I saw an article more recently from my mentor Dax Moy that inspired me to write this post. It shares alot of his original content with my own thoughts and beliefs.
The great Earl Nightingale once said that all that was required in order to live a great life was to live a series of great years. To live a great year merely required a series of great days and a great day was but the sum total of the great hours, minutes and seconds that that one chooses to put together.
When put that way, success sounds really easy doesn’t it? Simply string together one great day after another and you’re there!
So why is it then, if the recipe for success and happiness is that simple, that so many of us struggle to gain any appreciable success for ourselves? After all, we all want more from our lives than we’re currently getting so why do we have so much trouble getting what we want?
Well, it’s certainly not a lack of knowledge that’s for sure.
In fact, at this moment in time we have more knowledge available to us on the subject of success than at any other time in history. The books and audios programs currently available on the subject of success could quite easily fill a skyscraper!
Throughout the ages, various philosophers, theologians and success authors have gone to great lengths to spell out step-by-step the EXACT ingredients required to make success and happiness a reality for all of us and yet most of us still find ourselves struggling to get by in life.
Why?
We know it’s not a lack of knowledge, so what is it?
One word….
Doledge.
Do –ledge!
I know, you’re thinking “That’s not even a real word” but trust me, it should be!
If knowledge is the sum total of the things you know, then doledge is the sum total of the things you DO.
The two are not the same. You ‘know’ many, many things that you could and should be doing better than you are but you simply are not doing them because you lack the doledge to bring them about.
In fact, because you lack doledge, most of what you know is useless. A complete waste of mental space.
Not only that, all of your acquired knowledge is as frustrating as hell because you ‘know’ what’s possible for you but you’re not experiencing it. Worse still, any further increase in knowledge, books you read, courses you attend, just increases the frustration as the gap between what you know and what you do widens further still.
It’s enough to drive you mad isn’t it?
Yet this madness is so easy to avoid.
You’ve just got to DO something!
Correction; you got to do something, then do something, then do something.
You see, whilst the famous Lao Tsu quote “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” is correct, it is only part complete. What is left unsaid (though hopefully obvious) is that in order to complete a journey of any kind, we have to continue putting one foot in front of the other.
That’s doledge!
The simple yet highly effective strategy of taking the single step day-in, day-out until the journey is complete.
Could you imagine if, every single day for 100 days, you were to take action on the biggest, wildest dreams you currently hold in your head?
The book you want to write?
The business you want to start?
The home you want to own?
The travel you want to take?
The adventures you want to have?
Can you imagine?…
If you can imagine, you’re in luck, because if you can hold it in your head, you can hold it in your hands…
IF and only if, you apply regular and constant doledge to your dreams.
And you can start right now by making the commitment to taking action and applying doledge at every opportunity that presents itself. If you get an idea for something then do it. If an opportunity arises then do it. If anything that you want in your life requires action of ANY kind that you can do right now, then DO IT!
This isn’t exactly rocket science, nor is it new or revolutionary information of any kind. It’s what you’ve known all your life yet, as we’ve discussed already, what you ‘know’ will not get you what you want in life. It’s what you do that counts.
Apply Doledge to your life every single day for the next 100 days and you’ll be stunned at how your life changes… I guarantee it!
Do you see how this applies to any area of your life where you to change and succeed in a goal or series of goals. It can be your career, your relationships, your finances, your adventures and of course your health and fitness.
Wherever you go there is information everywhere on how to lose weight, get fitter, improve your speed, strength etc in the form of books, products on the internet, DVD’s courses, seminars, supplements and latest equipment.
Stage One is to sieve through and find the good stuff, by that notion, you are doing already by reviewing what is on offer and making a decision as to what is best for you (and not getting suckered into a bad product).
Let’s assume you have got a product that does what it says on the tin and you read/watch it.
You now have the knowledge.
What are you going to do next?
Assume that by reading the sales page and product that the body and health you want will materialise?
Not likely and I’m not assuming for one moment that anyone is of that frame of mind that they would come to that conclusion anyway.
But it does take another jump off the high board and some perspiration to then do something with the knowledge you have attained from the one or more products or services that you have purchased.
Get into a habit of Do-ledge and don’t waste the knowledge you have invested your time, money and efforts on.
Be great!
Mike
