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How To Get Everything You Want In 24 Hours
Have you ever seen the Hugh Grant movie, About A Boy?
If you haven’t seen it you should rent it because it’s a great
movie. But if you have seen it then you’ll recognize the following
quote from Grant’s character “Will”…
I find the key is to think of a day as units of time, each unit
consisting of no more than thirty minutes. Full hours can be
a little bit intimidating and most activities take about half an
hour. Taking a bath: one unit, watching countdown: one unit,
web-based research: two units, exercising: three units, having
my hair carefully disheveled: four units. It’s amazing how the
day fills up, and I often wonder, to be absolutely honest, if I’d
ever have time for a job; how do people cram them in?
I’ll admit the title of this post is a bit misleading. It reads like
you can get everything you want “in under 24 hours” but that’s
not what I mean by it. I used this title to not only get your
attention but to demonstrate the POWER of this statement
if you fully grasp it.
In order for you to accomplish anything in life you have to learn
the power of INCREMENTAL SUCCESS. Let me explain how it
works…
It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish… making a
million dollars, losing 50 pounds, learning to speak French, etc.
In order for you to accomplish what it is that you want you
MUST achieve your goal incrementally. There’s no other way
for it to happen - it’s IMPOSSIBLE.
No one makes a million dollars without making $1 first. No one
loses 50 pounds without losing 1 pound first. And no one becomes
fluent in French without learning how to say “bonjour” first.
So now that we’ve established that accomplishing anything you
want must come through incremental progress, then you realize
that success is created by a series of smaller accomplishments
that add up to the final goal.
The next thing for you to understand is the process of TIME UNITS.
Just as the character in About A Boy managed his entire life, you need
to understand how time is applied towards incremental progress for
ANYTHING you want to accomplish.
The main unit of time in our lives is THE DAY. That 24-hour period
that repeats again and again until one day we die. It’s what we live
our lives by. Every day is an important day and in order to accomplish
everything you want in your life you must account for each and every
day.
Do you know why the kiss of death in trying to accomplish anything
in life is the old mantra of I’ll start on it tomorrow?
And you know exactly what I’m talking about. You have that product
you want to create. The one that will make you more money. Or that
new blog to set up. Or that affiliate marketing campaign to put together.
Yet somehow you easily convince yourself, “I’ll start on it tomorrow.”
And you lose yet another day of your life that you’ll never get back
where you made ZERO INCREMENTAL PROGRESS. When we are
living any given day it’s so easy to put things off. It’s so easy to
procrastinate. It’s so easy to convince ourselves that tomorrow we’ll
start going to the gym. Tomorrow we’ll start eating healthier.
Tomorrow we’ll do some writing that we’ve been putting off.
Tomorrow we’ll start studying Japanese.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Well, there’s a reason why most people don’t accomplish that much.
There’s a reason why it seems like WEEKS or even MONTHS go by
and you haven’t accomplished things you know in your heart you
really want yet you haven’t made any progress towards them at all.
It’s because it’s so easy to put things off until tomorrow.
So Here’s What You Need To Understand…
This is exactly what changed my life when I was struggling as an
entrepreneur and really helped me break-through to finally building
wealth for myself…
If you are trying to accomplish anything, in this case growing your
income, you must do something every single day towards accomplishing
your goal. Let me repeat that…
YOU MUST DO SOMETHING EVERY SINGLE DAY TOWARDS
ACCOMPLISHING YOUR GOAL.
It doesn’t matter how big or how small this effort has to be. It just
has to be SOMETHING. So every day that passes in your life you
will incrementally be closer to getting everything you want. It’s a simple,
yet powerful concept.
If you want to lose weight, for example, then just walk 1/2 mile each
day. Not a mile. Not 5 miles. 1/2 mile. If you walk 1/2 mile each
day that’s like walking 3.5 miles a week. Walking 3.5 miles seems
pretty far to most people. But 1/2 mile is nothing. Yet you get the
same net result from walking 3.5 miles whether you accomplish it
in one day or one week.
Almost anything worth accomplishing in life seems BIG when we
look at it from “Step 1.” Everything requires incremental progress.
And most things require MANY steps to reach the finish line.
When we are faced with everything we must do to accomplish any
goal it often seems so overwhelming that it’s much easier to just
put off starting it until another day. And that day often becomes
a week, a month, a year, or more often than not… NEVER.
If you want to grow your business you must be taking action every
single day that contributes towards your goal. This doesn’t mean
checking your email more, or looking at stats more, or “doing
research” (i.e. surfing sites all day) it means putting in the work
towards creating that product, or doing some writing for an article
or blog post, or making a video you’ve been wanting to make, or
setting up a site and testing some Adwords, etc. etc.
Stop letting a single day go by when you aren’t making at least
SOME incremental progress towards ALL your goals and it is
IMPOSSIBLE that it won’t change your life for the better.
Even if it’s just a small step each day. Because that’s a step you’ll
never have to do again and you’ll be even closer to accomplishing
your goal. - John Reese
http://www.income.com/blog/2008/12/23/how-to-get-everything-you-want-in-24-hours/
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How To Get Everything You Want In 24 Hours
Have you ever seen the Hugh Grant movie, About A Boy?
If you haven’t seen it you should rent it because it’s a great
movie. But if you have seen it then you’ll recognize the following
quote from Grant’s character “Will”…
I find the key is to think of a day as units of time, each unit
consisting of no more than thirty minutes. Full hours can be
a little bit intimidating and most activities take about half an
hour. Taking a bath: one unit, watching countdown: one unit,
web-based research: two units, exercising: three units, having
my hair carefully disheveled: four units. It’s amazing how the
day fills up, and I often wonder, to be absolutely honest, if I’d
ever have time for a job; how do people cram them in?
I’ll admit the title of this post is a bit misleading. It reads like
you can get everything you want “in under 24 hours” but that’s
not what I mean by it. I used this title to not only get your
attention but to demonstrate the POWER of this statement
if you fully grasp it.
In order for you to accomplish anything in life you have to learn
the power of INCREMENTAL SUCCESS. Let me explain how it
works…
It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish… making a
million dollars, losing 50 pounds, learning to speak French, etc.
In order for you to accomplish what it is that you want you
MUST achieve your goal incrementally. There’s no other way
for it to happen - it’s IMPOSSIBLE.
No one makes a million dollars without making $1 first. No one
loses 50 pounds without losing 1 pound first. And no one becomes
fluent in French without learning how to say “bonjour” first.
So now that we’ve established that accomplishing anything you
want must come through incremental progress, then you realize
that success is created by a series of smaller accomplishments
that add up to the final goal.
The next thing for you to understand is the process of TIME UNITS.
Just as the character in About A Boy managed his entire life, you need
to understand how time is applied towards incremental progress for
ANYTHING you want to accomplish.
The main unit of time in our lives is THE DAY. That 24-hour period
that repeats again and again until one day we die. It’s what we live
our lives by. Every day is an important day and in order to accomplish
everything you want in your life you must account for each and every
day.
Do you know why the kiss of death in trying to accomplish anything
in life is the old mantra of I’ll start on it tomorrow?
And you know exactly what I’m talking about. You have that product
you want to create. The one that will make you more money. Or that
new blog to set up. Or that affiliate marketing campaign to put together.
Yet somehow you easily convince yourself, “I’ll start on it tomorrow.”
And you lose yet another day of your life that you’ll never get back
where you made ZERO INCREMENTAL PROGRESS. When we are
living any given day it’s so easy to put things off. It’s so easy to
procrastinate. It’s so easy to convince ourselves that tomorrow we’ll
start going to the gym. Tomorrow we’ll start eating healthier.
Tomorrow we’ll do some writing that we’ve been putting off.
Tomorrow we’ll start studying Japanese.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Well, there’s a reason why most people don’t accomplish that much.
There’s a reason why it seems like WEEKS or even MONTHS go by
and you haven’t accomplished things you know in your heart you
really want yet you haven’t made any progress towards them at all.
It’s because it’s so easy to put things off until tomorrow.
So Here’s What You Need To Understand…
This is exactly what changed my life when I was struggling as an
entrepreneur and really helped me break-through to finally building
wealth for myself…
If you are trying to accomplish anything, in this case growing your
income, you must do something every single day towards accomplishing
your goal. Let me repeat that…
YOU MUST DO SOMETHING EVERY SINGLE DAY TOWARDS
ACCOMPLISHING YOUR GOAL.
It doesn’t matter how big or how small this effort has to be. It just
has to be SOMETHING. So every day that passes in your life you
will incrementally be closer to getting everything you want. It’s a simple,
yet powerful concept.
If you want to lose weight, for example, then just walk 1/2 mile each
day. Not a mile. Not 5 miles. 1/2 mile. If you walk 1/2 mile each
day that’s like walking 3.5 miles a week. Walking 3.5 miles seems
pretty far to most people. But 1/2 mile is nothing. Yet you get the
same net result from walking 3.5 miles whether you accomplish it
in one day or one week.
Almost anything worth accomplishing in life seems BIG when we
look at it from “Step 1.” Everything requires incremental progress.
And most things require MANY steps to reach the finish line.
When we are faced with everything we must do to accomplish any
goal it often seems so overwhelming that it’s much easier to just
put off starting it until another day. And that day often becomes
a week, a month, a year, or more often than not… NEVER.
If you want to grow your business you must be taking action every
single day that contributes towards your goal. This doesn’t mean
checking your email more, or looking at stats more, or “doing
research” (i.e. surfing sites all day) it means putting in the work
towards creating that product, or doing some writing for an article
or blog post, or making a video you’ve been wanting to make, or
setting up a site and testing some Adwords, etc. etc.
Stop letting a single day go by when you aren’t making at least
SOME incremental progress towards ALL your goals and it is
IMPOSSIBLE that it won’t change your life for the better.
Even if it’s just a small step each day. Because that’s a step you’ll
never have to do again and you’ll be even closer to accomplishing
your goal. - John Reese
http://www.income.com/blog/2008/12/23/how-to-get-everything-you-want-in-24-hours/
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