How to make a change: Over-compensate to Compensate

[csalvato]

Another great one from Derek Sivers.

https://sivers.org/compensate

To make a change, you can't go half way.

@AndrewNC
@LightHouse
@K.Y.
@saigon
@Kung Fu Steve

 

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[Kung Fu Steve]

When I taught martial arts full time I would tell my students to "swing the pendulum as hard as they can"

And what that meant was they were doing a technique, a kick, a punch, or something in a strange, awkward, lazy, or just BAD way...

That was their cue to really hone in on trying to over-exaggerate every movement to a ludicrous level.

1. If they were supposed to lift their knee, I told them to lift their knee to their neck.
2. If they were supposed to extend straight out, I told them to hyper extend (sounds weird but let me finish).
3. If they were supposed to recoil, once again their knee came back to their neck.
4. And then if they were supposed to lower their foot gracefully with balance they had to bring it down super slow and controlled.

What ends up happening 10/10 times is they don't ever REALLY touch their neck, they don't REALLY hyper extend their knee, they don't REALLY bring it back like a dork, and they don't REALLY spend 20 seconds setting their foot down...

But you'd better believe they start doing a halfway decent kick almost instantly.

If I were to give anymore advice to folk getting started in a new venture or re-committing to an old one is to swing the pendulum.

OVER-EXAGGERATE everything. EFFORT. If you were supposed to make 10 calls, do 100. If you were supposed to run for a mile, run 5. If you were supposed to rework your sales copy 2 times, do it 20 times. If you were supposed to write a headline, write 50 iterations.

In doing so you'll find that you not only tap into more of your POTENTIAL, but you'll take more ACTION, produce more RESULTS, and start to reinforce this belief that you CAN do it. You CAN make it happen. You CAN hit that goal you wrote down.

 

[LightHouse]

Great article @csalvato and great points @Kung Fu Steve . I also take away that you have no idea of your personal ceiling or limits until you way overshoot them and see where you land.

 

[AndrewNC]

Another great one from Derek Sivers.

https://sivers.org/compensate

To make a change, you can't go half way.

Thanks for the share!

Go big or go home1

 

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