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The word for today is half. In 2009, my wife and I went to a camp in the Catskills called Camp Shiloh to serve for the summer. My wife ended up being the camp cook, and I was in charge of camper games. By far, my favorite game to play with the campers was capture the flag, but I found that the young girls kind of hated it. Most of the girls would mill around while the faster ones ran the fairly long field. I made two changes that resulted in super-fun girls’ capture the flag. First, I let the girls that didn’t want to play do something else with their time, clearing the field of non-participants. Second, I brought the ends of the field in toward the center, effectively halving the playing field. Instant fun was born, and it was the highlight of my summer.

Today’s concrete challenge is to cut your lofty goal in half. Jon Acuff has his 30 Day of Hustle participants cut their current goal in half, because fun will carry you further. When you get a sense of success from a completed small goal, you’ll be more likely to stretch to hit another milestone.

Use the next few minutes of this podcast to write down your revised goal so that you don’t default back to thinking a large goal is the only way. I’ll keep the music playing while you do, and don’t miss the soundtrack at the end of this episode.

Before you go, repeat the following soundtrack, “I am the kind of person who realizes that small goals are valuable.”

Let me know if this made a difference in your day by leaving a comment in your podcast app or at concrete.win/today.

Check back tomorrow for a new challenge. Until then.