If you can access video, do take a look at the following from that wise old Master Yoda.
If you can't access it the key message is 'Do or do not. There is no try'.
How often have you heard yourself and others say 'I will try'. 'I will try to get up earlier, eat better, get fitter, achieve more at work, grow my business, attend to your party .....'.
Now is the time to cut 'try' out of our vocabulary. If you 'try' to push a chair it will go no where. If you 'try' to go for a run you are unlikely to go for a run. If you 'try' to make three sales calls a day, then if you fail short then you have a get out clause. 'I was only going to try anyway'!
A key lesson I have learned in life is that people really follow those who make things happen.
One of my key objectives is to help people and companies realise their potential. This means helping them set and follow through with their goals. This has also meant that over the last few weeks I have had to think carefully about my own follow through and where I am falling short. For example in the volume of my writing. So from now I am stepping it up.
A big challenge on the whole is that most of us are naturally lazy. We would prefer not to bother and we waste valuable time unproductively. However, do we want to sit back and look at our lives in later life and say 'if only....?
My Uncle Walt who had a few months left to live once said to me 'you have done more with your young life so far than I have done with all of mine'. I was only in my 20's at the time. Do you want to have that sort of regret when you hit old age?
Now what I am not saying is we need to sacrifice lots of things to achieve more. Rather just get smarter with the time we have. Also, rather than 'trying' actually do. Get the things done quickly that will take you forward. The quicker you can do them then the quicker you can expect the results.
We can apply this to our work and also home life. A couple of weeks ago I found myself giving one of my more challenging speeches. It was a tribute speech at a close relatives funeral. I shared a couple of key lessons from their life. One was about the good times we had had shared him. An area where doing I think is so important is spending quality time with the people we care about while they are here. A funeral is too late to have regrets that we did not spend enough quality time with them. The second point was about the passion this man had had for life. Putting passion into doing is so important.
An Exercise:
So take out a piece of paper and write down where you are falling short ie areas where you are 'trying' and not doing. Commit to moving some of these activities forward this week. Stick the paper on your wall so you can see it. Don't make the list too long just pick the key areas and realise that if you don't follow through then your integrity is at stake. If you need a mentor or coach to help by holding you accountable then just get in touch at info@bemoreachievemore.com.
Be More. Achieve More
Chris