Two key things you MUST have in common with successful businesses

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Two key things you MUST have in common with successful businesses

How to Test and Measure where you’re at
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Hi there

You know how the best drivers can break down how the car/kart handles in great detail? There’s often a link between how much detail they can go into and how quick they are.

It’s the same with the engineers. The more things they know about then the more options they have for improving the setup. If they monitor and evaluate ever more parameters on the car, they can understand what the key variables are and take control of them. This avoids ‘paralysis by analysis’ (if done with a decent overview of what matters) yet still allows the performance related items to show up and be controlled.

As you probably know, one of the major problems in doing this is to continually develop an ever-finer measurement system. Where a 1% improvement might have gained you the edge before, perhaps now you need to know when you’ve found 0.1% as the competition gets tougher. However, if your measurement system can’t tell the difference between 0.1% and 0.2% then you might not find your 0.1%! It could be there right in front of you but you measure it as zero so ignore it!

So you’re happy that looking at, delving into, measuring and analysing your set-up and driving style in more and more detail allows you to find lap-time then, aren’t you?

It’s the same with business. Or at least it’s the same with the successful ones. They go through exactly the same process so they focus on what makes money and dump the things that don’t. The better the model of what’s going on, the better the business.

It’s also the same with you mindset: Your thoughts, your feelings, your behaviours – your confidence, concentration, motivation, muscle tension, anxiety, breathing rate, heart rate, brain-wave state, etc.

There are then two key things you must have in common with successful businesses to take you forward:

1 – Test 2 – Measure

By testing and measuring your mindset you can do exactly what you do with the set up at the track and with any business you’re involved with.

Measure a Baseline, make a change, go and test it, measure again. Simple as. The difficulty for you is that you may not have the tools and skills to measure your mindset. Without such tools, you can’t go through the all important Test and Measure process.


* The Mindset for Racing Finish Line *

By using appropriate mindset measuring tools and processes you can implement a system of testing and measuring that will truly break down this racing ‘mindset’ of yours and allow you to find out what’s key and improve what really matters.

There’s even a suite of ‘Baseline’ services from me at Sun1400 that allows you to do just that. Check out www.sun1400.com/services.html .

You know what the top guys do and what you should be doing, don’t you?

Have a great Xmas and here’s to a great Racing 2009 for you!


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Next Edition – Your BIG problem with Goals and how to solve it

A new year with new targets but it’s likely you need to bin some old plans
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Enjoy your racing and never give up.

Regards

Mike

Mike Garth
Helping karters and racing drivers perform better
+44 (0) 7737 655 912
www.sun1400.com
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