Predcitions Don't determine success, commitment to purpose does

​The Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl.

Again....

It's Patrick Mahomes' sixth year in the NFL, and it will be his fourth trip to the championship game. Many great quarterbacks play their entire careers without ever making it once!

This was the year, folks were saying, that the Chiefs wouldn't make it. They had injuries and contract disputes and receivers dropping balls like they were trying to catch hornet nests.

And let's not forget, they also had the whole Swifty thing going on.

But while the rest of the world was captivated by all the external stories, cameras panned to the guest suites, and one by one experts and non-experts alike began predicting the story this year would be the coming back to earth for Mahomes and crew, Mahomes and crew stayed captivated by their purpose.

Their purpose: getting to the Super Bowl.

Again...

I'm not a big Chiefs fan. Like I don't own a Jersey or one of those fancy Travis Kelce jackets. But I do love the way that they win.

Not THAT they win, but the way they win.

The way that no matter how many predictions start piling up to the contrary, no matter what or how loud the noise is, they stay captivated with their purpose of piling up victories.

If you watch the Chiefs and don't recognize that, you're missing a chance to adopt a valuable ingredient of their success into your own chances for success.

Because that is what holds a lot of us back. We are captivated with our purpose until we start hearing predictions we'll never successfully live out that purpose. That's when we often become captivated with pleasing the critics instead of doubling down on our purpose.

The Chiefs doubled down this year.

Shoot, even I said no way to the Chiefs this year. Several times.

They didn't hear me. They didn't hear you. They didn't hear anyone.

You no longer hear other people's predictions when you understand predictions don't measure your chances of success, commitment to purpose does.

What's you purpose this week?

Be captivated with it, and I promise you, you'll care much less about anyone else's predictions.