Skill Assessment: Performance Capacity and Quality of Life

Performance capacity is your level of available resources to accomplish tasks.  These resources might include time, knowledge, dexterity, etc. Increase your performance capacity and you increase the likelihood that you will do better work, more work and more enjoyable work.  How do you increase performance capacity?  This is a question on every effective leader, manager and contributing team member's mind.  There are many ways - coaching, training, proper job placement, attending conferences, effective management of resources, etc. However, I believe that if you improve your quality of life you will also improve your performance capacity. 

Quality of life is the alignment of your expectations/desires and the reality of your life.  I.e. - if your work day is going as you expected it to go, your quality of life is higher.  If you are paid what you desire, your quality of life goes up.  If your family treats you and other people as you expect, your quality of life goes up.  Your quality of life factors into performance capacity because a good portion of the resources you need to accomplish tasks effectively are emotional.  These commonly discussed elements include attitude, patience, focus, empathy, happiness, etc.  Your emotional components are fueled by how you feel about your life and the situations and people in it. So, how do you improve your quality of life?  How do you bring a tighter alignment between the expectations/desires and the reality of your life?  Check back for more...

Emotional Maturity: The Good Life Affirmations List

The following list contains forty "this works better than that" affirmations.  Consider it your reminder of how to reach The Good Life.  Section one are life affirmations, section two are emotional affirmations and section three are relationship affirmations.
 

Life Affirmations

Your life works better than you think
Outside works better than inside

Sunrise works better than snooze

Reading works better than ignorance

Saving works better than spending

The park works better than the couch

Planting works better than chopping

Growing works better than rotting

Stewardship works better than wasting it

Journaling works better than forgetting

Experience works better than education

Earned it works better than given it

A plan works better than winging it

Winging it works better than playing it safe

Simple works better than complicated

Less works better than more

Now works better than never

Emotional Affirmations

Joy works better than sadness

Safe works better than I'm afraid

Calm works better than drama

A smile works better than every alternative

Forgetting works better than holding on to it

Responding works better than reacting

Failing works better than regretting

Fear works better than holding back

Patience works better than I'm sorry

Relationship Affirmations

Together works better than alone

Truth works better than selfishness

Forgiving first works better than forgiving when

I'm sorry works better than I'm right

I'm right works better than I don't know

Giving works better than receiving

Listening works better than talking

Talking works better than texting

Community works better than alarm systems

Asking works better than telling

Working through it works better than going around it

Accepting works better than judging

Learning works better than assuming

I care works better than leave me alone

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