e-tip 89 – starting….today!

most people over-estimate what they can achieve in a year and under-estimate what they can achieve in a lifetime.  Tony Robbins

If you were at the end of your life looking back, what would you have started?  Or started sooner. For example, the average time between thinking of setting up a business and starting it is 10 years!

It’s easy to get into a trance-like state of getting up, going to work, doing the job, getting home, collapsing, eating, watching tv, going to bed and starting all over again the next day.  And then collapsing at the weekend or spending it just doing chores, and then starting over again the next week.  And days merge into weeks, and weeks into years…

…putting off your dreams, until we say we have the time, or I don’t know how to, or where to start…or being afraid of doing the wrong thing (and how do you know it’s the wrong thing if you’ve never done it?  Or if you know it is, choose something else that’s ‘right’!).  What about:

• that holiday of a lifetime
• putting that great business idea into reality
• finding that job/career I’d love to do
• paying of my mortgage early
• finding my perfect partner
• having my dream home
• being my ideal weight, shape, size
• being fit and healthy
• being financially independent
• doing what I want, when I want

I read a while ago a book called S.U.M.O. – Shut Up Move On – by Paul McGee who suggests looking at your life as a week with each day representing 10 years, being born on Monday morning.  According to that, I’m on Friday morning!  Yikes!  What day of the week are you on?

Today’s experiment

• Take something off your wish list that you’d love to do but have put off for a long time.  If you don’t have a wish list then I suggest you write one out.  (more on this at e-tip no. 12).  Then take some action on it today, however small, such as:

• discuss your wishes with friends and ask them for ideas (and I mean ideas, rather than their reasons why they wouldn’t puirsue their own dreams)
• pick up some holiday brochures or buy a travel guide, learn a language
• do some research, Google it, Wikipedia it, just find out more
• Sign up for some ideas, tips and inspiration emailed to you. Some of my favourites are:

• Michael Neill The Success Coach
• Jamie Smart NLP Genius and happiness expert
• Mike Dooley TUT’s Adventurers Club
• Trizle.com Straight talking business tips 

buy a book on the subject (and read the first 10 pages, or any pages at random)

post yourself to a dating website after writing a list of your ideal partner (you can use the Knowing what you want process as a starting point)

brainstorm some actions, however crazy they seem, you never know…

open a savings account (for that new business/holiday/home) and put a pound in it and put in more each week

shop for the best deals at www.moneysavingexpert.com and put the money saved to pay off your debts more quickly

Once you start somewhere, you’ll know more about where to pursue your ideas, staying open to new ideas and new ways of acheiving what you want.

And then tomorrow, take some more action, and then the next day…

How many more ‘days’ can you want let go by????

Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now.. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.  Goethe.

And have fun too!

Until next time

Anthony

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