As we approach the New Year of 2011. I begin to review the past year and reflect on all of the successes, failures, triumphs and lessons learned as I try to prepare myself for the coming year. This reflection provides me with a starting point from which I will be departing for the journey of the year ahead. As I look back, I see that 2010 was a great year for wrapping up the first decade of the 21st century. 2000-2009 was the first decade of the 21st century (some may argue that the decade spans from 2001-2010). In either case, 2010 was a good year for getting closure on that decade which was pretty challenging as a whole. I'm glad to say that it is over and that the next decade has the potential to be the best decade of my adult life.
The secret to making any given decade the best of your life is that you compartmentalize each year and try to make every one of them the best year of your life, so you come out of the decade with a collection of 10 of your life's best years. Therefore, I know that 2011 is going to be the best year of my life to date. To take this formula further to it's conclusion of the best decade, and the only way to have the best year ever, is to have a collection of the best 12 months of my life. I can hear some of you losing interest, but just bear with me as I drag this out logically. If any given month is to be the best month for you, you have to fill it with 4 or so of the best weeks ever and those weeks need to contain 7 of the best days possible. Therefore, we need to live each day as it is given to us, as though it is the best day of our life. So you may be asking how this is even possible and the answer is really quite simple. In order to make today the best day of your life, you merely need to do one thing. You need to improve on one thing in your life so that you live today as a better person than you were yesterday.
Imagine if you take these small daily steps towards creating the best possible future for yourself. You don't have to do anything monumental. You simply need to make 1 tiny improvement in order to fulfill the dream. these tiny incremental improvements stack up in your life just like compound interest makes your savings grow in the bank. For the day, it might not seem like much, but when you spread it over the weeks, months, and years that make up a decade of your life, just think how much better of a person you'll have become in just 10 years time. So let's think about where we stand today and look for the one small improvement that we can make today that will make us better than we were yesterday. If we can make the one small improvement today, then we have succeeded in making today, the best day of our life (so far). And we can do it all over again tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. So you see, it really is quite possible for every day to be the best day of your life as long as you strive to improve yourself daily.
Now I know a lot of you are thinking that this is going to be a lot of work. Maybe making a change for the better each and every single day is too much to ask. If that's true, then maybe you will want to condition yourself by slowly getting into shape. Make a small improvement once a week, or once a month, but do it in the knowing that for every small improvement we make in our lives, we've created a better life for ourselves out of that action. Self improvement is a worn out pair of words, but the intention behind them is paramount to creating a better life. If you do make small improvements over time, they will stack up in your life and transform you into the person you truly want to become. Read the books, listen to the lectures and sermons and apply the wisdom you find there in your own life and you can't help but build the life of your dreams. Just make sure that the books you read and the things you listen to are taking you in the direction that you have chosen for yourself. Nobody chooses the direction of your life, but you. Take control and make it happen starting today.
No comments:
Post a Comment