Hi There!  Today I’m sitting here just thinking about little steps.

Really….just little steps.  And how many it would take to realize reaching goals I have set for myself. Today I took a little step and tomorrow I’m going to take another.  I have found that success will not be had by buying a lottery ticket or taking giant steps or leaps towards it.  It won’t happen that way.  But it will happen as I make small steps each and every day in the right direction.  I would rather take small steps in the right direction than play day after day the lottery in hopes of winning it big.  Why do people do this?  Because it’s easy.  Let’s toss the coin the other way… if it were easy, we’d all be millionaires. If it were easy, we’d all be fit and trim and gorgeous as my good friend Tony Horton says…(I know , some of you are already, but humor me).  Why aren’t we all these things?  Because it’s easier to NOT do the things that will get us to those goals.  It’s easy to play the lottery instead of making sound good choices each day.  It’s easy to eat fast food, grab a soda or just not eat all day.  The steps of life are hard whether we know or admit it to ourselves.

So let me back up a few million steps.  There is a path that few choose.  You could call it the road less traveled or the path that few find.  But we know the road and we know the path.  So, I want to take a step in the right direction.  I’ll take another step tomorrow going the same way, and again the next day. You see, I won’t have success that first day, or the second, or the third, but some day down the road when you least expect it, I’ll be that millionaire, or that fit and trim guy, or person who others will say “man, he has it all, how did he do that”?  The same could be said for the person taking the wrong little step each and every day.  Just one day in the wrong direction doesn’t really hurt or matter, but a lifetime of taking those steps will lead to disaster.

So what’s my point you ask?  Good question!  My challenge to you today is to make a decision that will lead to your success.  Do it each and every day.  It doesn’t matter if the task is very small or seems insignificant, but over the long haul, one day you’ll wake up and wonder at the success you’ve achieved.  Not because you leapt one giant step.  But because you steadily made progress towards your goal bit by bit.

It’s like the water hyacin on a large pond.  The little plant starts out growing and is no larger than a quarter the first few days of the month.  Even two weeks into it the hyacin still has only grown to the size of a small overturned boat, but on day 29 you discover half the pond taken over by the plant.  On day 3o the whole pond is covered.

Reaching your goals in life will most likely not be accomplished by buying a lottery ticket, but will be gained by making small incremental, stead fast movement each day in the right direction. I want to help you get there.  I want to help you build a success strategy. I know my site is mostly about fitness and nutrition, but honestly I would love to help you in succeed in whatever you attempt.  Sometimes it not about what steps to take, but it may be that you need someone to help hold you accountable.  We all need that accountability partner in life.  I have one or two that I can say have made a large impact on my life and helped me steer in the right direction.  What will you do today?  Choose the path least taken or the one that most travel and never reach success.

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