In his famous book “The Magic of Thinking Big”, David J. Schwartz talks about how many challenging goals, from writing a book to quitting smoking, can be turned into reality with the Step-by-Step Method. Here we have made this method into a short video tutorial for you.
The Step-by-Step Method is needed to achieve any goal. Determined to achieve the greatest achievements, the person learns to climb the steps of progress one by one. A house is built one brick at a time. In football, the championship is won by playing one match at a time. Big stores grow thanks to a new customer each time. Every great success consists of a series of small successes.
Renowned author Eric Sevareid, in an article he wrote in Reader Digest in 1957, stated that the best advice he got was the "next mile principle".
In that article, the author states: “When I changed my job and started writing a quarter-million-word book, I couldn't find the strength to think about the whole project. I was about to give up my deepest pride in my profession. One day I tried to think only of the next paragraph, not the next page or chapter. So for six months I did nothing but think about the next paragraph, and the book wrote itself.”
“Many years ago I was writing daily shorts for the radio broadcast. Now the total has passed 2000 pieces. If then they wanted to sign a contract with me to write 2000 pieces, of course I wouldn't have accepted it because of the size of the volume. However, I was asked to write only one. Then another one. And here is the number of what I wrote at the end.”
The step-by-step method is the most logical way to achieve a goal. The formula I've heard about quitting smoking and that works for my friends more than anyone else is what I call 'Hour-clock'. is the method. With this, you decide not to smoke for the next hour, in order to break the habit and never smoke again. When the clock is over, you extend this decision for the next hour. Later, as the desire to drink decreases, this period is extended to two hours, and then to a day. Finally, the goal is reached. However, a person who wants to get rid of this habit at once will not be successful because he cannot stand the psychological pain. An hour is easy; Infinite is hard!
References: David J. Schwartz – “The Magic of Thinking Big”
