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What steps are you taking each and every day towards your goals? Taking action each day, even if it's only a small step is crucial to build momentum, maintain your enthusiasm and make progress. When you put off doing required tasks they begin to feel even bigger causing procrastination to really set in. Most people naturally sense of what needs to be done; it's when it comes to actually doing it that they become stuck. Anything that you want to achieve can be broken down into smaller more do-able steps. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! Spending as little as 15 minutes per day taking action on a particular goal adds up quickly and keeps procrastination at bay. Although the steps may be small they can still have a huge impact. Even if you're only going to do one thing in a day on a particular goal, how about making it an outrageous step. What do I mean by an outrageous step? It's a step that goes beyond the normal, takes you out of your box where your usual actions occur and it's about being daring.
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." An outrageous action step is one that feels a real stretch for you personally. It may be slightly uncomfortable and it challenges you in a healthy way. Taking an outrageous step can be stimulating and refreshing because it awakens the part of you that knows you're capable of more and enjoys being challenged. An outrageous step builds confidence in yourself and your ability with possibly amazing results. When you challenge yourself to be outrageous in your actions, you need to be feeling a certain level of confidence. If your confidence isn't high enough, stick with a small ordinary step that day to keep the momentum going. Protect yourself from having your confidence knocked and stepping back to not continuing with smaller action steps. When your confidence is feeling good one day and you're ready to experiment with this, ask yourself, "What outrageous step am I willing to take today towards my dreams?" Listen and see what comes up. Whatever the resulting action step that comes up, there is likely to be some fear and resistance. This is normal and it's your choice whether you allow the fear and resistance to stop you or not. The difference with an outrageous step isn't the amount that you challenge yourself to do, it's about personally moving beyond your own comfort zones. So, instead of say sending out 100 sales letters or making 100 cold calls, the outrageous step may be identifying the one person to write to or call that feels a challenge to your comfort zone and where you know in your heart that it's likely to have the most impact. Rather than spending a lot more time with your employees, perhaps the outrageous step is to listen to them fully or challenging them to come up with their own solutions. Being outrageous allows for personal growth, self-improvement, excitement and potentially some very different and amazing results.
What will it take for you to take outrageous steps some days?
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