This is why everyone say “anything worth doing will take at least 5 years”
Decide and live with it !!

I believe every decision in our life has a reason. And every choice we make will have an outcome. For an Indian guy like me, taking a risk in career is a choice. I’ll have to live with it my whole live. When we separate the lines, you make a choice and you may never return. I trust myself and lived my whole life on this philosophy.
The decision is ours and we’ll have to live with it.
2 years back I decided to skip every job offer I could get from my college and went to start my own business. That didn’t come out well, but I found my way back. I had my lessons from my failures, as every other success icon say. Then I decided to give up my programming career and take the job as a marketer. It was hard, the switch, but I decided to go ahead with it. I couldn’t contribute much and had no serious idea on what I was doing. The learning was a bit too curvy(still learning). At least I was learning something. That’s when I realized “anything worth doing will take at least 5 years”.
So I digged deep into myself. Read a lot of posts on how to blah blah myself, integrate my dreams into reality, started reading books(thought they could improve me, but still not sure about it), tried every ice and cone of self-improvement, classy videos from Gary Vaynerchuk.. The list goes on!!
Still I felt the missing piece in my puzzle. So this is how I state it. If you do it everyday, it’ll matter. Even if it doesn’t matter to everyone, at least it should matter to you. Because do it everyday and there’ll be a breaking point where you can’t live without doing it. Or you’ll feel void when you’re not doing it. Just make sure you have these three in place.
1. Plan ahead, because you’ll be able to visualize the end product
Before you start staggering on whatever your goal is, make sure you want something out of it. Go top down on your vision of what’s that you want to achieve in ‘x’ days. Plan ahead and be on it from day one.
It takes time to get a plan together. The plan should have a specific schedule for working on your goal. Use any app/todo list that’s good for you.
2. Be persistent about what you do
Kitchen fly is the best example. They won’t stop unless you kill ’em. They’ll keep coming around. Plan is one thing. But, being human you’ll have your own excuses for skipping the planned schedule on a nice weekend and chill out with your friends. Don’t worry. Keep coming around, double your effort next day if you skip one day.
But if you skip on week, do I have to explain that?
3. Criticize yourself; penalize yourself
You don’t want someone else to judge the taste you have on making a pie look yellow, do you? You have your intuitions. Listen to your mind. Because nobody ever know you better than yourself. Evaluate yourself in a constant period.
Make sure you’re making enough mistakes for you to make the correction in the next cycle. Sometimes act against your will, let things go wrong. Because you can face problems and solve them. ;)
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