Living your life by design
Designing the life you want to live can be an exciting process. As you will know by now, your future starts with today's thoughts, and more importantly today's actions. Every minute decision may be the one that finally allows you to reach that goal you started all those days / weeks and months ago. But if you never start making those tiny decisions, then the bigger goals will be unobtainable.
Take buying anything large - a house, a car, a boat, a small island - you choose - remember this is your life we're designing. First you decide what you want. Then when it comes to houses and islands you have to decide where. Then assuming you're not related to Bill Gates or Conrad Hilton, you are going to have to speak to someone about financing the purchase. Easy, there are lots of lenders out there. And then of course comes the long process of paying off the debt. Every week / fortnight / month you make the scheduled repayments. Over time the interest is reduced and you begin to pay off the capital, until at some distant point in the future, you "own" your own place. Of course you could decide that you would prefer to party hard all weekend, every weekend, live at home with your parents and not buy that first property - but that's up to you isn't it.
And so it is with everything we say we want. It can take time to build up a portfolio of clients. It can certainly take time to learn a new skill, and it takes dedication to keep going when you can't see the end in sight.
But you can live your life by design - you just have to know what your life is going to look like, and then start taking those actions that will get you there.
Change your patterns of behaviour from ones that don't serve you, to ones that do and you will be amazed at how fast providence follows intent.
May 12, 2008 at 20:28
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