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"In five years, you will arrive, the question is : where ?" - Jim Rohn
I remember this moment like it was yesterday. I had just started to write. Finally, I found something that seemed to me to be a fit, amazing - something for which I was ready to work hard.
I was sitting in my room, trying to fold the laundry, and I was watching a YouTube video of the late Jim Rohn. He told me how it could change his life by five years.
Whether you want to launch a business, build a brand, create an extraordinary network, launch an organization or any other business that could radically transform your life, you might get there if you were willing to hire you for these five years.
I remember thinking, said : "Five years, it does not seem to be a ton of time". I have committed myself in silence to respect the calendar. I wrote almost every day, read books, watched videos, attended courses, and I'm essentially become a machine to improve during this period.
As I went on, I continued to see the same theme again and again - five years. My favorite writer, James Altucher, said that it takes five years to reinvent yourself completely. Jon Morrow, the mentor online that taught me most of what I know about blogs, has said that it should be 4 to 6 years to build a blog that can create wealth.
During years one to three, when I was earning little or no money, I was trying to understand how to be a blogger, and I knocked his head against the wall trying to learn all the little nuances that were in the course of the journey, I kept this in my head. In the years three or four, I understood that the success was inevitable. In years four and five, everything has skyrocketed.
I reached my fifth anniversary as a writer and a student of personal development. Here's what I've done :
*I have published three books
*I have done a presentation on the TEDx
*I have done spend my readership from zero to millions
*I left my job and became a writer full-time
to the other side of the equation in the last five years, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that it works. You are going to grow exponentially. At the beginning, you will not be very good for the new skill as you try to acquire or the path that you are trying to draw.
At this stage, you are simply trying to survive and make good habits. Most people give up at this stage. Don't be a part of these people. Why ? Because one day, not only you will improve a little and you'll have a little more success, but you'll get better suddenly, and you will have much more success.
Here is some good basic rules for you :
- The sprint 90 days : Spend your first 90 days to work on your new journey, your skill or your project, every day with abandon reckless. You will learn more about what it takes to succeed, but also on the fact whether you love or not to do, that any amount of "research" or"study" will teach you. Most people won't even go that far. If you succeed, there are high chances that you continue. In case the path does not seem not really a plot, you have not wasted so much time.
- The rule of 100 : be ready to do something 100 times in order to become good. Write 100 blog articles. Turn 100 videos (that I recently did with my new YouTube channel), save 100 podcasts, offer 100 potential new customers.
- Cycle of 18 months : Peter Drucker, an expert in business and author of Managing Oneself, talking about the use of benchmarks over 18 months to track your overall progress. The length is long enough to give you enough "data", but not to the point that you set unrealistic goals.
- The One Thing : The One Thing, Gary Keller, teaches a simple rule to help you stay focused and productive. Ask yourself the following question : "What is the one thing you can do, such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary ? You can use this system to transform the long-term goals into achievable objectives and key performance indicators (KPIS) on which to work in the short term or medium term. Choose your one thing for 18 months, and then for the quarter, and then for each month, then every week, then every day.
I have not kept track perfect in my career and its progression, using all of the above systems, but I kept an intuitive sense of each of them while I focused on building my writing career to get to where I am today.
Five years, it seems to be long. This is not the case. When you break down the things in the present moment and that you focus on the immediate future, you will see five years later, that you have reached a level of progress that you thought was not even possible.
Your skills are additive, such as an investment account, and you will be orders of magnitude better than when you started. But you need to get started.
I use this framework for each new target or important decision. If I am not prepared to devote five years, I will not do it. But when I commit, I'm at the end of the path. And the combination of these five years allows me to lead a life that is incredibly productive.
You have what you want to do. Do you know what it is. You just fear.
You want to know whether this will work or not before. Believe me, if you have enough talent and a work ethic enough for you to gradually improve over a period of five years, it will work. Now, go-y.
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