At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, my daughter and I took a few minutes each day to learn how to shoot a basketball. I watched a YouTube video that taught us how to stand, hold our arms, and then shoot for the net. I can’t remember if my daughter said it first, or I did, but we started saying “picture the arc” to the other person when it was their turn to shoot.

My daughter stood at the foul line, she balanced the ball in her hands, spread her legs apart to have a solid foundation, and then I would say: “Picture the arc.”

She would then imagine an imaginary line curving through the air that the ball would follow into the net.

That simple phrase helped us a lot. It calmed us when we became frustrated when we couldn’t get the basketball in the net and it gave us something positive to imagine.

Picture the arc of your life.

Picture it.

The secret to living a good life is taking a big challenge and breaking it all down into simple steps.

If you can picture that you will succeed and take a simple step forward, you’ll achieve your goal.

Instead of focusing on losing 200 pounds, why not focus on one pound a week (about .50 kilograms)?

When I write my books, I write 1,000 words a few times a week. A typical novel is around 65,000 words, so day-by-day I work toward the goal.

When we focus on the positive and break down a task into smaller bite-sized ones, we can succeed.

For today, picture the change you want and then make an achievable goal.

It’s not willpower that will push you through, but doing work that you’ll enjoy and love that will help you achieve success.

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