We all know that in order to achieve a massive goal or accomplishment, we need to identify the necessary steps to get there. You can’t just decide you want to be a Navy SEAL and become one, you need to change your entire lifestyle in order to accomplish the ultimate goal.

In deciding I wanted to become a Navy SEAL, I began training to become one when I was 16. My diet changed, my workouts changed, and my mindset changed. I was fully aware that in order to become one, I would have to overcome the hundreds of thousands of micro challenges to achieve the ultimate accomplishment of earning the right to call myself a Navy SEAL. 

Reflecting back, it is apparent to me that all it would have taken was to quit once, on a very small task in front of me, for the major accomplishment to have disappeared. To put that in a simple example- in the two years it took for me to become a SEAL, if I had decided I wanted to sleep-in just one minute after I was supposed to get up throughout the 730 days of training, I wouldn’t have become a SEAL. Or in other words, if I had one small innocent micro quit, my major goal would not have been achievable. 

Being able to apply that mindset to every task I’m faced with every day has allowed me to understand the importance of overcoming tasks and never allowing myself to have a micro quit. It matters because just one micro quit throughout your life almost always leads to a macro quit.

What if I told you that sleeping in an extra minute this morning could have ruined your chances of achieving that major goal? 

Don’t participate in micro quits and you’ll be on your way to victory.

Authored By: Jacob Werksman, Former Navy SEAL Sniper & CEO of Victory Strategies

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