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DARE is the mental model for high performance and change.

You write your story through your DECISIONS, ACTIONS and RESULTS and a thorough EVALUATION of how you did.

A new Result requires new Decisions and Actions.

This Week’s DARE at a Glance:

Summer reset #1: You have great power - how will you use it?

The DARE Loop: Taming the Tiger to write your story.

It is summertime!

Memories stir, mixing with the potential for renewed adventure and for deepening friendships. What a chance to reflect and reset. Each August, I focus on my family, my next adventures, and on reflecting and resetting.

So the DARE Newsletter will be short and written to support your potential, your reflecting and your resetting. There will be no Book of the Week or My Week section in August.

Summer Reset Special #1: You have great POWER.

If you have health and you are not living under a dictator or a system of apartheid: you write the story. You hold the pen. YOU HAVE GREAT POWER.

The power to make things happen. Create. Grow. Change. Learn. Touch hearts. Change lives.

Wallowing in this wonderful human gift of creative power is the first step in any move to reset, surely?

You can argue against me. But fate, but genetics, but parenting, but family birth position, but my environment/husband/wife//boss?

They all play their part. But what you do with what you’re presented with – how you respond. That’s yours. Nobody can ever take that away.

Resetting for greater successes (and you have many successes behind you) demands accepting your power.

I do not mean traditional ‘success’. You define your bold goal. Maybe it’s to play Hotel California really well, live, in a bar, in California.  You decide.

The one who chooses the victim narrative cannot re-set.

It is no longer their story to write. But that it is their choice. A easy feeling choice but with hard consequences. ‘Choose your hard’ as they say.

How do we take our power, move our pen and write our stories?

DECISION. ACTION. RESULT and, if we have a high-performance mindset, we will then EVALUATE our progress, learn, adapt, go again.

Book Jim To Speak.

This is the DARE Loop. We must DARE many times, and fast, as we learn, hit setbacks, receive rejections and, then suddenly, make huge progress.

So as you read this, if your reflection and resetting require a change of some kind, a new RESULT, what is the new DECISION and the new ACTION you will have to take to use your mighty power? To move your pen and to make it happen?

Of course, this will bring uncertainty, risk, the anticipation of conflict with others, of loss of something, of potential failure: Your TIGER will roar at you.

The TIGER is not a bug. The TIGER is a feature. It is how we are meant to be. Anxiety is a feature, not a bug. Fear is a feature, not a bug.

But you and I are not gazelles. We are not geckos. We are humans. We have consciousness. We can feel our evolutionary nature rise up to protect us from ‘danger’ and we can override it. Emotional Intelligence.

Overriding the Tiger and accepting our power to Decide, Act and Evaluate to reach our Result: This is the human power we need to wallow in if we are to reset.

You can do great things. Next week we will challenge the stories that you tell yourself about why you can’t.

Write your story 🖋️

Jim