- Rosamund and Benjamin Zander
Swamped?
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find,” Chris Leader reminded me during our weekly meeting, before evoking his youthful experience of how to defeat the feeling of being overwhelmed.
“I was hired to go to Foster’s Farm to pick strawberries,” was Chris’ memory nudge.
He was part of a crew hired to harvest a vast field of strawberries. As the team looked toward the un-seeable end of the vast field, they were completely overwhelmed.
“Forget about what Old Man Foster said,” the supervisor advised, as soon as Mr. Foster left the field.
Then, that field-boss picked up a stick and threw it into the field as far as he could.
“Just pick to the stick,” he encouraged.
The crew picked to the stick and when they reached the stick, the boss picked up the stick and threw it again. They did that until the end of the day. And, you know what? They had picked every strawberry in the field! Their supervisor had effectively demonstrated the powerful principle of compounding effort.
Doing what you need to do every day compounds upon itself. It allows you to change your life and get what you want, a little bit at a time. It is an easy principle to understand, but there is one thing you need to do to get yourself to really do it.
You have to sell the actuality of the principle to yourself before you’ll be able to motivate yourself to do it! To do this, remember that stick, the trigger, in Foster’s field! Set triggers every day, with alarms, to remind you to do the things you said you’d do. Push yourself by causing the measuring stick to live in your calendar. Build step by step.
Build habits. Habits build character and character creates the life you’ve dreamed of. And, don’t forget the power of that Foster Farm crew who worked together to conquer all of that picking to the stick.
Surround yourself with the best and smartest people you can find! They’ll help you reach that stick. They’ll support you, help keep you disciplined, give you courage to never surrender and get you over the finish line.
What would you like to experience before the end of next year? Better health? Become more spiritually attuned? Strengthen family ties? Increase your financial security? Now is the time to think about what you really want in life.
Give yourself ambitions to make you excited to crawl out of that stagnant swamp!
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I’m Lynn Butterfield, Real Estate & Lifestyle Expert and Television Host for American Dream TV. I’ve helped hundreds of Buyers and Sellers, as an Associate Broker with Coldwell Banker, to discover where and how they want to live and work; to achieve what I call Realesation™. That’s why I bring you American Dream TV, Monday’s Warm Cocoa and Home by Design Magazine to stir your heart and mind. Contact me so I can join you along your own unique path of discovery.
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