Welcome back to another issue of Marginal Gains

This week i’m sharing an idea that I recently shared in my other newsletter, The Kaizen Club. It was so good that I thought I should share it here also.

The State-Story-Strategy Framework: Your 3-Step Plan to Achieve Any Goal

Tony Robbins has empowered millions of people to overcome obstacles and get where they want to be.

But he recommends this 1 mental model as the most important.

State > Story > Strategy

Your state governs the story you tell yourself.

The story you tell yourself governs the strategies you create.

The strategies you create govern the likelihood of success.

How?

There's two types of states:

1. Powerful

2. Victim

A powerful state is proactive, growth and solution focused.

A victim state is passive, fixed, problem focused.

The state you're in affects the story you tell yourself.

If you're in a powerful state, the story you'll tell yourself is one of overcoming challenges and finding solutions.

A victim state story will be more focused on you being a victim of the circumstances. Lacking control to change anything.

The story you tell yourself affects the strategy.

Your strategy is the plan or way you approach a problem.

No plan is perfect. you'll always face problems whenever you're working towards a goal.

A powerful story makes you more likely to create strategies to overcome obstacles in your way. And you'll be more creative in your solutions.

A person with a victim story is limited in their problem solving.

Their negative story limits their thinking. And when these solutions fail, they'll give up and say it's impossible for them or out of their hands.

So how can you use this?

Think of a goal that you're working towards and then spend time journalling on these questions (ideally in the morning):

1. How do you feel when you think about this goal?

Powerful or like a victim?

2. What story are you telling yourself about this goal?

How can you make it more positive?

3. Based on your new feelings and story, what creative plans can you make to reach your goal?

Try it out and let me know how you find it.

Until next week.

Stay Thriving,

Shoaib

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Stay Thriving,

Shoaib.