Evan Carmichael breaks down how to tackle big goals by starting small. Whether it's learning salsa, entering a new market, or losing weight, he shows how concrete weekly steps like losing a pound a week or taking one class at a time close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
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So not too long ago I made a video called "Think Big But Start Small." And in that video I talked about how it's important to have a big idea, a big vision for what you want to do with your company, but, but start small. Don't just have this big picture and it seems like this impossible dream. The way to get started is to start small, take baby steps, and build your way up. And I got a response on that video. Love you guys who comment in. And it was a question asking, does this apply to services if you're going to sell it on the web? And what if you are trying to get into a different culture and they have different languages and codes of conduct and ways of doing business. Does it still apply there? For me, this is a principle that applies to everything. This isn't just business, this is anything you want to accomplish, any goal you have in your life, you can apply this to. So let's step outside the business context for a second, okay? Say, let's look at salsa, salsa dancing, okay? You want to— I like salsa dancing. If you want to become a professional salsa dancer, you want to win a salsa dancing competition, if that's your big goal, and where you're starting right now, you don't even know what salsa music sounds like, okay? That's a huge gap that you have to fill in the difference of. How do you go from here to here? You start small. This isn't going to happen overnight. You start small. You learn what salsa music sounds like. You take a class. You maybe go visit the country where Where they dancing. You go to a club just to watch. You take a private lesson. You watch a contest to see what people are doing. You put on YouTube videos. You practice. You take these small steps and you'll get better. And you'll move towards hitting that goal. So it applies to everything. If you're looking— you're talking about getting to a different country and they have different ways of doing business, that shouldn't stop you from going into that country. That could be your big goal to have global domination in whatever field you're in. That's great. To get into that country, you start small, right? You, you learn the language, you, you learn about the culture, you read books that are popular from that country, you watch movies that are popular, you look to your local town and see if there's an association where people from that country will hang out and associate. There's lots of things you can do to start small and that build up your skill set so that you're ready to do that that bigger goal. The challenge a lot of people face is we have this big vision for what we want to accomplish, but we don't quite know how to get there. And that's okay, you don't have to have it all figured out. The bigger challenge is you see this huge gap and it's just so scary that you don't do anything. And nobody ever goes from here to here just like that. There's, there's a progression, and that can happen quickly. And the more passionate you are about learning the faster you're gonna get those skills. But it still happens step by step by step at a time. So that's what you need to do. Think big but start small applies to everything, every goal that you want to accomplish. You want to lose 50 pounds? You're not gonna go from 200 pounds to 150 tomorrow, right? That's not gonna happen. That's not the way to do it. But you lose a pound a week, and in a year you get down, you get down to that 150, you lose those 50 pounds. That's how you accomplish any goal in your life. Think big, but act small. Start small. Believe. For those of you watching, like the video, give it a thumbs up below. Let me know what you think, leave a comment underneath. You have a question for me, leave it below, make a video response, and subscribe to the channel if you want to see more videos like this. Thank you so much, and I'll see you soon.
