{"id":1517,"date":"2017-10-24T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.harveker.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2017-10-24T05:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:00:52","slug":"next-step-challenge-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harveker.com\/blog\/next-step-challenge-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"What Your Next Step Should Be To Achieve Your Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of my students come to me with their big dreams. They come with an idea fully formed, eager to get started, but unsure of where to begin. That’s the problem with a dream so big: what’s the next step when you can already picture the end product? Today, I’m going to teach you how to hold onto those dreams \u2014 while still creating a manageable next step.<\/p>\n

How to Decide Your Next Step to Achieve Your Dreams<\/h2>\n

A lot of us will come up with a big challenging action and get excited. We say, \u201cI\u2019m going to write a book\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m going to start my own business.\u201d It\u2019s a big thing, and that\u2019s what excites us.<\/p>\n

What happens, though, is that we often tend to lose interest even though we were so sure this was gonna be it! Why?<\/p>\n

One word: fear. We lose interest because it\u2019s too big. We lose interest because our mind-frick says, \u201cYou can\u2019t do this. It\u2019s easier to just live the way you\u2019ve been living already.\u201d We go back into our old ways, settling for less than what we really actually want to be doing.<\/p>\n

Create Doable Actions<\/h3>\n

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Instead of taking on a big challenge, a far easier and much more effective way to get exactly what you want in your life is to create bite-sized, doable actions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying to take smaller actions. I\u2019m saying: think of the first three things that you\u2019re willing to do that will move you towards your big vision. That way, instead of a grandiose goal, you’ve now created a next step.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons that we lose interest in big challenges is because our programmed brain is trying to save us from fear of failure. It\u2019s easier for the mind to lose interest than to say, \u201cI\u2019m a failure. I can\u2019t do this.\u201d It\u2019s a safety valve. We don\u2019t want to make ourselves look bad…even to ourselves!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like taking a pill to alleviate pain. Instead of saying, \u201cI can\u2019t do this, and I\u2019m a failure,\u201d we say, \u201cIt\u2019s not that important to me. I\u2019m not that interested in that anymore.\u201d This is what we do.<\/p>\n

To combat this, don\u2019t create huge actions for yourself. You can create a huge vision, but how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.<\/p>\n

Just ask yourself, \u201cWhat\u2019s my next step?\u201d<\/p>\n

Forget the Goal, Focus on the Process<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t get into the big-thing idea, because, if you do, you\u2019re going to end up losing interest as a failsafe in order to not feel bad about yourself. Instead, keep it simple.<\/p>\n

People have asked me, \u201cHarv, when are you going to write another book?\u201d I don\u2019t know. I write for a couple of hours, or one hour. Sometimes I say I\u2019m just going to sit down and write, sometimes I just don\u2019t worry about it.<\/p>\n

I bring that up to say that if you want to write a book, for example, just start that way. It\u2019s a lot easier, and you\u2019re happier that way.<\/p>\n

Of course, what\u2019s going to happen is that you\u2019re going to have a conditioned mind that\u2019s going to say, \u201cThat\u2019s not good enough. You didn\u2019t do enough. You didn\u2019t accomplish enough.\u201d You just tell it thanks for sharing and keep doing what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

Give yourself some momentum. A body at rest will tend to remain at rest and a body in motion will tend to stay in motion. Get yourself into a tiny bit of motion.<\/p>\n

How It Works for Me<\/h3>\n

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I practice this own process myself when I am writing. Sometimes I\u2019m doing a bunch of other things. Let\u2019s say I\u2019m watching the hockey game or a movie, and I don\u2019t really feel like continuing to write.<\/p>\n

Know what I do? My mind says, \u201cJust relax. You don\u2019t have to write tonight.\u201d However, I urge myself to just check one of the concepts that I wrote on a post-it note and see where that goes in my outline. I tell myself that it will be pretty quick, and then I can stop.<\/p>\n

I pick up the next post-it note and think, \u201cWhere does this one go? Oh, wow! That\u2019s cool! This is actually starting to come together and make sense!\u201d Then I start writing maybe for five minutes. Sometimes it turns into much more.<\/p>\n

Guess what I\u2019m doing? I\u2019m writing.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t need to prod myself, because I know I just need to do one thing. I just need to go back to the keyboard, relaxed and easy, pick up one Post-it note, and enter it. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

One tiny little step creates momentum.<\/p>\n

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