Writing is great for focus and detail and having a permanent record.
However, speaking in person is so much quicker.
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Category: Time
Find Your Faith
What do you believe in? Seriously.
Be clear and get comfortable with it. No more hiding and pretending. Write it down. Say it out loud.
This is a fundamental moment and milestone in your life. Declare it. And move on.
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Enjoy Every Minute
You go around once. Enjoy every minute of it.
That means when exciting things are happening, with fabulous friends, and when zero is happening, and you’re sitting alone, in the quiet, with only your thoughts for hours.
Enjoy all those times.
Enjoy the painful times for the context it gives you during the neutral and great times. Enjoy the great times because they are not the painful times.
All of it makes your life a richer experience, especially if you can take deep learnings from these moments.
Enjoy!
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Work Then Play
We all wish it was play first, and then work if there was time. However, that is the road to suffering. Fun at first, and pain for a lot longer.
You need to develop the discipline to do the required work, do it with focus, and get it done well, but swiftly. Then you can play.
Extra bonus if you enjoy your work and it feels like play!
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Why Bother?
It all ends eventually anyway.
But that’s the point! This is your moment. Your chance to stretch, and feel, both pleasure and pain, exuberance and anguish. This is your time to feel alive.
Consume a little and produce even more. Build something with your mind and then with your hands or with a team.
Time flies so you need to be fast. Do all you can in the time you have. If you let days float by, you will not feel as good as you could as you age.
Plan 2-3 years out and work 8-12 hour days, 6-7 days a week to move the mountains you dream of moving.
We’re a long time dead. Regrets weigh a ton. Make a mistake, fix it fast. Fail? Try again. Commit harder and focus better.
Why bother? To feel alive in your one and only try!
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Spend Time With People Who Get You
I almost wrote spend time with friends. However, not all your friends get you. Not all of them will make 5 hours disappear while just chatting away.
Some friends can do this and some won’t. Sometimes it depends on the topic and sometimes it depends on the situation. Although some friends can just riff forever and you’ll have a fun and enjoyable time together.
Make particular note of these friends so you have a shortlist for when you can or want to riff.
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Take Care Of Your Things
It is amazing how long things can last if you simply pay a little attention to them and address any little matters before they get unmanageable.
One of my favourite sayings is, “A stitch in time, saves nine.” It is true for almost everything.
The UK requires cars to get an MOT every year to check the car is still functioning properly. While an annual cost, it does force us to keep paying attention to the car.
Do this quick check for other things in your life including your various relationships. It could be with your parents, children, spouse, friends, co-workers.
Review some actual questions together once a year. Don’t get by with the basic, “You good?”
Effort now nearly always pays off double later.
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Happiness Is In Your Future
While you can have fondness looking back on old memories, you can’t impact the past. You can change how you remember it but you can’t change what actually happened.
The present is something you can alter. You can make things how you want. In the future, you can aim at what you want. You can plan and prepare the future. This mind work can help you be your happiest. Your expectations, and ability to direct and alter, help to give you a sense of control and contentment.
Enjoy building an amazing future in your mind. With a little effort, those plans will be created in your present and provide you with grand memories in your past.
Go build an amazing future.
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Life’s Chapters
Your life is like a book. It is filled with many chapters. Some have been written while others remain blank pages.
Although the blank pages may already have the destiny in place, it is not written such that you can read it in advance.
When a chapter is completed, take a moment to reflect on it. Appreciate the experience before moving on to the next chapter.
Though don’t dwell too long on what has come to pass. Life is short and you are best to continue your present into the future. After that brief reflection, begin immediately and dive in, just as you would start a new chapter of an exciting book.
Life is for living. Get going! Write your amazing life story.
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Reflect
Take time to reflect on conversations and situations. Really explore your participation and also other people’s input. Try to see how their perspective may have differed from yours.
There is a lot you can learn from a post-mortem. You won’t learn everything, but you can learn a significant amount which may change your feelings toward the person or the situation.
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