How to Use the Two-Week Rule to Become Remarkably Successful (and Optimize Your Bucket List)
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The Problem With Planning For A Major Goal
The first few days of trying to create a minimum viable product, or cold-calling in search of an enabling customer, or training for a marathon, or embarking on any difficult long term journey towards a major goal are hard.
- Most of our limits are self-imposed.
- You can always do more than you think.
Navy SEALs call it the 40 percent rule. When you think you're done, you have 60 percent left in your tank.
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When You Start Slow
- The plan, process, or routine you create for yourself rarely works.
- You start with an emotional safety net.
- Within a few days, the resulting lack of progress forces you to confront the huge gulf between where you currently are and where you someday hope to be.
- You usually quit because you started slow, soft, and safe.
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How to Use the Two-Week Rule to Become Remarkably Successful
- You can do anything—you can make any change, or embrace any new routine—for two weeks.
- If you can't stay the course for two weeks, then you've clearly chosen a goal that doesn't mean enough to you.
- At the end of the two weeks you will have enjoyed some level of success or return on effort.
- Knowing what we aren't willing to do, based on the tangible or emotional return on the investment of time and effort required, keeps us from dreaming about a destination we will never reach.
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How To Commit For Two Weeks
- Pick a goal.
- Create a daily process or routine you will follow.
- For each of the next 14 days, focus solely on what you need to do that day.
- At the end of two weeks, you will know whether you want to keep going.
- The tough two weeks you just put in will make it much more likely that you will stay the course over the long term.
- Your emotions will start to work for you, not against you.
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