Keep Chopping Wood. Wednesday. August 16

Wednesday. August 16

Lose the weight.
Write the book.
Run the marathon.
Start the business.
Mend the relationship.
Fix the culture.
Become a better leader.

Goals sound exciting and inspiring. They stir something up within us. We want to commit to them. “Absolutely, I’m in!”

Working out multiple times per week and changing your diet.
Writing for an hour each day.
Running several times per week, something 30-40 miles per week.
Creating a product or service, pricing it, marketing it, selling it, providing the service, finding more people to sell it to, figuring out accounting, finding more people to sell it to.
Having the hard conversations.
Taking time to know your people. To set standards, live standards, hold people accountable to standards. Reward those who show up the right way. Attack problems and misunderstands head on.
Building your self-awareness. Getting vulnerable. Empowering others. Developing others. Investing in others. Giving yourself away.
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Now that sounds like a lot of work. Suddenly the goals seem unattractive and unattainable. What sounded exciting now sounds overwhelming. This is why most people don’t achieve their goals. They underestimate what it really takes to get there. So when it gets difficult, they bail.

Goals aren’t meant to be easy. They are meant to challenge us, stretch us, change us.

It’s easy to commit to the goal. Can you commit to the work required to achieve it?
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Keep chopping wood. 🪵🪓

-Kevin