Steve Harvey, besides being a spectacularly funny and successful comedian, is a smart businessman full of advice worth listening to.
He often goes viral serving as a life coach for the studio audience of Family Feud, which he’s been hosting for almost 15 years.
One bit of advice is pure gold. It’s his method for staying excited and motivated to achieve his goals. It’s his List of 300.
He makes a list of 300 inspiring dreams he has for his future. They can be everything from the small (“I’ll have a 98-inch TV in my living room”) to the big (“I will make $1 billion a year”). The point is, there are 300 of them.
He admits it can get difficult to dream up new list items after you’ve written 70 or 80. He recommends splitting them into categories of 75 each to make the list easier to write: personal relationships, finances, community, and health.
What you do is spend a few minutes at the start of each day reading this list to yourself, getting jazzed about your future. You carry this jazz with you through your day, and it works like magic to keep you positive, on track, and focused on the big picture.
He says every rich and successful person he knows does this.
Try it!
I need a nap.
What you can believe, you can achieve. I think this is true. Bruce Lee wrote a letter to himself proclaiming that he would achieve world fame as a martial artist in 1970 and by 1980 he would have $10 million dollars. Jim Carrey may have heard this, because in 1985 he wrote himself a check for $10 million and dated it 10 years in the future. Both guys might have been off in actually achieving their goal by a couple of years, but they did achieve it. You have to set a goal and then write out steps to achieve it, then don't let anything stop you from taking those steps, one by one. Great post, Scott.