Have you seen the Golden Gate Bridge?

If you haven’t, here’s something you need to know.

The cables that bear the entire weight of the roadway are immense. They measure over 3 feet in diameter and are among the strongest ever built by mankind.

How hard would it be to break a steel cable like that and what does this have to do with motivation?

Each of these monstrous cables is made up of thousands of smaller cables, (27,572 to be exact), that were woven together one at a time to reach the point being nearly indestructible.

Each day of our lives we weave one more tiny wire into a giant cable that holds us where we are!

Every day we follow a routine.

• We get up at a certain time,
• We take a shower,
• Brush our teeth,
• Eat breakfast and
• Leave for work
• Break for lunch
• Leave work
• Drive home
• etc… etc…

This is a common routine and every day, we reinforce that routine and weave one more tiny wire into our giant cable.

Every now and then, we get the uncontrollable urge to change.

We want something better! We want something different! We want to succeed in life or in business so we do something to get ourselves “Motivated”.

We might attend a motivational seminar, or go to a regularly scheduled meeting where we get our batteries recharged and feel like taking on the world again.

Then comes Monday. And the giant cable we’ve been building yanks us back into the same old routine as last week, and the week before, and the week before that.

For most people, this cycle of “Getting Motivated” and then falling back into the routine is a life long addiction, (This is the biggest reason why people keep coming out of retirement!), it’s the addiction to the routine.

Motivation for most people is nothing more than the temporary rush. Much the same as the rush you get from a sugary energy drink. A high followed by a crash.

We get excited and sometimes even get started before the big cable yanks us back.

One thing you will notice about wealthy, successful people is that their “routines” are very different from that of most people. What did they do to break their cable?

They didn’t break it at all. They built a different, bigger cable!

21 Days!

That’s all it takes to become addicted…. to anything!
And, the very best way to beat an unhealthy addiction is to start a new, healthy one.

If you do anything for 21 days in a row, your addicted. Try it! Go for a walk for 21 days and on day 22 your body will need that daily walk. Eat a hand full of blueberries or an apple for 21 days and your body will crave it on day 22 and beyond.

It’s not magic, it’s just the way human beings are wired.

The answers and changes that we seek for ourselves simply can not be achieved by motivation alone.

Why? Because motivation alone is incapable of changing our habits and routines. The cable we have built can not be broken, it can only be replaced.

We have to change our habits and our routines NOT by “stopping what were doing” but by starting to do something else. We create NEW habits and routines that replace that giant cable with a new one.

Make sense?

Here’s a good place to start.

For the next 21 consecutive days, read for 30 minutes to an hour each day and start with some of these books.

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People -  by Stephen R Covey
• As a Man Thinketh -  by James Allen
• Think and Grow Rich – by Napoleon Hill
• The Greatest Salesman in the World -  by Og Mandino
• The Power of Positive Thinking – by Norman Vincent Peale
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – by Dale Carnegie
• The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing – by Ann Sieg - FREE Download HERE.
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad – by Robert Kiyosaki

And the list goes on and on…..

Get one of these books and mark the day on your calendar. Read every single day for 21 days. See what happens for yourself!

Till Next Time

Micah

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