13294: Consider A Win Audit Instead

Raw transcript:

So in the category of framing is
everything
uh we don’t always have super
spectacular wins in life. In fact almost
everything we pursue is you know some
good some bad and it’s all how you look
at it. I have a a little thing you might
want to try in this episode of the VO
Heroes podcast.
In life, we pursue learning and testing
and trying and stretching and thinking
outside the box and getting out of our
comfort zones and doing new things. And
very very rarely are those
opportunities, those pursuits a 100
success.
I mean, to be fair, they’re rarely a
100% failure. But it’s often how we look
at it that makes the difference. If we
don’t get the results that we want from
something that we’re trying to do, we
often look at it as a total failure, a
massive negative, something that god, I
wish I’d done something else with my day
that day, right?
But there’s this concept that I try to
practice, and I don’t know if other
people have called it this. I call it a
win audit.
And the win audit allows you to reframe
uh a some wins, some losses, some good,
some bad, the the vast preponderance of
how things end up. You know, if I wanted
to go and try some new uh acting
technique or voice technique or or video
technique or something and you know, I
was there’s some things that I learned
from it and some things I didn’t. to
think that I wasted my time or that it
was a massive failure and and I could
have done something more productive with
my life for that that hour or two. I
don’t think that’s as useful as saying,
“Oh, well, I did learn this. I learned
how to frame myself on camera and I
learned how to do some lighting. I
didn’t actually get the uh the result
that I wanted, but I learned from what
didn’t work and what did work. any
anything familiar in that ring? You
know, do more of what works and less of
what doesn’t.
And saying after the fact, look, I
didn’t I didn’t get exactly what I
wanted, but I did do this. I did do
that. I did do this. I did do that. I
was in a session recently and I saw a
perfect example of this uh when someone
was trying to accomplish something on
camera, didn’t quite get it the way they
wanted, didn’t get all the information
that they needed, but took a moment and
out loud did a win on it. You know, I
didn’t get what I wanted, but I did do
this and I learned this and look at this
that I got taken care of. I didn’t
expect that. Um, and that positive
reframing of the little wins that you
did get from a less than perfect
situation can be really powerful and can
remind you that almost all the time in
life, nothing’s perfect. Nothing’s
perfectly good. Nothing’s perfectly bad.
Um, there are little tiny
accomplishments
that we tend to forget because we don’t
say them out loud. uh or not even value
because overall we look back at the
experience and go yeah that didn’t work
out. So just a little reminder when
you’re done with something and you don’t
get whatever the results are whether
it’s a a great opportunity and a great
win or not so much there’s always going
to be something that you can take away
from it that helps you reframe it as
valuable.
Right? So, it’s called the win audit,
and it might be something that will help
you reframe your pursuits of things that
are just a little bit outside your
comfort zone or stretching or maybe
don’t work out exactly the way you want.
Let me know what you think about that in
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Uh, maybe that’ll help. I’m David H.
Lawrence the 17th. I thank you so much
for watching and for listening and I
will see you in the next episode of the
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