Prepare for Take off: getting ready for the journey
Before you before you go snow skiing, you get your gear together check your boots adjuster bindings and wax your skis. Before you travel to a foreign country, you make sure your passport is up today, you check your English – whatever dictionary and check the exchange rates. Before you travel to the moon, you make sure your solid rocket fuel boosters are functional and in place, you make sure that your moonwalking suit has no leaks and that your Tang is in full supply. Okay, maybe that last one is an example, and everyone.
The point is that before you go on a journey you get ready. You check your gear. You try to think of the things that you'll need for the journey. You try get yourself in the right mindset. The next 21 days are just such a journey. No, you're not necessarily going someplace else geographically, but you journey to the inner space of who you are is gonna be tough and you will need to be prepared.
If you're going to accomplish your goals as a few things you're gonna need to do to get ready. Think. Feel. Do.
Progress through process
Most problems are accessed in these three ways This essential process in personal change is so simple. Feel. Think. Do.
Think about the results of what you do. Figure out what's true and what's just a lie you tell yourself so you have a reasonable excuse. Think about where you want to be so you have something to aim at.
Feel your emotions as a reaction to what you do and what is done to you. Motivation is the simple combination of rationalization and inspiration. You can think your way through any problem, but until you feel something in your gut – that inspiration that drives you – you probably won't be motivated to do anything. Rationalization – thinking – is the first step, but many great thinkers aren't great doers. Paralysis of analysis is a syndrome that can plague thoughtful people. Take your thought process out of the laboratory and into real-world trials, you’ve got to figure out what motivates you and keep those motivational processes in place.
Do something about it. Start small if you have to – really it's recommended that you start small. In the beginning steps, how much or even what you do aren't as important as doing something. Get the ball rolling. Inertia is a physical law that states that objects that are stationary tend to stay stationary objects that are in motion tend to stay in motion. Getting the ball rolling is the tough part, keep it rolling is much easier. Your small start may even seem ridiculous later looking back on it, but doing something, however small, is the key to the beginning process. Even if you're 21 days start tomorrow, do something today.
Here we go…
1.Feel
2.Think
3.Do