Creating Inner Impossible Results in Your Life
How to go past the point of no return. It happens every time I start a new project. I decide on it and then look at what is a possible level of achievement or success with what I am doing. Then I like to look way beyond and ask myself ‘What if I totally went berserk with this, what could I really accomplish?’ ‘What really hasn’t been done with this or what even might look impossible about this?’ Then I pick a spot and ask myself just how I could accomplish it. Somewhere along the way because I set such a high bar to reach either reach my level of competence or I just blow right through it.
Somehow you just have to cut through the noise and see your final result. If you aren’t measuring, you probably are not going to get there. You have to be able to see it.
It’s like the Professor that was with his students and they were way up in the Hills overlooking Disneyland. From the beginning the Professor had promised his Students he would take them on a field trip and one of the stops was to climb way up top and view the big kingdom of Disneyland.
‘Wow!’ the first Student said, ‘If only Walt could see this!’
‘That’s just it, he did! He did see it! exclaimed the Professor.
So you gotta have the vision first. Even if it owns a small piece of your mind, you can work on moulding it everyday to your ultimate dream.
Lately I have noticed my mind adopting a fresher and newer philosophy. When I was a kid, first starting in the business world learning to cut peoples lawns it was just one action for a transaction kind of thing. I never understood the idea of repeat business.
The only thing back then that was passive income was either Shaklee or Amway where you could get residual checks every month. Now today it is ridiculous the menu of choices one has to start something. It is almost overwhelming. You have to pick one or two ideas and build on them and not be distracted. Like even this week I had new business starting with a larger company. I knew it was going to consume my whole week so I put a whole pile of stuff to the side to devote my time to this. Even my Social Media. I just totally ghosted my own self and didn’t go on at all. The crazy part was I didn’t miss it one bit. I realized how much of my time it was taking up. So now I have a few open days to do some catch up and I’m telling you, it really has got me thinking about what other things are burning up my time that maybe I am missing.
So I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago and the fella on there, I can’t even remember his name now, was talking about how he takes one sheet of paper and once a week on a Sunday he takes all his important projects and puts them on there. The people that are important to him also have a spot. The tasks involved only for that week. He lists those only if he knows he is going to complete them. Then he went into a little more detail for 20 minutes. It's a complete time hack. I used to use something similar to this many years ago and kind of got away from it so I decided I would really make a concerted effort to re-do my ‘One Page Focus Sheet’ and start focusing on that. I started it on October 3rd and I’m already in my 7th week. What an incredible difference it has made in my productivity. In the first 2 weeks it felt like I had got 2 years of work done. Before I had my list of things to do and would just check them off but realize I was just waffling my time. Honestly, if I was working on something, I just didn’t want to commit to anything else.
So what I am getting at in all of this is, not only can you chunk down big goals into small tasks you can also raise the bar and create much larger results than you ever dreamed possible.
Yesterday, I was leaving a friend of mind and asked her, ‘What is most important to you in life right now?’ ‘What is more important than anything else that you would really like to accomplish?’
‘What is one thing that you really really would like to accomplish, create, be or have or do in the next year?’ I left her to think about it and said we should talk about it next week.
The thing is, for most of us, we just don’t know how to answer those questions. If more people even took a little time for themselves each week and some time on it each day they could radically alter their life in 12 months, but could you imagine what would happen if you got up everyday and allotted a certain amount of time for that specific goal. I often try to comprehend in my mind how many years in advance an author who writes a 1000 page monster of a book plans it. I mean, did he just think of it and say I am going to start writing it next week and see what happens and then what happened is he ended up with 1000 pages or did he scribble some notes, think about it for a while, maybe follow a text book on how to outline a novel and piece by piece put it together or did it just grow in his mind each day. Imagine getting up each day and your goal is to write a 1000 words. One thousand words doesn’t sound like much but I’m sure some days that 1000 words is the elephant in the room and other days you just knock them off. Before you know it within a year you have a decent novel with a good story.
So, any goal has a bunch of steps that if you follow those steps daily. Think about it though, what is one thing that you could become completely obsessed with that it would consume your thinking everyday. For instance, I like reading. I like taking an hour and just reading online about business owners and entrepreneurs and get some amazing ideas. But really if you think about it when I do that I am just consuming. Consuming the stuff that spontaneously shows up online whereas instead, I could spend an hour or two in my office making some notes on my thoughts and taking some new ideas and sketching them out on paper to look for possibilities for new products, new courses or maybe a book that I have been thinking about writing. Or even writing that new book for publishing. You know how the saying goes, ‘Write it once, Sell it Forever!’
Instead of the consumer, be the Manufacturer, the Author and publisher, the inventor, the creator that produces the videos to educate. And you can collaborate with other creators or if you just want the solitude, do it all yourself. There are so many options.
When you look at the results they sometimes can look intimidating, but to the person who created the results, they were out in the field everyday sweating it out, up everyday working at the primary project and sometimes doing even a little bit each day. But it was something.
Something that made them feel proud of their accomplishment. Something that just kept them going and going. To extract the ideas from their own mind, put it on paper and to make it real in the world is just an amazing feat!
So what is that for you? What is the one thing or project or idea that you could really get excited about? Something you could start today? I like that you are reading what I have written here and I would be so honored if you just stopped in your tracks and picked up a pen and paper and started on your idea. It would be inspiring to hear your story.
During the day I work on assorted projects with people and ideas. It is in the wee hours of the morning, be it rising early at 3 or 4 a.m. or in the deep recesses of my mind I like to cultivate my thinking late late at night if I cannot sleep. It’s like a certain calm that is there when you are awakened with an idea and just have to get up and write it down. You never know when you are going to get a breakthrough on some challenge or idea you have been working on. So that when you finally surface and look at everything you have compiled and produced in your project you even end up astonishing your own self.
What one thing would you like to accomplish that appears almost impossible that if you did it, figured out a way to accomplish it, would change your whole world?
