14 Apr 2010

Hopes and Dreams

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You only have a limited amount of time on this earth. How do you love what you do?

How many more days until you turn 30? How many more days until you turn 40? Time is short. Your time is your most precious resource.

When you understand that life is short and that you only have a limited amount of days left, you will suddenly feel the urge to do what you have always wanted to do in life.

You start the company you have been waiting to start. You write the book that’s been dormant in your mind.  You travel to that exotic country you’ve been planning to visit.

The best time is not tomorrow. It’s now.

As kids we thought anything was possible. We could be a professional basketball player or be a professional baseball player. Somewhere along the road, it just became hopes and dreams. There are people that actually managed through dedication and commitment to make their dreams a reality, and so can you.

What is yet unfulfilled in your mind? It’s not too late. It’s necessary to take back control of your life and be 100% responsible for yourself.

If you had all the money in the world, would you still be doing what you are doing now?

Having the opportunity to focus on your goals is the greatest freedom.

Your worse case scenario if you give up is that you go back to a 9-5 job and you go back to being a cog in the machine in your office cubicle.

When you do take that leap, you find that there are many new things to learn.

It is like being unplugged from the Matrix and suddenly you are given the chance to live again in the real world. You need time to learn how to use all your bodily parts that have been dormant for years. Taking that leap is like learning how to walk again. It’s scary. Baby steps.

In a job, you were being told what to do and how to do it. Being an entrepreneur is not for the light hearted. But if you don’t give up, you will succeed.

Do whatever it takes to accomplish your goal. It’s a scary concept.

Do you want to look back in your life and say that you pushed hard towards your dreams? That you did everything you could in your power to make it come true? Can you be content to be another cog in a machine?

Play the game. Don’t let the game play you.

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