We all have goals and dreams, but the gap between aspiring and achieving can be daunting, right?
Here’s where the power of a method driven approach can be super helpful…
For example, what are “the basics” for most people for staying out of the highly stressed zone?
Perhaps getting sufficient sleep, a healthy diet, and physical activity is the method, the “basic” practice, that enables them to stay calm, fully charged, and have clarity on what needs to change in the face of stress or burnout on their journey toward whatever they’re aspiring for.
💖 I love a good process for anything I do because it makes navigating through life so much easier … whether I’m coaching a client through the high performance curriculum, developing software that went into mission critical products, or even in my yoga practice, it’s all about the process.
When I’m in a yoga class, for instance, I’m always employing the method approach to success.
Success, and the “basics”, in a yoga practice is “yoga chitta vritti nirodha”, often translated as “yoga is the calming or stilling the mind chatter”, emphasizing the importance of being in control of the mind and recognizing when it’s preventing us from clearly seeing the truth.
In yoga, it’s not about a task or checklist. It’s simply a mastery process, a dedication to a practice, one that’s not focused on one particular result.
You might think, ‘that’s a rather broad aspiration’, right?
However, here’s where showing up for the practice diligently with presence and intention over time comes into play, when for example mastering an advanced pose like a handstand, a pose that requires absolute stillness of the mind.
Similarly with your goals, if you take the approach of developing the method and mastery to achieve them, then the outcomes automatically take care of themselves.
So what’s your big audacious goal, a dream that you’re working toward that you’re going to start learning the mastery needed to achieve it?
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Erina Haile 