Oh Well
Sometimes this is the best response you can give.
Find The Time
Get rid of time takers that don’t serve you. Stop watching videos that aren’t amazing. Shut off movies quickly if they are not engaging.
Find the time to do the things you really enjoy. Reduce the time you spend on everything else.
Follow The Formula
Life is simple if you follow the formula.
Eat simple and move. Provide value to others. Treat others as you wish to be treated.
If you want to get better, it takes effort. Consistency is pretty important.
If you want it bad enough, you’ll sacrifice comfort and put in the work you know you should do but don’t really want to do.
Stop hoping for an easier way. There isn’t one. Do the work or stay the same.
Fiscal Responsibility
Be like a squirrel in Canada. Ensure you have enough to eat through a long, cold winter.
Don’t party it all away; food or money. Better to spend a little less in summer to ensure you make it through the winter. Sometimes winter can be six weeks longer than usual. If it is, how would you survive? It’s too late if you don’t have a plan by mid summer.
Fiscal responsibility is rare. We all want to play to the edge and assume it will all work out, in our favour, every time. Those are long odds. Best not to tempt fate too often.
Most Important
What is the most important thing, or things, that you must do today? What is the most important thing FOR YOU?
If you need calm, you need to protect your time. Don’t let other people pry open your schedule and push themselves into your life.
Tell them to come back tomorrow or to consider alternatives so they can try to fix things themself.
Stay focused on YOUR plan, YOUR schedule, YOUR priorities. Say NO more often. Thank you but I don’t have time at the moment, so I’ll call you later.
Guard your minutes all day so you can focus on the most important elements of your life.
Risk Is Different
It is different for different people. Some like walking while others prefer big air snowboarding. One group of people prefer to be debt free while others are comfortable with high levels of debt.
Kids can take on more risk than the same people but in their 80’s. Time of life is important.
Stage of life is also important. Before marriage and before kids, adults are often willing to take on more risk.
Be mindful that risk is dependent on many factors, some of which you will not even see.
Keep Hope In Your Heart
Hope is a critical component in life. We hope someone is doing well. We hope a journey is safe and successful. We hope our finances will work out.
It’s a bit like positive prayer. Though hope usually comes from a position of unknown or desire. Where prayer seems more certain.
Either way, Use hope and prayer in your life to keep you engaged and moving forward.
Focus On Completing
Starting can be hard, especially things we consider big or important. Smaller projects or tasks, that aren’t considered too tricky or important, get started more easily. Then we have too many projects and don’t complete them.
Two things can help here. First, discipline yourself to only start any project, large or small, if you’re going to complete it 100%. Otherwise, pass on that project or task. Secondly, once a project is started, focus on completing it as quickly as possible.
Then you can enjoy life a lot more.
Wishing Isn’t Enough
To achieve, you need to take action.
Wishing is a good start. Hoping can be positive. Though focused action is the real momentum behind any success.
Pull Up!!
If you hit a low point and your mind starts to stall in the negative, you are best to resist those thoughts and flood your mind with positive words.
It can be a challenge to do it, but if you don’t pull up, you can spiral into a negative oblivion.
Repeat favourite words and people. Remind yourself, repeatedly, that you are a good and worthy person.
The battle for your mind can be won by you alone.
