“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” ––Charles Caleb Colton
Today you can’t do what you want to do because you’re too busy doing what you have to do. You could do great things if you weren’t doing little things.
We all feel that way at one time or another. But the question, specifically, is what CAN you do every day about your dreams?
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do,” advised John Wooden, who won 10 NCAA basketball championships as a coach at UCLA. Let’s review what we can do every day.
(1) Review goals. Never let a day pass without improving your focus and clarity. See it, write it, speak it. Focus your mind relentlessly.
(2) Build your faith. Know that you can figure it out. Feel it in your bones. Imagine your wishes fulfilled–make a picture book of your goals–and feel gratitude for it. Cultivate an emotional knowing.
(3) Schedule action. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant, ‘ wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. This advice is golden! Schedule action goals. Focus on the doing.
(4) Think. Go for a walk. Sit with a notebook. Ask, how can I. . .? And wait for ideas. Invoke your amazing creativity.
Of course, we all know these things. We just don’t do them.
We just need to use the patches of time which every day produces.
-John Soforic, author of The Wealthy Gardener
I love love love learning and am an Audible entrepreneurial book junkie (have read your book twice now and will likely just stay on it until I’ve memorized it). Your words inspire me to NOT get discouraged during those days of ‘bleh’ when I’m feeling not so successful, leading to insecurity, leading to low productivity, leading to just go take a freakin nap.
Now during those moments, I stop and say ‘I reject that thought’, and it actually works. I force myself out of that pit and jump back up, put one foot in front of the other and review my goals. This in turn builds my faith as I know the God that helped me create those goals. Then boom…back into action.
Thank you for all you do (and say). Keep it coming!
That’s great. And now you inspire me!
keep plowing. lol. it’s the only way to a harvest