The #1 Law of Change?

December 5th, 2012 by Agent Kevin Miller

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An air-traffic controller spends all day monitoring air crafts. I spend most days monitoring people striving for big life change.  When it all boils down to it, what do I see as the #1 “Law” of Change?

Doing the work:

  • Doing a LOT of work.
  • Doing more work than you’re used to.
  • Doing smarter work – not just busyness based, but results based.
  • Getting feedback and counsel and guidance on your work.
  • Getting off track with your work…and working even more to get ON track.
  • Stalling out, losing momentum, getting discouraged. And starting up again anyway.

Nothing compensates for not doing the work, not:

  • Motivation
  • Inspiration
  • ‘Belief’
  • Smarts
  • Brilliance
  • Experience

These are all highly valuable and should be sought after, but you can have them and you’ll still fail if you don’t buckle down and just do the work. Right now I have 90 new members in Free Agent Academy who are sitting down, pen in hand or fingers on keyboard…doing the work to achieve their goals. Many…for the first time. Not just taking in knowledge, but acting on it.

This truth and ‘Law’ pisses me off. I want to cut corners. I want to be the exception. I want to be smarter-than-the-average-bear.

I’m not, and it disappoints me a great deal.

On the upside,I don’t have to rely on whether I’m motivated, inspired, smart, brilliant or better experienced. I’m often found lacking in those things. But I can always, simply…do the work.

Do you know you need to join the ranks of us normal people and simply do the work to change?

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  • http://twitter.com/esggraphics Eric Gale

    Great post Kevin.

    This week I spent 10-12 hours preparing for a 30 minute presentation in front of a room of small business owners and directors of non-profits. I can attest that there is a lot of work to do. Hopefully I can pick up a client or two (hopefully more) from this presentation.

    If not, I can at least turn my presentation into an e-book that I can use to warm some leads.

    Well, no more reading blogs, I got to go “do the work”.

    • http://www.freeagentacademy.com Kevin Miller

      Beauty Eric. Hey, I’m going to mention you in today’s show.

    • http://JaredLatigo.com/ Jared Latigo

      That’s awesome Eric! Hope it went well and you land something awesome from all that work!

  • http://seekoutwisdom.blogspot.com Joseph Iliff of SeekOutWisdom

    Those who choose to gain motivation by doing work will always have an advantage over those who choose to wait on the motivation before they start to work.

    • http://www.freeagentacademy.com Kevin Miller

      Nice Joseph. Share with folks what ‘work’ you’ve been doing in Free Agent Academy?!

      • http://seekoutwisdom.blogspot.com Joseph Iliff of SeekOutWisdom

        Really, I’ve been working on identifying my strengths, and looking for better ways to serve people by doing what I do best more often.

  • http://JaredLatigo.com/ Jared Latigo

    Very good Kevin. I’m doing the work right now. Just upped my work schedule for the next few months. It’s time. I wasted a lot over the past few years but now I’m on the scene. Time to get rolling, time to change the world. Thanks for your encouraging posts!

  • Jack Lynady

    Good read Kevin. Hope all is well with u and fam.

  • Terissa Miller

    Yup, dangblastit, this is just so true! I don’t like it either.

    And seriously – your words of wisdom here – prove that you ARE smarter-than-the-average bear. (Not only that, but it’s your BIRTHDAY, which means you’re another year wiser!!)

    Pray like its all up to God; work like its all up to me. I guess the scary balance is making sure I don’t tip the scales toward total self-sufficiency – and shut God out all-together.

    Like James 2 says: “Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works….Do you see that faith was working together with works, and by works, faith was made perfect?…You see then that a person is justified by works also, and not by faith only…. For as the body without the spirit is dead, thus faith without works is dead also.”

    Such a tension between the two: faith & works. Seeking God’s guidance, accepting His guidance…and doing the hard work of following thru with it.

    Thanks for a really great reminder, Kevin. I think I need to head outside now – to seek the voice of God, AND do the work of running!

  • Mark Hopkins

    I don’t intially like it either… but it works (if that’s a pun… sorry). I would sum it all up as “Taking Action”.

    I think “working” at my old job, wasn’t taking action… it was status quo, insanity, just getting by, doing the easy thing… not taking action.

    Moving out of state from TX to CO… that was taking action… and I just finally got a new job outside of my old status quo helpdesk career. I am now a car salesman at Perkins Motors… And I’ve never been so excited… And I’m finally learning new things that I enjoy learning… I feel I’m on the path towards being an entrepreneur and being able to run my own business. It’s going to require lots of that “doing the work” but … it took action and guts to boot to get out of the old path that was going no where.

    Thanks again for the inspiration,

    Mark Hopkins

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