Yesterday I revealed a couple of reasons why some people are always getting stuff done, and why others seem to sit around watching the world pass them by. For most people, life is what John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

The strategies we talked about were:

One, setting a deadline for whatever it is you want to accomplish. Without a deadline, a goal is nothing more than an “open wish.” A deadline makes it real.

The second thing you need to do is reward yourself for accomplishing your goal, OR… even better, deny yourself something for NOT accomplishing it. Rewards, especially DENYING rewards, are VERY powerful motivators.

One of my Mastermind and Mentoring group members, Jeff Pettitt, from Kent, England, sent me two MORE strategies that are CRITICAL to your success.

Jeff said, “Hey Bronx Boy, Everyone and their mother is at the gym on January 2nd. It’s the amount of times you go in December that counts. It’s called persistence.”

And Lord knows he’s right. Jeff knows about success and performance. He used to be a professional referee in the FA (Football Association), which means nothing to us over here, but is a VERY big accomplishment over in England, and in fact, it’s well-regarded all over Europe.

So add “persistence” to your list as well. If you think you’re going to get it right on your first time out, you are SORELY mistaken. Things take time, and your ability to “hang in there” while you’re developing or while you’re making your mistakes, is critical to your success.

When you’re frustrated, days often seem like months, but in the end… the warm feelings of “You hung in there and YOU DID IT!” make all that pain go away. Here, listen to what Jeff said:

“Just back from my lunchtime session at the gym. Oh and I went exactly 100 times last year. So I’d add “record your successes” so you get that smug feeling that says I’m doing it.”

And this is very true.

MEASURING yourself and your performance ALWAYS (if you’re a competitive person) lets you accomplish more. That’s why they time athletes when they’re running, for example. If you know you’re being measured, you’re going to want to measure out at the top.

I’ll give you a VERY simple illustration of how this impacts you all the time. Yesterday afternoon, I was working out in the gym with my son Nick. We decided to finish up our chest workout with a few sets of dips.

I figured I’d do a few sets of 6 to 10 reps each, but before we got on the dip bars, there was a guy doing them ahead of us. He was a big guy, outweighing me by at least 30 pounds, and he knocked off 12 dips.

I counted them. I MEASURED them, and therefore I now had to measure up against them.

Of course, now that I was being measured against him, I banged out 13 reps nice and evenly. Had I not been measured against something (in this case, against another guy), I definitely would have done less.

So put in some kind of standard you need to beat, or some kind of barometer you can consistently put yourself up against, and you will SURELY get much closer to accomplishing whatever it is you want. And you’ll also find out, how badly you really DO want it in the first place.

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