The Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence a cou­ple of weeks ago was a mem­o­rable expe­ri­ence for all, and I had the oppor­tu­nity to dis­cuss a sub­ject that is very impor­tant to me. I gave a pre­sen­ta­tion on “Set­ting Expec­ta­tions” — more specif­i­cally, ask­ing more of our team­mates and our­selves in order to achieve more.

Each of us has a ten­dency to set our expec­ta­tions too low. If you think you can’t do some­thing, you prob­a­bly won’t try hard enough. But often suc­cess comes down to exe­cut­ing the basics well – or at least bet­ter than others.

No mat­ter what oth­ers say or the fail­ures we may have had to date, with the right focus we can unleash the poten­tial within us. We need to think expan­sively, beyond what we have achieved in the past. We need to con­tin­u­ously move up the per­for­mance bar to do more and real­ize that potential.

There are eight prin­ci­ples that will help you to ful­fill your poten­tial – no mat­ter what role or life stage you are cur­rently in.

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