If you think short term
How do you know if you’re only making choices for the short term? Well are these decisions driven by thoughts of gratification right now; instant gratification. You can never become any great if your actions do not connect to transformation. Will this action make me smarter, more powerful or make me more connections or is it just cashing out what I’ve earned so far for something that will fade. I know that everything I write about revolves about becoming better, may not be for everyone. Everyone says they want more, they want to grow but they do not seem to grasp the abstraction of how their actions lead to the future.
Thinking short term may not always be your fault. For instance if you have are making yourself “busy” and not leaving room for long term thinking, you will only think short term. Add unnecessary stress caused with always having to clean up messes that you have no involvement with, you will never be able to think long term. This becomes a cycle that will be from being on a path.
Remember this is not the same thing as being present. Presence is realizing that the now is all you have, this is the only way to create a better world. You can only act now. This is a topic for another article.
Thinking Long Term
Long term means having some short of strategy that makes each action part of a goal. It starts with know what the end goal is, I feel as if this information is becoming too repetitive because all I keep saying is to have to plan! What about how to do? Lets talk about taking calculated actions, that is the only way to move forward. Action. If all you do is think, and produce nothing you will be nothing. Have a team of A players that think the same way, people that only think short term, or those that you always have to motivate will tear you down.
Is it part of a plan or just Random
I keep saying this but is part of a long term plan, or is not part of how you feel. Feelings have their place, but your brain will always encourage you to do what gives you the easiest feelings now, Unless of course you are addicted to negative emotions and cycles. That’s for another article.
Act, assess and adjust – Make Calculated Risks
Are you moving quickly enough and taking rapid action? The only way you will know if you are doing something right is by doing, then seeing if you actions have any response. Follow this up to balancing you actions in right direction. Master story teller logic. How to tell stories that compel people to connect with you. This is a great selling point to tell people about what you’re trying to accomplish. Tell stories, create stories of where you what you want the world to look like, this is what will magnetize the world to your actions. Even when you fail turn it into a story, this will make give your journey more life.
Monitor
You are trying but is what you’re doing having impact? Does anyone care? If not that means time to check to see how you can attract more interaction with what you offer. What is an action without a purpose? Are you getting better just to get better or is their a reason? Are you learning a skill to produce or create something, this is the only way what you are learning will give your life meaning.
Things in your way become the way
I’m just going to end this article by saying, as you act things will get in your way. These obstacles are just another problem you have to solve to accomplish your mission.
This article is part of my goal to write everyday for an hour and post it everyday. It may not be edited to my standards but the goal is create value and get content out everyday.
