You should have a plan for every penny. That would be ideal. Get as close as you can to this idea. Direct 10% to your savings and investments pot. Get it out of your account with an automatic payment, as soon as your income goes in.
If you have any money left over at the end of the month, pay down your personal debt more aggressively.
It’s nice to have a mutual understanding. Fewer words are needed. There is less thinking work required. It’s easy and more pleasant. But you won’t grow if you don’t allow your thoughts to be challenged.
Perhaps it could be true. No one else is as good as you. Your sources are the best in the world, your analysis are second to none and you articulate every position with exceptional attention to detail and verbal accuracy.
Or maybe you have a blind spot or two you would rather not acknowledge or didn’t know you had. Consider the possibilities…
It’s great for relaxing, pattern recognition and mental acuity. There’s a great social element too. Even with solitaire (who hasn’t had someone lean over and help them out…)
Try new things if only once a week or once per month. Maybe you could work up to new things daily after awhile.
New things can be good for the mind and soul.
Winning is great but sometimes the challenge itself is the real reward.
Think of the next 12 months ahead. How closely will it resemble the last 12 months? Will you eat similar foods, sleep at similar times, work about the same hours on very similar type things? I will guess that you’ll also celebrate the same birthdays, holidays and special moments.
If everything you do is the same, how can you expect life to be or feel differently? You really need to make some small changes or shifts in what you do. Then increase the frequency and/or intensity of these changes so you begin to get demonstrably different results.
If you say you’ll do something, follow through and do it. Do it on the day you said you would do it.
First, ensure you have several options to consider. Then consider the pros and cons of each. You can then go on to compare each against the other. Finally you will weigh up your options and make a decision. Then implement the decision you made.
How nice it might be if everyone had to say this before they spoke. Or we could use technology to have a sign flash above people’s heads as they spoke.
It’s almost funny how often some people confuse their opinion with fact. Or they think saying ‘my truth’ is very different from saying ‘my opinion’.
If you start your sentence with, ‘The fact of the matter is’, or something similar, it doesn’t make it a fact if it is your opinion.
And please don’t get me started on mis-information and other nonsense words or phrases. If you think someone got some information wrong, say so. But unless you back it up with the correct information, and that 90% of the planet would agree is a fact (not just your tribe or 52% of people), then it is just your opinion.
