You can’t control if you get lucky. You can’t even control if you get a fair chance. Despite the best education, smart planning, and friends in high places, you can be blindsided by the worst of unfair conditions.
Your good ideas can be spoiled by petty people. Your honorable intentions can be undone by passive-aggressive peers. Your intelligence and insight can be copied and stolen and spoiled.
But no one can take from you your effort. No one can force you to not get things done.
It’s the Biggest Difference Between Champions and Everyone Else
Champions put in more time. They work hard. Every day. And not just working hard for the sake of putting in the effort.
Champions Put in Effort for the Sake of Getting It Done.
They know the value of consistent progress towards success — no matter what that goal is.
The crazy thing about this entire discussion is that most people don’t really know how to get things done.
Don’t get me wrong, the internet is full of experts and gurus who talk eloquently about “working smarter” and the “need to get enough sleep.” They cite case studies about “needing to pace yourself” — all the while never really sharing with you the rulebook that champions use to get things done each day.
So, Let Me Do That for You Right Now
If you’ve been wondering how to be more successful — how to make more progress — here are a few rules to help you do just that:
1. Go out of your way each day to improve your “mind game.” Everything you ever do — or don’t do — is a direct result of how you think, and what you allow yourself to keep thinking about. Be aware of which thoughts make you act which way. By the way, meditation is a great exercise to figure this all out.
2. Take the time to build a list of everything that you need to do. Keep that list updated as new thoughts, ideas, and goals hit you. Make sure you have easy access to that list at all times so that you can quickly add to it. Pull tasks from your brain immediately to your task list.
3. Make sure you know what matters now and what can wait until later. Build priorities. Label contingencies. Describe the outcomes you want to see. You can delete stuff later. Just get it all listed out in order of importance. Have tasks to “look at this” or “check out” or “explore” things that are fun and build new skills.
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