Recipes are a key ingredient of consistent success
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Whether you call them recipes, habits or frameworks, we all need them if we want to achieve consistently.
Yesterday I wrote about how goals are helpful for direction but we need systems to make progress.
Today I want to look at how having good processes helps us to consistently achieve quality outcomes. Let’s kick things off with a great Shane Parrish quote:
“If you want to win once, focus on the outcome. If you want to win often, focus on the process.”
Here’s the challenge: Don’t just nod and agree with the quote. Ask yourself, why is what Shane is saying true?
The key here is looking for relationships between outcomes and how they were achieved. People who do this are in a position to improve the “recipe” for next time. In fact, without this approach you won’t even have a recipe.
One of the keys to succeeding regularly and often is to have recipes. Let me put it another way: You can’t improve a recipe if you don’t have a recipe.
Call it what you want... Recipes. Systems. Processes. Habits. Traditions. Routines. Checklists. Frameworks. The point is the same. If you want to win often, focus on these things not just results.