I’m not ready or it’s not the right time. Have you said something like this to yourself? Or have you ever convinced yourself you couldn’t do something but deep down you knew you could. Today’s lesson discusses the Law of Diminishing Intent. This law comes out of John C. Maxwell’s 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. This mindset is a gap that can hold you back from accomplishing something you know you can do.
American politician Frank Clark once said, “What great accomplishments we’d have in the world if everybody had done what they intended to do.” Most people don’t act as quickly as they should on things. They find themselves subject to the Law of Diminishing Intent, which says,
“The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”
The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready. If you’re not already intentionally growing, you need to get started today. If you don’t, you may reach some goals, which you can celebrate, but you will eventually plateau. Once you start growing intentionally, you can keep growing and keep asking “What’s next?”
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