Avoid Stimulus Drain

It is easy to get excited when you set a new goal and start working so hard that after a week you're completely exhausted. This may be an annual event for some people, usually starting on 1 January as a diet that deteriorates within a month, financial plans to earn your first million a year, and like a child who eats a lot of dessert on the holiday, the same may happen as a stimulus.

Most self-help books advise you to set big goals and have enough real motivation and inspiration. Although it's a good idea, it can easily drain your enthusiasm. You don't usually start a marathon by sprinting the first mile, so why do not run your life the same way?

Keep the Enthusiasm Long Distances:

According to the book "The Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas Stanley and William Danko, most millionaires hold stocks for years.

One of the statistics commonly cited is that a healthy diet should result in a weight loss of between 5.0 kg and 1 kg per week. "You have a whole life to learn to write," says writer Jack Countryman.

You have a whole life to grow and develop, and trying to get everything done in the next 30 days will just cause you to collapse and drain your energy. Rapid growth is good, but unless it's sustainable, you will run into a vicious cycle.

Changing your habits is an essential part of achieving goals, but you can't do it all at once, as it takes at least a month to change one simple habit in the short term. This sounds very slow, but you can completely change your lifestyle after a year or two of doing so, and it is strange how next month can look as if it's going to last forever, while you feel like last year has passed with an eye blink.

Thinking About the Present, The Future, and The Next Step:

Divide your stages of development into these three steps, contemplate the present, find out exactly where you are now, predict the future, know exactly where you want to go, think about the next step, and infer exactly what you need to do next, then you'll be surprised that this simple philosophy may be the reason for many of your growth experiences.

The real reason people don't take things easy is that most of them are unable to envision how one step contributes to the outcome. Since each step depends on the one before, the next procedure often appears to be insignificant compared with the all, and the human brain is not adept at calculating geometric sequences.

For example, let's say you're good at folding paper, take out a big piece of paper with regular thickness and start folding it. The thickness of the paper will double after one fold, and after two folds, it's going to be four times. Let's now suppose that you're going to keep doing it, and the paper folds fifty folds, how thick is it going to be?

Some people might say 20 centimeters, others 500 centimeters, but because the human mind wasn't designed to think exponentially, most people probably wouldn't give an accurate answer.

The actual distance, after folding 50 times, is almost the same as the distance between the Earth and the Sun, and if you don't believe it, take out your calculator and calculate 2 to the 50th power.

Gradual Revolution:

You can't blame people for wanting to grow so fast, and when you look at successful people, their success often seems to be phenomenal. Celebrity blogger Steve Pavlina gets paid millions for a job he started just a few years ago, and if you follow his writing before the site starts, you can say that growth is still so fast.

Even if you think that most success takes years, it might be easy to believe the myth that internal changes happen all at once. The belief that you might one day be sitting around and have a great idea that suddenly changes every aspect of your personal life is nonsense, as internal changes happen gradually, and external changes are even slower.

A turning point may cause this growth to emerge somewhat quickly, but what's missing is all the small steps that were taken before reaching the top summit. Steve found success in blogging after a decade of work in internet entrepreneurship, writing, and personal growth. The looks of success may sound revolutionary, but the growth has been gradual.

In Conclusion:

Control your enthusiasm to avoid fatigue, and make detailed plans for it, take things step by step, and focus on the largest part that you, and no one else can handle before moving forward.

After you look at it, this approach may seem very slow, but the beauty of the incremental revolution of change is that it is the fastest long-term strategy, just remember to smile when someone asks for advice on how to succeed so quickly.