How To Live

 

Know your destination. Plan to win. Prioritize yourself. Advance regularly. How to live? Serve your agenda first. Everything else will fall in place.

 

Know your destination

You won’t arrive at the destination of your dreams if you don’t know where you want to be. You can’t plan how to get there. If you want to arrive where you want to be, the time to decide, plan, and implement is now.
So, who, where, and how do you want to be? Think about your career and income. Consider the importance of family of your own and friends. Who, where, and how would you like to be?….
Whether you dream big or small, dreams don’t come true by accident. They require planning, commitment, and consistent implementation.
Define your goals. Make a plan. Outline the steps you’ll need to take to get from here to where you want to be.
Create a timetable. Commit to hitting the benchmarks on schedule.
Be prepared for setbacks. They are an expected part of the process. Don’t give up because of difficulties, failings, or miscalculations. Winners master obstacles, not surrender to them. While overcoming obstacles, you’ll develop new skills, become more resilient, and self-confident. Each challenge mastered will affirm your progress and strengthen your resolve.

Prioritize yourself: understand, invest in, nurture, value, care for, manage

Recognize that you are your greatest asset and treat yourself as such. It is your responsibility to meet your needs, expectations, and achieve your goals. You are the one who has to understand, develop, care for, value, and manage yourself.
(No one is unbreakable. No one is perfect. We can all benefit from further development, better skills, and self-empowerment. Learn what you know you’ll need.)

Approach the world, life, work, and people like an investor

Time is limited and unforgiving. It is the most precious commodity. It can’t be bought. The clock can’t be turned back. Seasons of life cannot be brought back. Opportunities expire. A life cannot be extended beyond its limits. Never wait for anything or anybody longer than reasonable.
Don’t hope for things to go your way, assuming that everybody thinks and feels like you do: they don’t! Approach life as a whole like an investor who is willing to invest, give, and even gamble with an expectation of return on investment. There isn’t one universal wait time for ROI across all areas of life. Use your common sense. For minor issues, the wait should be short. For major issues, NEVER wait longer than one year. (If your value isn’t recognized or appreciated within a year, it won’t be. Not in this place, not by these people, not by this person. Elsewhere it will be. Don’t waste your time beating dead horses. Find a different situation, different people, or a different person capable of valuing and appreciating you.) Don’t waste the time that could be used to prepare for being satisfied, comfortable, and happy on feeling bad.

The above doesn’t apply to your goals! Reevaluate your progress every six months. If you’re not making progress, consider improving your skills, expanding your support network, and giving it another six months. Repeat. If you see no results within a year or two, reevaluate your strategy. If you see no improvement after that, take another look at your goals. Break them into smaller segments. Don’t measure from here to the top of the mountain, but from here to the first rest station. Don’t give up on your goals, but even the most compelling goals have to produce some signs of progress; if they don’t, you have to identify the reason. Don’t lose time repeating the same efforts that failed to produce expected outcomes before.

How to live? Learn the above three key principles and empower yourself to meet the challenges ahead.