Executing Your Plan By: Adam Mortimer

Executing your plan is a crucial step as you work towards financial independence. It is important first of all to have a plan that you can execute. It is also crucial to write your plan down on paper and have a vision of what it is you want to accomplish. Executing your plan is a process. It starts with taking that first step towards the destination you desire to arrive at. There is a Chinese proverb that states that a thousand mile journey begins with one step. There was a great climber that was asked how he had reached the summit of Mount Everest. What he said was simple. He said that he just stayed focused and he put one foot in front of the other. Each of us are working on climbing our financial Everest.
It is also important to remember why you are doing what you are doing. Don’t lose sight of what you are trying to do. In the book Real Wealth Without Risk by J.J. Childers the author speaks about two main motivational factors. There are two simple motivators, pleasure and pain. He talks about “turning up the volume on your pleasure or pain.” This explains why so many people start to do things like a diet and they end up giving up. They give up because as they start to see results, and the motivator, perhaps in this case it would commonly be the pain motivator, has been turned down and therefore they have lost the desire to do what they set out to accomplish. My simple advice this week is to turn up the volume on your motivators; stay focused, and keep putting one foot in front of the other as you work towards executing your plan.