Plan your life before life plans you
Time doesn’t wait for people who have passions in life. Thank God the average lifespan has almost doubled in the past 100 years, because the blink we exist within already goes way too fast! My father told me last summer he couldn’t believe how fast life goes… we both seem to suffer from the same condition!
The more involved you become with your life, the faster it seems to go. Exercise, business, relationships and even studies all have the ability to make the limited time you have- go even faster. This is not a bad thing, life is meant to be lived, but one side effect of enjoying life is that you have less time to contemplate on what has happened thus far. This is why daily, monthly and yearly plans in life are so important, it’s so easy to delay or forget things until it becomes too late to change course.
Plan your life before life plans you
You have two choices in regard to the limited time you have in your life. You can decide to take control over it or you can let events in your life take control over you. So much of our life is in the hands of others but in the end, you control either directly or indirectly where you end up in life. If you play an active role in your life, I believe your chances of ending up where you want to be instead of where others want you to be are much higher.
How to take control of your life?
Makes notes and checklists
I myself do a daily plan before going to bed at night, deciding what I want to accomplish the next day - a checklist. I find if I don’t do this, the next day easily goes bye without achieving much of what I wanted to do. I also do this for a monthly, quarterly and yearly so I am always heading towards what I want in life. Like Santa Clause, check them twice 
The fortress of “ME”
If you believe in yourself, your abilities, genius and skills you will easily be able to fend off people and circumstances that can make your life plan go haywire or in the wrong direction. If you have friends who prefer to party or gossip and your goal is to one day be the CEO of a company, don’t participate in it. If they try to drag you into things, be strong enough to not only resist but say “NO”. Remember, you are always in control of yourself - don’t let others wrestle this away from you.
Develop kin relationships
You are what you hang around with - don’t waste your time doing things with people who do not have the same aspirations as you in life. There is a reason why lawyers hang around other lawyers, entrepreneurs with their kin and same goes with many other professions. It is because they all want to become the best at what they do and realized early on that you can’t do this by hanging around losers or people who do not share the same passion in life. I believe that quality friends and associates is far more important than quantity. Cut your losses with people who provide no benefit or means of helping you achieve your goals.
Focus
It is so easy to loose focus in life, planning ahead of time does help a lot but if those goals are all over the place, it\s just as useless as having none. If your goal is to be the best XYZ in the world, immerse yourself into it. You need to eat, sleep and drink your future self. If you focus on being NOW on who you want to become later, then later will come faster.
Fix boredom before it becomes depression
Boredom is an insidious condition caused by the inability of the mind to expand beyond itself. The brain is an incredible machine that has the ability to continually grow but if you always feed it the same information, I believe it begins to loose some of this ability. Scientists use to think the brain stopped becoming resilient shortly after adulthood’ termed “hardwired”. This has been proven to not be the case. If you find yourself bored with life, there is something you need to fix ASAP before depression sets in.
Contemplate
Time on is as important as time off - if you focus 100% on your future but don’t take some time off to review what you did for revisions or even better - completely away for a few days, you will go nuts! Focus takes it toll on you, be sure to take a breather every once in a while.
The Bottom line
You are in control of your lot in life. Develop contacts and circumstances that will allow you to reach your destiny and drop those that are dead weight before they drag you down.
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