Our Second Challenge: Doing What’s Most Impactful Then I encountered another challenge—what was I going to do
for that hour that was going to make the biggest impact and improve
my life the fastest? I could read, but I’d done that before, and I
wanted this to be special. I could exercise, but again, that wasn’t
getting my juices flowing. So, I pulled out a piece of blank paper and
I wrote down all of the most life-changing personal development
practices that I had learned over the years, but never implemented—at
least never consistently. Activities like meditation, affirmations,
journaling, visualization, as well as reading and exercise.
I chose the six activities that I thought would have the most
immediate and dramatic impact on my life, assigned 10 minutes each,
and planned to try all six the next morning. The interesting thing was,
looking at this list got me feeling motivated! All of a sudden the idea
of waking up early went from something I dreaded to something more
and more appealing. That night, I could hardly fall asleep, I was so
excited for the morning to come!
When the alarm clock went off at 5:00 a.m., my eyes shot wide
open and I sprung out of bed, feeling energized and excited! It was
effortless, it was invigorating, and it reminded me of being a kid,
waking up on Christmas morning. There had been no time in my life
when waking up was easier, when I felt more energized and excited
about my day, than I did as a kid on Christmas… until today.
