Wheels up folks
Today is July 5th, yesterday is gone, half the year gone.
Question: What can you do today to make the rest of the year the best of the year for you?
Me personally, I’m looking at this as wheels up.
Have you ever seen a plane taking off? Wheels up?
That means they are in flight.
How did they get there? It means they invested time and energy to create the thrust to get off the ground.
Let’s look at it this way. Half the year has gone by and all that energy you expended, well you can’t go back and change anything.
But let’s assume that all that energy you expended got you to the wheels up position.
Well what does that mean to you? It depends on where you are headed.
When the plane lifts off the ground, it has a destination.
As you at “wheels up”, have you decided your destination.
I don’t know where you are in life but I hope that you have chosen a destination.
An important part of life is knowing where you are going, and having a plan to get there.
And knowing where you are going requires a vision of where you want to be.
Well to have a vision, you actually need to know what you want.
I have the luxury with age of now knowing what I want.
For me it is Freedom, which for me means having time and money at the same time, which allows me to do what I want, go where I want, when I want.
Helping other people at the same time.
What is your vision? Is it clear?
What would your perfect day look like? The day when you have reached the dreams you envision.
Where would you wake up? What would your environment look like?
The beach? The mountains?
How would it smell? How would it taste?
If you are clear where you want to be, all you need is setting your direction to get there.
We all have a dream that was placed inside of us, a vision of where we want to be.
Now the next step is to figure out where we are, so we can have our starting point, like setting your GPS from where you are to where you want to be.
If you were to set your travel on a map, maybe using Google maps, you would notice that there is not a straight line from your start to your finish.
Life’s like that too.
As you have to zig and zag on the roads, you will sometimes have to zig and zag off your planned route through life.
If you are clear where you want to be, all you need is setting your direction to get there.
Well. let’s start with Day 1 – like travelling in a car, how far am I going to go today?
Well we call that a to do list, what am I going to do today?
Now, here’s the strategy!
Identify what items on your to do list move you closer to your destination, your dreams.
That would make them more important to you, right?
Now identify the items that do not move you towards your dream. These should be of a lower priority or not to be done at all.
Unfortunately, in life there are urgent matters that have to be dealt with, much like changing a flat tire before you can go again.
As long as you realize what is important to you, to you heading toward your vision, then you will keep these in focus and be less distracted by the urgent.
And at the end of the day, review your list. Did you move forward or actually move further away. If you have moved in the wrong direction, you can quickly correct so tomorrow you will be moving in the right direction.
Let’s summarize
- Know what you want, your vision, your dreams
- Know where you are now
- Develop a plan to get where you want to go
- Take more actions that move you toward your goals.
- Take less actions that don’t move you toward your goals and dreams
Focusing your resources: time, money, efforts – on what moves you towards your goal
Delegating activities that don’t need your personal involvement.
If you want to discuss these ideas, connect up with me a dreamroper.com
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Talk soon
Ron
Ron McLean, the Dream Roper, helping YOU Lasso Your Dreams
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PS: Wheels Up has a special significance for me today – if you are looking for a way to get “wheels up” towards your dream destination, leave me a message now!