step 7: stick with it

Just do it! And do it again and again and again. Stay with the plan. Follow the blue print.

Persistence is your friend now. Your only friend. Do not stop. Review your first six steps everyday.

Having a partner to work with is great but they are hard to find and often will not share in your goals (they have their own.) If you can get a partner though, do it. A partner will drag you along when you are perfectly willing to skip a day.

This step is as important as any other. What good is it to plan on change and then not do anything about it?

If you are working on getting fit like in our example then you must, MUST(!) do something about it today. Do not let today go by without doing something.

If you have written out the values that govern your life like Ben Franklin did, what are you doing about them? You must do something everyday! If you have developed a definite purpose for making an improvement in your life what are you doing about it? You must do something about it.

Well, that's the end of the series. Any one step can be subdivided into a number of steps by itself and they often are. It might even be a good plan for you to do that yourself, break each step down into little easy to handle chunks. I think it might really help to figure things out.