“You can have anything you want in life, but you can’t have everything in life” – Ray Dalio
So why is it that we have dreams and aspirations, have the intellegence to source all of the other resources, hints, tips, ideas, insights, previous accounts of past experiences of those who have already “done it” only to find ourselves in exactly the same situation one week, 4 months or 2 years later? What the hell is going on? Am I some kind of human with faulty programming or are these people extreme outliers within the bell curve of civilization and actually 99% of us are destined to be – well – normal. You are normal – normal people will tend to find the easiest path to achieve an outcome, and if the outcome is a short term want or desire, you have got your goal.
You are a result of your habits. Your Habits define you and you cannot expect to change the course of your life in one day! - or can you? The one day becomes that one week, which becomes that 4 months and 2 years later. Think about this carefully for one moment. The thing that you can change in an instant is your attitude, your thoughts and choices in a manner that will change your direction. Unfortunately a lot of our “choices” in life we make are based on emotions or feelings, many of which don’t really benefit us in the future. We wait to get “Motivated”
Motivated – Motivate(v.) 1863 “To Stimulate toward action – act as inciting cause of”