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What if rather than focusing on how long something took, we focused on how far we went?
For example, my wife and I belong to the group Couchsurfing.com. We recently hosted Thomas Mark Zuniga, a young man writing a book about his 8 month journey across the United States. He saved up, sold his possessions, and took a leap. Consider this, the average American full-time employee takes 11 days of paid vacation each year. That’s a 2 week trip every 52 weeks. Thomas however, just experienced 32 weeks of travel, the equivalent of 16 years of vacation. While most of us can count this year’s significant memories on two hands, he can’t contain his growth and self-discovery even in a single
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To move fast is to have all the time in world.
In our world with limitless options, limitless books to read, limitless clothes to wear, limitless paths to take, it is extremely important to be picky. Excess is a suppressant to abundance. Excess represents the broad path which most people travel. With too many clothes in their closets and too many competing priorities, paralysis by analysis is at an extreme.
Those who become the greatest and go the farthest are highly selective about what they take on.
“Anything is possible, but not everything is possible” —Tyler Rex
Right now, most of us engage in far too many priorities. If we have more than three priorities, we have none.
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” —J.M. Barrie
Goal commitment is the fortitude to accomplish a goal and persistence in pursuing it over time. Empirical research has found that commitment to difficult goals increases when goals are made public, when locus of control is internal rather than external, and when goals are self-directed rather than assigned.
When you know a path is right, take the leap and don’t look back.
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan
“It’s easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time.” —Clayton Christensen
Many of our schools and systems still focus on the development of followers rather than leaders, an early 1900’s response to large growth in factories and assembly lines.
The goal of the public school system was to train its students to be submissive and obedient to leadership. It’s little wonder that children, who are innately curious and questioning, quickly grow to care only for acquiring information that will please a teacher or make a grade.
Stewardship is making the most out of what you already have. Rather than hoping for more, stewardship is reflective of gratitude and ownership. The best stewards take what they have and make it better. These people are ready for more because they have fully embraced all they have been given.
always thought the path to success was one of refinement. What I’ve learned is that refinement is only perceived from the outside. Others may think you have everything “all figured out.” Yet, on the inside, you feel like an imposter, a fraud.
If you want to live a conforming life, you can probably do it in a refined manner. However, once you step outside your own boundaries and try to live higher, you will likely fall flat on your face. Failure is the only way to success; and failure hurts. It is humiliating. It is enlivening. And it really hurts. As someone who is generally even-tempered, I’ve experienced more highs and lows in the past year than I have my entire life. Living your dreams really is a roller-coaster. You will fall on your face daily because you will be attempting things you’ve never done before. You will be learning
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As William Shakespeare has written, “To thine own self be true.” “Do what is right, let the consequence follow.”
One thing is certain, life rewards those who act—the hustlers; not the wishers.
Those who act will be smashed and pounded by life. But this is happiness. This is growth. It requires pain and sacrifice. However, the pain, discomfort, failure, and all else, is far better than sitting on the side-lines wondering what could have been.
More money makes good people better and bad people worse.
The world is screaming at you to, “go, go, go!” To the naked eye, this book may seem similar. However, my goal is to help you slow down and move further. You can’t do that in a frantic race from one activity to the next. You can’t slow your time by being busy. You can only slow your time by being present, living a life of congruence, and by choosing to relate on a trusting and vulnerable level with those you love.
How could you change your current goals into a bucket list?
Goals are often far too narrow-sighted and out-of-context. Your bucket list can be the context of your life. What really matters? What do you really want your legacy to be? What experiences do you really want to happen?
