You have probably noticed that we are entering the second month of 2025. If you ask yourself the question “what have I achieved so far this year?” What do you discover?
If you identify that it’s possible for you to achieve and contribute more, and that there is a discrepancy between what you have achieved, and what you could achieve, please read on.
One contributory factor to under-achievement against potential is failing to separate the insignificant from the significant. Whilst it is easy to get caught up in the:
- Minutia of everyday tasks
- Pointless bureaucracy at work
- Mental absorption of some relatively insignificant ‘problem’
The reality of the situation is that you are likely to have forgotten about all of the above within a week or two.
If your unconscious focus is on the insignificant you are likely to lose your sense of purpose and/or direction. For many of us the absence of a sense of direction can lead to a low-grade depression, so reconnecting to the significant is likely to be uplifting to your happiness, self-esteem and self-respect.
If you want to achieve a more satisfying quality of life a good place to start is by doing this simple practice.
- Ask yourself the question where am I trying to get to in 2025?
- Use the diagram below to decide about the level of significance you would like to achieve
- Think through the actions you can take so that by the end of the year you can put a tick in your own box of satisfying achievement
- Every day, or each week, refocus yourself on what is going to make the significant difference
If you are sceptical about what can be achieved by conscientiously applying yourself to this practice, we did the practice at Momentum and it contributed to the following outcomes:
- Tom Francis deepened his commitment to making a significant contribution to the NHS – the results can be found here.
- Adoni Mais who had significantly reformatted his own paradigm (unconscious mindset) through Optimising Your Own Performance (OYOP) committed to making mental strength and fitness accessible to students who, as most of us know now, are experiencing increasing levels of performance anxiety, social anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts – the list goes on…
It is definitely true to say that ‘evolving our current paradigms’ still requires considerable effort, but the evidence of my initial achievements in the public interest can be found here.
Our achievements to date show that it’s possible to make progress by changes in paradigm. Making these changes on a wider scale would resolve the difficulties we experience both nationally and globally.
All we would really have to do to experience these benefits is make a few changes in our paradigms.
My own focus for 2025 will be:
- Supporting the worthwhile ambitions of Tom and Adoni
- Demonstrating that a more empowering approach in schools would improve children’s mental health
- Sharing insight about paradigms which enhance family harmony and increase children’s mental strength and autonomy
- Build a team of Optimise Your Own Performance (OYOP) coaches to relieve paradigm related psychological disturbance through the paradigm psychology apprenticeship
I am acutely aware that the list above represents a reasonably significant ‘job list’. If these jobs qualify as ‘worthwhile ambitions’ and you would like to put your own shoulder behind one or more of them, please can you get in touch with me on LinkedIn.
