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By Dr. Shaun Stuto

How often do we hear “take it slow,” “take it easy,” “one step at a time,” “one day at a time” “don’t be so hard on yourself” etc… Do we follow the advice? Probably not as often as we should.

Each second of the day we are faced with small and seemingly insignificant decisions; constant tests of do or don’t, right or wrong. Some of these tests might be so minor we don’t even think about them. Perhaps its a q-tip on the floor or a pillow out-of-place on the bed. Do we take the literal one second to pick up the q-tip or adjust the pillow? Or do we leave the “mess on the floor” so to speak, and allow it to accumulate.

Think of how many areas of our life that these one second challenges are adding up! You probably have piles of “stuff” all around you and fail to even notice it. A great philosophy I recently adopted is “if I think it, I must do it.” If I think about taking the trash out, it probably needs to be done. So I do it NOW! By creating this discipline in my life, more gets done and with minimal effort.

Take action and responsibility in your own life. “If I think it I must do it.” By focusing, literally, on one second at a time we get to accumulate many successes throughout our day. Success builds confidence and results. Confidence and results turn into momentum. instead of looking at how far you still have to go in your transformation process, celebrate the small victories that you choose to experience all day.

Success with our transformations is only one decision away, one meal away, one workout away, one journal entry away, or one phone call away to a loved one. It isn’t 12 weeks away or 18 weeks away. It starts now!