Accomplishing any goal or life pursuit has a few phases. One is deciding to do it, another is determining what specific actions are required and in what order and executing those actions.
It’s helpful to remember that out of 100 people who choose to do something, about 80% will give up well before any chance of success is imminent. One reason is that they do not have an effective plan. Out of those 20 that are left, approximately 16 will fail just because they stop the doing. So we’re left with about 4, that is 4% of those that started.
Funnily enough this figure correlates with what many seminar teachers, leaders, facilitators, coaches, mentors and others know and that is that people give up after the initial stimulus or group or workshop energy. They cannot seem to sustain themselves on their own energy. This is unfortunate for them.
So how can you increase the likelihood that you will succeed?
Here is how long you can reasonably expect it to take to accomplish your life goals.
In your case you might want to know:
• How long to learn French
• How long to learn to be a Master Networker
• How long to experience a taste of meditation
• How long to learn the secrets of Affiliate marketing
• How long to learn a martial art
• How long to learn piano and so on.
• How long to turn over $1M, $5M and so on
• How to build a business that works without you
Then it’s a question of understanding that anything worth doing really does take time. Once we have determined our life goals or purpose then the next question is how good we want to be at these things.. Do we want to be good, competent or a master or attain virtuosity?
What has been discovered by many highly skilled people is that for most endeavours it takes roughly the same time to become skilled; more to the point it takes about:
• 1000 hours to become competent at any worthwhile task
• 5000 hours to master any skill
• 25,000 hours plus to become world class and then only if you’re gifted or a prodigy.
In some fields if you have someone prepared to work with you one on one you can adjust the figure and deduct about 30% from the number of hours required. In my experience these figures are true. It all depends on the chosen objective.
Cheers
Chris Borrett
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