Posted by Dave Lorenzo - Business Coach

Whatever you want to accomplish, you have to do it one step at a time. If you want to lose 50 pounds, you may be daunted by what you need to do to make that happen. You could go on a crash diet and starve yourself to lose a few of those pounds, but that’s not going to get you to your goal in a healthy, lasting way.

If you want to be 50 pounds lighter, you have to do the work one day at a time, drop the pounds one at a time, and exercise and eat well most of the time until the job is done. Then, to maintain the weight, you have to stick with the good habits. Being healthy has to become a permanent part of your lifestyle.

All this is true no matter what you want to accomplish. You have to make a lifestyle out of moving toward your goals. When you’re losing weight, you will sometimes go overboard with nachos and margaritas on Friday. When you’re moving toward a better career, you will have days when all you feel like doing is watching cheesy movies and vegetating on the couch. In neither case have you failed. “Growth is an erratic movement—two steps forward, one step back.” (Julia Cameron) Keep taking steps forward, and you will eventually succeed.

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