What is it that we could do today to change the trajectory of our life?

Chateau Ste Michelle
Prior to 2001, this was my favorite winery

 

What is it that we could do today to change the trajectory of our life?

One day I stopped drinking. For good.

One day I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life wife Cheryl.

One day I started a business.

(2001, 1983, 2009 respectively)

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Five pressing life opportunities and the one fail-proof way to tackle them

White orchids in Sheraton lobby
Waiting in line to check-in, snapped photo, texted flowers to my wife (keep it simple)

 

Our most pressing life opportunities can be chunked into five major categories:

  1. mental – we think
  2. physical – we move
  3. spiritual – we feel
  4. career – we work
  5. home – we nest (yes nest)

The one fail-proof way to tackle them?

  1. small, bite-sized chunks

Just do one small, good deed in each area, each day.

In one week, that’s 35 good deeds, seven in each category.

In a month, we rack up 150, or 30 deposits each.

The most important aspect is that it’s small enough to get done with minimal effort.

The other key is to do it every single day.

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Stumbled upon a thought that would help us with three pressing midlife issues

Two bears and a hornet's nest at airport
We’re taught not to disturb the hornet’s nest (what about our psyche?)

 

Three pressing, daily,  midlife issues:

  1. discontent
  2. emptiness
  3. non-existent peace and contentment

The thought – we could disrupt and disturb our psyche.

How?

What if we simply did the things we said we were going to do?

Because we’re always dreaming of solutions and ideas, yet quickly, and fearfully, abandon them.

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Do the things we say we’re gonna do – baby steps are fine.

Good luck today to all of us.

Tomorrow, five pressing life opportunities and the one way to tackle them.

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Here’s when the perfect time arrives for us to finally get started on our big dream

excerpt from Seth Godin's Icarus Deception
begin reading here… “Giving up our attachment to what might happen…”

 

Here’s when the perfect time arrives for us to finally get started on our big dream. Drum roll please…

never

Our timing will never be perfect. If we wait, what happens?

Nothing.

Exactly.

The best time to start was yesterday. The second best time is today.

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