Large goals are accomplished with small decisive uncomfortable actions

The reality is that any large goal or dream is really just the consequence of thousands of small actions.

Many of those actions are probably at least a little uncomfortable.

Many of them are also probably a little boring.

But they are all ones you can handle.

The only real danger you have is in not starting.

The main pushback I receive here is “what if I prioritize wrong and take the wrong action?”

My response to this being “you will, that’s good.”

How could you expect to choose exactly the right thing and to do it perfectly the first time?

That would just be luck.

The point is not to choose correctly, the point is just to begin.

That doesn’t mean enter and lock yourself into a 4 year program by the way.

It means take the first series of actions that would give you the evidence to determine what the next steps are.

This has been my philosophy for life for a long time, I call it evidence-based living.

Meaning, you take small actions, then you use the result of those small actions to determine what the next ones should be.

And when you have accumulated enough evidence to make a larger decision, you make it.

But not before you have taken smaller ones.

What this does is it eliminates the seeking for large, meaningful actions.

We don’t even search for them.

We don’t validate big, life-altering decisions.

We validate ourselves for accomplishing ourselves solely for small tasks that move us forward.

Knowing that by taking these small actions and giving ourselves validation for them, we will move ourselves closer to the goal we’re dreaming of.

Large goals are accomplished with small decisive uncomfortable actions