How to Win at Life
10 years ago, I was 5 months behind on my car payment, I’d basically run my company into the ground, I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment with only a mattress on the floor surrounded by a couple of books, and surviving off of pasta - and yet - I knew that one day I’d build a massive company where I’d be impacting people’s lives daily, I just didn’t know how.
So how do you go from that, to winning at life??
The answer is so simple yet so profound. It starts and ends with you focussing on today. Only today.?
If you dominate today, and then dominate the next day, and the next and the next, you’ll have created a life that you love.?
Here are 3 keys to dominating today:?
1. Create a to-do list.
Write down absolutely everything that you need to do, and then prioritize the 3 most important. If you get those 3 done, you’ve dominated the day. If you were to do 1000 important things over the next year, how much different do you think your life would be? Yes, vastly different.?
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2. Visualize your day.
Every morning when you look at your schedule (yes, having a schedule in front of you is important), take a few moments to walk yourself through the day. Visualize sitting in the car, dropping the kids off at school, walking into work, however your day will go. Just make sure that you’re visualizing the perfect version of your day. By doing this, you’re being proactive rather than reactive and that’s already setting your day up for success. When I made this change, my life started to change big time!?
3. Make a list of everything that makes you happy.
And make sure that you’re including as many of them in your day as possible. You’re not supposed to stress your way through life, you’re meant to enjoy your way through it. So prioritize the things that make you happy.?
Live your life in the headlights. When you sit in the driver's seat, you cannot see the destination, you can only see a few feet in front of you. You can’t drive a stretch of road that you’re not at yet, the same way that you can’t live a day that you’re not currently in. Focus on making today the best you possibly can because if you do, then years from now you’ll look back and see an incredibly beautiful life that you’ve lived and created, and that is winning at life!?
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