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Seeking Clarity: The Habit that Shapes All Others
Success is an intimate, personal metric. It’s not about what other people think or say; when you know who you are and what you want, “success” is simply a measure of how well you’re doing against that standard.
I believe this is why Brendon Burchard, author of High Performance Habits, regards “seeking clarity” as the very first of six habits that set achievers apart in their skill level, contributions, and life satisfaction.
Seeking clarity is the habit that shapes all others. If you don’t have a clear sense of who you are or what you’re striving for in life, you are leaving progress up to chance and you might not even recognize it when it happens.
Three years after reading Brendon’s book, this habit is still instrumental for me. It has manifested in the form of regular planning and journaling, vision boards, and deep work with my own articulation of values — what a good life actually looks and feels like to me.
A counterintuitive truth about “the clarity habit” is that you don’t need to start with a 3-day vision-crafting seminar. Big picture work is great, but I’m regularly shocked by how much value I get out of pausing for a few moments a week for micro-practices to inch toward clarity — trusting my gut in the here and now, with limited information. In fact, I recommend starting…
