Your baby steps don't mean shit.
I say this with lots of love. Yes, baby steps will get you to your dream life, but you'll be too old to enjoy them. Do you want to enjoy your success at 80? Or would you rather take leaps and bounds and enjoy your success next year?
When you decide to become an entrepreneur, or to get fit, or to transform your life, you may start watching 'motivational porn' (Gary Vee, Tony Robbins, Jay Shetty, etc.) and then do nothing else.
What does this mean? It means you think you're doing something major by watching their content. And I suppose technically you are. You're being entertained. But consuming entertainment changes nothing for most people.
Some people go one step beyond this. They say "Ok, fine! I'm done sitting on my ass waiting for someone to save me. I'm starting this business!"
So they make a post on Facebook or IG. Then they twiddle their thumbs waiting for the likes and comments. Maybe they even get a few. The excitement kicks in. They get so excited because "omg 25 people liked it! Whoooooo!" Annnnnnd then they don't reply to the comments, and neglect to post again for a week or longer.
Can you imagine Beyonce getting excited about 25 likes?
At the time of writing, She has 3.7 Million likes on her latest IG post. Do you think she gives a shit when the first 25 pop up? Do you think she does a happy dance over 25? or even 2500? And she didn't 'stop the presses' or pat herself on the back much like this even when she was first starting out either.
Because while it's nice to get likes, she wasn't aiming small.
Early Beyonce got 25 likes because she was aiming for 250. Or 2500. She knew how to aim for what she was truly capable of. She knew aiming for 25 likes was chump change. She aimed higher, and if she fell short, accepted it gracefully, then did better the next day.
So set champion-sized goals and celebrate when you reach them. And only if you're really doing the work. Only if you've researched the champions in your field - that's called RISC but that's another post for another day.
What about Michael Jordan? Do you think he gets excited when he makes a single 3-point shot? Or do you think he gets excited when he wins a championship title? And even when he was just starting out, do you think as soon as he sunk his first 3-pointer, he stopped practice for the day and went out for ice cream? No, he aimed higher. Jordan's thought process was almost certainly more like: "If I can sink one 3, that's the reason for me to practice LONGER today and really nail it."
How about Lady Gaga? Do you think she celebrated when she got one download on her newest song? Or do you think she held off the back-patting until her album went Gold or Platinum?
The point is... stop throwing a parade for your baby-step accomplishments if you want to be a champion. If that's what you want then you have to have the attitude of champions and celebrate when you have a championship win. Not when you triumph over toddlers in your field, or when you squeeze by the bare minimum.
If you wanna keep celebrating those baby steps that's fine with me...
...I imagine you'll achieve your dreams one day. I guess.
Personally, I am sick-and-fucking-tired of waiting. I'm done taking baby steps. I will be taking leaps and bounds daily, to hit my goals and have my dreams faster, from this point onward.
I believe you want to have everything you've ever dreamed about, ASAP. So take the leap, you deserve to have all your dreams come true. Aim higher now, and pat yourself on the back when you actually surpass your status quo. We know you can do it. We believe in you.
~Love, Cyn & Jay
Great post, I've talked about this often. I'll add one small caveat: Baby-steps are fine as a by-product of "doing your best." As long as you aim high and do the best you can... If it turns out 'baby-steps' was all you could manage at the time, so be it. All that really matters is deep-down, were you truly aiming to reach your potential, and was your heart in it? If so, you'll never go wrong. The only thing is, very few people actually aim to hit their potential, and most celebrate half-measure baby-steps when they shouldn't be. š
Thanks for adding that. You're right. I appreciate You and the lessons You continue to teach me to help me and others grow. ā¤ļøš
Yay! #TogetherWeRyze ! š
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right take every leap you can
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Totally agree, exact words, in fact I am taking my giant steps right now, I am believing in myself and that will bring good results, I know it, I feel it. Thanks for this Cyn, best regards to Jay. š
Woooo! Crush it @callmeenjoy ! You've got this! :) š
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Thank you very much for watching my video, you are a sweetheart, just like Cyn. Say hello to her for me.š
Aw thanks, and it's my pleasure! I love singing & singers. I'll tell her you said hi! Keep ryzing! š
Yay!!! Good for you. I love it. @ryzeonline - Jay and I believe in you too! Much love ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Baby steps have their place, especially when starting from zero. However, celebrations should be reserved for milestones which are reached. By the time we reach a milestone-- 5,280 feet between them, or 1,609 meters-- we should be able to reach future milestones faster (either with speed or larger strides or both). It can take a long time to celebrate 5,280 times, or even just 1,609 times.
Exactly! You get it! I love it. There's an internal celebration and there's announcing it to everyone you know and on social media LOL. But all milestones are great, especially when you've done nothing but couch surf for years (like I did a long time ago). Thank you for your thoughts. I always appreciate your comments ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
We need to recognize all the achievements we make. That doesn't mean we publicize them all to everyone all the time. Many we recognize privately because they are important to us internally. The major milestones can be celebrated because they represent breakthroughs or things people would genuinely care about.
Unless it's the first one, celebrating a wild card berth for the playoffs isn't a good idea and can backfire. Save the milestone celebration for the Stanley Cup parade or a World Series parade.
YES! exactly! šā¤ļø
Yeah, working on taking a real big leap soon. However, I refuse to take blind leaps, just not in my nature. Getting everything in place, taking the steps to the ledge.
Whooooo! I love it.
You gotta do what feels best for you. As long as you're moving forward you'll get there! Jay and I believe in you and we're happy to be on that journey with you
#TogetherWeRyze
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Yep. Its a fun journey and I am looking forward to the future.
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