Fire Your Old Self, Hire a New You: Treat Yourself Like Your Best Client!

One day we may wake up and discover we have avoided living most of our lives in the manner we wanted because of the excuses we told ourselves.

Maybe it goes like this for you:

My favorite show is on tonight. I’m too tired after work to do anything else. I am too old to start that or learn that. I like my downtime. Learn – at my age? I am far too young to be planning for my future. I’ll do that next month. I won’t ever be able to achieve that – why start? I want to do that, but it’s not what I went to school for. Ugh, that’s probably beyond me. Eh, that will take too much of my time. I can’t squeeze in another thing.

Any of this sound familiar?

Guess what? Tick tock. Tick tock. Time keeps marching on – and you keep making the same choice to not take action toward your dream job, goals or plans.

Ponder on this: The only thing we truly have is time. That is – until it’s gone.

How we choose to spend it rests in our own corner. We can blame all we want on surroundings, circumstances, demands and more but in the end, we truly do have the ability to master our time and design our days to be sure we can do the things we need to do to further ourselves, help our families, build value on the job, get in shape or find a new job or career.

Give yourself the gift of time
We often excel at making time to build up others, be there for a friend, listen to a colleague’s issues, meet deadlines for a boss or demanding client, raise a hand to help with a project or volunteer at our kids’ school to lead this or plan that.

But when was the last time you made one of YOUR goals a priority in your life and actually said “Sorry, can’t do that for you now” to others’ requests, in order to focus on your career path and goals?

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