We are in the home
stretch of 2012, there are just on 76 days left until the yet another year is
over. Look back over your successes to date. Are you satisfied with your
performance this year? Have finally turned that corner and this year will have
proved to be the one where everything has started to come together? Or are you
still spinning your wheels and feeling trapped in a cycle of apparent busyness
and limited effectiveness. Now that we are entering that last crucial portion
of the year, it is time to begin finalising the outcomes you want to achieve
this year or a perfect time to start setting the foundation for a great 2013.
Stop investing so much
time into admiring and studying your favourite sports team and knowing every
statistic about every player in the team and to focus your energy on growing
and becoming. Commit to shift your focus from knowing and admiring the exploits
of others and begin to focus more energy on getting to know and to grow
yourself. Imagine how much you will grow and how much more you will become, if
you make these few small but crucial shifts.
Instead of:
- Reading the sports page and memorising every
statistic about every player – you read a self-improvement book and discover
one new success habit that you can apply in your life.
- Listening to the news, sport and music in your
car – you listen to an educational or inspirational cd.
- Spending your weekends glued to the sports
channel – You watch an instructional DVD or attend a seminar.
- Spending hours discussing sports scores and
player statistics - You discuss your goals and dreams and the path
you are taking to achieve them
- Vegetating into front of the TV every night –
you take one hour to read a book or meditate.
- Reading sports or gossip magazines – you read
success magazine or something similar.
- Gossiping about other people - you spoke
about your life lessons and plans for personal growth
You
Attract Success by the Person You Become
You attract success by
the person you become, so how do you think those positive shifts, away from
entertainment toward education and personal growth, would affect your own life
scores and statistics?
Change
Your EVE Ratio
I am not saying that you
must completely reboot your life and stop all entertainment in your life. I am
saying that, if you committed to make a few small shifts and you began to
change your current entertainment ratio of about 500 hours of entertainment, to
every one hour of education and you began to change this to a ratio of 50 hours
of entertainment, to every one hour of education. You would see amazing results
begin to manifest in your life.
Choose to
Succeed
As this year closes and
the New Year dawns, commit to finally make the choice to succeed and stop
spinning your wheels. As long as you keep entertaining yourself to death and
you never make time for your personal growth, you will see another year fly by
in a blur of dissatisfaction. Introduce these few positive changes into your
life and begin the process of expanding and become the type of person, who
deserves the type of success you desire.
Stop the
Pursuit and Start Becoming
Stop pursuing success, as
anything you pursue will elude you and start attracting success, by becoming
the type of person, who deserves the success that you desire. As you create
better balance between the amounts of time you spend entertaining yourself and
the time you spend growing yourself, you will finally have everything in place
to start to realise all your dreams. Invest as much time into practicing,
training, growing and developing your own skills, knowledge and abilities as
the people that you watch at your favourite sporting events do. Imagine how
that will completely transform your life?
Author: Andrew Horton Time Management
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