It’s quite often better to have something done non-perfect, than to get nothing done at all.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Casey Neistat
When it comes to reaching goals, success and failure very much depend the ability to do little steps consistently, rather than making big steps every once and a while.
If one can break seemingly unreachable goals into small pieces, dreams can get reality.
What is the most time-consuming thing in your everyday life? And if this is not helping you reaching your goals, than try to minimise it. Reduce it as much as possible to make time the things you really want and need. And be brave. I know the silence can be hard to bear.
Reaching Goals
Step1: Identify a goal
Step2: Find a way to reach that goal
Step2.1: Identify things you have to avoid
Step2.2: Avoid them
Hold down by ambition
I don’t know if it is only me, or whether this a common human thing, but often I see so many possibilities and options and I have so many obligations that I have to fulfill and problems to solve where there just is no clear answer to difficult questions, that I get the feeling that all this weight in mind just freezes me.
I call this “hold down by ambition”. There are so many options and things I want to do, that I don’t know where to start and in end do less than I would have done if I had nether thought about more than just the basic tasks.
I’m sure, that with a perfect time management and less emotions all my dreams and plans are manageable (at least most of them), but I am a human. I have emotions. I have dreams. I know fear.
So what could be a solution?
I think, the first step could be identifying your goals.
Secondly, limitation. Focussing as much resources on as little things as possible could help to foster higher productivity.
Third step: Breath. Deeply.
Fourth step: being as fearless as possible confronting failure. Think about the people how achieved big things, and look how they reacted to mistakes. There is something to be learned there.
Fifth step: Think less about other peoples minds.
It is frightening to think about what other people think seeing you fail. But in the long run, I honestly believe, that the right people will be more impressed by you picking yourself up and trying again, than they will remember you lying flat on your face.
5.1: A fallback only provides more space to take a run-up.
6th: Consistency is key.
I’m not the first person to state that “showing up every day” is of utter importance on the way to victory.
Mentionable Notes:
Learn from other peoples mistakes.
Motivation
My hardest setback showcases, that even after times of great despair – when you are ready again: you most likely will have missed less than you might have thought and this new path also has the opportunity to led you somewhere magical.