Gap focus

What is Gap Focus?

We tend to focus on the gaps between where we are in life and where we want to be. Between what we have accomplished and what we could have or want to accomplish, and the gap between who we are and our idealistic vision of the person we believe we should be.

The problem with this is that constant gap focus can be detrimental to our confidence and self-image causing us to feel like we don’t have enough, haven’t accomplished enough, and that we are not simply good enough, or at least not good as we should be.

High achievers are typically the worst at this, constantly overlooking or minimizing their accomplishments, beating themselves up over every mistake and imperfection, and never eeling lie anything they do is quite good enough.

The irony is that gap focus is a big part of the reason that high achievers are high achievers. Their insatiable desire to close the gap is what fuels their pursuit of excellence and constantly drives them to achieve.

Gap focus can be healthy and productive If it comes from positive, proactive, If you are committed to and excited about fulfilling your potential perspective, without any feelings of lack. Unfortunately, it rarely does. The average person even the average high achiever, tends to focus negatively on their gaps.

The highest achievers those who are balanced and focused on achieving level 10 success in nearly every area of their lives are exceedingly grateful for what they have, Regularly acknowledge themselves or what they have accomplished, and are always at peace with what they are doing in their lives.

It is the dueling idea that I am doing the best that I can at this moment, and at the same time, I can and will do better. This balanced self-assessment prevents that feeling of lack of not being having or doing enough while still allowing them to constantly strive to close their potential gap in each area.

Typically when a day week or month or year ends, and we are in gap focus mode, it is almost impossible to maintain an accurate assessment o ourselves and our progress. Or example, If you had ten things on your to-do list for the day – even If you completed six of them your gap focus causes you to feel you didn’t get everything done that you wanted to do.

The majority of people do dozens even hundreds of things right during the day, and few things wrong. Guess which things people remember and replay in their minds over and over again? Doesn’t it make more sense to focus on the 100 things you did right? It is sure more enjoyable.

What does this have to do with writing a journal? Writing a journal each day with a structured strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish, what you are grateful for, and what you are committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus you are more deeply enjoying your journey each day, feel good about any forward progress you made, use a heightened level of clarity to accelerate your results.

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