Day 56: Go BIG or Go Home

The best way to challenge yourself and follow through on something is to tell EVERYBODY you know about what you are doing. That way there is no turning back. So today I did just that. I told EVERYBODY I know about what I am doing, not just a handful of people…and quite honestly, it is more than just a little intimidating. I am scared as hell.  That’s a LOT of people to hold myself accountable to!

But you know what? I did the exact same thing with my business.

It wasn’t until I TOLD people what I was going to create that I actually took the steps to achieve it. I mean, if no one knows, what is the incentive or motivation to do it? No one would know that you didn’t achieve your goal right? Without lip service your goal could slip silently into the night and no one would have to know its existence. Well, except for you that is. I know you know there is truth to what I am saying.

There are so many things that I have done that with over the years, but you know what…not this time. I am dead serious when I say I am looking to turn my life around, and you know what? The shifts are happening. Slowly yes, but they are happening. The changes are so small sometimes, I bet one day I am going to look back and say, “When and how did that happen?” But it is in those small incremental “doings” that create the changes. The baby steps. Each mental decision to do something different, even if that “thing” is going to bed 15 minutes earlier, or reading one more page in a book, or drinking one more glass of water per day, or doing one more small task towards your goal per day (or week). It’s something, and it all adds up. And that’s how it happens. It doesn’t happen overnight, it just looks like it does.

Let me put it this way. When you bake a pie, you don’t grab it with both hands and finish it in one big bite…you take little bites, and before you know it, it’s done. That’s how you eat a pie. That’s also how you “git er done!”

So in short, I have just amped up the volume in my life and this one year personal challenge. It is on like Donkey Kong. Full throttle ahead! I think I will give myself a new transitory name too…Phoenix Rising.

Hmm… yes, I like that.  What do you think?

Oh…and before I go, do you want to help me amp up the challenge even more? You can help me by telling more people about my blog and what I am doing. The more eyes, the more intimidating and scary it gets…and ironically, the more power behind the action to “Just do it”. In essence, you are helping me accomplish and live out my full potential. Perhaps I can even make it to The Ellen Show someday. Never know unless you put it out there right?

Spread the word mockingbird!