| I envy people who can pick any goal they want, go after it with gusto, and achieve it with what only can be compared to the grace and ease of a ballerina.
Or, if you’re more into sports analogies, you could say they achieve their goals like an unstoppable quarterback making their way through the defense and getting the ball right where it needs to go.
No matter which analogy you pick...
The point is that I suspect there are only a handful of people like that in the world.
For the rest of us, if we want to achieve our goals in business, our jobs, our relationships, our health, or anything else, we need to pick the right approach.
There’s no shortage of personal development gurus and articles that will tell you what to do. Unfortunately, not everything they tell you to do even makes sense.
Take the trend of “microdosing” your actions towards your goals.
If you haven’t heard of it, it means you start day #1 with doing like 5 minutes of work, just to get yourself used to it. Next, you do 5 more minutes. And so on.
The idea is that once you’ve spent a week doing this, you’ve started to build a habit, and therefore it’s going to be way easier for you to increase to spending 10 minutes per day the next week working on your goal, and you’ll do it more and more with each week.
It’s an idea that makes sense when you read it.
Do you know what the problem with it is, though?
During the first two weeks, you’ve only worked 5 minutes for 7 days on week one, and 10 minutes for 7 days on week two. Which makes it a total of 105 minutes… less than two hours in 2 weeks.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I haven’t heard of all that many goals that can be achieved at that pace. In business, if anything, your competition will just outwork you, and it won’t matter if you’ve built a habit or not.
Even bigger problem?
You won’t see a lot of progress.
And you’ll get discouraged. And quit.
It won’t even be your fault. To be motivated, we have to see real results - instead of just being able to check a box that says “I worked for 5 minutes on my goals today”.
So here’s what I think is a better approach.
Do it the hard way. Take an idea and have at it with all your might. Swing for the fences. Day #1, day #2, day #3. Do it for a week.
In a week, you’ll see noticeable improvements. You’ll still build a habit… but you won’t be discouraged because there are no results. If you go at it hard… the results will come.
Now the biggest challenge is not to burn yourself out doing this.
Here’s the thing. If you work hard like this, the moments you rest will be that much better and more refreshing and rewarding because you’ll experience a completely different level of relaxation that only comes with knowing you’ve created amazing results for yourself.
Would you like that?
Let me know what’s the one area in your life that could be most improved by this approach.
To Your Success, Paul Hanson
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