June 14, 2008
Stickin wid'da plan
Hello my friend:
Just prior to his 1988 heavyweight title fight with Michael
Spinks, boxer Mike Tyson was told Spinks had a plan for how
to beat him.
Tyson said, "Everybody's got a plan until they get hit."
Funny.
Spinks was knocked out in 91 seconds.
But you know, there's nothing funny about setting goals
and making plans and telling everyone about how you're
going to do this thing and that thing, and you're going to
make this much money and buy something snazzy...
Only to fall flat on your face.
See, most people look only at the big goal and never keep
their minds on what needs to be done to get there.
New Year's resolutions are like that. Big goals that are
abandoned in two days because there was no real honest to
goodness plan. Just a dream. Only a dream. Nothing else.
Because it isn't only when other people lay waste to your
plans, it's poor timing, it's circumstances, it's bad luck,
too.
But by far, the biggest obstacle that gets in people's way
of achieving their most desired goals... those achievements
that would make them so happy, is themselves.
Everyone wants the magic pill that will cure them of some
health problem. Everyone is looking for the one job or the
one relationship or the clothes, the house, the money that
will give them a happy ever after.
But the truth is, every day, immediately after something
wonderful happens or some small - or even great - victory
is won, life is waiting around the corner with the next
challenge for you.
Those people who live in yesterday's successes are, as
Bruce Springsteen says, living for the Glory Days, which
will "pass you by... in the winkin' of a young girl's eye."
So the most important thing you can do is to have long-
term goals which are broken down into yearly, monthly,
weekly, daily, and yes, hourly goals.
Because without benchmarks and small achievements that
make you feel phenomenal on the way to the biggies, you
have no joy in your daily wins. They'll feel like nothing.
In school, they call them tests.
Other names for daily tests in the "real world" are
responsibilities and deadlines, duties, liabilities.
They sound bad.
But in reality, regular tests are just chances to win and
chances to celebrate many daily small victories. Do this
often and you are known as reliable and conscientious.
So tests are not to be feared, but to be looked forward
to. They let you know if you are on track or off track.
Feedback. Good. Ignorance. Bad.
Tests and small victories you get from them on the way to
big, juicy triumphant accomplishments happen because they
are close enough to keep us interested and excited.
What is it that happens when you are supposed to be
studying, reading, exercising, working... but you aren't?
Well, as my grandfather used to say, is that you took your
eye off the ball. You see, you have to know which
activities feed you in life and which ones take the food
away.
Which actions pay you. And which ones make you pay.
Habitual failures call it bad luck.
Habitual successes call it being prepared.
When you have inside what it takes to stick wid'da plan
even when temptations are all around you, even when you'd
love to quit, that's when you are close.
When you have discipline and focus, you have already won.
Love,
Mike Brescia
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