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| Our view while goal setting at the W Singapore |
Let me ask you again. Are you ready for 2014? Many of you
are probably asking yourselves at this point, “Am I ready for what?” This is the most common reaction I get
when I ask people if they are ready for the next year. Most people never even think
to plan for their life. People
plan for grocery shopping. People
plan what they are going to do over the weekend. People plan for what they are going to have for dinner. People plan what outfit they are going
to wear. But rarely do people plan for their LIFE. They prioritize a television show or a party over the time,
energy, and focus it takes to plan the life they want to live.
A few weeks ago, my friends and I spent the weekend at a
beautiful hotel overlooking the water and spent 13 hours designing and
strategizing our lives for 2014. We
set goals. We set plans. We created strategies to see our goals come to
fruition. It was a powerful
weekend. It began with a review of
our goals from 2013. We celebrated
victories and confronted challenges that we faced. We explored the 12 domains of our life and programmed our
minds to work on these areas on a regular basis. We refined or recreated our personal affirmation
statement. We designed everyday
incantations to feed our minds. We
did a guided goal setting session where we dreamed and wrote down everything we
would love to learn, create, be, do, and have in all of the areas of our life and
boiled the list down to 10-15 things that we would focus all of our attention
on in 2014. We created our
intellectual board of trustees that would “advise” us in all of the domains of
our life. We expanded on each goal
with vision casting and strategies to see that these things come to
fruition. It was an empowering,
inspiring, and challenging weekend.
So I ask again, “Are you ready for 2014?” Do not leave your life up to
chance. It breaks my heart to see
so many people going through the motions of life without ever really fully
living. Are there things you would
love to do that you have yet to do? If you are anything like me, you have
plenty of those things! There is
so much to experience. There is so
much of an impact we can have on the lives around us. In the vastness of our universe’s time continuum we are but
a tiny speck. What do you plan to
do, have, and create in this short time we have? What kind of a legacy do you want to leave? When you are 90
years old sitting on the balcony with a cup of tea looking back on your life,
what do you want to see and remember? Do you want to be known for clocking in
and out of work on time or do you want to be remembered for truly living a life
worth living?
You will face challenges along the way. You will have doors slammed in your
face. You will run into walls and
stumble upon boulders. In doing
so, new doors will open. People
will show up in your life to help you climb those walls and move those
boulders. It is in times of our
greatest challenges and adversities that life’s greatest gifts are revealed to
us. We do not get to experience
those gifts if we stay where we are.
Dare to be great. Dare to
experience more, see more, and love more.
Dare to step on the edge of your comfort zone and discover a life worth
truly living.
Love,
Matt
