Review your progress daily (Step 6 of the 7 steps).
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Category: Time
There Is Never Enough Time
Or, there is always enough time, just too many things on your list. Be selective. At one point, your maker will say, ‘time’s up.’ Make sure you have completed the important stuff by that moment.
Having more time seems like a luxury.
Getting more time at the end of a match or exam can be helpful. More time after a difficult diagnosis. The extra hour when clocks fall back in the autumn.
But when it’s time, it’s time.
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Enjoy Lovely Days
Sunshine, warming air, boys playing rugby 7s, a cool pale ale in hand, friends to chat, cheer and laugh with and the time on a weekday to do it. This was the wonderful recipe we had on Monday.
What would make a lovely day for you?
Can you create the circumstances or environment to have one soon?
Appreciate all 365 days each year and particularly the lovely ones.
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Ageing Is A Gift
What’s the alternative? Need I say more?
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Consider The Decades
1-10 Born, rapid growth both mental and physical.
11-20 Education. Physical transformation.
21-30 Explore. Income. Partner? Children?
31-40 Accelerate career. Promotions. Family?
41-50 Career growth. Relationship. Parents challenges. Kids big moves. Empty nest. Friends. Travel
51-60 Top of your game. High earnings. Big titles. Considering retirement. Grandchildren. Parents passing. Inheritance. Kids on property ladder.
61-70 Golden years. Travel. Activities. Fun. Financial understanding.
71-80 Health Focus. Legacy. Finances. Children. Grandchildren. Great grand children. Financial help. Guidance.
81-90 Independence. Reflection. Activities. Enjoyment. Health challenges.
91-100 Less independence. More consideration of what’s been and what’s next
101-onwards. Well done ???
What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
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Keep Things Calm
Be careful how you speak and what you say. When you get a bit excited, anxious or passionate, it’s easier to say things that alienate others, even while you might be trying to get them on your side.
Stay away from name calling and moral superiority. Stick to the facts and know they may interpret the same facts differently. Be kind. Understand your intent.
It’s too easy to lose family, friends, partners and others by chastising them or saying things that aren’t very kind, just because they have a different view of things.
Otherwise you become part of the problem, not the solution.
Keep things calm.
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Impact On Others
You may not ever know how much you have impacted other people’s lives. But if you ever find out, it can be an incredibly overpowering feeling.
Imagine that your comment inspired a child to study medicine and find a treatment for a disease. Or perhaps, given your confidence during a fire drill, a teenager decided to dedicate their life to firefighting and saving lives.
Or your kindness in a tense situation made other people aware it was possible and they multiplied this treatment of others, forward, for decades.
Usually we don’t get to see the depth of our wake. But in those rare moments when we are shown, or we have the good fortune to catch a glimpse, it can make the world seem so valuable and our lives worthwhile.
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Keep Trying
You don’t know how much effort is required. What effort will break your opponent? Act with persistence. Keep trying.
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Appreciate The Process
It’s your discipline, consistency, drive and vision that helps you gets the wins you can celebrate. Success doesn’t just show up. You need to put in the work. The effort you make over time will compound and eventually you will see the benefits.
Don’t delay. Set up your environment to win. Decide what you need to do and get cracking. The results will come if you appreciate the process and work at the process every day.
Pick three things you want to improve on this coming week. What simple and quick things could you do each day to inch you closer to your desired outcome. What will you have to overcome to make this happen? Write these things down. Create a brief plan around them. Then act to make them happen. Review at the end of the week, or even daily! Then celebrate each win. Repeat!
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Wake Up At The Same Time
Aim to go to bed at the same time each night. And definitely keep your alarm set for the same time each day.
Consistency has value. The value comes to both the body and mind.
Do this every day for this week. Then tell me how good it’s felt.
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