What is expediting a goal? An accelerated the approach to the desired result. Why do this? Why doesn’t everyone do this? The reason to do this is to achieve an objective faster than the expected time it is thought to take. The reason everyone doesn’t do it is they are already intimidated by the work it will take to complete the goal. Doing it faster seems unreasonable. “Unreasonable” is what should be embraced. At least, our current understanding of unreasonable. We’ll find that we’ll flip our definitions. We feel attempting to complete a large goal fast is foolish. Trying the approach, will reveal we were the fools in the past. Attempting to complete a large goal slowly is unreasonable.
Let’s say we have a goal that we believe will take us years. The goal is what comes up the most when we are describing our 5-year plan. Expediting that goal would mean attempting to accomplish that 5-year goal in 1 year. People will say “I believe I’m likely to fall short of the goal if I had five years. 1 year is preposterous.” That is exactly the reason to attempt it. If you give yourself five years to do something, the fastest you’ll ever do it is five years. The issue with this approach is 10 and 20 years can be how long we take. Never doing it is also a possibility. We allow ourselves to relax because we have so much time until we don’t. If you are a reader north of 25 years of age, there is something you’ve wanted to do that you have yet to complete. Why haven’t you? You’ve told yourself you have plenty of time to complete it.
Okay, say the above is true. We’ve failed at accomplishing a goal or two. What is the benefit of attempting to finish something in 75-80% less time than what we believe is possible? It sounds like a setup to fail yet again. That may be true but allow this explanation to convince you as a reader why this is the way to fail, if you must fail. Failing the old way leaves us with little to nothing accomplished. This new way of failing will certainly get us closer to the finish line. Why is that? It is because we’ll be working our tails off striving to do what we believe is impossible. We’ll give this goal the attention it deserves. The effort, thought, and time required to make progress.
This method does three things for us. One, it reveals what is necessary to accomplish a large goal. Second, it also shows us this is the only way we should ever attempt to accomplish a goal. Finally, it makes the failure of finishing the goal in an unrealistic time insignificant. The amount accomplished in that short time will surpass the amount you would have in double that time using the old approach. Expediting goals will be the new way you tackle larger goals. If it should take a year, let’s shoot for three months. Should it take a week? We may be able to finish in a couple of days. If we don’t, we’ll finish in a shorter time than we thought it would take.
In closing, expediting goals is an approach worth adopting immediately. The method allows us to understand what it takes to be successful in this world. Expediting goals gives us the push we need to work efficiently. We’ll see completing our goals as a challenge, but a challenge that is welcomed, not avoided. Our accomplishments and successes will be more frequent. We’ll remove the fluff, freeing up time to finish more amazing objectives. We will become a well-oiled machine ready for whatever new goals we can imagine. We must make this method part of our mindset. The sooner we get here, the sooner we get there. Let’s do it, and let’s do it as fast as we possibly can.
Food for thought. You do the dishes!
