What needs to be done to achieve something…

To achieve something, the following is necessary…

Clearly understand what the desired outcome should be.

For example, “I want to run in the mornings” is not an outcome. The outcome should be “developing a habit of running in the mornings.” The outcome should be measurable in some way. For instance, “being happier” is not an outcome. How do you measure or verify if you are happier? Similarly, “losing weight” is not an outcome. You can lose half a kilo or half of your weight. A specific weight by a specific date is an outcome.

Or at least approximate goals like “I want to weigh less… fit into a smaller size… by such and such date.” “More money” is not an outcome either. More by $20? Per month? Per day? “I want a salary of $1000 ($2000, $3000, doesn’t matter) per month” – that’s an outcome. But these are just lyrical digressions.

The point is clear. A vague outcome like “move more” won’t help you understand when the outcome is achieved. However, a very specific outcome will not only help you understand when you’ve achieved it but also give you a clearer idea of the steps needed to reach that outcome.

Understanding what needs to be done to achieve this outcome.

For different outcomes, this will be different: sometimes you’ll need to write a plan. This plan might be general for some tasks, very detailed for others. Large complex plans (like launching a new business), which consist of more than two or three tasks, MUST be broken down into sub-plans and sub-tasks by time – and you should execute not the “big” main plan, but the small sub-tasks, aiming for outcomes within these sub-tasks, but keeping the big picture in mind. Each sub-plan should not have more than 2-3 tasks; otherwise, it becomes cumbersome. For example, “improve health.” For example, a person decides what they need for this:

• Start exercising
• Practice yoga
• Get more sleep
• Eat healthier
• Drink more water.

And they start doing all of this. And they give up right away. And they get upset, admitting they are incapable of changing their lives and, for example, they turn to drinking.

There’s nothing strange about this development: not even a single normal, even very strong person can do all this at once. Each of the points mentioned is a big plan in itself; almost each of them can be divided into 2-3, or even more sub-plans.

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Start exercising

Plan workouts at least twice a week to start, integrate these workouts into your existing schedule and established life routine. If you don’t do this, the workouts won’t be regular – other tasks that were done at the time when the person decides to “work out” will distract attention. There will be a lot of obstacles, time will shift, and in the end, some workouts will be rescheduled and canceled, which is not beneficial for developing a habit.

Test several different workout systems, find the one that suits the individual’s level of physical fitness better – it could be running, gym workouts, swimming, rock climbing!
Develop a habit of working out regularly (without regularity, it’s pointless) – in other words, just do it and push yourself when changing the routine process drags you back.
Each of these points is a task in itself. And you need to start doing them gra

dually. It’s not necessary to allocate three weeks for each point; these are not habits, just tasks. You can also develop regularity and create a workout plan that doesn’t interfere with your regular activities. And to start with, try something new each time: this way, regularity will be established, and you can check which activities you prefer and keep it interesting.

But if you also try to change your diet, start doing yoga, force yourself to wake up earlier and go to bed earlier, don’t forget to drink enough water – such a global change in your lifestyle can only be handled by very strong individuals who are accustomed to major changes and enjoy such “overloads.” Even they can burn out simply from overstrain associated with constant control.

In carrying out any tasks, it is necessary to assess your strengths wisely. In general, I like that in any changes, underestimating oneself is very difficult. Of course, if you’ve decided to exercise, doing only three squats for a month is not enough. You can start with three squats; there’s nothing wrong with starting modestly. The main thing is to take the first step. And then another one, and another one, and another… Three squats for a week, the next week six, then twelve… Sometimes, in some weeks, things will go so badly that you’ll only manage to do two squats. Nothing wrong with that.

Another important point: in the process of any changes, it is necessary to do something within the framework of what you’ve planned. The most important thing in moving from one point to another is to move in the direction of the goal even by a centimeter a day – but to move. Don’t wait for the car to pick you up. It may never come. Go – and you will reach. Maybe someone will give you a lift along the way – but you shouldn’t rely on that. The tortoise will reach the goal faster than the hare.

Slowly but steadily – is the best pace. If you want to quit smoking but can’t quit right away – smoke the same number of cigarettes, just cut each one in half. When you realize you’re okay with that, you don’t crave to smoke a whole one – start changing habits. Smoked at your desk – go out to smoke every fifth cigarette. Then every fourth, then every third, until you start going out to smoke every time. I’m sure you’ll smoke less. Gradually, with each outing, replace smoking with something else. Hold a cigarette in your hand but chew nuts. I think the idea is clear.

Unfortunately, some people can’t quickly get rid of unnecessary habits and – especially – develop new ones. Can’t or don’t want to – doesn’t matter. There’s a solution for everything. If you can’t do it all at once, try as you can. Just do it, do it constantly. Don’t think about how to do it better. Do something, even if at first you feel like you’re doing it wrong. You’ll figure it out as you go. Start with something.

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It is very important to understand that almost never are there perfect plans and solutions right away. Almost any forward movement will have some deviations along the way. We are all living people, and the main characteristic of living people, which is their right, is the ability to make mistakes. Making mistakes is normal.

Of course, sometimes we come up with the right solution right away and everything works out for us, but that’s rather rare. If you’ve outlined a transformation plan for yourself and it didn’t work out, couldn’t execute it – that doesn’t make you a failure or a weak-willed slacker. It just means the plan was wrong, it didn’t suit you.

Allow yourself to make mistakes. Allow yourself to take wrong steps, as long as they don’t lead to any major mistakes. I’m not urging you to borrow a lot of money from the bank and invest it in a risky venture, and then come to me and say, “You said it’s okay to make mistakes! Where’s my money?”

Common sense should also come into play. I’m actually urging you to start small on any path, but the main thing in achieving any goal is not what we do to achieve it, but that we DO! The process of doing is the most important thing. Do what you think is right AT THIS MOMENT, even if you’re not sure if it will actually turn out to be right. There’s no such thing as none of the available methods suiting you.

To start moving towards a goal, you need to start moving. That’s it. Sometimes the real ways of achieving only come when you’ve tried others and they didn’t work for you. But if you stop waiting for the “right” way – that’s it. Consider your goals unachievable. A person can only fail to achieve a result when they take no action at all. Thinking about “what actions to take” is not action. It never leads to any result.

There are projects that indeed require serious consideration before any action is taken. Give yourself some time to think. I would say, from 2 days to two weeks. Set a deadline for thinking. And think every day. If by the end of the deadline you haven’t come up with anything – start doing what seems imperfect to you in the process of achieving the desired result, at least something that “might help”. That’s it, you’ve exhausted your time for reflection. It’s time to move on to action. Always.

It is necessary to realize that no matter how slowly you start moving, you will immediately encounter difficulties in continuing to move.

And the faster you move, the more difficulties and obstacles you will face.

I’m not saying that difficulties and obstacles will be a constant parallel process. But they will be present throughout the journey and will be felt sometimes softer, sometimes harder. Many think that these are “forces” that hinder you from reaching your goal. Or your weakness, or nature against you. Thinking like that is a serious mistake. I disagree with James Ray, who says “life is full of challenges, and you have to overcome them no matter what, and keep moving forward.” He’s right about one thing – you have to keep moving forward. But I don’t agree with the first part.

Life is not full of challenges at all. Life is full of diversity. I support the idea that everything around us is neutral and only our consciousness gives any phenomenon a positive or negative color. Any phenomenon of life can be interpreted as positive or negative. Of course, not within the framework of any specific ideology or morality, but solely from an ideological point of view, if I may put it that way, from a universal understanding of life. Understanding outside of worldview systems.

At the same time, I don’t want to justify crimes and cruelty, although they too are phenomena of life. That’s not my goal. My goal is to show that during our journey to a result, numerous manifestations of life will occur on this path. Why will they occur? This is the most important question that needs to be understood in order to successfully navigate through any “diversity” that people are accustomed to calling “problems”, “circumstances”, “difficulties”, “challenges”, and “obstacles”.

Let’s accept it as an axiom that any phenomenon is neutral and that our consciousness has the right to choose how to relate to the phenomena of life. The only state of a person in which nothing happens to them is the state of non-life. In other words, death. Only with someone who is not living, nothing happens. The more actively a person is involved in life, the more happens to them. Including what we habitually call “circumstances”, “obstacles”, “problems”, and so on…

If you sit on your butt on a small couch in a small apartment – few “obstacles” will break into your life. But even in such a life, they exist. But as soon as you step outside – life pours down on us with its manifestations – numerous, wonderful, amazing. And the most wonderful thing is that no matter how bad or good we perceive them – they will always represent one thing – EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE ALIVE!

I urge you to have more “manifestations” in life. Some will call them “problems”, “circumstances”, “difficulties”, “challenges”, and “obstacles”. And I call them “proofs that we are alive”. And the more of these proofs we have – the more alive we are! The more filled our life is, the deeper, more diverse, beautiful, and amazing it is.

The more we feel this life. By being enriched with these “problems”, “circumstances”, “difficulties”, “challenges”, and “obstacles” – wonderful manifestations of life, we are enriched with changes in which we are capable of living. In the morning, we are in the dimension of a runner, during the day – in the dimension of a thinker or creator at work, in the evening – in the dimension of parents, children, spouses, friends. And these dimensions overlap, coloring our lives with ever brighter and more incredible colors.

Let there be many “circumstances” and “problems” in our lives! Let them never stop appearing – because only in their presence can we understand that we are moving, living, doing, and achieving.

Moreover, if there are no “problems”, “difficulties”, or “obstacles” in your life at all – it’s time to think, because this is a sure sign that you are not going anywhere in life, not achieving anything, and not striving for anything.

The main idea of this point is to know that “circumstances” will arise. Inevitably. This is a necessary condition for any transformations and movement in general. There are no absolutely smooth and straight roads. Even in sports, barriers are set for runners. Why is that? If you could just run and run. Yes, because it’s more interesting that way! Because that’s how you can achieve more! Because that’s how you can develop skills you didn’t have before.

The golden rule of the Universe states, “Every action elicits a reaction.” It is necessary to be prepared for there to be opposition on the path of your journey. And it is important to understand in advance what these oppositions will be. A prime example of opposition in the process of training yourself to run in the mornings is the intense reluctance to run in the mornings.

Everything starts to ache immediately, and the mind begins to negotiate deals like “I’ll run in the evening” or “Oh, I don’t have a clean shirt!” If you don’t respond to this opposition with “Thank you for the information” and don’t head out – that’s it. You’ve essentially said to life: “Thanks, but I’d rather not be more alive; I’ll stay in my little one-dimensional world, I’m fine here.”

I’m not against one-dimensional worlds at all. Many people live in them and are very happy. It’s just that this article is written for those who no longer want to settle for a one-dimensional existence.

I want to add one very important detail. Just as you can consider increasing manifestations of life as “obstacles” on your path to your goal/result, you can also consider them as new joys, pleasures, and so on. Even if you don’t want to consider, for example, pain and heaviness as something joyful, along with the “terrible” pain and heaviness, there will inevitably be something that drives you.

Perhaps starting something specific, like running in the mornings, is very difficult. And anyone who has no problem running will tell you that starting was not easy. It will be painful, difficult, physically, and morally. But let there be extreme joy and pride in yourself during any such “painful and difficult” moment – for continuing to move forward, despite everything.

And finally.

Do.

What and how – you should already understand.

Summary of the article.

In achieving any goal and obtaining any result, the following is necessary:

• Clearly understand, see, envision the result that should be achieved in the end. The result should be assessable and, preferably, measurable.
• Develop a plan to achieve the result. Break down big plans into sub-plans and move gradually, constantly increasing the pace or density of activity.
• Understand that any action will elicit opposition with varying degrees of force and in different, sometimes unexpected manifestations. Accept this fact, be prepared for it, and rejoice in the fact that there is opposition – this means there is action, and it also means you are alive and your life is becoming deeper and enriched with new dimensions and density with each passing day.
• Keep moving forward.

Everything will work out! The main thing is to want it strongly.