<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/journey-thousand-miles.png" alt="Journey of a thousand miles quote by Lao Tzu" width="270" height="328" /><em>“The journey of a thousand miles begins and ends with one step.” – Lao Tzu</em></p>
<p>Have you ever given up on a goal because it seemed so far away?</p>
<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve been on diet after diet – only to give up each time.</p>
<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve thought about studying part-time – but it’ll take you years to get the qualification you want.</p>
<p>Or perhaps you&#8217;ve started a huge long-term project, like writing a book – only to stop a few months later with little to show for your efforts. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/08/how-a-small-consistent-effort-lets-you-achieve-goals-you-only-dreamed-about/" title="Permanent Link: How a Small, Consistent Effort Lets You Achieve Goals You Only Dreamed About" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2397,"date":"2014-08-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2023-02-07T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:10:03","slug":"how-a-small-consistent-effort-lets-you-achieve-goals-you-only-dreamed-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/08\/how-a-small-consistent-effort-lets-you-achieve-goals-you-only-dreamed-about\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Small, Consistent Effort Lets You Achieve Goals You Only Dreamed About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/journey-thousand-miles.png\" alt=\"Journey of a thousand miles quote by Lao Tzu\" width=\"270\" height=\"328\" \/><em>\u201cThe journey of a thousand miles begins and ends with one step.\u201d \u2013 Lao Tzu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever given up on a goal because it seemed so far away?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve been on diet after diet \u2013 only to give up each time.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve thought about studying part-time \u2013 but it\u2019ll take you years to get the qualification you want.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps you&#8217;ve started a huge long-term project, like writing a book \u2013 only to stop a few months later with little to show for your efforts. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/08\/how-a-small-consistent-effort-lets-you-achieve-goals-you-only-dreamed-about\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: How a Small, Consistent Effort Lets You Achieve Goals You Only Dreamed About\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}