Keeping Success Simple, Avoid Overcomplicating Your Plans
KISS - Keep It Simple Sweetheart
Ran across a great post on another blog today and wanted to share it with you.
It's all about how successful people (and there are plenty of examples) accomplished extroardinary goals in their life by making simple plans and staying the course.
By consistently putting in the effort towards what they wanted, they moved inexorably towards their goals with persistent, determined actions daily.
Sometimes in our efforts to 'get all our ducks in a row', we will plan everything down to the last detail and not only lose our flexibility to adjust quickly, but we actually make our plans hard to follow and difficult to action.
Here is a teaser and then follow the link to read the rest of this great article.
Success Through Simple Plans
When Seko, the Japanese runner, won the Boston Marathon in 1981, he was asked about his training plan. Seko explained it with only twelve words:
“I run 10 kilometers in the morning and 20 in the evening.”
This simple plan enabled him to outrun the world’s most gifted runners.
When Seko was told that his plan seemed too simple, compared to that of other marathoners, he replied:
“The plan is simple, but I do it every single day, 365 days a year”.
Simple? Yes!
Effective? Yes!
Easy? No!
Most people fail to reach their goals not because their plans are too simple or too complicated.
They fail because they do not follow their own plans. All plans are useless if they are not followed.
Seko’s plan was effective not because it was simple but because he followed it every single day.
On the other hand, we are more likely to follow a plan if it is simple.
The great marathon runner, Paula Radcliffe, has a simple race plan. She gets out in front and stays there!
In the film ‘Waterloo’, the Duke of Wellington is asked by his second in command what his plans are for the battle.
The iron duke replies: ‘To beat the French’.
Wellington was a man who paid close attention to detail in all his campaigns but he kept the simple over all plan in constant view. Every smaller plan must fit into the big simple picture.
Epictetus was another person who knew how to keep things simple:
“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
The writer who has the simple plan of writing for an hour every day will eventually complete whatever they are writing. The weight lifter who lifts for an hour every other day will become strong.
A simple plan that is followed is worth far more than a sophisticated plan which is not followed . . .
Read the whole article here: Success Through Simple Plans
Ran across a great post on another blog today and wanted to share it with you.
It's all about how successful people (and there are plenty of examples) accomplished extroardinary goals in their life by making simple plans and staying the course.
By consistently putting in the effort towards what they wanted, they moved inexorably towards their goals with persistent, determined actions daily.
Sometimes in our efforts to 'get all our ducks in a row', we will plan everything down to the last detail and not only lose our flexibility to adjust quickly, but we actually make our plans hard to follow and difficult to action.
Here is a teaser and then follow the link to read the rest of this great article.
Success Through Simple Plans
When Seko, the Japanese runner, won the Boston Marathon in 1981, he was asked about his training plan. Seko explained it with only twelve words:
“I run 10 kilometers in the morning and 20 in the evening.”
This simple plan enabled him to outrun the world’s most gifted runners.
When Seko was told that his plan seemed too simple, compared to that of other marathoners, he replied:
“The plan is simple, but I do it every single day, 365 days a year”.
Simple? Yes!
Effective? Yes!
Easy? No!
Most people fail to reach their goals not because their plans are too simple or too complicated.
They fail because they do not follow their own plans. All plans are useless if they are not followed.
Seko’s plan was effective not because it was simple but because he followed it every single day.
On the other hand, we are more likely to follow a plan if it is simple.
The great marathon runner, Paula Radcliffe, has a simple race plan. She gets out in front and stays there!
In the film ‘Waterloo’, the Duke of Wellington is asked by his second in command what his plans are for the battle.
The iron duke replies: ‘To beat the French’.
Wellington was a man who paid close attention to detail in all his campaigns but he kept the simple over all plan in constant view. Every smaller plan must fit into the big simple picture.
Epictetus was another person who knew how to keep things simple:
“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
The writer who has the simple plan of writing for an hour every day will eventually complete whatever they are writing. The weight lifter who lifts for an hour every other day will become strong.
A simple plan that is followed is worth far more than a sophisticated plan which is not followed . . .
Read the whole article here: Success Through Simple Plans
Labels: goal setting, motivation, positive attitudes, self discipline
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