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If you’re tired, just keep working and don’t stop until you’re done. Otherwise, you’ll never get it done.
Don’t get distracted by your FB/Twitter feeds, phone calls, blogs, news, etc. Focus on what you’re doing and just push through the fatigue. You’ll be exhausted by the end, but you’ll cross the finish line. If you stop for a break before then, it’s over.
Breaks can come later. Doing is now.
What are we chasing after in our short-lived lives? Money, fame, power?
It was Marcus Aurelius who said: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
Too often we are trying to chase down something temporary or illusory. What really matters is much simpler and lies within you. If you want to achieve happiness, why bother trying to impress or please others? Do what is fulfilling for you.
Take care of yourself and focus on living the good life.
Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X-Prize Foundation, expresses his vision for the future in his hopeful TED talk: “We have the potential in the next three decades to create a world of abundance.”
My vision for the future is that everyone in the world can get into the trenches together to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.
I completely agree with Peter. As a human race, we have massive potential to unlock a new world full of opportunities.
But in order to truly change the world, we are going to need to see an unprecedented amount of collaboration between humans everywhere. And that degree of collaboration does not yet exist. Read more
Recently, I wrote a guest post on defining success for yourself for the Compass Point Mentorship blog. Compass Point Mentorship is a national mentoring nonprofit founded by my good friend, Carl Shan. Check it out:
If your vision of success has been molded by your parents, teachers, or peers this whole time, then you should think long and hard about what you really want. If you do not know and are currently working really hard at something, you are likely pursuing someone else’s dream and not your own.
When it comes down to it, the only sustainable pursuit of success is when you are pursing your own dream. Humans only stay motivated when they are pursuing their own vision of success because then they hold themselves accountable, and that accountability propels them forward.
Are you stuck living out someone else’s dream?
