Marathons are run one step at a time!

Success does not have to be complicated.  When it comes right down to it, success in nearly every area of life is extremely simple.  Simple thoughts and simple actions that require frequency and consistency is all that it takes for you to be, do and have everything that you could ever possibly desire.

Want a great physique?  Everyone knows that the process of losing and/or maintaining your weight is a pretty simple concept.  You must burn more calories than you take in.  How do you do that?  With diet and exercise.  Everyone knows this, yet much of America is overweight.   The missing ingredient?  Frequency and consistency.

Most people can stick to a good diet or a good exercise program for a short period of time.  But most people eventually get out of the habit of maintaining their diets and exercise programs, leading them back to the same out-of-shape and overweight bodies that they had when they began.

Is becoming wealthy complicated?  Everyone knows that you should save a portion of every paycheck for the future.  Yet most of America is broke and living paycheck to paycheck.  The missing ingredient?  Frequency and consistency.  Most people will get excited about saving for a week or two and then stop the habit of setting aside part of the paycheck because the money doesn’t pile up as quickly as we would like.

As a health care provider, my own personal health is of utmost importance to me.  I feel that I must not only provide a great service to my patients, but I must also be an example to them.  I never want to ask my patients to do something that I am not willing to do myself.

With that in mind, I have actively participated in long-distance races over the past several years.  I have run 7 marathons (26.2 miles) over the past few years and continue to plan new races for the future.  If you were to ask any of my friends or family members about these races, they would all tell you that the most amazing part of my having completed these events is that I have never trained for a race.  When they say that, they mean that I have never focused on running extremely long distances prior to the race like most people must do in order to finish.

In reality, what they don’t see is that I’m never NOT training.  As part of my responsibility to remain a role model for my patients, I have decided to exercise every day.  I will typically workout at least 5-6 times every week and have done so for as long as I can remember.  So while it looks like I’m never training because I don’t change my exercise routine before running these races, the truth is that I don’t have to because I have chosen to always stay in decent shape.  Frequency and consistency!

If you will just decide on your major goals and choose to take simple daily action towards their completion, there will be no stopping you.  Take your most important goals, break them down into their most simplistic pieces and work to complete the simple pieces with frequency and consistency and you will soon find yourself moving much closer to your dreams.

You were put here for a purpose, you are greater than you realize and your future will be filled with unlimited opportunities when you decide to become unstoppable.

Be Unstoppable!

Mike

Mike Mason, author of Unstoppable Success, is the Founder of Unstoppable Business Consulting, The Elite Training Center and the Clinic Director of The Chiropractic Care Center.  He is considered one of the nation’s premier experts on business and motivation and lectures on success to sports and business groups.  He is reported to be the future of business consulting.