What drains our potential?

“IN THE END, IT'S NOT THE YEARS IN YOUR LIFE THAT COUNT; IT'S THE LIFE IN YOUR YEARS."

— Abraham Lincoln

As we age, we learn to value our time, genuine relationships, meaningful work, peace of mind, and much more. Little else does matter. Deep down we know that, yet we get distracted and give our time to lots of meaningless timewasters. 

WHY?

Because we get overwhelmed and caught up in our own heads, and sometimes we don’t know our lives to be any better than the few things that aren’t going our way. We analyze and dramatize the insignificant, and then we sit back scratching our heads in confusion of how blah life feels. And as we continue to dwell on these things, we try to distract ourselves to dull the tension we feel. But by doing so, we also continue to distract ourselves from what matters most in life.

So today, let’s talk about three common habits that drains us from our true potential:

• Treating every day as though it’s “just another day.” A good life always begins now, when you stop waiting for a better one. Yet so many people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness. Don’t be one of them. Don’t wait until your life is almost over to realize how good it has been, or just how much potential you’ve had waiting for you every single day. The efficiency and effectiveness of your life relies heavily on the elimination of non-essentials, so you can focus more on your true priorities.

• Waiting and hoping to “find” something to be passionate about. While Passion is powerful, if you’re waiting to somehow “find your passion” somewhere outside yourself, so you finally have a reason to put your whole heart and soul into your life and the things you’re working on, you’ll likely be waiting around for an eternity. We have the tendency to seek some magical reason to step into the life we want to create for ourselves. But what we need to do is the exact opposite! The one that we have in front of us is the best opportunity, focus on that with zero distractions and make the best out of it.

• Controlling every step. 

Acceptance is letting go and allowing certain things to be the way they truly are. It doesn’t mean you don’t care about improving the reality of your life; it’s just realizing that the only thing you really have control over is yourself and your thoughts about everything else. This simple understanding is the foundation, and only with this foundation can there be peace of mind and growth in the long run.

Have a powerpack start of the week. Which of the points resonated with you, let me know of your thoughts in comments below.

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