think about your purpose? How do you see it? What sounds are there?
  • What is it about learning to master this that will intrinsically motivate you? How can you do this, so that it has the right level of challenge for you?
  • How can you experience this journey with as much autonomy as possible?
  • How will you know when you are in a harmonious state of flow?
  • What will these experiences allow you to do?
  • How can you start? What's the one (small) thing you can do now that could create a butterfly effect?

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Making a Difference

It certainly makes a huge difference to me when I am excited and passionate about a project.  So when I find myself having to ‘work' on a project now I shall reconnect to the passion from which it arose, if that is difficult, perhaps, it is time to move on. The possibility of increasing the time I am in ‘The Zone' and being more successful is pure Win Win!  Perhaps it explains Richard Bransons smile too!


Charles Bradley

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