Ever since I purchased the Insane Productivity online course by Darren Hardy, I have been crazed about success mentorship. I purchased this course at a very good time in my life. I didn't have a job, I had just arrived back here from Iran, and I was still trying to figure out what to do with my life. For the past 4 or so years, my life or shall I say, my career has been put on hold due to my constant travels to Iran and back. I learned a lot from these experiences and I am thankful for being blessed with it. However, it has taken a toll on me.
I have been motivated to do something for quite some time and it seems that instead of being able to use all this fuel to do something BIG, my small disciplines seem to waver. According to Jim Rohn, success is the practice of small disciplines in a consistent manner. Or in other words: grinding it out! I have talked all about how once I do have my own apartment with my own personal schedule, I will do this or that and now, it seems that as always, it is much easier to talk the talk but not so much to walk the walk! I think I know what the biggest problem is in fact--I want to suddenly go from this person who would work out only once or twice a week and spent maybe 2-4 hours of productive time per week to this person who is productive 5 hours a day, works out 4 to 5 days a week, reads everyday, listens to inspirational audio everyday, finds an amazing job right away, and is wealthy within a few months!
The truth is, they all the say the same thing. You cannot expect to have these kinds of results and work towards these results and expect the results to come really fast. In my case, I feel that my body has rebelled against me and is making me take up habits that are worse than what I used to have. I eat so much until I can't move, I eat sweets everyday whenever I have the craving, it is so hard to get me to be motivated to work out even once or twice a week! And so many other bad habits that I am not quite sure how they creeped in to my lifestyle! Every day, it seems like a battle. Trying to enforce these "good habits" into my life like writing on my blog and publishing early in the morning and now I'm trying to add reading for 30 minutes before bed and then suddenly seeing all these bad habits creep in that weren't even there before that may not have anything to do with the writing or editing but they are still harmful to my productive and successful future.
In my case, I need to not expect results right away. I remember a line in the book "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert that said, "if you do anything [whatever your craft may be] every day for a period of 5 years, you will become an expert at it." 5 years is a long period of time, but it is the very truth. I have to make this pact with my self to try to apply these small "good" habits and disciplines into my life for at least the 4 years that I have taken a break from my career and surely, something will come out of it. Maybe I won't even be as successful as I plan to be. Maybe I will fail miserably. However, it is as Tony Robbins and Jim Rohn point out, "it is not the goal that you achieve that makes the difference, it is who you become in the process." Thus, if there is no great outcome of my actions in the next 4 years, I would like to dedicate my time to becoming that person.
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