The Challenge – Taking Baby Steps

The Challenge:

This challenge is related to the last one, something that can make finding time for your goals easier to manage is to start with just a small amount of time each day.  It’s amazing what can be achieved in just 30-minutes a day when it’s spent focused on your goals and moving them forward.  For this challenge, commit to a specific amount of time each day to be focused on your goals.

This task is worth 25-points on your scorecards.

Thought Provoking Questions:

How much time did you commit to?  Were you able to stick to your time commitment?

If you still had distractions, what were they caused by?

The Lesson:

If you spend just 30-minutes each day focused on your goals, you will have spent the equivalent of 182-hours over the course of a year.  What you will find is that by starting with a small amount of time each day, you will slowly begin to increase this time as the goal formulates itself in to reality.  And as the goal begins to take shape, you will become more enthused and those distractions that caused you grief before will have a more difficult time pulling away your attention.

Persistence is also a key to this challenge.  The person that commits to taking baby steps will eventually find themselves far from where they started. It doesn’t always feel like you are moving forward until you look back several months and realize just how far you’ve come.  Don’t give up on this process, this is truly what separates the successful people in life. These struggles are what make the rewards so memorable. 

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole stair case, just take the first step” – Martin Luther King Jr.