Hey! Imagine this scenario, someone says to you I can give you eighty six
thousand four hundred dollars first thing tomorrow morning and you can do
whatever you want to do with it but the next morning they would take that
whatever you haven't spend back and they will give you eighty six thousand four
hundred dollars again and you can do whatever you want to do with it and the
next day they'll take whatever you haven't spent back. What would you do
with that? If you're sensible you would spend every dime every cent of that
eighty six thousand four hundred dollars so you don't have to give any of it back
Now, while eighty six thousand four hundred dollars isn't going to land on
your lap tomorrow morning what we do have is 86,400 seconds in a day. Once
gone, it's gone forever and so the question to you is are you spending
those seconds wisely. Or are you wasting them? You see, no matter what your
background, your education, your upbringing, or your location in this
world, we all have one thing in common and that is we all have 24 hours in a
day. That's the one common denominator, we all have 24 hours in a day. Now let's say
on average you sleep for 8 hours and another 8 hours you're at work
or you're doing some sort of work whether it's your business whether it is
a project or you're going to school for eight hours
you still got eight hours left in that day, that is by and large in your control.
So you see if you want to move faster in life, if you want to get further in life,
it's actually less about doing more, and more about stopping the behaviors that
are holding you back. So if you want to be healthier it's less
about doing more exercise or a newer form of exercise, or adding more to what
I'm sure is already a very busy schedule but it's about perhaps stopping some of
those negative behaviors, stopping eating those junk foods, those snacks, and what
you know is not good for your health. If wealth creation is important to you,
often it's not about adding more activities to do but often stopping
those spending habits that are eating away at your finances. Now when we focus
on what's most important it allows us to move closer to where we want to be, but
so often we don't know what's most important because we don't take the time
to step back and evaluate our life. Are we happy with where we are right now? Are
we feeling fulfilled in what we're doing? Are we motivated or inspired in what
we're doing right now? And the irony is because we don't spend time now to
reflect on these we get to 70, 80, 90 years old, and then we wish we had
reflected on those questions, those faults. You see, sometimes we need to slow
down in order to speed up we need to slow down in order to speed up, and this
reminds me of a story that I heard a number of years ago, about Thomas Edison
one of the greatest inventors the world has seen and what he did every day was
he blocked out some time in his diary, and he went fishing in his local lake so
he would take time out of his office and he
would go fishing in the lake and he would come back and continue his work.
Now he did this over a period of time, but what was most fascinating about this
story is not the fishing activity, but the fact that in all of his time fishing
he never caught a single fish not a single fish in the time that he did this
activity! And the reason he didn't catch a single fish was because he never used
any bait, he never used any bait at the end of his rod. And when asked why, why
didn't he use any bait he simply replied, "because no one disturbs me, not even the
fish". So what I want to say to you is, commit this week to blocking out some
time to reflect on your life, to reflect on what's most important to
you right now. And if you've not done this before, here's an activity that can
help, when you put aside some time, take a blank piece of paper, sit down
and note down what are all the things that you would love to do in your life.
Just let the brain flow, don't overthink this.
Just write down all the things, that you would love to do. Now when you've got
this list, simply imagine yourself as the 90 year old version of you looking
through this list, as if you've not done any of them.
You've not started, you've not followed through any item on that list, and simply
notice which of those would you regret the most.
And simply notice what that tells you
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