Achievement is one of those less-mentioned core values. Yet, deep down every individual and organization expects to achieve something. Achievement is the visible measure of success.
So, it is worth talking about.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Let’s begin with a short exercise.
If you were to get a lifetime achievement award, what would it be?
Not everyone wants to get an award, of course. Others also think that they need to do extraordinary things to get one. And since they don’t of themselves as extraordinary, they have not considered receiving one.
But I am not talking about the awards given to artists, movie stars, and members of civil organizations.
I am talking about that which you are very passionate about. It can be related to your profession and your work. Or it can be a passion. Or something that your family will recognize you for.
Consider what you believe as having a full life. That’s what I mean by Lifetime Achievement Award.
Knowing what you want to make out of life helps you understand why you do what you do every day.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is achievement?
Let’s define achievement as a core value.
Achievement is getting what you really want with what you got. It is accomplishing a goal, a dream, a feat, or an impossible dream.
It is not an award. It is not a reward. It is what you produced.
Allow me to give a personal example.
I often get paid for speaking and training. I teach people solutions to their problems in mindset, motivation, marketing, and management.
My work is never transactional. I am not aiming to just finish something. I want every person in my session to feel that I was able to encourage and enable them to move forward.
Knowing that I have done my best to help others brings me greater joy than the payment I got for speaking in front of people.
I talked more about achievement in 3 Steps to Overachievement. I wrote it to inspire people to go through walls.
