Read books, magazines, cereal boxes, newspapers and maps.
Develop the habit of reading. Learn to enjoy it. Non-fiction or fiction. Take your pick.
Learn things and exercise your brain.
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Category: Time
Times Up!
Deadlines are wonderful things. They help to ensure something gets done. However, often we fool ourselves into thinking we have time before we really need to start, or it will be fine, or even the deadline is not a hard deadline.
Try that thinking with life and death.
Should you really leave it all to the last minute? If not, then you better treat everything else the same way. Don’t put it off. Don’t wait for disaster to be right around the corner.
Attack every minor item on your to do list with gusto and get it done now! Otherwise delegate or delete it.
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10 Years
What seems impossible in one year could be totally possible in 10 years. Being at the top of your sport, industry, or craft in just one year is highly unlikely. However, if you put 10 grinding and effective years of work in, to training and honing your skills, you certainly could be at the top.
You can build a billion dollar business in 10 years. Go from being 10 years old and dreaming of playing in the NHL, NBA, MLB, or Premier League and in 10 years, at the age of 20, be playing for your favourite team! The Beatles were only together for 10 years and look how well they did!
What if you dedicated the next 10 years to personal growth, systems and structures? What could you accomplish, achieve, create?
10 years…. You could achieve anything.
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Best Time?
Was 1920-2000 the best 80 years in history to be alive? One may be able to make an argument for it.
The greatest wealth increase per capita seemed to happen in this period. There were huge social changes and great technological changes too. Voting rights and laws were improved. The tv, radio, airplane, medicine, peace, and the internet all became ubiquitous in this time. So did indoor plumbing and electricity!
There was no 24/7 information access. There was no AI. Jobs and houses were easier to come by in that era.
Perhaps this century is an even better time?! It depends how you look at it.
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Down Time
Enjoy a bit of time all too yourself. Be sure to carve it out and hold that time in your day. Otherwise, you’ll work, sort out kids, parents, friends, do admin, side hustle, charity work and that Board you’re on and forget, or run out of time, for you.
Guard your down time!
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Stay Awake!
Press on till you reach your goal.
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Stick To Your Plan
Stay away from distractions. Your plan needs your time. Keep your focus tight. You’ll be glad you did when you win.
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Prepare
So much of life is preparing. You prepare meals, your workday, a speech, for school, for life, for a holiday, for death.
Life is a series of events that you prepare for and then experience. Sometimes the preparation is minimal and other times it is extensive. You’re best to prepare a little more though as it usually means a better result for the event.
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Bursts Of Progress
Have one or two of these a day and notice the momentum shift in your favour in the next week.
Build this up to 10 or 20 per day and your life will be unrecognisable in a month.
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Review And Track
If you have any goals (and you should have several!), you must remember to review and track your progress against your ambitious timeline.
If you don’t review and track, and keep to a tight and specific timeline, you greatly decrease your chances of success. If you’re honest with yourself, you know this is true.
People won’t review and track because they get lazy, or scared they aren’t making progress, or they think they’re doing great, so why bother.
There steps are a critical element in achieving anything you want in life.
If you want a deeper dive on review and tracking, or goal getting in general, it’s all simply laid out in my bestselling book, Achieve Anything (on Amazon, Audible, and other online book retailers around the globe). https://scottsbook.com/
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