What will you focus on as you grow older? Will your focus be positive or not? Does gratitude and appreciation, for all you have had, come easily or will you dwell on regret?
Practice gratitude.
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Category: Reframe your thoughts
Think Long Term
What would your Blue Plaque say? How would a biographer tell your story? What would you want on your Wikipedia page? Will your grandchildren retell your story?
Stop and think about your life. Where do you definitely want to go and what do you desperately want to do? What do you want to avoid for sure?
Then set your sail and focus on that direction and that destination.
It’s always best to think long term and where you want to end up. You’ll make different and better decisions. And your journey will align to your long term goals, not just the whims of the moment.
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Drink Plenty Of Water
Eight glasses per day. Sometimes a little more and occasionally a little less. But it is a super drug. Hydrates, cleanses, lowers blood sugar, gives energy and helps with blood pressure. Try it. It works.
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Do Your Best
Actually, your best. Not your pretty good. Don’t give out mediocre. Give us the best you have and don’t leave any on the table. You’ll feel better knowing you did it.
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Sketch Out Your Ideal Life
Grab a pen and some paper. Start jotting down some key elements of your ideal life. What does your ideal house look like? What is your ideal car or cars? Would you be married? Describe the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual attributes of this person.
Where does your income come from? Describe the number and types of holidays you would like to take each year.
Now go get a plan in place to start making all these things happen within three to five years from this moment.
Go on! Dare to live the life of your dreams!
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Enjoy Your Day
Whatever this day has in store for you, enjoy it!
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Find Common Ground
If you have a difference of opinion, try to find some common ground. Do you agree on certain aspects of the topic? Are there periphery ideas that you see similarly?
You may disagree about football being the best sport in the world. However, you could agree sports is important for health reasons, that football is one of the top 10 most watched sports and that it is one of the lowest cost sports in its basic format – you only need a ball.
Walking away with a few agreed points is a real win, even if you still disagree with the original point. It humanises the other person and you will feel less animosity towards the other person. This way you can feel good about the person while disagreeing. This is much better than the name calling, the frustration and being disgruntled.
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Solution Or Being Right?
Are you actually looking for a solution, or do you just want to be right? Is it a solution to your perception of the problem or are you trying to remain relevant and comfortable within your group?
When you want your view to “win”, you may want to feed your ego and comfort, not actively find the ideal solution.
Shouldn’t we all be trying to solve for the optimal solution?
Remove your bias and stay focused on winning for the optimal good.
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Call Your Mum
It’s Mother’s Day in the UK. It might be the same where you are reading this. Even if it isn’t, call your Mum.
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It Seemed Important…
In the here and now, many things seem important. And some of it is. But think ahead 5 years and think about how important it will seem after 1,700+ days have passed.
Good events and bad moments will get lost in the mix. Some will be remembered but most will disappear from sight.
Try to look at things like that. By this, I mean perspective. It’s rarely as bad as you think.
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