The Fastest Way to Conquer Long Projects | Keep Focus with THIS Approach

The first question comes from Germany, and it's how to stay motivated on a long focus project and pull off a thing.

Last time we talked about, you know, what's the end goal? What do you visualize as success? You know, what is that mountain you want to climb? And when you're on a long project, especially, you need to keep focused on that. And then, to Evan's point, is I think you need kind of routine structure. And rhythm and that cadence of momentum towards that kind of climbing the mountain and putting the flag on the top of the mountain. But you've got to keep that in mind. You've got to visualize that because some days are bad days. And unless you remember the mission you're on, then you can kind of drift and ultimately just lose your mojo. And we don't want that to happen.

Yeah, I think to add to that, it can be really hard to stay motivated where it's a 0-1 scenario. Where like it's hard to tell if you're making progress and getting momentum, having success, where you're only— there's only one success criteria and it's so long before you get there. I think what helps is if you have milestones and you break it down. And any long project, anything that might take you 5 years to go to accomplish, uh, that can be super demotivating if you have no milestones. It's hard to stay on that track. And so I would encourage you to break it down into smaller milestones. So what can I do this this quarter, this month, this week, that if I accomplish these things, I'll feel good about myself. I feel like this thing is moving. We're making progress. And it'll get you motivated to kind of get back on your horse and go do it again.

Yeah. And it's important sometimes as kind of entrepreneurs, we forget this. When you hit those milestones, celebrate them.

Yeah.

Just literally, even if it's just saying to the team, 5 or 6 people in your business, say, well done guys, let's go and have a beer down the bar. We made it. We made the first milestone, we made the 15th milestone. We should really congratulate ourselves. But then, you know, that's all behind us and it's the next milestone we've got to focus on.

Yeah, it's so easy just to get, you know, be happy to have the goal and move on, try to find the next one. But we just crossed 100,000 subscribers on the channel last week. Last week. Yeah. Thank you.

Right.

And so we made a video like it's 100,000 subscriber video. Everybody was involved thanking the team. The audience was involved. And I love the point. You got to celebrate your wins. As entrepreneurs, we're so focused on our business sometimes that we forget to celebrate the little things that we've done that have moved our company forward.

A little thing Evan and I talked about this morning, actually, because sometimes as an entrepreneur, it's about putting the next meal on the table, looking after your kids, looking after your family, building a business, keeping the customer. But sometimes it's kind of good to imagine it's much a much bigger story. You're creating history. You're making a difference. You're making a difference for you, your family, your customers. You're building a community. And when you think like that, you know, I use phrases like you could be sitting at the ringside, see the history where you're making something really special and sustainable. And it's important to hang on to that because, you know, you're following a noble cause. You're following your dreams. You're following what you're passionate about. And when you remember that, then that kind of allows you not only to see the big project See the end goal, break it down into milestones, but also celebrate and just imagine one day someone's going to be writing books on you and making movies about you.

Sitting at the ringside of history. I'm writing that one down. I like that one.