Floating Candle - Success

 Succeed at Full-Speed or Get Nowhere Fast

Why? You concentrate your learning curve, eliminate distractions, and, most importantly, build momentum.

When you concentrate a large number of goal-related activities into a short time frame, you alter any learning curve in your favor. This is because you can’t help getting better when you practice often and within a short time.

Regardless of the project, you establish yourself in the necessary fundamentals, build advanced skill, and develop an unconscious “knack” when you practice anything a lot in a short amount of time.

Especially in the early stages of your project, you will make dramatic improvements. This is important because it gives you positive feedback early in the process.

Suppose you make the same mistake numerous times in a row. If you do this over a short time span, you are far more likely to correct the mistake and ingrain square floating candle correction into your “muscle memory.” Moreover, if you immerse yourself in goal-related activities, you will engage your creativity and intuition much more easily. This means that you will build on your skill set more rapidly and efficiently.

A bonus of concentrating many focused activities in a short time is that you experience fewer distractions. Some people short-circuit their own success by starting too many projects. They justify this by saying they are “multi-tasking.”

Not so! We achieve success with focus, attentiveness, and sustained activity directed toward a specific and carefully-defined objective. An important and sometimes painful success lesson is that the specialist, not the generalist, is most likely to succeed. So unless you fancy yourself the las vegas Leonardo da Vinci, pick one endeavor, focus on it, and apply yourself with sustained and massive action. Your chances of success skyrocket in part because you will be far less distracted.

The previous two points generate momentum. Momentum is essential for success because it sustains activity and propels you through the challenges that are an inevitable part of success.

Momentum is also important because it is contagious. Virtually every success requires the cooperative effort of more than one person. When you establish momentum, others sense this unconsciously and follow your lead.

That’s why we use the expression “things come together” when describing a seemingly fortuitous success experience. “Things come together” because we established momentum and others join in the march toward success.

This doesn’t mean that you can rush success. We all achieve success one step at a time. However, we are wise to take those steps as briskly as possible.

So make lots of steps with full speed. In fact, if you don’t apply full speed to your success journey, you may end up going nowhere fast.