We are all trying to “puzzle” our way through life. As you piece together your identity, consider the people, communities, and values that impact you.
A microcosm is just a small version of something much larger. It’s usually very similar in the most important regards, but much simpler.
Kindergarten, for instance, is a microcosm of college (the macrocosm).
You couldn’t drop off a kid in college and expect them to do well. They must first survive a number of preparatory microcosms, each one progressively more difficult, before they’re ready for the largest educational institute we have to offer.
Superbowl champions don’t start with Superbowl games. They start with practice (usually at a very young age).
To do something big, try working up to it by degrees.
Find or manufacture microcosms of your larger challenge—smaller challenges that are similar in key ways. Look at your larger goal and deconstruct the strengths, skills, and abilities you know you’ll need to succeed. Take on those components individually—in smaller, more manageable, less risky settings. Make them harder and harder as you progress.
As you begin to win on small levels, you’ll become increasingly prepared to win on a much larger level.
With each microcosmic success you’ll build strength, skills, experience, and most importantly, confidence.
The confidence you build by taking the microcosm approach will become the foundation for your life. Each success adds a brick to your ever-growing confidence foundation.
That confidence foundation will keep you motivated to achieve ever larger goals, and reach ever greater heights, and will help you persevere when times are tough.
If you want to win big, try winning small first.
-Rusty
We are all trying to “puzzle” our way through life. As you piece together your identity, consider the people, communities, and values that impact you.
You’ve likely heard the children’s story about the ugly duckling. What difference does a change in perspective make? Read on to find out how you can relate to his experience.
You are capable of greatness. In fact, it is already within you. You just need to discover it, and then work to bring your life into alignment so that your life's mission and your life become one and the same. That's when you'll shine. That's when you'll experience full joy and fulfillment, when you're actions align to your purpose. We can help.
The night I quit my job I had a decision to make: wait, or just start. I chose to just start and held a seminar the next day. People in motion tend to stay in motion and people at rest tend to stay at rest. So whatever it is you've been waiting to do... just start!
The hardest handicaps to overcome are mental. It happens when we tell ourselves the wrong story. Change the story.
The funny, but insightful story about how we tend to destroy what is most precious to us. A video from an international speech competition.
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We provide the tools and the training, the motivation and the methodology, an entire system designed to help you move beyond where you’ve been, to go farther than you thought you could… to achieve more, to do more, to become more. It’s about more than just short-term success. It’s the disciplined pursuit of excellence.
