Over our lives, we make a lot of mistakes, but it seems like there is one mistake that
most people keep repeating over and over and they don’t get until its too late already,
and that includes me as well.
That's why I feel obligated to make this video and share it with you because understanding
this literally made my life hundreds of times better and I wish someone would have taught
me this when I was younger.
But I think even if someone would have tried, I would probably be too stubborn to listen.
When I started this channel, I barely understood what I was doing, I spent a lot of time studying
and learning about how youtube works and how to make better videos and I only could dream
about getting a thousand subscribers.
I mean, Getting a thousand people interested in your content isn't easy.
However, After a lot of hard work, I managed to reach that milestone,
It felt great but the next day, that excitement somehow was gone, and my next obsession was
to get a hundred thousand subscribers.
It seemed impossible to achieve that but thanks to all of you, eventually it happened.
Of course, it felt incredibly great, but it didn't last long, the next morning, I wanted
to achieve the next milestone.
And that's the problem, we set goals, and we get so obsessed with them that we forget
to enjoy the journey.
We get frustrated over the little things and imagine in our minds that once we get to the
top of the hill, we will feel great and everything will be amazing not realizing that we will
never be satisfied.
You start going to the gym, and all that you have in your mind is once I get that kind
of body, everything will change.
Let me tell you a little secret.
That will never happen.
Whether you are trying to become the next president of the united states or a billionaire
on the Forbes list.
You will feel exactly like you do now because after achieving that goal you will look at
someone else who has more than you and will say, when I make this much money, or when
I get that much of followers, then I can relax.
And that's how you will waste your entire life.
Our lives don't really mean anything.
I mean, You see that tiny dot.
Yes, that's earth, this picture is taken by voyager one billions of miles away from earth.
We are so small in this universe that there are more stars in the universe than grains
of sand in the entire earth.
That's probably why Carl Segan said: if you look at it, you see a dot.
That's here.
That's home.
That's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being
who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic
doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer
of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father,
hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician,
every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our
species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
So no matter what you are trying to achieve, your life will probably end right there in
that dot because we are in a race against time that we will never win.
So, instead of waiting till you get to the top of the hill to finally feel relieved and
happy.
Why don't you enjoy the journey of getting there?
Regardless of what that top means for you.
As Steve Jobs said: Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me…
Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters
to me.
So let your first goal always be, enjoy every moment of what's left.
Time isn’t gonna wait for you.
You might blink one more time, and it might be too late already.
One way to spend your time wisely is to develop yourself.
But in today's world, it's not easy to sit down and read a book for example, especially
with the rise of social media.
That's why I use an app that's called Blinkist.
It takes the best insights, the need-to-know information from
thousands of nonfiction books and condenses them down into just 15 minutes so you can
read or listen to.
I started using Blinkist recently especially when I drive or lift at the gym, and I couldn't
let it go without recommending it to you.
The last summary that I have listened to was - Start with why by Simon Sinek.
Which you should as well.
The first 100 people to go to https://www.blinkist.com/proactivethinker are going to get unlimited
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You’ll also get 25% off if you want the full membership.
And you will be supporting this channel to create more original content such as this
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