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Remember Your Future Self
Visualizing the Super Focused Super Fast You
“You don't have to be great to get started,
but you have to get started to be great."
-Les Brown
What’s the problem when you can Remember Your Future Self clearly,
but it’s taking longer than expected?
The biggest mistake people make when starting to visualize their ROCKET Goals is vastly underestimating just how much their current circumstances weigh them down: Inertia, obligations, habits, relationships, family, friends, history, systems, work, energy level, neighborhood, weather, finances, diet, health, fears, skills, likes, dislikes - all of these and more are baked into an extremely powerful gravitational force field that locks you into your current level of success (or lack of success).
To escape the gravitational suck of your existing circumstances, you will need to start streamlining your current life, while simultaneously adding more and more booster rockets.
Singular Streamlined Focus x Massive Repetitive Action is the baseline price required to reach orbit for almost any goal!
This formula works in combination: You need to strip and cut away the heavy distractions while also adding the power of more repetitions.
You might be failing at your ROCKET Goals - not for lack of effort or motivation, but simply because you are not visualizing just how much needs to get stripped away and how many more reps are needed to get the job done!
There is an old joke - “Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?”
Compared to your current level of gravitational suck, Future You is going to look like a fast moving obsessive maniac with regards to your goal reaching behaviors. But that’s okay! Your experience of Super Focused Super Fast You will feel entirely natural, even if people around you might wonder what’s happened as you zoom by.
The good news is that you can accelerate your ROCKET Goals and get started at any time. If you can’t cut out some big distraction, try limiting some small distraction. If you can’t 10x your reps, try just doing one more rep.
Just get started. Future You - that Super Focused Super Fast You, will be launching sooner and faster than you can imagine!
Singular Streamlined Focus x Massive Repetitive Action: