In our last +1, we took a quick look at some wisdom from Bill Beswick’s great book Changing Your Story.
More specifically, we chatted about what you REALLY want and how badly you want it and what price you’ll need to pay to get it.
As you may recall, Bill put it this way: “To make an important change in your situation, the important thing is to establish clarity of passion and purpose—the reason why you want to change and where you want to get. To do this I always start my mentoring support by asking a client three key questions:
- What do you want?
- How badly do you want it?
- How much are you willing to suffer?
The answers to these questions form the foundation for a behavioral drive to change and improve. A key part of my work is to help clients connect their reason why—what they want to achieve—with their how—the plan to make it happen.”
Of course, as you know if you’ve been following along, science says that one of the best ways to walk through that process to make our dreams a reality is to WOOP it.
Check out this +1 and our Notes on Rethinking Positive Thinking for more on the power of knowing what you want, knowing WHY you want it THEN taking the time to identify the obstacles you’ll face and mapping out a plan to dominate.
And…
Matt Fitzgerald actually wrote an entire book on this subject appropriately called How Bad Do You Want It?
Fitzgerald uses the legendary runner Steve Prefontaine as a case study in the book. In fact, an iconic picture of Prefontaine is on the cover of the book.
Which makes me think of a poster I saw on the wall of Joe De Sena’s wrestling gym when I visited a couple months ago.
It has a Prefontaine quote on it.
On the poster, Prefontaine says: “No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how bad you want it, Somebody will want it more. I am Somebody.”
I love that.
And…
That’s Today’s +1.
What do you want?
How bad do you want it?
What price will you need to pay?
Be SOMEBODY.
And…
Go pay the price.
TODAY.
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