I learned something today that’s but did not click with me until I started writing this article. You need to be in the physical proximity of success. And that simply means being around people who can be active participants in your upward trajectory. Being places that motivates you to be better than you are. Reading books that prepare you for the challenges ahead. And talking to people who have big plans for their life. The closer you are to the thing you strive
for, the more likely you will have it. Hang out with game-changers and become one yourself. And if you need to travel to a place where all these factors do it.
Show up.
If you want to become a famous writer, it doesn’t happen when you spend all your time researching. Getting to know every aspect of your character, knowing the precise details of every location and object your characters interact with but never actually sitting down to write the damn thing.
That’s the power of showing up. Not just “thinking about” something, but actually doing it and giving yourself a chance to succeed.
Before I understood what I was trying to achieve for my life, I thought I’d be clever and try to figure out the path in advance. But if it’s one thing I learned about life, it can throw the kinds of challenges you would never anticipate in a hundred years. The best way is just to get started and figure it out as you go.
Showing up is about consistency.
I’ve got bad news for you. You can’t stand in the way of success by showing up once or twice or doing the right thing when you feel like it. You’ve got to show up day after day, month after month, year after year and consistently do the work to achieve your goals.
Where most people fail in turning small things into big things is their over-ambitious expectations when it comes to adopting or discarding a habit.
Start small.
Forget about intensity. Focus on consistency and frequency and let the habit you’re trying to develop, take root in its own time.
When you give your attention to a singular focus day in, day out, no matter how small, you’ll inevitably get closer to where you want to be. Opportunities will begin to present themselves.
So I committed to showing up, and anything that comes of my life is a result of the simple but powerful idea.
How are you going to show up?
