Living with Heart: From Birth to Death 11 - The Need for Accomplishment
Episode 11: The Need for Accomplishment
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“When we know our need for accomplishment, we know when we need to stop, we can be grateful for what has happened so far, and we can rest well in anticipation instead of dread.”
Needs of the Heart by Chip Dodd, page 53.
This episode on accomplishment takes us back to our roots so we can re-establish how we grow the fruits.
Accomplishment is not achievement.
Accomplishment is not about winning. It has to do with success. Success is desire plus pursuit that contends with challenges.
Accomplishment is being the turtle in the old fable, the Turtle and the Hare.
https://americanliterature.com/author/aesop/short-story/the-tortoise-and-the-hare/#google_vignette
Accomplishment is how to live fulfilled and successfully live one day at a time.
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
Achievement reduces creativity, and the need for accomplishment advances and multiplies creativity.
Accomplishment has 3 movements or steps:
- knowing when you have reached your limits; knowing when to stop.
- celebrating the results of having given yourself to something that matters to you.
- Resting well to allow you to begin anew as you move toward the completion of that which inspires or moves you.
If we don’t know our limits, and we continue to press on in spite of being tired, not creative, not ready, not prepared, we will put out the same amount of effort with less and less results that are productive.
We need to know when we have reached our stress point of being drained, empty, tired, finished, and reached our limit. Know that you’re not quitting; you are stopping so that you can continue to participate in excellence.
By acknowledging our limits when it’s time to stop, we are actually setting ourselves up for higher productivity or excellence.
A recovery term, HALT, stands for:
- hungry
- anger
- lonely
- tired
When you reach HALT,
- You’re isolating from your needs.
- You’re removing yourself from “life on life’s terms.”
- You’re setting yourself up for relapse, “burnout” (wear out.)
We must face our limitations and stop when we have reached our limit.
After you become aware of your need to stop, take time to celebrate (that you gave your heart to something that matters.)
The Gap - If you have a vision for your life, a long-term goal, if you measure your daily success based upon how far you are from finishing the mission, then you will be miserable. You’re comparing yourself to something that hasn’t happened instead of assessing what has happened.