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If you set a task, follow it through

August 13, 2015 by Johan

If you set a task, follow it through

“If you set a task, follow it through.”

What do you think of this statement?

If you set a task, follow it through. It carries a certain weight to the words that a task you want to achieve, must be considered deeply before you affirm it and take action.

Picture of flowers with focus on the back end

Set a task and focus on the end goal.

If you would just set a hundred different tasks and try to do them all, it’s likely that you will fail or do them poorly. You have not considered the consequence of what responsibilities you need to do to accomplish them. And it would be hard to accomplish them all.

Set a task carefully and consider all the obligations that follows, for you to achieve it.

Example: Say that you would like to have a great physique. What is a great physique to you?

  • What is your goal? Do you want to compete, deadlift three times your body weight, have a six pack, or just lose some weight?
  • How much time are you willing and need to spend on it? When you want to get a body that you are proud of, it often comes with new habits you might never done or thought about before.
  • You might have to learn more recipes and become a better chef while making a habit of eating better foods with less meat and more greens.
  • Being in the gym or outdoors following a workout routine with increased difficulty by weights or leverage with your own body making the exercise progressively tougher.
  • To make more time for your new lifestyle you might have to cut down on Netflix and give up your video games.
  • It might affect your current social life. Maybe your friends don’t like it and to achieve your goal you must decide to spend less time with them. Don’t worry if so, you will find new great friends in the gym to share your interest with.

It might sound like a lot of things to improve to achieve your task, but know, that it’s worth it.

Work on each separate skill and it comes together to a new interesting lifestyle with new knowledge that will help you through your life and increase your happiness. You will meet new people and make new friends.

This is why you need to keep your goals simple and few, if you want to achieve them.

At first it might be uncomfortable to break free from your old habits and end up procrastinating, but the more hours you put in, the easier it gets. You might break your new habit in the beginning, don’t worry. Just keep doing your task and reaffirm in your mind why you are doing it. Soon you will start to feel an itch when you think of skipping it, and get a really good feeling when you pushed through and did it!

 

You will get more energy.

You will become happier and keep a good mood through the whole day, because you are following your desire and what you want to do. You might even get a little angry, because the hours are not enough right now to work as much as you want to on your goal. Stay calm, and keep working on your desire. Soon you will find ways to have more time working on your goals, and how to reduce your distractions.

It becomes easier to relax and enjoy that book you’ve been planing to read, or spend time with your family because you have no weight hanging over you of “that thing” you must do. It’s already done for today. Therefore easier to enjoy your leisure time.

You will begin to form new ideas that will help you by bettering other areas of your life. By building new habits you start to expand your mind and knowledge of things you previously had no thought of.

Example: A couple of years ago my sister spoke to me about living foods and stop eating animals. My first reaction was “What is she talking about, living foods? She knows I exercise a lot and need my proteins to continue to get stronger.”

But she opened my mind and thoughts in a new direction I’ve never had. I began to think of the environment and whether I would become a vegetarian or vegan. Later I decided to live a vegan lifestyle and see if it was possible. And it was.

It was hard in the beginning, but given time, it became a natural part of my lifestyle. At first I only thought about our earth, how to limit our waste of resources. But just a few months in, I began to think of the ethics of keeping and slaughtering animals when there is no need for it. The thought came to me as a surprise, as when I started this journey it was only about the environment.

 

On your path to your desire, your biggest obstacle is yourself.

One of the biggest obstacles is self doubt. Doubting whether this will make a difference, or give value to others people life’s. Ignore it and follow your habit every day with the knowledge that you are on the path of success. Know that you are already successful by following your desire in life.

When you believe in yourself and your desire, nothing can stand in your way. You are happy to work long hours with no breaks. Food and eating is something that you forget about or an annoyance. Remember to set aside time to eat properly, to have strength to continue with your work tomorrow.

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits

The belief of others hold little importance, in fact they mostly hinder you by pushing negative thoughts or doubts in your mind. Listen to some of it, and ignore most of them. While you have faith in your work and habits you do every day, to achieve your goal and enjoy them fully.

 
Make time

Only way to gain success, is to make time for your desire.

How do you make time? Say no, to things not related to your goals.

That means less netflix following your favorite tv show, less video games with your friends online, less time out partying and waking up with a headache and strong hangover.

What you gain in return, is worth more then any hours playing video games. And after you have reached your goal you are welcome to play as much as you want. As you accumulate more success, overcome your many difficult struggles and achieve things you never thought would be possible in your wildest dreams. You just might not pickup the controller again. Because now you have 10 other things you would rather do with your life.

I used to play a lot of video games. At times they were fun and challenged my ability to learn them and overcome their massive difficulty. And other times I played them because I was bored. Bored with the game, bored of my life, and still kept on playing. I knew everything about them and how to achieve my goals within them. I could use a level 1 character with daggers and given time, I knew I would complete the game. And yet I kept playing them because I was afraid to leave my comfort zone and do what I really wished to do.

 

I’ve learned to never quit what’s uncomfortable.

How I might procrastinate doing something and the thought of change is scary at times. Without change, we conform and get bored. Without change and goals we get depressed thinking what happened with our life as we look back through the years. It’s okay to fail, just do it again with your new found knowledge.

 

When you ask yourself, what’s next?

You probably know what your next step is. You are just scared of doing it, and what others might think of it. Ignore that feeling and do it anyway. Step out of your comfort zone and do what’s uncomfortable.

To achieve your desire once you’ve found it, you need to make systems and habits. Create a lifestyle around them and see that they always get done. A small step every day, and over time you’ve taken a thousand steps without noticing it. Until one day you realize how far you’ve come.

Whether it’s helping others, building a great body, earning money, creating great relationships, it all comes down to your habits and systems that you’ve put in place.

 

With the habit you do every day and having your goal in front of you. there is no other way then success.

“But it drains me and all I want to do is relax after work.”

Embrace the suck.

Keep working every day and give it your best every time.

If it drains you, you probably haven’t gotten good at it yet. Once you’ve done your new habit for a while you will begin to notice progress, and that progress will inspire you to keep on going. Soon you will look forward to building your skill and working on your goal, that you can’t wait to finish your work to get home and one step closer to your goal.

It might be a struggle first to step out of your comfort zone. just start doing 5 minutes of habit of your desire, it will shift your mindset from “uh, I don’t even know where to start”, to “Wow! I’m working on this little step right now and begin to see where it will take me”. If not yet, go another 5 minutes, and another until you start to see the fun.

As you keep on doing what you want, and building that habit of working and thinking on it every day. You start to form more and new ideas. Every thing you do seem to come together in little spurts of clarity as you keep on expanding your comfort zone. It might come to you while you are doing something completely else. Last couples of days I’ve gotten at least one great new insight of something every time I’ve taken a long cold shower.

 

Give your task serious thought.

Is this something you want to achieve?

Is this something you can make enough time for?

Set a big goal that you’ve dreamed of long to achieve.

Deconstruct it with small goals on the way, how you will achieve your big goal.

 

Go do it!

Filed Under: Desire, Health Tagged With: 5 minutes, Desire, Habit, Health, Procrastination

30 day challenge to gain focus and energy

July 31, 2015 by Johan

30 day challenge to gain focus and energy

What do you want to accomplish right now?

What actions do you need to take to achieve your goal?

Are you willing to commit to the goals?

Notepad with text:30 day challenge! Write 2000 words, take 3 pictures for my blog and approach 5 girls every day.

30 day challenge: Write 2000 words, take 3 pictures for my blog and approach 5 girls every day. No time for that.

If you really want to get good at something it’s simple. Not easy, but simple.

Just do this one thing that you have to work on, every day.

Spend xx minutes on it every day and given time you will have success.

Whatever you want to achieve, habit and time is always the most important to have massive success.

Myself I want to be a writer, so I write every day.

These last couples of days I’ve written every day. Maybe 600-1600 words a day and reading the rest of my time. Doing some errands around town approaching some girls and had an instant coffee date.
something that that struck me yesterday when I was out for a walk, was how my mind is focused and ready for action. I could easily start talking with everyone. A regular day off work, if I haven’t done much I might feel sluggish and would take effort to go out and go do x. I would be more inside my own head.

With the habit of creating and producing I was feeling great, and still do.

And it came to me now just as I was about to shower and thinking whether I would start with a warm shower and end with cold, or go full cold immediately.  It was an easy choice as I put it to full blast on cold. And then my thought suddenly came back to me, how all these small habits off getting outside of your comfort zone adds up and makes you think in whole new different ways.

Just one second ago if I would have take the easy way and went with a warm shower, would I be writing this for you now? Maybe, certainly not with these thoughts I have now.

The more you produce and work, the more energy you get.

How could that be?

When you create you are active.

When you consume you are passive.

What do I mean by consume?

Picture of Nintendo 64 with games and procrastination

Nintendo 64 with games and procrastination.

To consume is using or watching others work. Like TV shows, magazines, video games and porn. It puts your mind to autopilot and makes at least me sluggish if I spend to much time on it.

Your sexual energy is your key to success, and you drain it if you bust a nut every time you watch porn.

How much is to much time? Depending on the subject I start to drop off after 45 minutes and lose my focus. And at that point it gets harder to break out of. Keep in mind: Depending of how busy you are, that 45 minutes could be your only free time to work on your goal today.

By consuming 45 minutes on a busy day, you are standing still. For every day you are standing still, the harder you have to work to get started again.

  • When you are creating and active it tends to have a snowball effect.

Example: Your biggest hurdle is getting of your couch and doing the dishes. It’s really not that great doing the dishes. But you know it will feel good when you’ve done it.

Action: You get up from the couch and do the dishes. Great! It wasn’t that hard, really quite simple and now your in such a good mood that you will take out the trash when you’ve just finished the dishes and that project that is due? You will start it immediately! 

If you would have stayed in your couch for another 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours and suddenly its time to brush your teeth and go to bed. You would probably feel bad that you still haven’t done the dishes and know how you will feel tomorrow as you get home from work and need to prepare dinner in a messy kitchen and your project that is due is not done. But you did it.

The simple act of starting your first task was quite hard at first, but quite simple once you started. And now you are doing a second and third task with a cheerful attitude.

What can you create?

You know what you want to create. You just fear to take the leap if you haven’t started yet.

If you really don’t know yet. Look at your lifestyle.

Are you living your dream?

If you don’t have a direction for your life and lifestyle, it’s hard to set a 30 day challenge because you need a vision for your life. Just doing x “because” gives you less reason to complete it. Begin first imagine your dream life.

Comment below or write in a journal what your goals are for this 30 day challenge.

Its important that you write your goals down.

Make a drawing in your journal or  on the cover with your goals. Really think of your goals, what are they? Now imagine how you can take that goal and make it into a small image you draw or type out. Hold this image before you and see your goal and what steps you are taking to reach it. Draw it every day to remind yourself of your goal.

Now do your habit for 30 days.

Example: Got an guitar hanging on the wall that you want to learn how to play, or get better at?

Why do you want to play the guitar? Maybe it’s a special song you want to learn or play with your friends. Write down why.

Now write down how you will learn it and break it down in to small steps.

Action: Get up, take it down and practice your first task on your list for 5 minutes. After your 5 minutes are up, continue if you want to. 

Change is gradual

Decide on a 30 day challenge.

Take small steps

Start with 5 minutes every day

This feels good and you probably continue past your 5 minutes

Now you start to build momentum by doing this task every day and add some time every day.

The simple habit of practice at least 5 minutes every day builds over time.

Once you’ve reached a tipping point of small habits every day, now it’s hard for you to not do this habit. It’s become a part of your life.

Resist the urge of instant gratification and work on your desire.

If you lose your self on your 30 day challenge, go 30 more days.

Success won’t come over night, but these small habits build up and one day you will wake up and be successful.

Tell me what is your 30 day challenge?

Filed Under: Desire Tagged With: 5 minutes, Achieve, Desire, Habit, Procrastination, success

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