A strategic mindset that guarantees success.
Long ago, I talked about a 1% a day approach to business and life and the basic idea of it was that as long as you do 1% MORE every single day in whatever it is you are focused on, at the end of the year, you'd have gotten 365% more done.
Today I want to give you a similar focus but a bit more specific. There's an issue many people face when encountering a new challenge and that is that they seek to understand what they are trying to complete fully, and quickly. The problem with that is that when you have a gigantic problem before you, solving it while tackling it all at once is nearly impossible. As a result, the brain shuts down and so does your ambition.
Examples:
-You seek to try and understand a course curriculum all at once.
-You try to climb a mountain whilst grasping all the hiking you need to do.
-In WA's case (and I see people making this mistake a lot), they try to understand/comprehend the entire certification/bootcamp/webinar course all at once.
-You seek to create a profitable online business but understand how much work and time it takes.
The key context in these examples is that the individual is seeking to complete the problem at hand all at once, but because it's so vast, he or she cannot. This leads to failure and more often than you can imagine. Think about a project or goal you once set that didn't work out, I am sure if you examine the mindset you had going in, you'll find a similar reason for it not working out.
What then is the solution? Here it is: Adopt an incremental completion mindset.
Using the same examples above, let me explain:
-Instead of trying to understand a cirriculum at once, study it paragraph by paragraph, little bit little, 1% at a time. Don't focus on the overall end goal, focus on accomplishing the tiny goals LEADING to it. The less stres the mind has on itself to comprehend something, the better it grasps it and that understanding evolves you to the next level faster.
-Instead of grasping how you'll hike an entire mountain, focus on hiking one rock at a time, or making it 50 feet at a time, and eventually those 50 feet add up to the whole mountain.
-Instead of grasping the entire curriculum in WA, study each lesson at a STEADY pace, little by little until you complete it (and yes the course is designed to work this way, so don't jump ahead!).
-Instead of focusing on creating a profitable business as a whole, focus on building 1 page or post a day, doing it little by little and before the end of the year, you will have completed more than you can imagine.
The ability to break down GIGANTIC goals into little incremental pieces eventually leads you to accomplish that big goal and I would argue it'll turn out bigger and better than you thought.
This is the kind of mindset I've adopted within the last year in all aspects of my life and let me tell you, it's led to some amazing accomplishments.
Here's just some examples from my personal experiences using this:
1) I train in various martial arts, my goal was at one point to be a black belt. But I had difficulty reaching it because I always looked too far at how vast and gigantic this goal was. When I started focusing on incrementally improving, this result came about quickly and my results and evolution still continue to this day (and I train a lot less by the way, I just train smarter).
2) I typically do road trips to Florida yearly from New York. The trip is 1,200 miles and typically takes me under 20 hours to do. I try to do it without stopping (gas and food only) and I find when I focused on the WHOLE trip and how difficult it was, I'd be more exhausted. Just recently I did the same trip and focused on getting through 1 hour of driving, then when I got that hour, I set my goals to reach the next hour, and so on and so forth and let me tell you, the trip became A LOT easier and I accomplished it even quicker.
3) In online business, I don't look at the goal of making 100's of blog posts a year. Now I just focus on writing 1. Then when it's done, I set the goal to write the next. 1 by 1, little by little, I'm almost up to 200 blog posts in this year alone.
Incremental mindset is what leads us to accomplish these goals and I want to share that with everyone who is struggling to accomplish their goals.
WA has everything you need to make this a reality. Add in the incremental mindset and you're going to get further in your goals, and faster than you thought possible.
Vitaliy
P.S. And if you don't believe me...
Try this: Apply this idea to anything that involves a big undertaking. Just give it a shot, you'll see :)
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What you have said certainly seems to make sense, Vitaliy. That's what it looks like to me. The course seems so big and somewhat overwhelming. I think I would be better off breaking every aspect of it down into smaller portions. Easier to focus for me I think.
I'm going to give this a try and see what happens.
Hi Wayne the great news is that this is already the case. Every hard part is broken into levels and each level is broken into 10 lessons, all very much following this blog post's advice :)
Thanks, when I joined WA I did exactly as you stated and lost my way. After a year or so I went back and started from day one with something every day. Gee I soon found out how much I did not know or understand.
I think it was Gandi who said the 100-mile journey starts with just one step ( or something like that)
Great reminder blog.
Regards
Great advice...it gets complicated because aside from the certification training or Bootcamp we see so much additional training in these blogs that is ahead of what we are learning from Kyle. It can make us want to jump ahead of the steps that Kyle puts put there and we can miss vital instruction.
Debbie
Hey Vitality,
I tried to do 12 post in a month but wasn't completing that so I would break it down like you suggested and soon after some practice, I was able to get 12 post in a month.
Tried and True
Elaine
I thought of that too. Just completing your goals one day at a time. Eventually if we’re goal oriented, will reach our success sooner than we think.
Thank you for your words of wisdom.
Great article Vitaliy - this is exactly how I'm progressing with my WA site goals. Each week I set new goals and review them at the end of the week.
By measuring my progress, I'm able to see where I needed to improve and more importantly, when a goal was too ambitious.
That makes the following week's goals much more focused and attainable.
If the goals were too easily accomplished, the following week's goals can be tougher so I get more done.
Incremental progress is always progress whereas the feeling you get from looking at an apparently unattainable end-goal often results in a full-stop.
Thanks for the wonderful article . I will definitely add it in my thinking habits. Thanks alot.
That's great post, reminder and motivation.
I can't agree less and that mind-set of wanting to achieve ALL in one go is in fact enemy within self.
Thanks for the awesome post.
:)
Joe
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Yes, I totally agree! I have always had the problem of "making a mountain out of a mole hill!" The longer I put something off, the bigger it seems to get. But when I finally have to face it, I start tearing it down one little piece at a time. For example, sometimes I have 50 things that need to be done: doctor appts., phone calls to resolve problems, money problems, health problems, etc. I can become so overwhelmed and look at the mountain and get depressed and exhausted just thinking about it! But these things HAVE TO BE DONE. So I have to start somewhere. I start by making a list, and listing the drop dead date for each one. As I complete them, I mark them off the list. It is amazing how well this works! Finally, in my 60's, I have figured this out! What can I say? I am a slow learner! Thanks for the reminder! Take Care.
Awesome Connie!