The inner game
Tennis-player-turned-coach Tim Gallwey many decades ago came up with a simple formula to define performance in sports, which became also a classic model of performance in business coaching:
Performance = Potential - Interference
He called it "the Inner Game".
I'm sure this is also your experience: you can only perform at your best when the interferences are reduced to a minimum, whether they are external (they come from your surroundings and circumstances) or internal (for instance, some impostor syndrome preventing you from changing career, or your inner judge yelling at you that you are not good enough).
Either way, you are not reaching your full potential.
So, what can you do?
The first step, as always, is to understand what's stopping you from performing at your best: is it external factors (the outer game) or internal factors (the inner game - which is usually more tricky to face, but also in your power to change)?
Once you know what's stopping you, it's time to think about how you can lower the amount of interference: is it by hiring a coach? meditating? finding a quiet place to work? changing your working patterns to have a more balanced life? joining a community group?
The choice is yours.
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