What is your fantasy life? Write it down. Then figure out how to bring it to life and make it happen.
Forgive And Forget
Powerful words. We don’t realise how important these words are to our own health – both mental and physical.
Holding a grudge, resentment, contempt or any other negative emotion is like carrying acid – it destroys the carrier.
Being angry with someone that maybe you feel did you wrong, only makes your life worse. You carry that baggage while they’re out dancing.
It takes quite a bit of maturity to forgive people. And then also to forget about the whole thing. Do you have that level of maturity?
Your whole life could change if you decided to take the mature approach and forgive and forget. Will you do it?
Faith V Fear
You choose daily. Both require belief in something you can’t see.
Which will you choose? Why do you choose the one you do?
Faith, hope and willingness are powerful forces when seeking to achieve a difficult goal.
Suffering
How much suffering are you willing to tolerate? You have the power to change your thoughts and your actions. Why don’t people do more of that to improve their life?
Rather than make general statements, they could break down the problem into discrete ideas or steps. Then they could find the solution to each step and implement a practical solution.
Hoping for divine intervention could mean a long wait. Grab a pen and start journaling your thoughts. Answer the question “why?”, 200 times.
Don’t Let Your Fears Control Your Fabulous Future
We can all be nervous or concerned about a potential negative outcome. But we can also spend a lot more positive energy and time on potential positive outcomes.
How do you spend your time? Do you focus more on positive, pleasant, fun and successful outcomes or on negative, fear-led, dramatic and even disastrous outcomes?
If you tend to the negative, start training your brain every day to be more positive. Take 10 minutes each day and focus on coaching your brain on thinking through potential positive outcomes.
Act Fast!
Life is long, yet short. You can cram a lot of living into one life. It helps if you act fast, be decisive, move things forward daily and eliminate friction and inefficiencies.
Acting fast can get results faster too. And we’d all usually like that.
Go!
Sometimes you just have to drop everything and get there. It can be a bit difficult and often exhilarating. Going could be on good news and it could be for less good news.
Regardless. Sometimes you need to go. Just be there. Be in the environment. You’ll feel it.
Stamina
You need stamina to push through difficult times. Whether you are running, working late or pushing through jet lag, having good stamina helps.
Build your stamina with trials and challenges and then put it to the test occasionally.
Ask Questions
Get really good at asking all sorts of questions Small talk questions. Big life questions. And every question in between.
Also get very good at listening to the answers.
Excellence, Not Perfection
Aiming for perfect is stressful and not generally practical. Excellence, on the other hand, is a worthy goal and a great habit to have.
You can strive for excellence daily. So do that.
