Inspired by and largely lifted from Jordan Peterson.
Have a goal. This is where you want to be.
Know where you are now.
Think about what you need to do to get where you want to be.
What can you do, today, now, with what you have at hand?
Make the task really small.
Do it (or don’t).
If you don’t actually do it, then the task was too big. Break it down to a series of smaller tasks. Do the first smaller task.
Do it (or don’t).
If you didn’t do the smaller task, break it down again into even smaller tasks.
Eventually you come to a point where the task is small enough that you actually do it.
Now you have progress.
Judge yourself and reward yourself by looking back to where you were before. Look! You did a thing!
Rely on the unstoppable compounding effect of repeated incremental actions. You cannot fail.
Keep repeating the incremental actions by focusing backwards on your progress compared to yesterday you. You are relentless.
If you fall into the ditch, get out of the ditch and back on The Path.
You will fall in the ditch. That’s what humans do.
When you get out of the ditch and back on The Path, that’s you successfully harnessing the compounding, relentless, unstoppable power. A power greater than you.
Failed? No factor! Get small. Get on The Path.