Success is challenging to sustain. I believe one key reason for this stems from the cycle indicated in the headline. Too often we lose intensity when we are experiencing success – we become too satisfied. Here are two disciplines I use to help maintain my intensity and desire to keep setting and accomplishing new objectives:
• Purpose – focusing on the WHY of my work motivates me to keep improving because I realize my work is far from complete.
• Pace – alternating my periods of production intensity with meaningful downtime keeps me from flaming out and exhausting my resources.
How do you maintain intensity?
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
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