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How to Get Yourself to Do (And Achieve) Great Things
If you want to reach your goals, make them bigger.
Read forty-eight books in one year.
Write and publish two articles every day for a month.
When I set these goals, I thought I was crazy. There was no way I could read four books per month or write so many words. Perhaps others could do it, but not me.
I reached those goals. Since then, I’ve learned that you should never underestimate yourself. The way you believe your best friend can achieve incredible things is the way you should believe in yourself.
This year my goal is to read fifty-two books — one book a week. Again, I didn’t think I could do it, and yet, I’m three books ahead of schedule. I’ve gone from reading thirty pages in an hour to fifty.
The thing is, I know exactly why I’ve reached those goals and why I’ll continue to achieve the ones I establish.
I set high expectations. I was going to prove the crazier part of myself right.
You don’t know what you’re capable of until you dare yourself to try
For about three months, I was writing and publishing one article per day. It was difficult in the beginning, but…
