Morning Motivator - The Pain of Change

"Without the pain, we might not discover the motivation to change."
- Marshall Goldsmith

I once heard someone reference child BIRTH to personal growth. The comment was that "without pain and labor, new life would never be realized." Interesting concept when you take into CONSIDERATION that most of the hardest things in life that you had to work for are the ones you hold DEAREST to your heart.

Why CHANGE? To what ends does making the effort to gain more education, more income, better relationships or better health actually BENEFIT you? If you are doing well now... why not just KEEP DOING?

The simple fact is that we don't USUALLY see the damage we are doing until the PAIN exceeds the APATHY. We eat bad foods until we don't FIT in our jeans anymore. We start leaving work early until one day we get FIRED. We keep telling our spouse we will spend more time TOGETHER once the work is done... and then they leave. Are you ABLE to have the VISION to see the pain before it hurts??

2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP:
Write on a piece of paper the things you NEVER seek to become. Simple things: Overweight, lonely, broke, etc...

Now, let's REVERSE engineer the actions we need to take. Write next to the ANTI-GOAL, what things CONTRIBUTE to your eventual achievement, such as LACK of exercise or failing to take your spouse's calls.

Once you IDENTIFY the counter-productive action - note ONE activity you can execute weekly to help PREVENT the negative end result. Put that in your calendar as a RECURRING event. Protect it - do it - do not let anything come in its way!

Taking the small step will lead to bigger and better steps. Success is a process... so is failure. You take the steps each day - why not make the for the BEST?!

Cheers,
Zach

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