The details. Action is all-important. In his book, Action! Nothing happens until something moves, Robert Ringer talks about the all-important first step. Action always works, even though it may lead you in a different direction than where you had intended to go.
Getting bogged down in the details happens because we think that we have to have everything figured out before we start. I can tell you...that is absolutely NOT true! All of us learn through experience and you wouldn't learn through experience if you knew everything before you started!
The point is illustrated to me by a faithful reader, who has found the secret...
I think that I may have found the answer to my "being consistent with working out" problem. My "goals" before were respectable, to be sure. Get in shape. Run a 5k. Run a half-marathon. I had high hopes in the beginning, just like all the other goals I've set in the past. Then, not so much. But, the goal that I am concentrating on now is, ...Go to the Y.There it is...keep it simple...just get there! Don't worry about elaborate schemes or bells and whistles.
It's a cliche, but it's really true...You're halfway to success if you just show up!
Takeaway: Act! Don't try to get it all figured out first
Action Step: Identify it's most basic step of your top priority goal, even if it seems elementary. Do it...Today.
1 comment:
I hadn't really thought about this concept before. I've had all these goals that I've wanted to accomplish but they've never gotten done because I've never taken the time to break them down so i can focus on one small detail at a time. I only looked at the final project as the goal and obviously, never achieved it. Each small, simple goal brings you closer to the all encompassing big goal.
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