If You Want Enormous Personal Growth in 2021, Read This Now
By: Deante L. Young
Tags: Life Lessons, Personal Development, Self Improvement, Personal Growth, 2021

1. Bring it to The Day — A very successful man told me (and dozens of people in the room) to “bring it to the day, or the day will bring it to you.” The simple translation is that we need to approach each day with purpose, intention, focus, a game plan and a proper attitude. Win the day with our energy and mindset because if we don’t, the day will bring its own agenda to us. Better to be proactive than reactive.

2. Consistency Over Intensity — So many high achievers preach relentless hustle and extreme intensity with the chasing of goals. What I have personally found to be a far more sustainable strategy is being consistent in your pursuit rather than intense. Especially if you’re not accustomed to the struggles of pursuing excellence.

3. Start With 5 Minutes Per Day — I read 19 books in just six months by starting with a 5 minutes per day habit. You’d be amazed at how much you can accomplish in 5 minutes a day as long as you are consistent and focused only on the task at hand during those 5 minutes. I upgraded to 10 minutes of reading per day, then 15. Eventually I got up to 1 hour daily, but that’s not necessary to achieve massive results. Just consistency.

4. Nobody Built Like You — “Hov, remind yourself: nobody built like you, you designed yourself,” rapped JAY-Z as he described a hypothetical conversation with The Notorious B.I.G. The term essential speaks to our own unique qualities and singularity. No one can replicate what you bring to the table. Nobody can care about your growth potential the way that you can. Nobody can possess your “why” factor like you. Own that and use it as a battle cry when shit gets tough.

5. Fail Fast — There’s no way around failure except to continue to try. Even then, the failure will continue with any new thing that you take on. Since failure is a huge part of any eventual achievement, make it a point to fail fast.

What you don’t want to do is to fail once, then get discouraged or insecure about your chances going forward. I heard that when a person falls off a horse, they should get right back on so that they don’t let the fear of falling off again cripple them from ever trying to ride again. Failure is feedback, and if the feedback is swift, so will the learning and refining so that you get closer much faster to the achievement.

6. You Don’t Need to Feel Confident — We assume that we need to feel comfortable and confident before we try to accomplish something. Confidence is overrated and courage is more important. Ruth Soukup wrote a remarkable book entitled, Do It Scared and I believe that trying things with that mentality is incredibly empowering. Get over the worry and avoidance of failing. It’s super important to fail.

7. Get From The Day — The great Jim Rohn said that people often try to “get through the day.” He suggests that getting “from the day” is so much better. In other words, through all the things that you experience during the course of a day, you should get something useful or important from the day.

Don’t allow it just pass by without learning or benefiting from something. This will likely take a little getting used to, but reflecting and journaling will help a ton with this.