How to Take Small Steps to Accomplish Big Goals

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When the tasks before us are too big, we tend to procrastinate until we give up or hustle until we burn out. Either way, it’s discouraging. It can be tempting to play it safe and set “more manageable” goals. But when we do, we undermine our motivation and our success. The solution? Breaking bigger goals into smaller steps. Michael and Megan’s exploration of this counterintuitive approach is rich with real-life examples and practical insight. They’ll reveal why small steps are so essential and how to leverage the power of incremental change. In this episode, you’ll discover— Why little actions take you further The importance of progress to your sense of confidence How you know a task is small enough The relationship between instant gratification and procrastination Why we could all benefit from being like a tortoise This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by our goal-setting course, Your Best Year Ever. Discover how you can create a better 2021 no matter what. Claim your copy today at bestyearever.me. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by our goal setting course, your best year ever.
0:06.0	Discover how you can create a better 2021 no matter what.
0:10.0	Claim your copy today at best year ever dot me.
0:15.0	Hi I'm Michael Hyatt.
0:19.0	And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller.
0:21.0	And this is lead to win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and
0:24.7	succeed at life. Today we're going to talk about accomplishing big sayings, big
0:29.7	goals, but in a way that you might not have considered or at least may have underutilized.
0:36.0	We're going to talk about the power of incremental change over time or taking little steps that go a long way.
0:44.0	So Megan, welcome, good to see you.
0:51.0	Hey dad, it's great to be here.
0:52.0	I love this topic because I think that it is Welcome, good to see you. Hey dad, it's great to be here.
0:52.5	I love this topic because I think that it is the antidote
0:56.2	to overwhelm and also kind of the answer for our goal setting
1:02.1	skeptics out there who may have tried and failed to accomplish big
1:06.7	goals you've tried to go after something big and they just you know got derailed
1:11.4	along the way I think this can be a really important missing
1:14.4	peace in that conversation so I'm excited to dig in. Well you've probably heard
1:18.8	this before people advocate that if you want to accomplish something really
1:22.3	important you've got to take massive action.
1:26.0	Right? So you've got to do something big, dramatic, bold, if you want to achieve dramatic big bold things.
1:34.0	And I think that probably there's sometimes when that is necessary.
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