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I stopped doing New Year’s resolutions when I noticed how little time it took me to break them.
Instead I set goals and work on rearranging my life to meet those goals. Goal setting and how to achieve my goals is something I learned from running...
I used to tell myself that I’d pay off my last remaining credit card as soon as I got a steady income, then I got a steady income and I told myself I’d pay off my credit card when I increased my income.
We tell ourselves that we’ll start saving when we get a higher income or we’ll finally start that business when we take an entrepreneurship course.
We’re waiting for that perfect moment when the stars align and everything works in our favour and we can finally live our destiny.
What are your life goals?
Do you know what you want to achieve financially?
Do you have a strategy on how to make your financial goals a reality?
There's a saying that those who fail to plan, plan to fail.
This saying also applies when you’re managing your finances.
If you want sufficient savings to support you through the golden years of your life you have to take action in the present moment to make that a reality.
Proper planning isn't a guarantee for success in any way, however, a well thought out plan will guide you when things get tough because it'll remind you what you're working towards.
Deepak Chopra says if you observe nature you’ll see that everything is effortless and it’s the same with life.
He talks about the law of least effort where he explains that the law of nature functions with effortless ease and carefreeness.
Plants don’t worry about sunlight and water and don’t go looking for it and yet they continue to survive. They don’t spend hours explaining how people hurt them and feeling pity for themselves.
In 1519 at the height of Spain’s colonial era, Hernando Cortes arrived at the Southern tip of Mexico with 508 soldiers, 100 sailors and 16 horses to conquer a nation of 6 million Aztec people.
When all his men were ashore, he ordered them to burn all the boats and told them that the only way back was to win or die. There’d be no retreat. In the end, Cortes’ men fought and won, if only out of sheer desperation for their lives.
The moral of the story aside; this is a powerful story of committing to a vision.