The 5-Day Success Challenge

Learning how to begin to change your life is a process. Defining what success looks and feels like to you is unique and often times a very private decision. The 5-Day Success Challenge begins this process.

The purpose of this 5-day challenge is to begin making a shift in your life away from where you are right now (point A) to where you want to be (point B). It begins with looking at your daily habits; identifying the habits you want to begin to change; and by taking baby steps, at first.

Here are the components of the The 5-Day Success Challenge:

1. Get in touch with the areas in your life you would like to change and have more success. Don’t try to boil the ocean between now and Friday. Rather, consider three “quick wins” that will help you with creating new habits that will build the foundation to support longer term success.

2. Write down the three things you want to do differently, things you are not doing now, but would like to begin to do that will give you a greater sense of success, accomplishment and purpose in your life and will help you with moving from point A to point B.

3. Performing new actions will lead to creating new habits. Be aware of the habits you want to learn to change. Also be aware that the bad habits may interfere with your progress. Acknowledge these bad habits and don’t give them the power to keep you from moving forward.

4. Share. There seems to be a higher sense of accountability when things are shared. I invite you to email me with the three things you want to begin learning to change in your life. With your permission, I will share your list so we can all support and encourage you, and so we can receive motivation and inspiration from walking beside you.

5. Above all set realistic expectations. The goal on day five is not that your three new habits or actions have delivered you to the success you have always hoped for in your life. But rather, by Friday you will have summoned the courage to indeed take those first few baby steps. By day five you will have learned how to begin stepping through the fear that has held you down for far too long. By the fifth day you will see the progress you are making and my hope is this will give you the encouragement to keep going.

My List

Since I have asked you to share, please allow me to begin.

1. I want to begin mending the strain and conflict that exists in the relationship with my brother. I fully acknowledge that I am responsible for the tension. This week I want to begin reaching out to him and hope to put our relationship back on track. The ball is clearly in my court. I need to change the bad habits of ignoring his phone calls and not making time for him in my life.

2. I need to back off the gas, just a little, and make more time to enjoy the things in my life that are important to me. Between family responsibilities, my job and writing for the The Next 45 Years leaves me little time for other activities. I need to get back to reading (I received the new ESPN magazine a week ago, and have not even cracked the cover.)

3. Finally, I will commit to Steve Pavlina’s Million Dollar Experiment. The goal is to generate one million dollars of additional wealth for each person who chooses to participate. For too long in my life, I have felt unworthy and not very confident with thinking that I deserve to have great success and wealth. My purpose in living this daily intention is to begin moving to the life I have always wanted to create. For me, success would be to continue growing and developing The Next 45 Years in order to extend its reach and touch more people’s lives.

Please consider sharing your 5-Day Success Challenge, too. Tomorrow, I will give you a full update on my progress.

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