Many people put themselves into all or nothing positions of achievement. Many times, people aren’t even aware of it. I can’t say that I’ve been great about this in the past. I recently restructured my strategies to positively align with this principle. I even moved back to live in the place I’ve always hated. This is all about ensuring a meaningful base level of results. I’m very much about achieving the ultimate in life. However, losing virtually all results isn’t often a good thing either. One often needs a solid base of success in order get to the next level.

Most people are primarily looking to achieve greater levels of personal happiness in life. Some have committed to external achievement outside of the scope of their personal happiness. I’ve always known that I really don’t want to lose out on my significant goals in life. However, with one of those being jeopardized due to competition, I came to the realization that if I do happen to lose out on this goal, that it would be much worse to also lose out on my smaller goals as well. That is specifically to become a millionaire very soon and to live the dream life I’ve designed for this period of my life based on this level of resources and leverage. I want the ultimate results way beyond living a millionaire dream life in my twenties but I am not willing to put myself in a volatile all or nothing position anymore. That is because it likely leads to failure in this scenario.

I’ve realized that there are quite often lower lines of base results that are worth maintaining in many things. Ultimately this relates back to happiness with many people. However, it is also true with most other achievements that people are pursuing. Although, it is true that it is not worth it in some instances to accept nothing but the ultimate result at any cost. These are all my own opinions on technical valuations of results. You can develop your own. These are just what I see being prudent for significant success across many areas of life.

In the beginning of the year, I wrote a post titled Shoot For The Stars – Land On The Moon. This is closely related in that it talks about how developing a strategy meant to produce several times the results of your base level result will often give you much better odds for achieving it as well as results beyond it. I believe that is true. However, there are times when it can do the opposite and get you closer to the ideal result but further from the base level result. I think this is often more due to psychology and the action side of the results equation compared to success odds of pure strategy. This is what happened to me. I was closer to the ultimate results that I desired but locked myself out of the mindset & pattern of action needed to build my base level of results while pursuing the ultimate. I’ve always known about this, but wasn’t practicing it for a while.

So, what I believe is a solid approach on all of this is to diversify amongst strategies that take into account inadequacies of psychology for both your ultimate results and base level results. This means spend some of your resources on one set of strategies meant to give you the best odds on achieving your base level results. Then spend the rest of you resources on another set of strategies designed to give you the best odds in achieving your ultimate results. You may add more levels into this model, but I often don’t since added complexity has its own problems. That is one fundamental solution to this but one could take other paths of success.

All of this is designed to help ensure one’s base level of results that are still meaningful to them while allowing them to have legitimate leverage over achieving the ultimate. Obviously, synergistically designing an ultimate & base level strategy together is best. But if this synergy can’t be achieved, then strategically compromising is a good alternative.