Chris Mance II - Mental Skills Coach

Controlling the controllables and reducing the impact of what’s not controllable is the key to success. Ultimately, this is the fundamental reason why the process mindset is so important.

A process mindset is one in which you concede that you don’t control the future, but you do control what you do in the present to impact the future. Moreover, in the present moment you make that impact by focusing on the process of making the future you prefer the most likely future.

Simply stated, success is not an event. It’s not a goal and it’s not an outcome you achieve. Success is not something you put on a vision board and manifest using some metaphysical secret either. Success is something you grow into by using your time to do the right thing, with the right people, the right way, on most, if not all days. It’s being not achieving.

This is not a glamourous story to tell, but the process to be successful is not glamourous. Yes, we all love a great movie montage of someone going from zero to hero, but don’t let those montages fool you. Here are the facts.

1. Successful people aren’t born great, and they didn’t become great by enduring some transformational 6-week training program or apprenticeship either. They became great through hard work, emotional intelligence, and perseverance over many years of following a process they learn to enjoy.
2. Luck has very little impact on success. Instead, the biggest impact comes from the quality of one’s process coupled with the quality of the mentoring and coaching they receive while executing that process.
3. You can’t copy someone else’s process for success even if you know exactly what they did step by step. While there are clues you can follow, your process for being successful is unique.