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Responsibility - From ā€œI have toā€ to ...

Responsibility - From ā€œI have toā€ to ...

ā€œIf you donā€™t prioritize your life, someone else will.ā€

From bossesā€™ demands, plans and commitments, familial obligations, and friends in need, to text messages, emails, calendar invites, and day-to-day news, it is dangerously easy to fall prey to the illusion that these things control our time.Ā 

We cannot control the events of circumstance, but we are always in control of our response. We are free to choose the destination to which we want to aim our lives.

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Values - From ā€œItā€™s all importantā€ to ...

Values - From ā€œItā€™s all importantā€ to ...

Ā ā€œItā€™s much easier to do good things than the right thing.ā€

We are free to choose what we want and where we aim to be. Charting our course means recognizing which choices will actually bring us closer to our destination. Learn to recognize what is important by understanding:

  • our values
  • what matters most to us
  • where our time and energy is best invested

There is only a narrow set of choises that will truly move us forward towards our most meaningful life.

Proactively measure the meaningfulness of your activities by placing yourself in the future as you weigh your deepest values.

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Sacrifice - From ā€œI can do bothā€ to ...

Sacrifice - From ā€œI can do bothā€ to ...

ā€œEvery ā€˜yesā€™ equals a thousand ā€˜noā€™sā€™.ā€

Deciding where you are going and what is most important means also deciding what is unimportant and where is not worth going. To move in any direction is to move away from others.

To say ā€˜yesā€™ to any real choice is an action and trying to do everything accomplishes nothing. We need to learn to admit which desires are incompatible in light of what is important.

If weā€™re serious about getting what we want, we must confront and be willing to pay the price of sacrifice.

Accept the reality of trade-offs and ask the question ā€˜Which problem do I want to solve?ā€™

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