Follow these 4 steps that may help you get everything you want
By: Amrita Mishra
Tags: Growth, Success, Habits, Motivation, Positivity

No matter what people say, there’s enough for everyone in the world. You can probably find millions of article on the Internet, what makes this one different from the others? Because it describes the simple actionable steps to get what you want.

Anyway, talking about “The Art of Getting what you want”, people think it’s some rocket science and the people who get it are talented or gifted or have-it-all or “lucky” (I hate this word). But it’s simply consistency, learning from the failures, moving on with the learnings to another goal and never stop learning. Here’s to get what you want:

1. Build good habits i.e. build a “system”

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You may think “how are my habits going to contribute to what I want to achieve?” If you want to crack an exam, or lose/gain weight or any other goal as a matter-of-fact, you need to have good habits. Those habits should not only revolve around the goal you want to achieve, but also your entire physical and mental well-being so that you have a good mindset and focus to achieve your targets.

For example punctuality. If your organization or start-up isn’t punctual in the internal workings, you can’t expect that you can deliver client requirements on time. It is applicable to all the values in your business. If there is no internal implementation, then it won’t be reflected in the product/services you have to offer.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

- Abraham Lincoln

2. Divide your goal into tiny actionable steps

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You can’t read an entire 1000-page book at once; you have to read a few pages every day. That’s how you get something you want. Identify what your goal is, identify all the actions that you need to do in order to achieve that goal (it may be overwhelming but hold on for some times), then divide each of these actions into sub-actions until you can’t divide it anymore (the most basic units).

One of my friends was working as a Product Manager for a start-up where they had a whiteboard in which they would update the daily progress and the daily tasks for all the members. It not only helped them in finishing their work on time but also helped them with track the progress in the product. My friend said that it was one of the best feelings to check out the white-board as and when each task of the day was completed.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

―Thomas Jefferson

Maybe creating lists isn’t your cup of tea, but I’ll recommend you try making checklists at least once. It has always worked for me and a lot of other people and I hope it works for you too. Tiniest, simplest actions are easy to implement and time-saving. You feel a driving force when you see things getting done. And that drives results.

3. Consistency and Patience

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These terms like consistency, patience and perseverance etc are over-talked and under-implemented. Consistency means keep working every day towards your dreams, towards the things you want. Patience means to not be flustered with your failures but learn from them and keep your calm and keep moving forward. Do you know what does “learning from failures” mean? To put it in simple words, knowing where you went wrong, knowing how to avoid a similar situation in the future and actually implementing it.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

– Benjamin Franklin

4. Plan & start the execution

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You can’t move anywhere without a plan, planning is only to have a vision of how you are going to achieve what you want but it is the implementation, the execution that gets things done. Simply reading out a blog that tells you exercises to lose weight isn’t going to reduce that belly. You have to actually exercise in order to do so. The same logic applies everywhere.

Let’s suppose you are creating a digital marketing strategy for your business. You’d plan out everything — who is your target audience? Where are they on the Internet? How their journey is going to be (the marketing funnel)? What is your target (vanity metrics) and how you’re going to achieve them? There are multiple questions that you’ll have to answer. Then you might have to create a content calendar and execute it.

No excuses. No explanation. You don’t win on emotion. You win on execution.

- Tony Dungy

These are pretty simple and small things in life. But we often forget the tiny little things and focus on the big stuff. So these are 4 simple steps that you can follow to get anything you want in life. These are the 4 basic principles that constitute “The Art of getting what you want”. These steps have helped me; I hope they help you too. Have consistency and patience and be willing to start again even if you fail. There’s no end to the road of excellence. Enjoy the journey; you’ll reach your goal in no time.