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Why are you coasting through life? Why are you acting as if you get another shot at all of this? Acting like you get a test run to live selfishly and just test the waters of what life is. This is your one chance to live to your fullest potential and achieve your wildest dreams and you are so extremely lucky with the opportunity you have, its almost insulting to past generations that youâre not taking advantage of it.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
âYou cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.â
In simple terms, tomorrow is coming whether you like it or not. Itâs coming fast and itâs going to affect you in different ways, you can either choose to grab the bull by the horns or let it smack you into the following day.
STOP COASTING THROUGH LIFE
Do you think you get another shot at this?
Why are you coasting through life? Why are you acting as if you get another shot at all of this? Acting like you get a test run to live selfishly and just test the waters of what life is. This is your one chance to live to your fullest potential and achieve your wildest dreams and you are so extremely lucky with the opportunity you have, its almost insulting to past generations that youâre not taking advantage of it.
Less than 200 years ago peopleâs lives consisted of doing things they didnât want to do every day. Passion and ambition werenât even in the question because people lived for the next day, they lived to put food on the table and that was It. Coal miners were coal miners because their parents were and their parents parents so that was their allocated life. Now jumping back to today you donât have to worry about that. You have the opportunity to have passion and ambition and take advantage of it yet you donât. You live as if you get another try afterwards.
It may not be today, may not be tomorrow but one day youâre going to have to look back and face the reality of the decisions you made. Youâre going to have to face the consequences of how you chose to live life.
How are you going to look back?
Youâre either going to look back and be proud of how you lived your life, how hard you worked, how much you achieved, how generous you were and how you impacted othersâ lives or you will look back and be ashamed of yourself and how you lived. This reality is scary because itâs impending, itâs coming whether you want it to or not and the only thing you can do is carry out actions that make it the best you possibly can.
You have to ask yourself the question; are you living for your own comfort and convenience or are you living to achieve?
If you can honestly and truly answer that question it will give you a clear answer on whether itâs time to change or not.
Whos desires are you fulfilling?
Are you living to fulfil your own selfish desires and needs? Or are you living to change the world in the ways that you can? These questions break down to the fact that why should you care? Why canât you live the life that you want? Well, you can but there was a nurse that worked with the elderly on their deathbed. She started asking people what their biggest regret was and the most common response she got was the following.
âI wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me...â
You may want comfort and safety now but ultimately youâre living for your older self.
ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:
Ask yourself are you living for your own comfort and convenience or are you living to achieve?
TAKEAWAYS:
Most people live life on cruise control, donât be those people.
BOOK OF THE WEEK —ïž
The book of the week is â7 Habits of highly effective peopleâ by Stephen R. Covey. A fantastic read that goes into so much more depth than you would think that explores the principles of effective self-leadership, influence, collaboration, and improvement. You can read it HERE
CREATOR OF THE WEEK —ïž
The creator of the week is @Joshterryplays, an extremely well-spoken creator who makes simple but intriguing content all focused on making your life better. His videos are straightforward, easy to understand and consume and heâs someone that you want on your timeline. Check him out HERE
LESSON OF THE DAY —ïž
Live to make your future self proud.
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