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introduction
21 Keys
Things to aviod
three ways to change
Prep Work
21 Catalysts
1 minute journal
How it Works
How will this work? It's pretty simple. You'll set goals and write them down. You will write about your experience each day. You report to someone about how your day went.
The important part of your challenge is the doing it. For each day of the 21 days . . .
1. You will set a goal. Each day you’ll write it down. So take long but it is really important that you do this. This way you won't be able to fudge later about the goal that you set. It'll be right there in black and white. You either did it or you didn't. Without a goal it's pretty hard to measure your success or failure. This way you'll know how you're doing and you can make adjustments.
2. You will either achieve that goal or fail to reach that goal. Would like to talk a lot about success but we don't like to mention failure much. But the fact of the matter is that failure is part of success. It's often the road to success. Realizing that you've failed will motivate you to find success. This isn’t about beating yourself up, it's about being realistic. You may need to set a lower goal the next day. You may need to just adjust your behavior patterns. But you'll never know any of this if you don't evaluate.
3. You will journal for 1 minute about your day. Most people hate journaling. If you unlock most young girls diaries, there's nothing there. That's the secret of most secret diaries. Some people love to journal, for you, this will be easy. You may want to do more than 1 minute. You might want to blog, fictionalize, or even turn your experience into a novel. But for the rest of us, one minutes is something we can stand to actually do. This is a simple two-part process. What happened in your head. What happened in your heart. You will write one or two sentences about what you learned. You will follow that with one or two sentences about how it felt. That's it. Simple. The only key is actually doing it.
4. You will report to your ally about how your day went. Each day, by phone, text, Facebook message, e-mail, instant message, or however else you want (you could even do this in person – what a novel idea in this technological age), you report to your pre-chosen ally about how you did. This is an incredibly powerful concept. Knowing that there is someone else who will cheer you on or sharing your defeat is a big deal. The realization that you will have to tell them how you did will be a motivating factor. It's true, you could lie. What's the point of that? After all, no one is making you do this. This is about you.
It's that simple. Enact the catalyst. Set your goal. Do something to achieve your goal. Evaluate that they think and feel about what you did. Report. It really is that simple.
It's just not easy. Once you understand how change works, it's simple to understand. Change your short-term behavior and you change your brain. Change your brain and you change your long-term behavior. It's so simple. And so hard to actually do.
But you can do it. Whatever has been done can be done again. And what hasn't been achieved is waiting to be done. This can be day one of 21. And 21 days can change your life forever.
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