RealTalkAJ

I’ll be discussing what it means to level up in ranks:

It generally requires consistent, high-performance, and strategic improvement.

Improving with consistency

Consistency is commonly associated with practicing, and that includes your daily efforts, weekly progress and long-term repetition.

How it looks more specifically is through doing a repetitive task and making minor adjustments and tweaks to your method that will be tested eventually and put on “the big stage.”

These small repeated actions tend to compound over time and create a completely new outcome as a result.

That’s the tricky part about it in most cases.

When you’re making these increases in your talent or skill, it might not be clear that it’s happening in the early stages and might not even be in the middle of it, but at the end, it’s done in hopes and expectations that you will be completely different or possibly even better at what it is that you’re doing.

People will break consistency at times when they just had enough of whatever it is that they’re going through.

There’s resistance to some effect that makes it a challenge, and most people are not built for uncomfortable situations when the going gets tough.

People actually tend to leave with it.

But you’re able to track your progress through pretty common ways. One of the most popular is logging and journaling your experiences.

This consistency will shift from a discipline to your identity once that becomes your reputation.

It’s what people will know you to be and from there, it ends up becoming part of your entire brand.

Performing at a high level

Performing at a high level is a rare trait in itself. There’s not many people that can boast and claim that they’re able to do it.

But what separates the average performance from a high level is being able to execute despite whatever challenge is in front of you.

The regular person will sometimes win while the high level performer has that functioning as the standard. It’s the norm.

And this is where preparation actually influences your ability to consistently perform.

It’s because you’ve been there before.

You’ve taken yourself through the deep waters of what it takes in order to be a high level performer.

It can apply to business and athletics.

There’s mental habits and routines that you could actually go through in order to have this result as well.

One of the ones that I was trained in order to do was going through affirmation statements.

What these do is reaffirm your beliefs, the things that you keep saying to yourself is what you’re going to subconsciously believe later on in the future.

And it’s something you do daily. You will remind yourself. It might even be more frequent than that.

Eventually you get to the point where you might see other people that are trying to emulate that and you have to be mindful of what the difference is between someone who just does it without any fruits to bear.

It might lead to where you discover someone who went through setbacks and criticism and failure, these experience can have you questioning whether you’re able to actually execute at that level.

That’s where you need to have someone that helps keep you accountable and reaffirm your beliefs.

Again, going back to the sports example, this is where what a coach would be able to help, they would let you know, “man, you’re thinking crazy.” and “you’re actually that person,” whoever it is that you’re telling yourself that you want to be and that you will be in life.

Eventually performing at a high level becomes your standard because you determine what the traits are of a successful person, and you can apply it to anything that you’re choosing to become great at.

Utilizing a Strategy to Improve

Utilizing a strategy to improve is having a method to your madness.

This is where you have a winning system set in place that can be relied upon, and even transferred into other programs in order to ensure your success in other areas.

The difference between working hard and working strategically towards improvement is incorporating your logic into the equation.

You have reasons to justify your actions and you’re not just doing something blindly without any confidence that it’s going to work.

You can identify the right strategy for improving based off of blueprints that’s been set in place.

When you’re looking to improving a certain area, there’s a good chance that there are others that reached the same level you’re trying to attain or at least gotten close.

What you would do is study these habits.

Their tactics, the things that they’ve done, and grab the things that you like from it to be able to apply it in your own situation.

You also get a confirmation that these tactics work through feedback. What feedback does is measure the status of what is that you’re doing.

You’re getting outside looks and these people will let you know what they like or maybe even dislike about the things that you’re doing.

And from there you can continue doing more of that thing that’s helping or minimizing on areas that’s not serving you well.

That also explains when your strategy needs to be adjusted.

You might have something that’s doing well and it’s getting you somewhere, but if you’re trying to get further, you might make this adjustment and doing something a little different in order to go a little further or wherever it is that you’re trying to take the things that you’re doing.