Do you have big goals for your business? Are their new marketing strategies that you’d like to learn and implement? Perhaps you’re just now looking at the calendar and realize that 2010 is approaching the half way point and you feel stuck in the mud or somewhat overwhelmed by the complexity and magnitude of your big goals.  

I’m a big fan of what’s called ‘massive action’ – implementing multiple projects simultaneously, not sequentially, and striving for big goals with purpose, drive and intensity. I love momentum and work hard not to slip backwards even one inch, which isn’t always easy in the current economic environment.

Sometimes my coaching clients ask me how I appear to get so much done. There’s a larger answer that involves delegation and the effective use of assistants, but the bigger message I want to share this morning is this. For me, the best antidote to ‘overwhelm’ is to simply get started! That’s right, the ‘magic pill’ is to simply begin by doing something – anything (other than moaning and groaning about being overwhelmed!) which get’s you even one inch closer to your goals. You see, when you get started you’ll soon begin to feel better because you’ll see progress and this progress will energize you to keep pushing towards the next step.

I’ll let you in on a secret. I’ve been trying to drop 5 pounds and despite exercise and a reasonable diet (no doubt part of the problem!), I’ve been struggling; you might say feeling stuck in the mud. But this morning the scale finally moved and said I lost half a pound. It might as well have been 5 pounds because I was very excited to see progress and I instantly felt energized to keep going. This is exactly what I mean about “starting,” making small progress and as a result feeling energized to keep moving forward.

Big goals are great, I’m all for them, but the next step after creating and committing to your big goal is to break it down into smaller ‘bite size’ chunks and then stop moaning and making excuses, and instead – GET STARTED!

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