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WHY OBSESSION BEATS PLANNING
Get an idea stuck in your head
When you get an idea stuck in your head that you don’t want to shake, you will live out that idea.
Maybe you want a perfect physique, to get your first million dollars or be a world champion fighter.
If you obsess over your idea, you will live it out.
I remember watching Muhammad Ali skip rope and thought “I want to skip like that.”
It's all I could think about.
I hadn't skipped since primary school and I never stepped foot inside a boxing gym.
But to skip like the great Muhammad Ali engulfed my thoughts.
My legs shook the floor of my house and after 10 minutes I joined my local boxing gym.
No idea how to fight, I grabbed a fluro green rope … waited for that bell to countdown,
3 … 2 … 1 … *Ding* *Ding*
I skipped and skipped and skipped.
I skipped at the gym, bought a new rope to skip at home.
I skipped so hard, four ropes snapped at the handles.
In a month I was the best rope skipper in the gym. (Just not a great boxer)
Because I obsessed over this idea and took actionable steps to live it out.
When you truly obsess over an idea with every spare moment you have, you’re impelled to take action.
You don't have the capacity to plan, you ACT.
OBSESSION drives you to your goals faster than strategizing.
If you want it bad enough … eventually … you will have it.
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