Episode 70 - How to Extract Your Unique Strategy for Creating Epic Results

May 8, 2024 Hayley Carr

…do something you’ve never done before

Episode available 10 May

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Do you want to know the secret to figuring out how to do something you’ve never done before and do it successfully?

Today I’m talking about how big thinkers and dreamers navigate unchartered waters, create amazing things and achieve epic results. The truth is, there’s no one size fits all approach. It’s about uncovering your unique strategy and allowing that to shape every aspect of your decision making across all areas of your life.

What is your unique meta strategy?

After coaching for over 16 years now, something I’ve recognised to be incredibly powerful is when people uncover their unique meta strategy. Everyone has one, even if they don’t know it. Your unique strategy is the underlying, high-level approach that you unconsciously use to achieve your goals. From buying a house to pursuing your biggest career dreams, every action is guided by a strategy unique to you.

Don’t follow someone else’s strategy

When we want to achieve something that we haven’t done before, it’s logical to look to other people for inspiration. How did they get there? What strategy did they use? It’s natural to want a step by step guide on how to navigate a path you haven’t walked before. But the problem with that is that it doesn’t take you as a unique individual into consideration. It doesn't take into account the nuances of your past, your experiences, your successes up until this point, your passions or your values. What worked for them might not work for you.

Another problem with simply following someone else’s strategy is that most of the time, we don’t see all the other work that goes on behind the scenes. We see a snapshot, the very last moments before the big win. We don’t see the thought patterns, the experiences that have shaped that person’s world view and how they landed on that strategy in the first place.

Your strategy is as unique as your fingerprint. It's not about following someone else's footsteps or copying external strategies. Instead, it's about embracing what feels good for you and your individual approach to problem-solving, decision-making, and achieving goals. And, your unique strategy will apply to every area of your life. It’s not something that will only apply to business or a specific industry so it needs to be vague enough to do so.

Clarify, not create

Your unique strategy isn’t something you have to design or create. It’s already there. Look back to times in the past when you have achieved something amazing or when something just flowed and felt good. It could be in any area of your life and they don’t have to be related in any way. Think about your career, your relationships, travel adventures… anything.

Once you’ve written down or talked through as many examples as possible, think about what you did to make them work. You’ll discover common threads throughout all these experiences that form your unique strategy for creating epic results.

It doesn’t have to be complicated

My unique strategy has four components: Go on adventures, do what feels fun, make new friends and express myself. This has absolutely nothing to do with business, and yet everything I create is based on this strategy.

I hope this episode really inspires you to go back over your own experiences and successes to uncover your unique strategy. This has been a game changer in my life and in the lives of so many of my clients. The challenge isn’t so much in understanding what your strategy is, but more so in trusting it.

HAYLEY CARR