What Does It Mean To Win The Day
The Amplified Impact Podcast
May 23rd, 2023
I’m about to share with you something that I’ve noticed recently in the people around me…the successful people.
And let me tell you, these people are crushing it in their relationships, their business, their finances, and their health.
So, what’s their secret?
Well, I’ve been observing them closely, and I’ve noticed that they all have one thing in common: they have a laser-focused, goal-oriented mindset.
That’s right, folks, they know exactly what they want, and they’re going after it with everything they’ve got. And let me tell you, it’s working.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. “But Anthony, aren’t successful people supposed to focus on the process, not the results?”
Yes, that’s true, my friend. But here’s the thing – these successful people still have an outcome in mind.
They know where they want to go, and they’re working towards it every single day.
They’re not just aimlessly wandering through life, hoping to stumble upon success. They’re actively pursuing it with everything they’ve got.
And here’s the kicker, folks – you can do it too.
But first, you need to define what winning looks like for you…because the only way to win the game of life is to know what winning looks like in the first place.
And with the right mindset and the drive to succeed, you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
The world is yours for the taking, so what are you waiting for?
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“It’s very hard to win the game if you don’t first define what winning looks like.” – Anthony Vicino
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Episode Transcript:
Anthony Vicino [00:00:00]:
Hey, what’s up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. This is gonna be a quick hitter. I just want to talk about something I observed recently in the people around me, the, the successful people around me. Cause I look to the, the people in my life who are further ahead on the road or doing things, whether that’s in their relationships or maybe it’s in their business, their finance, their health that are, you know, they’re further down the road than me and they’re living a life that I want to emulate. And I try to look to those people and take cues and try and figure out what are they doing, what’s working for them and why is it working? And if I can triangulate enough of those successful people in my life and then find the areas of commonality and say, oh, this person is doing these three things and these people are doing these three things and oh. This same one is in both of their routines or whatever. Like their habits. Then maybe there’s something to that one thing.
Anthony Vicino [00:00:52]:
Or this personality trait. So I look for commonalities in the successful people in my life of like what could I emulate? What seems to be like the through line here and there’s one that I’ve noticed that is regardless of if they are successful in their relationships and their work, their finances, their health, there seems to be one thing that or at least not just one thing. But there is one thing recently that I’ve been noticing a lot. And it is this very goal oriented, outcome oriented mindset which is really interesting. We talk a lot about how on one hand, the successful people in life are really good about not fixating on the results, right? Because results are something that we can’t measure in the moment. We only look at after we’ve done the thing and then we can judge the results and say did we do it or not? Whereas most successful people, they’ll focus on the process, not the results. And so what’s the work that you’re going to do every single day that will lead you to the desired goal, right? So that’s important on one hand, focus on the process, not the results. I think Bill Walsh wrote a book called The Score Will Take Care of Itself.
Anthony Vicino [00:02:06]:
Right? Like if you take care of the fundamentals, if you do the work on the day to day basis, the score will take care of itself. That’s the idea. However, with that said, the successful people in my life, I’ve noticed they still are very goal oriented. They always have an outcome that they’re working towards. Okay? So we know that goals and having a target that you’re triangulating towards is important in life because if you don’t have that, then you’re just taking any path and any path will go somewhere, but maybe not to where you want to go. And if you don’t know where you want to go, then I guess it doesn’t really matter which path you get on because they’re all going to go somewhere. But ideally, you probably have some idea of where you want to go in life, and it’s probably better than where you are currently. But if you don’t have a plan or an actual destination you’re targeting, you could end up anywhere, right? And this is the thing that successful people do really well, which is to always have an outcome in mind regardless of what they’re doing for everything.
Anthony Vicino [00:02:59]:
So when they sit down with their loved ones at dinner, they have a goal, they have an outcome they are trying to work towards, which is, I want to foster connection. I want to have meaning. I want to be present. Right? They have an idea of what a win looks like. We talked about this a lot in the beyond the Apex community, but you guys can join by going to Beyondthapex.com Hyperfocus. Go check it out. But tons of cool content in there, tons of really amazing people. I think we have like 1800 students in there at the moment, but we talk about this a lot, is that it’s very hard to win the game if you don’t first define what winning looks like.
Anthony Vicino [00:03:35]:
Right? If you don’t know the rules that you have set for yourself for any activity, then you’re just going to go through these activities and then look back and feel unfulfilled or maybe unaccomplished because you don’t know if it was a real win or loss. And a lot of people, they go through their day not having defined what a win would look like for the day. And then they get to the evening, they look back and because they didn’t define what a win would look like, and because the to do list is always growing and never expanding, they just they look and they see, oh, I didn’t get all the things done. And then they think, oh, I didn’t win or I failed. And one of the easiest ways to turn that paradigm on its head is just in the morning or the night before to define, okay, what does it look like to win tomorrow? If I did this, this, and this, check those boxes, would that be a win? And what the beauty of this is that we get to define the rules of the game for ourselves, right? We can set the bar very low for a win so that we can get to the end of the day and feel accomplished, feel like we got some momentum, attraction that we can carry forward into the next day. And that’s almost always better than setting too much onto our plate and then maybe accomplishing a lot of it and having a very productive day. But because we did not finish everything, we feel like a failure right now. I think if we take this idea of always being goal oriented and outcome focused then into every activity.
Anthony Vicino [00:04:57]:
We get so much more intention out of our behaviors in the moment. So when you’re going for a workout to the gym, what’s the goal? What are you working towards in the gym today? Is that to increase your vo two max? Is it to increase your strength, your flexibility, your aerobic capacity? And then what would it look like at the end of that session for you to be able to say, that was a good session, that was a win. Like, how would you feel? What numbers or what metrics would you judge that by? And I think the more that you can take that mindset into all the activities that you have in life, the more likely you are to feel this continued sense of accomplishment throughout the day. And I think that’s really important for feeling just general sense of well being and gratitude is feeling like you’re making progress. I do think progress is like the thing that fills human with the most joy, right? It’s not necessarily the accomplishment, not the destination, because a lot of times that’s so anticlimactic. It’s the pursuit. It’s the pursuit of the goal and making progress towards it that fills us with so much joy and purpose and contentment. But the question that I ask myself, and I’ve been asking myself this question for about a decade now, man, that’s crazy to think it’s been a long time.
Anthony Vicino [00:06:14]:
But one of the questions that really turned my life when it was at a pivotal point was what’s my outcome? And you guys have maybe heard me talk about this, where it’s really setting that implementation intention. Where when this question comes up and I’m telling this story very, very strangely, let me try again. So I take this question, what’s my outcome? And I program an alarm into my phone to go off multiple times throughout the day. When that alarm goes off, it’s accompanied with that question, what’s my outcome? And the goal of that question is to pull me out of the moment of whatever I’m working on and give me an opportunity to reflect actively on what I am doing and what is my intent for my actions in that moment. Because a lot of times we just start doing things on autopilot. We start scrolling Twitter, we start playing on our phones, we start playing chess or playing video games or whatever. We start doing things without intent. And that’s a way for our brain to kind of slipslide us, sneakily into procrastination distraction, just laziness in general because the brain is lazy, it wants these things.
Anthony Vicino [00:07:26]:
But also it happens when we’re in the midst of productivity, but not as much productivity as we could have if we had more intent. For instance, maybe you’re sitting in a meeting when that question, what’s my outcome? Goes off. And you ask yourself, what’s my outcome right now? What am I trying to accomplish by being in this meeting right most of us just go into meetings. We go through the motion, we look at the agenda, and we just go through the actions without real intent. And when you stop and you say, okay, what am I really doing here? Why am I zoning out when that person’s talking? Why is that person talking? If what they’re sharing is so uninteresting to me, why am I still here? What’s my outcome if I continue down this path, how I am currently continuing down the path, then what’s my outcome? Where is it leading? Is it leading me towards my goal or away from my goal? And a lot of times, just how we show up and how we’re present in the moment defines how we get to where we’re trying to get to. And now, at this point in my life, I don’t really need that alarm to go off so much anymore, because I just always have this question, what’s my outcome? Cycling through my brain as I move from task to task as I get on the camera here, it’s like, what’s my goal? What’s my goal in this video today? Is it to try to share something that’s going to change somebody’s life? Is it something for me to come to a better understanding on a topic that I’m personally wrestling with, coming in and being very clear about? What’s the outcome? It’s a game changer, and it’s the trait that I notice in so many successful people in my life. It’s just they always seem to be goal oriented or outcome oriented in the sense that they know what a win would look like always for whatever they’re doing or as much as possible. Like, nobody’s perfect, right? So I hope this is an idea.
Anthony Vicino [00:09:09]:
This is a framework or concept that could bring you a little bit of value if you start implementing into your day. If you’ve had any experience with this concept of, like, what’s my outcome? Or implementation intentions, let me know in the comments or leave a review. Share it with me. I’d love to hear more about your experiences with these ideas and frameworks that I’m sharing with you guys so that we can kind of have a narrative, have a conversation. I don’t love just talking at the camera. So come engage with me. Don’t make me feel like weird person talking to myself in the corner. So, guys, as always, appreciate you being here.
Anthony Vicino [00:09:40]:
I’m looking forward to seeing you back here tomorrow. Until then, stay hyper focus, my friend.
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