How many people truly change their life in a meaningful way in 60 days or less?
Honestly... not many.
Sure Aaron Ralston changed his life in 127 hours. But he had to spend five days with his arm trapped under a boulder, alone in the wilderness, dehydrated, until he finally amputated his arm to set himself free.
I don't know about you... but I'd rather stick to small incremental steps on the path of personal development. Applying one insight at a time over the course of the next day, week or month until it bears fruit.
Sure we all want instant results but that's not how the universe was set up...
Rain will remain rain at 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius).
At 41 degrees it's still rain. 35 degrees, 33 degrees... it's still rain. Cold rain. But still rain.
But once the temperature drops to 32 degrees Fahrenheit it suddenly becomes snow.
It's not like the rain starts looking a little more snow-like. It just suddenly shifts once the temperature has dropped enough.
As we slowly change our "internal temperature" we may not notice any change until enough effort has been made.
I started on the path of personal transformation in 2006 – five years of effort. Today I can say with all honesty that my life has changed in every way possible.
Five years. That's really nothing.
Sure, I wish I could tell you those changes happened in five minutes... but that would probably require that I amputate an arm or become a cast away on some deserted island.
Why wait for drastic and painful challenges to force us to catch up with life?
Let's let our personal development unfold like a beautiful piece of music that plays in the background of our life – not a series of ear-splitting crashes that makes us fearful of change
Honestly... not many.
Sure Aaron Ralston changed his life in 127 hours. But he had to spend five days with his arm trapped under a boulder, alone in the wilderness, dehydrated, until he finally amputated his arm to set himself free.
I don't know about you... but I'd rather stick to small incremental steps on the path of personal development. Applying one insight at a time over the course of the next day, week or month until it bears fruit.
Sure we all want instant results but that's not how the universe was set up...
Rain will remain rain at 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius).
At 41 degrees it's still rain. 35 degrees, 33 degrees... it's still rain. Cold rain. But still rain.
But once the temperature drops to 32 degrees Fahrenheit it suddenly becomes snow.
It's not like the rain starts looking a little more snow-like. It just suddenly shifts once the temperature has dropped enough.
As we slowly change our "internal temperature" we may not notice any change until enough effort has been made.
I started on the path of personal transformation in 2006 – five years of effort. Today I can say with all honesty that my life has changed in every way possible.
Five years. That's really nothing.
Sure, I wish I could tell you those changes happened in five minutes... but that would probably require that I amputate an arm or become a cast away on some deserted island.
Why wait for drastic and painful challenges to force us to catch up with life?
Let's let our personal development unfold like a beautiful piece of music that plays in the background of our life – not a series of ear-splitting crashes that makes us fearful of change
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