Constantly I am asked the same thing over and over again. “Christian, how do you do _____?” The schema is always the same and the topic varies. Some times it is regarding physical fitness and how I manage to accomplish goals I set for myself, or how I manage to discipline myself to follow a particular diet. Other times it’s regarding my career and how I managed to work on some of the projects I have worked on or how I achieved the position I did or rather made it into the game industry. To be blunt the question might as well be, “Christian how do you win?” Want to know the answer on how you can be win? Just do it.

Ridicule Nike’s slogan all you want but all jokes aside, it’s absolutely spot on (and trust me, I don’t wish that the focus of this post was based on a marketing slogan but alas, they did a brilliant job). Anything, and yes I do mean anything, can be accomplished by just doing it. There’s no secret sauce, formula, hidden path, or password that you need to get the resources you need to do what you want or simply put just do what you want. All you need is the ambition, desire, and most importantly will to do what you are setting yourself out to do. The hardest part is figuring out your desire. The easy part is finding the will. It can take someone a lifetime to ask themselves what they might want to do. Don’t worry about that! Don’t be afraid to have different ambitions or desires but don’t not have them or be afraid to commit to them. This is how you grow and refine your ambitions and desires into what you truly want to do. That becomes a pure, untainted, beautiful desire which you will find the will to do. Desire away, and will comes naturally.

Right now you might be saying or rather thinking to yourself, “Yeah sure. I’m just going to want to do something and do it. That’s going to work.” Yes – it will work. I wanted to decrease my body fat percentage. I wasn’t sure by how much, or what my ultimate success metric would be. I was going to let my will figure that out. So how did I will myself to do it? Every morning I would set an alarm at 4:30AM and say to myself, “Alright Christian, let’s go “eff” the gym up.” Sure there was grogginess and murmurs of not wanting to wake up but as soon as my two feet touched the floor of my bedroom it was, “Let’s go “eff” the gym up!” and that was that. So for 5 days a week I worked out and went to the gym. As for the nutrition part this part was even easier even for a foodie like myself. Everything which I deemed to be unhealthy I told myself was disgusting. Friends would order cheeseburgers and I would comment to myself or out loud at times, “That looks disgusting.” Everything I saw that I knew was unhealthy I would tell myself it was disgusting. That’s the beauty of the human mind. It can be trained or rather willed into believing what you want it to. It’s a highly complex computer which accepts whatever training you throw at it. Not a lot of people understand that. Knowing this is one of the most valuable pieces of information any human can possess. I did this for 3 months (I’m still doing it, although I take breaks every now and then) and the results are great. I’ve lowered my body fat percentage from 13% down to 9% and am now looking to get to 7%. It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t limit what you want to accomplish.

The same way I improved my physical performance you can use to accomplish whatever goal you would like to. Another brief example is I wanted to be in the game industry. So I took the first job I could that was associated with video-games. It was at a company local to my college as a community manager and I worked full-time while attending college. 3 years and a couple months later I’m the Studio Director at my own video-game studio and I’ve worked on Guitar Hero, Call of Duty: World At War, Transformers, and other titles. What I’m trying to get at is that you shouldn’t get too hung up on the details or logistics about how you go about doing something. Just do it. Find a task that will help you reach your desire, keep at that task, refine it until you perfect it, and you will find that that task has now branched out into many other tasks and you have now accomplished your desire by just doing it.