Are you progressing in life, or are you just treading water? This is
a brief article intended to motivate you beyond stagnation into
purposeful action, once and for all. These are the steps I use to get
things done.
Almost everyday I go to the gym, and almost everyday I see people in
the gym who are unfortunately making very little progress. Although
these individuals frequent the gym quite regularly, they are
experiencing very little change in their bodies. This is quite the
misfortune.
Today I want to discuss this phenomenon and explain the steps that cause some people to progress, while others stagnate.
You Must Grow
The reality is, if you’re not going forward, you are going
backwards. I think it’s interesting that one of the definitions of
stagnate, is to decline.
We know that if living things are not growing and developing, they are dying, and who wants to die before their time?
In order to move from “stuck” into “rapid progress” the following 3 steps are requisite:
Step 1: Decide How Your End Result Will Look and Commit to Achieve It
You have to see your end result clearly. It is just as difficult to
get to a place you can’t see, as it is to come back from a place you’ve
never been. When I ran track as a child, they told us to never look to
the left or to the right, but always stay focused on the finish line.
You must see the port in the harbor to which you are headed.
Additionally, you must commit to the vision of what you want to
achieve. You must draw a line in the sand and confess that you’re sick
and tired of being sick and tired, before you will be able to go
forward. Nothing really happens until you get angry; nothing happens
until you are tired of the pain.
Step 2: Simplify Your Life
When the lion tamer goes into the lion cage, he brings a pistol, a
whip and a chair. The chair is said to be the most efficient at
controlling the beast. Why is this?
When the bottom of the chair is pointed in the direction of the lion,
the lion becomes unsure as to which leg to focus on, and begins to
stagnate.
Don’t be like the lion with so many things to focus on that you can
never make any progress. Determine the critical steps needed for your
success, and create the habit of performing only those steps everyday.
You must have laser focus; you can’t stroll to a goal.
Step 3: Act Now
Last, but never least, is to get into action today, because tomorrow
never comes. When you get into what you are calling tomorrow, you will
rename it today. Decide what your end result will be today, determine
the critical steps needed to achieve it, and start performing those
activities right now.
All of the self development material in the world is worthless, if we
never act on it. We’ve talked about progress long enough; it’s now
time to apply what we know, so we may grow.
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