Is there any area of your life that your wish was better? Perhaps it’s a relationship that you would like to be strong and positive, but today is less than great. Or maybe you are carrying a few more pounds of belly fat than you’d like. Maybe your financial situation is a struggle, and you dream of days where you can go shopping for shoes and clothes without feeling guilty. Whatever the area that you’d like to improve, there’s a simple and extremely effective recipe for attaining the thriving life you imagine. It’s simple, not always easy, and requires faith and perseverance, which is why few people employ it. Consequently, few people enjoy the harvest, and remain wishers. But not you! Read on to hear how this timeless principle can work for you.
WHO knows?
The first step toward developing success in your desired area is to find someone who already has success in that area. If you want a strong and healthy marriage, think of people around who have great marriages. Offer to take them out for a cup of coffee and ask them what they do to keep their marriage healthy. If you want to live healthier and get in better shape, find someone who’s already doing it and ask what they do each week to get healthy and fit. This person is your WHO.
WHAT habits?
Ask questions of your WHO in order to discover the WHAT that will get the results you want. Many great books are available as well, which contain excellent information on the things you need to get from where you are to success in any given area. Again, make sure the author has credibility in the subject at hand (the author should have success himself in the area he’s giving you advice in), and study to identify exactly what you will need to do to succeed. Hint: this will involve doing something different than what you’ve been doing.
Now the key
Ok, we’ve done the two easy parts, now all that’s left is the hard one. Finding credibile sources is relatively straightforward. Reading and asking questions of your experts to determine what to do is pretty simple too. And many many people do these two things, and yet do not achive the results they want. In many cases, it is for the simple reason that they did not stay the course. You see, there must be consistant right action for period of time, a period during which the results of the new habit are not visible. Take a new workout regimen for example. How much different do you look after your first workout? Sweaty, I know, but I mean after your shower! Not much different. What about after three workouts? Four? Fifteen?
Right action, repeat, right action, repeat
You see, you may have a great workout program that will move you exactly in the direction you want to go. If you sought advise from a credible expert to obtain the program (e.g. you have been following the ThriveFit regimen), your program is perfect for you. But if you look back during week two to check your results, you’ll likely find little but disappointment. You’ve been working hard, you’re supposedly doing the right things, but you still weigh ten pounds too much! What gives?! You think, “All this hard work, all this study and dedication, and I’m not getting any closer to my goal! I should just give up and stay where I am. At least then I’d have more time to relax and watch TV or something….”
Don’t Give Up!
And here is where we separate those who succeed from those who only dream and wish that things were better. I’m all for dreaming of a better life, and I encourage you to do so. But I would further challenge you to take your dreams and find a WHO, who will tell you the WHAT that you need to reach your dreams. And finally, I challenge you to commit to doing that WHAT cosistantly, persistently, for a long period of time. Do not be disuded by the non-winners and non-experts who try to take you off course. Understand that your results will come in time, and have faith in the process. Two paths are before you today: right action toward your desired result, or life as usual. Which will you choose?