This article is written by Ramanuj Mukherjee, Co-Founder and CEO of iPleaders & LawSikho

Tony Robbins, a best selling author and leadership coach who has trained US Presidents and Fortune 500 CEOs, often say this: People overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year.

That’s the problem.

We all want to be rich, successful, healthy, powerful – but most of us can’t plan very long term. We can do great work in a short burst but then we lose track.

That’s more than half the battle, to stay on track over a long period of time and engage in a productive pursuit relentlessly.

Not burning out in a week, not exhaust yourself in a day, but keep working incrementally and relentlessly through all seasons, for years. That is what gets the most stunning successes.

Athletes and sports stars, music virtuosos, top directors – they all put in the years, working relentlessly in pursuit of greatness. Authors keep working till their art is perfected, draft after draft, excruciatingly improving their work page by page. From one work to another they have to improve their skills.

It’s quite the same for entrepreneurs. It takes years (more likely, decades) to build a large, sustainable business.

It’s the same story everywhere.

Majority of wannabe authors, sports enthusiasts, musicians and actors, however, get burned out early, much before the inflection point. They give up.

They try too hard, but can’t sustain the momentum. Can’t keep themselves focused for long enough. Can’t withstand the pain of training/ learning curve for long enough.

It is easy to do a lot about something for a short period, but very difficult to do a little everyday, no matter what, for a long time, especially when you know the gain will come years later.

The comfort that we want right now, that we could get right now, keeps distracting us from the painful pursuit of greatness that will come one day, after many many days, in the future.

However, there is a good news.

You can train yourself to get better at this game. The more you stay in the game by overcoming your own resistance, the better you get at staying focussed, to stay on the dogged chase to greatness.

You need to give yourself favourable environment, create the right opportunities, sign yourself up for things that are more likely to keep you in the pursuit of greatness.

Of course, I am assuming that you want to achieve greatness, great success, amazing feats in your career.

What are you doing about it? Are you learning something new every day that makes your success in your chosen field more likely?

Do you give yourself an environment where learning and development is not one off activity but something you do in a planned way every week?

Is there something you do for a few hours every week that you know over the years will take your knowledge, skills, professional profile, personal network and overall career to the next level?

If you are, and you got it figured out already, that’s great. Please share with us by hitting reply. We would love to hear what you are doing and learn from you.

If you are not, it is high time to make a choice. Are you only going to fantasize about greatness or take some concrete steps?

What practices can you introduce in your life? Things that won’t take a lot of time, won’t throw your life off track, won’t exhaust you – but by spending 4-5 hours a week, slowly and steadily lift you up to the next level.

Think of some of those practices, list them, then schedule in your calendar.

When we built our courses, we followed this philosophy. The problem statement is simple. How do we create extraordinary business lawyers, and business leaders with true legal and regulatory prowess that give them significant advantage in the marketplace?

The answer was simple but counterintuitive. Of course, some things were basic and predictable. Like: make them learn from the best people in business, get them engaged with the program by giving writing assignments, expand their horizons by making them work on what they didn’t imagine to work on before etc.

But the real valuable insight we got over the year was this: the most successful students have been consistently the ones who put in small slices of efforts at regular intervals. The ambitious people think here that it is even better to put large amounts of effort at regular intervals. I differ.

Don’t get your mind and will power exhausted. Take it easy. Enjoy. Preserve your energy and willpower because this is a marathon, not a sprint. And longer you run, easier it gets.

If you want to get a great body, focus on getting yourself to the gym again and again, and don’t burn yourself out or get an injury trying to work it harder than everyone else. Take it easy, be prepared for a very long ride.

That’s where a learning and development program, designed to guide you for 2 years of your life towards mastery of business laws can make a world of difference to your career.

Forget for a moment who teaches the course or how good the material is. Engaging in developing yourself, slowly and steadily, over two years! Two years of you working every week on you becoming a better lawyer or a better strategic business leader, that itself is incredibly rewarding and unpredictably powerful.

Do not underestimate what you can achieve if you put your mind to mastering business laws, and keep at it for two full years.

Here are some of the practices you will do in the course

1. Attend one live online class every week.
2. Perform 2 exercises every week. Get written feedback on your solved exercises.
3. Write an original publishing worthy article every month.
4. You will be in interacting with top professionals and speak to a few of them every month

There is a lot more of course, but how are these practices for a start?

Will this be a good opportunity for you to engage yourself in further training, to gain new skills and knowledge?

Check out courses and enrol right away.

Below are a few courses starting in the next 8 days. If you enroll today, we will give you instant access. Start preparing even before the classes begin. It is your opportunity to do deep study, acquire skills that will hold good and come to your service in the very long term and build lasting value in your career. Don’t be late.

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