Has a Meteor Hit Your Dog Lately?

Relationships. Fitness. Finance. Career.

Pick goals in each of them. Break down the Five Major Moves between you and that goal. Look at the first step in each, and see if you can accomplish it in a week. Yes? Great. No? Break THAT one down into five moves. Continue until you can fit it into a week. Then break that one down until you can do it in a day. Then break the first of those down until you can fit it into the “smallest effective unit.”

Relationships might be my five morning minutes with Jason, checking in with T, my morning meditation or Morning Ritual.

Fitness might be a single Sun Salutation. Finance might be checking my bank balances. Career might be a single sentence a day.

Once you break them down into daily actions, so short that there is NO LOGICAL HONEST REASON you cannot generally do it (yeah, wake up to an earthquake, and you probably won’t get in your meditation that day unless you are a BOSS!).

Now…WHAT ARE YOUR EXCUSES? Trust me…if you set out a course that will take you to your next level, you will NOT be able to do it without shifting your self-image, and your ego will fight like hell to stop you. Every possible excuse will come up. You will want to cut your cat’s toenails. Sort your neighbor’s garbage. A meteor will hit your dog.

COUNT ON IT. When Toni and I used to sponsor Dawn’s workshops, we saw this: people would sign up, and their excuses for not showing up were qualitatively very different from…