Read more biographies, auto-biographies, history, and self-help. You can even read more religious, science and psychology books.
Start adding one every two months. Eight weeks to complete a book should be enough. You’ll learn so much about life, yourself and historical moments.
Fiction is fun but non-fiction can also be highly entertaining and very educational too.
Order a non-fiction book from the library today and get reading!
Most people are only going to chase their dream up to the point where they are happy to sacrifice to attain it.
For most, if they have to sacrifice more than they are happy to, then they give up on their goal.
If it isn’t easy enough, most folks aren’t willing to put in more sacrifice to make it happen.
For example, you may want to lose 30 pounds but only if you don’t have to get more sleep, go to bed earlier, cut out most alcohol, evening meals/snacks, tasty foods and daily treats.
If that’s what you’ll have to do, many just go through the motions, don’t really track progress, make body type excuses and remain as heavy as they are.
They may try again later in the hopes they have developed better discipline or science has changed and they won’t have to make any of the above sacrifices to reach their goal.
Or they just go to the gym or to a personal trainer in hope that some activity 2-3x per week will make up for the excesses they won’t give up elsewhere.
This can go on for 3 years or even 20 years. It will continue until the desired outcomee or goal becomes more important than the sacrifices and true, consistent change required to make the goal or outcome become a reality.
So save yourself 20 years of not trying enough / trying and make the sacrifices required or realise your goal is a wish not must, and give up on it.
What holds you steady in the storm? A person, a place or a thought?
If you want different results or outcomes, you will need to do things differently from before.
Are you even aware of what will need to be done differently?
Are you even willing to do the things differently, every day, even when you don’t want to?
Discipline. Sacrifice. Resilience.
You can live a better life if you choose to put the work in. Otherwise, expect more of what you’ve had.
It’s the only you’ve got!
Look inside. If you’re not as happy as often or as much as you’d like to be, look inside yourself. The answer is usually within you, not in what someone else does or says.
Only you can create the mindset for happiness. You may have to do some work, some thinking or even change some thought patterns or habits. But it is you that needs to do the work. No one can do your push-ups and see the results in you.
Get started today.
There is work and admin, volunteer service and every day life but you need to carve out some time for you alone and to be with others.
Don’t just kind of do it though. Remove the distractions, put down the phone, turn off the radio and have nothing on tv.
Spend quality time means you are focused on each other, not other things.
Your mindset is the only thing you truly have that can’t be ruined if you stay strong.
It’s so ready to fall into a negative mindset, wallow there, and think everything is bad. It takes incredible strength to keep positive about your future when things aren’t going your way.
Yet, you can do it. Focus on the amazing 90% and not the dreary 10%. You’ll be happier. Your friends will be happier. You’ll attract happier people into your life.
From booking a holiday, to medical appointments, buying a car and mortgage applications, things take a fair amount of time.
Not only do you need to really want to do the thing, you have to be willing to spend the time to organise and prepare for it!!
Of course you would like to win the lottery. However, with odds north of 45 million to one, it is not very likely.
In some cases it’s mathematical and in other cases it’s karma, the law of attraction or balance in the universe.
The harder you push to get what you’d like rather than what is likely, the more probable you will fail.
