Wednesday, April 30, 2014

FORGET THE WHOLE STAIRCASE, JUST FOCUS ON THE NEXT STEP

Are you ready to take the next step and get to the next level?

Is there a big change in your life that you want to make but you are finding it hard to create the change or find the motivation to get started?

I have dealt with this myself as well as athletes and others that I have trained.

We all get so caught up in how far we have to go when we need to be focusing on just the very next step.

Don't be concerned with the entire staircase that you have to go up to become better.  All you should be focusing on is your next step on the way to being the best you.

This point really hit home when I was listening to a podcast by Commander Divine who is a former Navy Seal, Best Selling Author, and many other accomplishments.  He was describing a story about his time during Hell Week when he went through Navy Seal training.

To sum it up, instead of thinking he has to make it through seven days of training, he focused on ensuring he made it to the next meal.  This helped break his goals down to something that he was closer to achieving and by doing such, it makes the process that much better.

You have to do the same thing if you want change.  Don't hold a pity party because you have so far to go to reach your goals.  Take that goal and break it down to something that you can accomplish sooner and then get to work. You are the only one who will decide.

MVP Mindset Mental Exercise
1.  Define your top 3 goals that you want to accomplish in the next 6 months
2.  Take each of those goals and break them down into 6 different milestones so that you have a milestone goal for each month
3.  Now take each of those monthly goals and set a goal for this week