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Grandmas’ Reaction

In 1977 in Tallahassee Florida, Laura Shultz, who was 63 at the time, was in her house preparing dinner. Just doing what she needed to do. And she heard her grandson screaming out in the garage.

She dropped everything, ran outside, and here was her grandson with his arm pinned under their Buick. This little lady lifted the car by the bumper of the Buick. Lifted it right off her grandson. Later when she was being interviewed she said, “I’ve never lifted more than 50 pounds of dog food in my life.”

Not too much longer after that, Dr. Charles Garfield had read this interview, and decided he wanted to meet Laura. Garfield is the one who wrote the book Peak Performance. He was talking to her and during their discussion, she said she really didn’t like to think about what she called ‘the event’. She kept referring to it as an event. 

She said, “Oh I really don’t want to talk about that – it makes me nervous.” The reason was, she finally said, was that it challenged her beliefs about what is normal – challenged her beliefs about what’s natural. Dr. Garfield asked her, “What is it you’re passionate about?”

And so they began to discuss that passion. She said her whole life she had loved geology. She loved collecting rocks and studying the earth. He said well you know, you’ve already proven you can do anything, right? And she laughed.

But when they finished their interview, she began to think about what he’d said, and soon she enrolled in college. She finished her degree in Geology and had so much passion for it that she became a teacher at a community college in her area.

She overcame her overwhelm of getting that degree she had wanted for years but believed was beyond her. When finally someone else began to believe in her and said she could do anything she wanted to, she began to believe in herself, and she went and took the action necessary to make that happen.

Chunked Into Doable Steps

The fourth thing that tends to make people procrastinate is when something is not chunked down. It’s not broken down into bite-sized pieces or steps. There is the fear of taking on something too large without seeing how it can be done step by step.

There’s a saying that I heard years ago that says “By the mile it’s a trial, but by the inch it’s a cinch.” The first time I heard that phrase it was from Glenn Turner, a motivator and businessman who I met back in the early 70’s. ‘By the mile it’s a trial, by the cinch it’s an inch.’ For instance, many people say, “Gee I would love to write a book but I just don’t know if I can do that.”

Chunking

Do you think you could write a book? For instance, let’s say you have some topic area that you’re interested in. What are 12 things about that topic that you’re really interested in or believe would be of value to someone else? Those become your 12 chapters.

Now, let’s say that each chapter is going to be 10 pages long. Are there 10 things you could say about each one of those main topic points? Those become your 10 subcategories for each chapter, one per page for instance.

Once you’ve got the 10 subcategories broken out inside of each category. To fill up a page all you really need is about five paragraphs. So five paragraphs go under each subcategory.

In each of those paragraphs you only really have to have three or four sentences to make a paragraph.

Well let me ask you a question. Can you write one sentence? If you can write one sentence then you can write two, three, four sentences. Huh, guess what? You have a paragraph.

Well if you can write one paragraph you can write another. And after you’ve written five you’ve got a page.

And after you’ve written 10 of those pages, you have 10 subcategories filled, you’ve got a chapter.

If you think about it and you break it down in its component bite-sized steps you could write a book.

See, this is really no different than planning your career, planning a vacation, building a house. It’s all one chunk at a time; you do it step-by-step. Procrastination can be absolutely destroyed—eliminated—one chunk at a time.

It goes back to ‘a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’. You take that first step. Then you take another step, and another, and another. And, you just keep moving. Then over time, you can accomplish incredible things because there are no limitations on you except the ones you put there.

(to be continued…)

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