Small Steps to Big Success

Most big things start small—even the tallest pro basketball player was once a baby.
Great achievements in life start with one single step. They become great 1 step at a time. 
Nothing you’ve done in life was accomplished overnight. You didn’t learn to walk overnight: you crawled and then fell a lot when you stood up and tried to move.
 
You didn’t learn to read overnight—it took 5 or 6 years to master that.
You didn’t get into a car and start driving immediately—and give your Dad or driving instructor a panic attack.
So why do we feel like it’s either go big or go home?
 
There’s nothing wrong with starting small and growing. A lot of big businesses were built that way.
If you are facing what you feel is an impossible task—like building your business, achieving multi-million dollar wealth, growing a large well-oiled organization—here are some tips on moving that mountain, 1 step at a time:
 
Break it down
If you have 1 overwhelming goal, break it down into smaller goals.
Let’s say you want a large organization. Your first goal is to recruit 1 distributor. Your second goal is to train that person. Your third goal is to continue motivating your newbie to sign distributors.
Or, you focus on signing the next distributor yourself.
That way, at any given time, you don’t get discouraged.
Why not?
You have a goal to work toward, and it’s a small, manageable one you know that you can achieve.
Not like looking at scaling Mount Whitney with puny climbing equipment.
 
Track your progress
Keep a log of your progress. A spreadsheet, a mark on the calendar—somewhere write down the date you sign your first distributor.
If you want 10 distributors, draw 10 circles and post them somewhere. Then color in or check 1 off as you sign each person. You can even date them so that you can clearly track your accomplishments.
You’ll probably find that the time to sign up the next distributor will grow shorter as you start “rolling.”  And that’s a great feeling.
Set up a system so that you can see that, yes, you’ve made progress toward your larger goal. And that you’ve completed a bunch of small goals along the way.


Celebrate every small victory
Don’t wait until you’ve reached the large goal before you celebrate. Life is dry and boring if we don’t put a little fun into it along the way.
You don’t want to lose interest because it’s all work, anyway. So go ahead, go have a little fun when you reach each of those small milestones.
 
Take setbacks in stride
You might as well face it. You will have setbacks. We all do. But don’t let them sabotage your success. Just deal with them and move on.
It helps during those times to go back and look at your progress. Once you feel that sense of achievement again, you will get back into gear.
 
Read about successful people
Read the life stories of successful people. You will see that they also had a series of small steps that led to their current stations in life. Even when it appears that someone had “overnight success,” believe me, that person spent a lot of time building up to that.
 
I think the overnight success mentality is actually harmful to network marketers. It can kill our drive and determination if we expect things to happen fast and they don’t.

Instead, focus on the small victories, and let the big ones catch you by surprise.