It sounds like such a simple question but many times people don’t know the answer to why.
Why are you working at your job?
Why are you with the person you are with?
Why are you happy? or Why are you depressed
Why are you healthy? or Why are you not?
Having a powerful why will pull you to accomplish all of your dreams. You will not need motivation because you have passion.
The best time to plant a tree is yesterday and the next best time is now.
Take the time to look ahead at what you want to do and what you what to accomplish.
What do you want? Why do you want it? How can you get it?
Always have your end goal in mind and think if something is taking you closer to it or further away. Ask your self the right questions in the right order.
If you have a dream that’s exactly what it is “a DREAM”. The hard thing is making that dream become a reality. You probably have a job and don’t have as much time as you would like to put to your dream. This is ok because you need to get paid and not struggle. The key is to still put in work on your dream part time. Cut out all the activities that are a waste of time and use your extra time out of work wisely. Can you wake up early and work? Can you stay up late? Do you have the weekends off? Until your part time hustle makes the same as your full time job you cannot launch.
It is great to have a growth mindset! Once you start to develop this mindest it is easy to fall into the trap of taking on too many things and trying to get good at everything. This is fun but if you want to be great or a master then you cannot spread yourself thin. There is only 24 hrs in a day and for you to be a master you have to focus on one thing.
To learn more about this concept read The One Things by Gary Keller
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
There is not one single action that will take you from where you are to where you want to be. I’m sure you have heard of taking baby steps. It is called taking baby steps because babies are not born with the ability to walk. Babies have to slowly learn how to balance and use their muscles correctly. They have to fall over and over again until they take learn how to walk. If nothing else babies are persistent because they keep falling until they learn to walk. Each step you take is a success. You will fall but eventually you will learn to walk and even run. Start small and the accumulation of all the hard work of each step with build on itself.
When learning you must confront your weaknesses and not knowing something. You may be a complete beginner or already knowledgeable but you also have to be humble that you do not know everything. There is a level of vulnerability one must have to admit they do not know it all. This vulnerability can be scary but getting comfortable with it will open up huge opportunities for learning and growth.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
There is so much in the world that it is impossible to know everything. The good thing is there are so many people who have already done research for you. They have written books, recorded videos, written blogs and teach classes.
You must surround yourself with these people. You have your strengths and other people have theirs.
It is easy to be enthusiastic when you start something new. Everyone has fresh legs at the beginning of the race. Everyone is excited for the honeymoon. Everyone can have beginners luck. This is that instant gratification when you start something new. There is always more energy, more excitement because the newness.
It is something you’ve never done before so your knowledge and skill is expanding at a rapid rate. The learning curve is giant and exponential. You can go from complete beginner to mediocre pretty darn fast. Eventually the repetition and familiarity hit. The learning slows down. What used to be new and exciting is now normal. You begin to where down and it becomes boring. This is where champions are made.
The challenge is keeping the same enthusiasm and energy you had at the beginning until the very end. If you are fresh and energized when everyone else is tired or quits then you will have the advantage.
You are nothing but what you consistently do. Without consistency most of what you do is random actions.
When someone is consistent we are in awe of their actions. From the outside we are amazed by how talented they are but when you ask them it is natural for them. They will attribute everything to hard work and practice. They have practiced so much their skills are second nature.
Start small and be consistent. Who knows where you will be in a few years.
Have you accomplished something big or small recently? Many times we accomplish things and forget to celebrate or reward ourselves.
Why would anyone want to do something for you including yourself if you do not show gratitude?
Take a moment after you complete something to acknowledge yourself and tell yourself how grateful you are.
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