This email was sent to me by a friend and I wanted to share it with you.
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Time flies, when your having fun or just running in place!
Where were you that New Year's Eve night in 1999 as the last seconds ticked down to zero before the start of a new millennium?
Remember the mass hysteria? The media was in frenzy over "Y2K". The sky was falling, all the computers in the world were supposedly going to conk out, the power stations were going to go kerkplunk, they gave TV spots on CNN to raving lunatics who believed the world would end and had gathered wearing tinfoil hats to be taken away in the mother ship to planet Mars with the other true believers by the two-headed green space-men...and even mostly normal everyday folks who didn't subscribe to 'Guns and Ammo', and 'Paranormal Phenomena' had a stockpiled Y2K panic room with canned foods, guns, bottled water and playing cards "just in case".
Not that long ago, it may seem. Yet SNAP your fingers, a DECADE has flown by as of tomorrow.
Time flies, they say.
How do YOU feel about how you've invested these last 10 years?
Most people feel life is too short, there's not enough time to do what you want to do. Most folks come to the end of their life feeling like they never did most of the things they hoped. There just wasn't enough time, they lament.
Theirs is a coulda, woulda, shoulda kind of regret.
I say there IS enough time. I say time is *plentiful* for those who live with purpose.
Why do I say that? Because of CHOICE.
Because only you get to choose what you use your time for. Which means if we replace ONE hour per day of mindlessly checking email, channel surfing and listening to the radio while driving.... or if we just DELEGATE one hour per day of $10 per hour tasks and tackle $1000 per hour projects instead - we multiply our productivity.
Want to feel like there's "enough time"?
First you must put a HIGH value on your time.
Many of us need to learn to say NO to more people, projects and pursuits that don't push us forward towards our ultimate purpose or distract us from the FOCUS required to put our time where it gives us the most benefit.
That might mean:
* chucking the TV out a second story window (checking to make sure neither Jerry Springer nor any other person is below in harm's way)
* paying someone to clean your house, do your laundry, shop for your groceries
* saying "no" to mindless morning radio and listening instead to some good old fashioned "Automobile University" audio training (as Zig Ziglar would call it.)
* unsubscribing from more time-wasting emails that add no value to our life
* politely (or impolitely if necessary) turning away from the people all of us seem to have in our life who thrive on pointless gossip about stuff that doesn't matter and want to bend your ear with it till the cows come home
* outsourcing more and more $10/hour tasks off your plate to make room for the big stuff
* planning your work every day, and working your plan so we can get that important stuff checked off our list
Speaking of lists...
Do you have a "bucket list" yet that you have WRITTEN DOWN? A list of things you want to be/do/have before you 'kick the bucket' ? I bet you can get a good % of that list crossed off in 2010 if you get serious about it.
Because if I know one thing to be true, as we look at the coming year, it's this:
Good, bad, or indifferent... You and I both deserve to have an even better decade than this past one.
True? And I for one am going after it.
I get the feeling you're the kind of person who will be too. So, trust me, this is a great and fun tool to help you do just that!
Here's to squeezing ALL the juice out of this orange called life (in 2010 and beyond)...
I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Happy New Year!
To Your Success
Scott
P.S. Today's lesson: There's plenty of time. As long as we prize our time highly.
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