Become your best: Stepwise approach
Dhaval Jain
Creative Marketer Transforming Data into Strategic Insights| Unilever| Engaging Audiences Across Multiple Platforms| Up-and-Coming Author| dhavaljain.com
If there’s something big that you want to achieve in life, you probably won’t get there in one go. Whether it’s something to do with your career or personal life such as getting fitter, spend a few minutes planning ahead to rally your resources and help yourself to succeed.
Begin by drawing a staircase on a sheet of paper. It doesn’t matter how many steps you give yours for now, although I’d include at least a half dozen to begin with.
With a few words about your current situation at the bottom of the staircase and ca short description about where you’d like to get to at the top. Then start working backwards from your goal to figure out the individual steps you’d need to take. For example, you may need to put some money aside in preparation for your new pursuit or venture; you may need to refresh your skills, accrue certain experience, gain new qualifications. Perhaps you need to research your idea or meet particular people such as investors or clients, or if you’re trying beat your fear of giving speeches in public, your first step may be practicing a speech at home before giving speeches to a friend or two, then a handful of colleagues, the whole team, the entire department, and so on.
Think about the order of the steps, which ones do you need to do first to help you out with the later ones? For each step, also be sure to consider:
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What are the specific actions you need to do?
Who can/should help you?
You may have to redraw your staircase a couple of times, adding further steps, but that’s okay. The exercise isn’t about getting to the answer in one attempt. Every time you add a new step, you may think of more things you may need to do. The point is to cover all of your options and make your journey as smooth as possible.
But drawing your staircase is the easy bit. Now you have to take a deep breath and start doing it.
Imagine throwing a pebble off the top of a mountain. You might dislodge a handful of large stones. Those stones may in turn knock free a couple of bigger rocks. And the rocks may smash into boulders with enough force to cause an avalanche. When we take action – even when those actions are initially quite small – we can often trigger much, much more.