Snail moving upwards.

The Easy Way To Success

When we’re dis­sat­is­fied with our progress, we tend to make big resolutions.

We de­cide to fi­nally make the quan­tum leap.

From this mo­ment on, we’ll change every­thing.

We’ll work harder. Fo­cus more. Stay true to our goals.

Only, it al­most never works for us mere mortals.

The mo­ti­va­tional gu­rus telling us about their quan­tum leap are rare as a Kwisatz Hader­ach, com­pared to the num­ber of those who fail to fol­low their lead.

So, if you know ‘from now I’ll change every­thing’ won’t work, why not try some­thing eas­ier, some­thing with a higher chance of success?

Here’s a strat­egy that’s easy and works for many. It’s called

Slow and steady.

About 4 weeks ago I re-launched this web site, RalfSkirr.com.

I didn’t wait to put it on­line un­til it was fin­ished. It would still be col­lect­ing dust on my hard drive.

In­stead I pub­lished an un­fin­ished web site 

  • I still have a few spots with dummy text on this web site.
  • My newslet­ter sub­scrip­tion box was done so quickly, it got me 80% fake-name sign ups.
  • And I didn’t even send out my newslet­ter once in August.

Noth­ing to brag about. But it’s not a prob­lem, be­cause in­stead of wait­ing to get every­thing right, I took the slow and steady approach.

In Au­gust my goal was to add one blog post a day. Not ex­actly a break­through of mythic proportions.

Yet, as a re­sult af­ter less than one month I have 36 pages of content.

Now that this is ac­com­plished, for Sep­tem­ber I’ll add my email newslet­ter to the things to do.

  • I have al­ready added Face­book and Google Plus sub­scribe op­tions. Do­ing this will bring down the fake-name sign ups to in­signif­i­cant numbers. 
  • Next week I will start to ac­tu­ally send emails to my list.

Again, not an ac­com­plish­ment that makes a legend.

But one year from now, these small ad­di­tions to my busi­ness will have added up.

How about 5 years? 10 years?

That’s the magic of ‘slow and steady.’

Even at a snail’s pace you’ll reach your goal faster than the one who’s wait­ing to make a quan­tum leap from loser to achiever.

What is a small thing you can start do­ing this week, that’ll make a dif­fer­ence later?

Get mov­ing.