“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.“ —Napoleon Hill
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Tomorrow is promised to no one!
“’Do it now!’ can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don’t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.” —Napoleon Hill
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“The lucky or successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and self-confident, you will act successful. Define your goal or end result. Picture it to yourself clearly and vividly. Then simply capture the feeling you would experience if the desirable goal were already an established fact. Then your internal machinery is geared for success: to guide you in making the correct muscular motions and adjustments; to supply you with creative ideas, and to do whatever else is necessary in order to make the goal an accomplished fact.” —Maxwell Maltz
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If you knew you were going to die in one month, would you still set goals? How about six months? Would you still pursue your already established goals? Would there be goals that you would regret not having already achieved? Or, would there just be a list of last minute tasks and sad goodbyes?
One of the greatest catalysts for conquering goal achievement inertia is the emotional acknowledgment of our own mortality. Intellectually, we already acknowledge our mortality. We are all quite aware that there is no one alive who is not going to die sooner or later, including, sadly, ourself. But, the emotional acceptance that our life might end sooner than we care to think about…well, that’s just not something we care to think about.
Here is the beginning of an article written by Bronnie Ware, an Australian musician who worked with the dying for many years. This short article might help you answer some of the above questions.
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.
When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common…”
You can read the rest of Bronnie’s article HERE, on her blog, and I recommend you do.
BTW, how do you know that you aren’t going to die in one month…or two, or six, or twelve? Or even sooner?
Answer; you don’t.
Enjoy today.
Achieve today.
Tomorrow is promised to no one!
PS: If you haven’t seen the movie “The Bucket List,” get it and watch it soon. You’ll get to see how two dying old codgers played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman meet and journey together on a final excursion with a bucket full of goals in hand. It’s both comical and poignant.
“Serial goal achievers are successful everyday.” —Paul Sutherland
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“Goals are personal choices; no one can choose a goal for you. Goals achieved that benefit only you, however, are bittersweet at best. Lift as you climb.” —Paul Sutherland
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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” —Norman Vincent Peale
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“If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?” —Eric Allenbaugh
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“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.” —Gian Carlo Menotti
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“Habits we have developed are not good or bad, they are either quite beneficial or encumbering and sad.” —Paul Sutherland
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