A quick shout out to Laura, Kristi, and Bari for joining us over at the Champion of Choice Challenge Community Site! Posting your goals, your personal challenge, is the next step! It doesn't have to be huge, and it can even be just one thing! Losing weight, writing a book, starting a blog, trying something new – whatever you want to achieve, come in, write it down, and we'll encourage you towards your success! We may even have some ideas on how you can reach those goals faster than you thought!
I've been talking about how you (and I) can keep momentum up on a daily basis. Wednesday we looked at the power of Change, yesterday the power of Ritual. Today's strategy is Faith.
This does not refer to faith in a “higher power”, though that certainly has its place. Instead, I mean faith in the process. In YOUR process. Once you've identified what you want to do, why you want to do it, and how you are choosing to achieve it, having faith in the process is essential.
Few things happen overnight, and success is rarely an overnight event. Invariably, overnight successes have strong and long roots in obscurity, patience, and even repeated failure. Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln are famous example of people whose biggest accomplishments occurred only after years of repeated failures. While both had sparks of success along the way, their 'big moments' far outshined all they accomplished, and failed to accomplish, before that point.
Each had a faith that they would achieve something of value – for themselves, and for the world. Each found a way to keep moving forward after losing an election or seeing yet another experiment fizzle into darkness.
The faith doesn't even have to be in yourself – it may just be in what you're going to do. You know you're going to invent, write, sing, paint, or otherwise create something that brings value to others – through the value of the creation, and the by-product of the success achieved from it. Don't give up too soon, don't stop at the idea right before the idea that works.
Have faith in the process. Write that next blogpost – if its not genius, at least it brings you closer to genius. Paint that next painting – if its not brilliant, it brings you closer to brilliance. Launch that next product – if its not a success, know that your next one will be. Have faith in your ends, and your means will work themselves out to get you there.
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