What if you had made a written plan? What if you had sought out great specific advice? What if your plan was for the next 5 years and you started today?
What would you achieve? Imagine the results you could have if you committed fully and did not get distracted?
What if you looked back in 5 years and wished you’d given it a try? Take all that you feel and learned and make a new 5 year plan. Then start that very same day!
It’s easy to find the negative in pretty much anything. Now make your brain work a little harder. Find the positive in everything.
Why?
First, while you’re busy looking for positive things to say, your brain will be too busy to notice the negative things. Secondly, by looking for the positive, you’ll create a habit for yourself and looking for the positive will get easier and become default normal.
Thirdly, you’ll soon be a happier person overall and everyone you know will notice the wonderful difference.
You may need to change your job, career, house or car to improve your situation. Maybe changing some habits would help.
Whatever it is, it is time to do it.
Get into your groove early in the day. Get ahead of the game. You also will have more day hours to get things done while others are awake and available and when offices are open.
How many hours of training will it take to become a world class professional? More than you think.
How many hours of studying to get 3 A* grades at A level or college? More than you think.
How many hours to acquire and perfect a skill? More than you think.
Better get started!
You can do just about anything, but you have to want it more than anything else. Few people are willing to sacrifice and persevere long enough to achieve their goals.
With a big enough why, you will find the discipline to stay the course until your are successful.
It’s great to see how far things have evolved – both people and tech. The norms of old have evolved too. Quite a few things were way more fun then. Certainly more relaxed in many cases.
Go back and watch the basic stories and see how simple they were. It was a lovely era of beginning.
Listen to other points of view. Listen to how things work. Your parents are great to listen to. You can learn a lot of good and bad things from your parents.
Listen to advice. Consider it well before taking it.
The trouble is, it sounds great! But you have to be responsible for yourself now, because no one is doing anything for you. You are free to thrive but you are also free to diminish and decline.
People want success and think it will come with untethered freedom. They don’t realise the opposite will be the case without care and attention to the critical matters at hand.
Freedom means you are fully responsible and many people just aren’t ready for that.
There are always opportunities to learn a few things. Sometimes you don’t even notice the opportunity. So keep your eye out to try to find those moments that you otherwise might miss.
