OBTAD
I’d like to share a technique I used when leaving X. I still use it today. OBTAD or One Brave Thing A Day. It’s easy to do and nearly foolproof when applied on a consistent basis.
Tony Robbins advocates doing two things on your to do list every day to see great changes in a short amount of time. For a woman with no self-esteem and little confidence, two things were too many to contemplate.
I started challenging myself to do one thing every day. One small thing that takes me out of my comfort zone and closer to whatever the goal is.
By accomplishing one thing, I have gained confidence and belief in myself. After a few days I would find myself doing one thing, then another and maybe even a third before the day was over.
In the movie City Slickers, Curly tells Mitch that the secret to life is one thing. I finally understood what he was talking about after about the fourth time of seeing the movie. The secret of making big, huge, ginormous changes in life is by starting with just one, small, brave act. Just one tiny step out of the box to a new place where you will see the world from a different perspective and maybe see something you missed when you were in the old place.
When a friend of mine asked me what I was doing to make so many changes in my life, I told her. She was in the place I’d been not too many months before. The next time I saw her, she told me that she’d done a brave thing. She’d applied to transfer her teacher’s certificate from New York to North Carolina. I’m happy to say that by making one phone call then following up, she now has her North Carolina teacher’s certification and is teaching in one of the local schools.
Another friend applied this theory to redecorating her daughters’ bedrooms. She wanted to build fancy shelves for the bedrooms, but wasn’t able to block out enough time to do the entire project at once. By breaking it down and doing just one thing she had the shelves, cut out, painted and hung in no time.
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