This week’s update revolves around this message as it played a key theme on Wednesday, and continues to, as Chris and I take action on our 2017 goals.
I was on the 6.09am train from Dunbar (near Edinburgh) to Peterborough on Wednesday morning heading down to the ‘Train the Trainer’ session. My morning routine includes watching Darren Hardy’s daily coaching video and Wednesday’s message carried the title above.
I’ll share some of the take-aways I noted in my journal from Darren’s message:
“To have what others don’t, you got to do what others won’t”
Five things you can do today that will get you uncomfortable and moving towards your goals:
- Do what you resist – in other words the tasks you know will move the ball forwards but you’ve been procrastinating
- Push past ‘hard’ – in other words there is no growth in getting to the wall, growth and glory comes after the wall
- Go for failure – like the analogy of lifting weights, push for the edge of your capability
- Suck it up- success is hard but take comfort in that as it eliminates others along the way
- Supersize your goals, in other words set goals above and beyond what you are comfortable with
It was serendipitous how our brilliant Progressive trainer, Toni wove in the same message about getting uncomfortable in the opening section of our TTT day (thank you Toni Gagan for brilliant delivery of the day). It was great pushing beyond our comfort zones in a supportive environment and I’m confident that everyone benefited from the stretch. I got uncomfortable on a few practice exercises and took that further by committing to the full ESR training.
I’ll borrow Darren Hardy’s words to close,
“Success is a comfort awarded to those who are willing to do what is uncomfortable – so get comfortable feeling uncomfortable”.