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By: Ben DeGeorge
I am moving to a new city to pursue the beginning of my career in the working world. I am entering a place that knows nothing about me and I know nearly nothing about it. This is exciting for a person who just graduated from a college that is 25 minutes away from the house he grew up in.
It is exciting because I now get to shape my lifestyle afresh. I can become an expert on whatever I want to be. I can attain any skills that I want to have. I can build anything I decide to build. I am now questioning what do I want to do? More importantly it is a question of what not? This is tough to determine, especially given my ambitious energy to do everything!
I realize that whatever I do, I need to do it extremely well.
People often do things just to do things. Stated another way, most people do not control their own day. Most people act reactively instead of proactively on matters large and on matters small losing sight of what is important. Realizing this, I have made a goal of being in better control of my schedule, my actions and my day. I need to say, "No," more often and focus on the important things. (First, building a business and second, building myself without any sort of guilt.)
How would you like to redo your life? Perhaps you would like to actually do all of the things that have been on your to - do list. Do you want to learn how to dance? Do it! Do you want to read more books? Work out more? Make more deep friendships? Start happily saying "no" with no regrets for taking the time to focus on your dreams and ambitions.
Do not let anyone run your schedule. Own it!
Seriously, start learning to quit things and to say no without guilt. Do everything that you do really well.
Read The Dip by Seth Godin for ways to know when to quit and when to stick out something. Learn how to do this as soon as you can so that you can quit the pointless things and focus on the important things - getting on with your life!
It is exciting because I now get to shape my lifestyle afresh. I can become an expert on whatever I want to be. I can attain any skills that I want to have. I can build anything I decide to build. I am now questioning what do I want to do? More importantly it is a question of what not? This is tough to determine, especially given my ambitious energy to do everything!
I realize that whatever I do, I need to do it extremely well.
People often do things just to do things. Stated another way, most people do not control their own day. Most people act reactively instead of proactively on matters large and on matters small losing sight of what is important. Realizing this, I have made a goal of being in better control of my schedule, my actions and my day. I need to say, "No," more often and focus on the important things. (First, building a business and second, building myself without any sort of guilt.)
How would you like to redo your life? Perhaps you would like to actually do all of the things that have been on your to - do list. Do you want to learn how to dance? Do it! Do you want to read more books? Work out more? Make more deep friendships? Start happily saying "no" with no regrets for taking the time to focus on your dreams and ambitions.
Do not let anyone run your schedule. Own it!
Seriously, start learning to quit things and to say no without guilt. Do everything that you do really well.
Read The Dip by Seth Godin for ways to know when to quit and when to stick out something. Learn how to do this as soon as you can so that you can quit the pointless things and focus on the important things - getting on with your life!
