Don"t Let Your Long Term Goals Steal Today
When you're focused on the long term goal of building a business it's easy to put the rest of your life on hold and wait to start living until you've got more money and more success.
But what if you made each day be your greatest performance? Then you would no longer be waiting for some future day that's more important than today but fully participating in life.
In order to do that you need to ask yourself what it would take to reach your long-term goals if you took steps every day, and then create a game around that to ensure that those steps get taken.
Then you shift from focusing on the future to fully engaging in your daily activity.
Instead of picturing some future event that's really important you're making today what your life is about.
Your life is a 24 hour life.
You are born when you wake up in the morning and "pass away" into deep sleep at night.
The time between is the time you get to create the life you really want.
If there's some future date that helps you shape your activities today that's fine, but don't waste time fearing the future and having that hold you back.
Take the fear out of the dream and create a project that you can do today.
Not doing something because you're afraid is a common excuse.
Adults think being afraid of something is a reason not to do it.
As we grow up we find increasingly that any anxiety or a mere sense of reluctance or of just feeling uncomfortable, will stop us.
You can do anything you're afraid of if you really want to or if the thing itself means more to you than your fear of doing it.
Contrary to popular belief there is no connection between the fear of doing something and whether we can or can't do it.
Also, guard against thoughts becoming character traits.
All you really need to see is what you would like to do today.
That's all you've got.
It doesn't matter what you did before.
You can start again each morning and ask yourself what would be a good day? What activities do you need to do so you can go to bed feeling proud of having done them? Then go and do those things straight away and the rest of the day you can relax.
You can be a slacker but if you do the important things first you will still feel good about yourself.
This takes practice but once you follow through on this on enough individual days, even when it feels unusual or uncomfortable or not the real you, you will reach a point where it becomes the real you.
Where it's more uncomfortable to live the old way than it is to live the new way.
While you're learning it's important to be willing to not get scared or upset if the old way creeps back in.
It happens to everybody.
That's what you used to do.
You don't ever have to do that again.
You can have life be as if that never happened and proceed accordingly.
What you're going to do today is the only thing that matters.
When you do it the new way enough times you reach a point when, although you can't remember when it happened, the new way has become the permanent way.
Coach yourself and practice and you can bring your future reality into who you are and what you do today.
There's no need to wait.
But what if you made each day be your greatest performance? Then you would no longer be waiting for some future day that's more important than today but fully participating in life.
In order to do that you need to ask yourself what it would take to reach your long-term goals if you took steps every day, and then create a game around that to ensure that those steps get taken.
Then you shift from focusing on the future to fully engaging in your daily activity.
Instead of picturing some future event that's really important you're making today what your life is about.
Your life is a 24 hour life.
You are born when you wake up in the morning and "pass away" into deep sleep at night.
The time between is the time you get to create the life you really want.
If there's some future date that helps you shape your activities today that's fine, but don't waste time fearing the future and having that hold you back.
Take the fear out of the dream and create a project that you can do today.
Not doing something because you're afraid is a common excuse.
Adults think being afraid of something is a reason not to do it.
As we grow up we find increasingly that any anxiety or a mere sense of reluctance or of just feeling uncomfortable, will stop us.
You can do anything you're afraid of if you really want to or if the thing itself means more to you than your fear of doing it.
Contrary to popular belief there is no connection between the fear of doing something and whether we can or can't do it.
Also, guard against thoughts becoming character traits.
All you really need to see is what you would like to do today.
That's all you've got.
It doesn't matter what you did before.
You can start again each morning and ask yourself what would be a good day? What activities do you need to do so you can go to bed feeling proud of having done them? Then go and do those things straight away and the rest of the day you can relax.
You can be a slacker but if you do the important things first you will still feel good about yourself.
This takes practice but once you follow through on this on enough individual days, even when it feels unusual or uncomfortable or not the real you, you will reach a point where it becomes the real you.
Where it's more uncomfortable to live the old way than it is to live the new way.
While you're learning it's important to be willing to not get scared or upset if the old way creeps back in.
It happens to everybody.
That's what you used to do.
You don't ever have to do that again.
You can have life be as if that never happened and proceed accordingly.
What you're going to do today is the only thing that matters.
When you do it the new way enough times you reach a point when, although you can't remember when it happened, the new way has become the permanent way.
Coach yourself and practice and you can bring your future reality into who you are and what you do today.
There's no need to wait.