You can work all day, week or month chipping away at your goals and inching foreward with important and urgent tasks that are required but don’t move the needle.
Then all of a sudden you can have a big win that creates a pivotal moment. Having two days like that in a row is wonderful and unique.
Celebrate those big wins. Cherish them.
Savour those moments.
We all struggle with something at times so it is important to keep hope and try new things. Hope has a power we don’t fully understand, like prayer. And trying different ways to reach the desired outcome is more likely to improve the situation than doing the same thing that isn’t working, over and over again.
It’s important to break with routine sometimes. Mix things up.
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.
Doesn’t sound sexy. Or fun. But it is what will move you forward and help you reach your goal.
Sit down. Define what you are to do. Then sit there and get it done.
Like a grocery list, you sit with pen and paper and look around and think about what it is you really would like.
Rather than jam and milk, you might think about a month in Peru in their summer, hiking the Inca trail, spending two weeks on a quiet beach on Zanzibar or walking part of the Great Wall of China.
You can write out the qualities of the perfect partner for you or the outline of the book you want to write. You might also note down the fitness level you would like to maintain in your 40s, 50s, and 60s.
It’s quite a powerful process to write these things out and bring them to life. You’ll feel better for the process. Then you can organise when and how you’ll do them. Then go and enjoy your dreams while you can.
Setbacks happen.
Persistence is key.
Keep moving forward.
Can you be disciplined? Of course you can be. You simply need to make the focused effort to do it.
It’s easy to say you can’t. It’s hard to say you will; and keep your promise. But it can and should be done. You’ll feel much better for pushing through a tough day, long hours, late nights and many rather tough challenges.
Build a better you. Do it today.
You never know who you will meet or how they will fit in your life. So keep speaking to people, hearing their story and thinking through how you may be able to help each other.
Everyone has something in common with someone else. Find out what you have in common and work on that. Build bridges.
