Baby Steps to Success

I usually cringe when I discuss topics on success and most of it is due to the fact that each one of us has our own interpretation of what ‘success’ means to “me”.

With that being said, let’s move onward. Whatever success may mean to you… and me, I believe that success is a worthy goal… in whatever we deem success to be.

I myself have not reached the pinnacle of success because I am too busy catching up with life… and it seems that many of us get caught in that trap. Yet, when we look back, we’ve all had many successes.

Many of us get tired of setting goals – only to see them evaporate before our very eyes.

In the process of LEARNING how to walk, we probably spent more time failing than we did succeeding. Do you remember thinking of quitting, I can’t even remember that far back!? Did you ever tell yourself, “I’m not cut out for walking, guess I’ll crawl for the rest of my life?”

Of course, you didn’t!!

So my question is, why do many of us quit now?

What happened? Did we lose the ability to make a goal, …to go for it, and get it?
How come many of us don’t do what we did when we were one or two years old?

Here is the answer:

Quite simple really, somewhere along the way in life, some of us became unwilling to take baby steps. We got into our heads and began thinking too much. We forgot how to just be in the moment. We lost faith in the universal truth that the simple little disciplines done again and again over time would move the mightiest mountains.

Many would agree that success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Any one can have the success they seek by consciously making small, seemingly insignificant right decisions day-in-and-day-out.

Here’s an example…healthy people regularly eat right and exercise. Unhealthy people have the same opportunities to eat right and exercise…they just choose not to do so. Over time, healthy people are rewarded. Unhealthy people suffer.

Healthy people consciously make the right food and exercise choices day-in-and-day-out – the same choices that unhealthy people refuse to make.

This is just one major life category where our personal philosophy can either work for us or against us. This philosophy and practice can be applied to EVERY major aspect of life, including our personal development, family, finances, relationships, and especially our career or business.

Have you ever considered what is the real cost when you put off achieving your goals? Think about that, there is no one else inside your head but you.

Like I said… I’m not great example of success, what I can say – is, those little goals that I attempt to reach, I find that when I clear the clutter in my mind and focus on the most basic thing I can do today it makes it easy taking that first baby step. I may even suggest that if you are struggling with something – try like I have: make a list of the things you keep putting off; ask yourself what would you gain by accomplishing them… you need to know EXACTLY what activities to do every day that will get you closer. And you need to track those activities closely. Soon you will turn your weaknesses into strengths.

Soon, disciplines will become habits and habits will be a lifestyle. Sounds simple… yet the first step is the hardest. Take that first baby step, I know you can.

Daisy Says: It’s the little things we do every day that make the most difference.