Brendon Burchard defines progress as having (1) direction — feeling you are going the right way; (2) speed/rate — moving toward the goal at a satisfying clip; and (3) urgency/obsession — increased drive and willingness to sacrifice (e.g., staying up nights). He gives a personal example: choosing the path of personal development/high performance and slipping away to write The Motivation Manifesto to honor that direction despite external expectations.
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What is progress? Number one, direction. You feel like you're going in the right direction. That matters. Everything else can be activity and busy work. You have to choose your path. I had to say my path is personal development, high performance. This book that's more like philosophical than the marketing and sales or pop literature they wanted me to write. I had to go in this different direction. It's true to me. Not just what they want. And as you go towards that direction, you also have in progress the. This concept of speed or rate. Right. Rate is speed and velocity. Am I moving towards this thing at the clip I want to? I didn't feel like I was. And so I had to kind of go inside and slip away on the weekends or at night to write the motivation manifesto. I was like. I had a sense of urgency about. Do you know if you're in the right direction? You have more urgency. Do you know if you're in the right direction? You'll stay up a few nights. Do you know if you're in the right direction? You'll have a greater level of obsession toward the thing. And that's okay. Even if they don't understand.
