52 Steps to Reaching Your Performance Edge in Life

52 Steps to Reaching Your
Performance Edge in Life

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

I wish I could tell you that making a change is easy. It isn’t.

UNLESS! There is always a catch isn’t there! Unless you decide to can make a change and you keep your eye on the reward and not on the rough road to get there. The change won’t be easy – but the final destination will be sweet! Take working out. Ever NOT want to go to the gym to
workout. You have to “prime the pump”, give yourself a pep talk, just to get up and get going to do something that is good for you – AND YOU KNOW IT! When you finally do get the energy to go workout, put yourself through the paces, at the end of the session, you are glad you did your workout for the day. It wasn’t easy, it maybe wasn’t convenient, but you have a sense of joy and accomplishment that you took a step to make yourself better!

I wish I could tell you that making a change takes 21 days. It doesn’t.

You can work hard and make a huge effort do things different over the next 21 days than what you did in the past, but if the habit that has you, and has been part of you for 10, 15 or 20 years,
doing something different and out of your norm for three weeks might not be long enough to make a lasting change. You might have to work longer and harder to knock that monkey, which is now a full size gorilla, off your back.

I’m an eater! Come from a family of eaters. We would determine how the success of an event was, if it was a good or great vacation, and if a family get-together ended on a positive note by how good the food was. Sometimes the food didn’t even have to be great if there was a lot of it. More meant better in my book. To this day, I have to fight the “Volume Monster” when I eat.
I’ve gone 21 days eating right, I’ve gone months eating right, and when I see a buffet, get the kids back, make sure there are no limbs hanging over the buffet table and please observe the 15 foot safety barrier, because it’s on baby!! The use a small plate, eat small portions, eat slowly are out the window. Using a small plate and eating small portions only means I need to go back more times (maybe the extra walking back and forth to the buffet line helps burn calories – guess not!). My point is, even after weeks and weeks of making positive changes, when I’m back
in old surroundings I revert back to old ways.

Change for me is a lifetime event – but that’s ok with me, because I plan to live my whole life, and not be dead before they bury me (but that’s a different topic for another blog or a whole book!).

I wish I could tell you that once you make a change it will last forever. It won’t.

The saying “Old habits die hard” is really true. There are reasons we do what we do, how we do them, when we do them, where we do them. It makes up our inner self, what we are and who we are. Changing that make-up is continually a work in progress. If once people made a change and it stuck – there would be a whole lot of people out of work! Just take dieting. The numbers are amazing of the people that lose weight, put it back on and lose it again. Just think how the world would be if once we lost the weight it would stay off and the change was permanent. When we worked out, long and hard for months and months, the physique we had worked to develop stayed in place! WOW – wouldn’t that be heaven! Sad to say it doesn’t work that way.

Progress begins by taking one step and then following with another. Working toward your Performance Edge isn’t a jump, it’s taking small steps to the ledge and seeing what is in front of you – and then gaining the knowledge, the courage and the determination to take one more step!

Our success in every endeavor; spiritual, physical, emotional, social and mental, lies in us doing something day by day. In the book “The Best of Success” by Wynn Davis, he says that “Good work done little by little becomes a great work. The house of success is built brick by brick.”

In this blog, over this year, 52 Steps to Reaching Your Performance Edge in Life, Mark Roozen’s Performance Edge Training Systems looks to give you little bits and pieces to help you become a great work. We’re giving you bricks – what you do with the bricks is up to you. Our hope is that you take each “brick” and put it down as your base to help you on your path to achieving more in your life than you ever thought possible. A new step will be sent out each Sunday night with this blog for you to follow.

The blog is set up to read “One Step” at a time each week over the next 52 weeks. With each step, there will be an idea and thought section (READ IT) and then an action section (DO IT)
with a task to accomplish for the week.

They say an idea with no action is a dream. At Mark Roozen’s Performance Edge Training
Systems, we are dreamers – but we also are, and believe, in DOING! Some of you might just sit and read the weekly thoughts, which is ok. Our goal is that the thought moves you to action, the action will lead to progress and progress help you reach new roads, new adventures and a new you that is inside of you and ready to get out.

We look forward to being part of the 52 Steps to Reaching Your Performance Edge in Life! I would love to hear from you. I also have a "Work Sheet" that I'll be glad to send you for FREE - each week that matches the weekly action plan. A easy to follow sheet that gives you step by step plans of how to make your action easy to accomplish. Just email me at rozyroozen@gmail.com and I'll make sure to send you the work sheet each week. I also look forward to your feedback and comments along the way. Look forward to taking the journey with you!

Taking you to the Edge and a Step Beyond!

Happy New Year!

Mark "Rozy" Rozy