4 | Start, Stop, Continue (+ No-for-now-not-for-later)

The thing about chasing your dreams is… well, sometimes you’ve got to START doing something new, something you’re not doing, in order to make that dream happen.

🤔 Think about it. If you were ALREADY doing what needed to be done to bring that dream into reality, it would probably ave already happened, right? You’d be “living the dream,” goal achieved.

Again, that means you might need to START doing something you’re not doing.

But the calendar is full. No time on the schedule. That means, in order to clear up time to do the things that need to be done, you’ll probably need to STOP doing some other things.

We’re all busy. It’s almost a #HumbleBrag in our culture to actually BE busy. I mean, no one actually LIKES being so busy that they can’t keep up with what’s going on, but we carry our jam-packed calendars around like badges of honor.

That can be a HUGE problem with it comes to pursuing your dreams…

… because dreams require time. Concentrated, high-octane time. Some of your “best” time. And your energy. And your focus.

We use juggling as an example to illustrate this. It never fails. Whenever we call someone onstage and let them start juggling, whenever they juggle beyond their capacity, they don’t just lose the last ball that was added… they drop them all.

You see, if we juggle too much, we end up not doing anything well. That means, well, we get frustrated in multiple areas of life.

Once we understand the reality of tradeoffs, though, and realize that we actually MUST choose which balls to juggle… and that we GET to choose (meaning that we actually pick some up and set the others DOWN)… well, things start humming.

Even better, we learn that we can achieve for more with even less effort than we thought due to the nature of FOCUSED efforts done consistently well…

But some things you’re doing are TOTALLY right. CONTINUE them. Affirm they are the right things, and press on.

It’s a powerful lesson we hit in this lesson.

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