The best performances come when the performer has skin in the game. The more you stand to lose, the greater you will elevate and sacrifice to achieve great things.
How can you raise the stakes? It’s simple. Talk a big game and set high expectations. Dream out loud and tell them what you will do and be brash, irreverent, and speak it from the chest.
Make it easy for them to hate you and mock you if you lose. The more it hurts to lose, the more you’ll learn to hate losing. When you hate losing, you find a way to win.
The problem is, you don’t want to embarrass yourself and you’re afraid that people won’t like you. So you’re quiet and boring and nobody expects you to be great.
I have a theory that the more you can intentionally make things more uncomfortable for yourself, the more you will push yourself to succeed. Those who genuinely push themselves to succeed, do.
Can you make it uncomfortable for yourself? Or is it too scary to step out and make yourself a target?