Execute your daily actions in sync with where you want to end up. Navigate the challenges life may throw your way.
Building requires concentrated time and effort. You must have a vision for your ideal life while weathering the storm on a daily basis. People start to break and lose faith when they make plans that somehow get messed with instead of rolling with the punches and giving it the best possible go anyways.
The thing about life is that there are many areas you can build up, as well as many you can tear down. It’s a mixture of addition and subtraction. Adding more of what will help you complete your mission and subtracting more of what is keeping you off track and wandering aimlessly.
If you think about time in a sense where you’re “On” and “Off”, then you’ll tend to have an average view on life where work is something separate from down time. Work is there to get through grudgingly so you get your tokens to spend on cheap dopamine to sedate yourself during the time off of work. It’s this endless cycle that seems to trap the vast majority of people.
To be honest, there’s actually nothing wrong with this. Some just want to continue on the ferris wheel, going round and round. Don’t try to forcefully convince them otherwise or that they’re wrong. The programming runs deep. If you are lucky enough to realize that there is a way to build something that is yours, a life you truly enjoy living with a defined purpose, you are on the right track.
Make the vision, the purpose, the mission, very clear in your mind. What do you want out of life? What do you need to start doing to get there? What will a day in the life look like? What skills are needed? Which people can you learn from? Which habits are holding you back? All these questions and more need to be dealt with accordingly so you can start walking down the right path. Get very specific with what it is you want to build.
Now that you have that image burning in your mind, it’s time to take the steps immediately available to you. Everyone will have their own path to walk but there seems to be some general categories that most want to improve on, namely:
Health:
Start by making health just a normal part of your daily life. Train MMA a few times per week, lift some weights, eat whole foods 80% of the time, incorporate fasting, sleep and breathe properly, drink water, get some sun, avoid abusing drugs, alcohol and other vices (this will differ for everyone but understand what is holding you back specifically). It’s simple as that for a solid baseline then you can tweak things and experiment as you go.
Wealth:
Money is a tool that can make your life much better if used right. Most people are not where they want to be financially but they do not think outside the box. It just becomes that work for wage cycle instead of using every resource available to build a way out. Start to learn sales. Find a remote job after the regular job and make calls instead of watching TV. Use the “Off” time to learn skills that interest you so you can create your own offers. Build up a social presence. Turn your hobbies into hustles. Day by day, suddenly the ball starts rolling. A bit of money starts coming in. You start to see that it is possible. Now your brain becomes rewired to chase that healthier form of dopamine and success. More ideas begin to build and form. More work to be done and more money to be made.
Relationships:
Connect with people in person and online that share similar values as you. Nothing will improve your life like joining networks with people on the same wavelength. You will be able to learn and build great relationships. Put yourself out there. Business relationships and friendships you never would have fathomed will begin to form and flourish. This goes for dating as well. There should never be any fear in your approach. You should be excited and ready to go at all times. Become a trusted associate others can depend on and look to for guidance. Learn and then teach. Set boundaries. Have a code you stand by.
Last but not least, understand that life happens to us all. What is built can be destroyed. Whatever challenges, tragedies or setbacks come your way, you wake up the next day and start building again. Dealing with things as they come while having that vision of the future in mind will help you stay the course.
Keep on Building.