One Goal = Momentum
Day 2 is the hardest…
It is known that it takes 21 days to turn an activity into a routine/habit. Waking up early to write. Working out. Losing weight. Quitting smoking. Reading books.
Whatever it is, and most likely you are trying to do some positive activity for your health, wellness, or PD (personal development). What I have found is that you must have a mindset that there are both short-term and long-term goals that you want to accomplish. And both must be equally important, because one without the other you are a lost cause.
Wanna lose 50 lbs. Without short term goals of ‘eating healthier’ or ‘exercise/walking each day’, or ‘losing 3 lbs/week’. Then that 50lbs will never happen.
Without having the long-term goal of losing 50 lbs. then there is little motivation for the short term goals.
Make sense?
When bettering yourself. When starting a business. When raising kids. Whatever you are doing it is paramount to have a short term AND a long term goal. Gary Vaynerchuk speaks to this ALL the time is that you have to work with speed in the ‘micro’ and have patience in the ‘macro.’
Means you have to act promptly and with purpose each day, each hour, each minute. But then if you don’t have patience in the long-term, if you can’t take a 1 year, 5 year, 10 year view then you will be lost in the process.
For the last few months, my long-term and short-term goals have not been congruent. I’m in the process of ‘aligning’ both.
I’m meeting about 25-30 other business owners/entrepreneurs, and more importantly friends that are going through the same pains next week, this group is led by the founder and my friend of ImpactClub® Ryan Fletcher. We will come together for a few days. We will brainstorm. We will align our belief system and we will move forward.
After next week, I will realign my short-term and long-term blueprint.
Back to a book that I’m reading, The 1% Rule by Tommy Baker, has a core belief that you need to ‘enjoy the process’ of growth. And that by enjoying the process that those small goals each day, just improving by 1% each day leads to MASSIVE long-term results!!!
Tommy also says that everyone starts with good intentions when they set goals. You are gung-ho and full of great ideas and ready to take on the world. That first day you run full of ENERGY.
But do you know what is the hardest?
According to The 1% Rule… Day 2 is the hardest. Think about it.
The 2nd day you start to lose momentum. No way you get to day 21 if you don’t get to day 2. This aligns with my rule of 3’s from our book, The Psychological Approach to Sell Real Estate, get to day 3 and you start to see a TREND. Then day 4 is easier than day 3. Now you have momentum.
Once day 2 is complete you know have momentum! That’s why it is the hardest, according to Baker. Get past day 2 and it is time to rock ‘n roll!
Excited to share with you next month what short-term and long-term plans we have!!!! Stay tuned.