Chapter 4Understanding Your X-Factor on Your TrajectoryWhat You're Best Suited to Do
To live a more purposeful life, you must engage in victory analysis by developing a tough-love understanding of what your X-Factor™ is and what it reveals about individuals, teams, departments, business organizations, and any other enterprise. This serves as the core driver to everything you should do as well as what you need to let go of. Once you have a firm grasp on the X-Factor concept, you'll have a much easier time shaping your future TC imprints, your FIST Factor, and evaluating your own Identity-Purpose Statement to make any necessary adjustments.
So let's explore this next idea. The “X” in X-Factor represents an endeavor and is in essence anything that you would like to track. Let “X” represent the word success. Now mentally frame the word by how you would define that word. No matter what you say, you are correct. Some examples are:
- Happiness
- Peace
- Respect of others
- Integrity
- Material possessions
- Career
- Family
- Community standing or involvement
- Finances
- Inspirational drivers
- Social standing or involvement
- Health
- Education
- Spirituality
By applying this concept, you will see how to set yourself and others up for performance execution success and work through meaningful trajectory direction. Ideally, you should have designed—or will design—your Trajectory Code to lead to your windshield success or rearview-mirror disappointments. Understanding and applying the X-Factor is about how you ...
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