Lao Tzu – “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Dale Carnegie: “Live in daylight compartments.”
“Live in the Now and Make ’em say Wow.” – el Furecat
Thinking small, focusing on constant, continuous, incremental improvement – making the process your goal, is hard to argue with, unless you are selling a book that promises a supposedly bigger and better approach.
Is there value in thinking big?
Yes, there is. Yet, for most people, most of the time, they are going to do far better with an incremental approach to success.
You can prove this to yourself with this example:
Suppose you’re Roger Bannister, the first person to break the 4-minute mile.
Why not think big and shoot for three minutes? Or two? Or one?
Come on, Roger, you’re limiting yourself and there are no limits.
In the world of martial arts training, which I am a part of, you don’t start off breaking breaks.
You begin with hitting something soft and gradually condition your body and your mind to do more.
Your focus is on continuous improvement – hitting small goals that are before you instead of dreaming of something HUGE that you must FORCE yourself to believe.
As you hit these small goals, over and over, you establish MOMENTUM.
This MOMENTUM then leads to a natural, organic upgrade of your beliefs.
You begin to think of yourself as unstoppable. You begin to believe you can create whatever you focus on.
When you have MOMENTUM, great things happen.
You naturally flow from one victory into another. Frustration, fear, worry and doubt are gone when you have MOMENTUM.
Get more MO and you will FLOW.
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
