Formula for Achievement
There is a Formula to Achieving Anything
This is the formula I used to get an Executive MBA, write a book, give a TEDx talk, and get promoted at work. It’s a cycle that repeats until you get where you’re going. But along the way you develop skills, achieve milestones, and increase your confidence. Once you have the formula, you can rinse and repeat for any goal you set.
The magic of the formula is that you can use it at any point. If you’ve already gotten started and things aren’t going as you hoped, just start at the beginning and see if you missed anything.
There are typically only two things that keep you from progressing: mindset and action. If you don’t think you can do it - you can’t. If you are doing the work - it’s not going to happen.
For me, the first four steps are fun and exciting, and then at steps five and six, I find out what I really got myself into. This is when you determine if it’s something you want to be doing. If the effort required is excruciating, you’ll avoid it. If it’s hard, but doable, you’ll keep going. It’s ok to change your mind. This is your life, and you get to decide what you’re going to do with it. If you decide not to move forward, I recommend filing away the plan, just in case you want to try again in the future.
Fair Warning - Progress is Weird
What actually happens is the law of compounding. You get little results, but as you stay consistent, the results grow exponentially.
Unfortunately, what you experience isn’t exactly that. It feels like you’ve made massive progress until you hit a snag (and they always come up). If you don’t quit it’s a series of wins and setbacks until you “arrive”.
Other people don’t know what you’re doing. So your big achievement looks like an overnight success. Ha, if only it were that easy!