The 3 Step Plan To Achieve Anything

Hey there, Happy Friday.

You know, I was in a meeting earlier this week, and it was the first time I had spoken with this client, and midway through our time he asked me a question that I’ve heard more than once over the years from people who are just as frustrated as he is.

He asked me (or more so told me out of pure frustration): “I want to make more money, I want to grow my team, and I want to stop having such a negative outlook on work. But how the hell can I get all of those things?”

Now at first glance solving all those problems sound like adventures in each of their own rights. I mean how to make more money is an extremely open ended question that doesn’t have any simple answers. Similarly, changing your entire outlook on your profession and place of work, that’s a massive undertaking.

I mean we’re talking about completely rewiring a person’s brain to create new positive connections so that when this person thinks of work, his brain automatically associates it with good things that make him happy.

How do we just make that happen?

Well it comes down to 3 things.

And right now you’re probably thinking, “I don’t know Corteen, how can I fix all of these problems with 3 things?”

Let me tell you.

First, you have to want like a child. You know what I mean, I mean the same way a child with no sense of patience wants something with every fiber of their being. Whether it’s a present, a game of sorts, a snack, whatever it is - when a kid wants something they want it with every ounce of themselves. If you want to make more money, grow your team, whatever you want, start by wanting like a child.

Next, step two here. You have to plan like a robot. Yup, a robot. If you’re familiar with computer programming or machine programming you’ll know that any sort of programmed machine has to have step by step instructions. Not just basic steps, I mean the most specific and detailed instructions down to the most minor action. You have to plan towards the goal you set like a robot, in the most specific and detailed way possible.

Third, the final step here. You’ve already yearned for whatever it is you want, then you planned carefully and in painstaking detail how to get it. Now what?

Now it’s time to execute like a lion. Execute like a lion who has been stalking, learning the movements, the weaknesses, the strengths of its prey. A lion who knows that the only way it will eat tonight is if it executes its plan to secure a food source. That’s how you have to execute your plan, even if your goal lay on the other side of a mountain like a lion’s prey, you have to do whatever it takes to get to it.

That’s it. 

Three steps to get anything you want in life. 

So give that some thought, maybe there are some things you already want and now it’s time to move onto the planning stage like a robot.