Can You Make Your Change Stick?
We sometimes over estimate what can be accomplished short term, but underestimate what our daily effort will produce across time. People who want to change their life or career often make this mistake. It might be important to have the correct frame for making your change stick.
Technology has made many things faster. We can travel faster, communicate faster, and even get our food faster.
Expectations and Frame
Have you ever watched a plant grow, what about a tree? It might be hard to notice the changes each second, every minute, or during an entire day. Across time, there is significant change.
Our reference of time might have a lot to do with our progress and making your change stick. Persistence is important and although it might be hard to measure the result from day-to-day or even month-to-month, there might be positive change.
How we frame, what we see and feel, will have consequences on what we accomplish. Our expectations might be different, our motivation might change, and our habits for success might be more tenacious.
It might be hard to see the growth sometimes but that growth has much to do with our frame. Our frame has much to do with our expectations.
We shouldn’t judge the speed of McDonalds with the speed of a gourmet meal. The expectations should be quite different.
Just because we don’t see a tree growing each day doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Across time there is significant change.
The same thing might be true for your personal changes or for your career. It might be hard to notice each day, but across time, there is big change.
What if your career lasted only 180 days, or what if it lasted 16,425? What you accomplish in 3,000 days will be different from what you accomplish in 30.
Making Your Change Stick
Yes, it might be about patience, and patience is important, but it is really about your motivation and tenacity.
What is your frame? How do you view your change? What are the expectations?
Too many people use the wrong frame. They expect the tree to bear fruit the first season.
Have the right expectations, be careful how you frame.
Make your change stick.
– DEG
Dennis E. Gilbert is a business consultant, speaker (CSPTM), and corporate trainer that specializes in helping businesses and individuals accelerate their leadership, their team, and their success. He is a four-time author and some of his work includes, Forgotten Respect, Navigating A Multigenerational Workforce and Pivot and Accelerate, The Next Move Is Yours! Reach him through his website at Dennis-Gilbert.com or by calling +1 646.546.5553.
