Clients (and mentors!) are often overwhelmed by big goals, projects that will take a long time to complete, circumstances that seem so daunting they can't ever seem to get started. You know the old adage...elephants are eaten one bite at a time.
I play a game with myself when I have one of the Big Projects. I set a timer for a half hour and work on the Big Project for just 30 minutes. When that timer goes off, I've got 30 minutes of it behind me. And I usually find that the finish line is much closer than it looked from before I spent 30 minutes on it. In fact, some of those Big Projects don't take more than 30 minutes. They just seem like Mt Everest looming there in the distance.
Remind your clients that life rewards action. Do something, no matter how small, toward achieving the goal!
Now I think I'll go practice what I preach and pull that book manuscript out of the drawer this weekend.
Sometimes, in fact a lot of times, I only work on that one thing for 30 minutes, but often, it is the starting that is the hard part and I actually end up working for longer and accomplish so much more than I could have anticpated!
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly the point! Life rewards action. Something...anything...is better than nothing.
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