Get past the "honeymoon phase" in everything you do.

Get past the honeymoon phase in everything that you do.

The honeymoon phase - I see it day in and day out in many of my businesses. If you're renting a home to somebody, whoever you're renting to is always a nice person in the beginning. They always have the best of intentions. A couple of months later, they stop paying the rent. The honeymoon is over.

It's the same when I'm training martial arts students. When I have a brand new student, they want to know everything. They stay late to ask questions. They've got that white belt on, and this is the coolest thing they've ever done. Then, more often than not, 60 days later I'm calling to see where they've been for the last month.
"We haven't seen you in class."
"Well, I have this, and I have that," they tell me.
It's like I'm talking to a different person, because the person I met the first week wouldn't have any excuses. They'd be in the facility training. They'd be well on their way to that black belt. But the honeymoon phase is over, and they've lost that enthusiasm they started with.

To achieve your goals in anything, you have to get past the honeymoon phase. Understand that your initial emotions will wear down and you won't be as excited as you were. That's part of being human. So you have find other ways to maintain focus toward something. That's the difference between people who do and
people who do not.

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