The Most Convenient Excuse
What is the most common excuse people use the most?
“I don’t have enough time.”
It’s not true, I don’t care who you are. We all work under a daily 24 hour time frame. How do you think other people become successful? They manipulated their 24 hour schedule.
To achieve your goals, you will have to make some sacrifices. If you’re unable to do everything within your day, you need to make some adjustments. Time is not the issue, following through strategically with your plan is.
It can be a challenge at first, but it is definitely possible. You will have to learn to make time, for time.
First, you must stop making the excuse that you don’t have enough time. If you truly want it, you’ll find the time to work on your plan.
Put in time on your lunch break, after work, after dinner, early in the morning, or on the weekends. Skip the party, and Happy Hours (among other things).
“But I hang out with my friends on the weekends. I have to wake up to go to work at six in the morning.”
Take a weekend off from hanging out with your friends, or get up at four in the morning to work on your goals, then go to work.
It’s simple, but many people make it hard. Living a lazy life will bring you lazy results. Sacrifices will have to be made. You will have to skip Happy Hour from time to time.
The only way you’ll get the results you wish for is by putting in the time and consistent effort.
Actually, you could do all of these things and still make time to work on your plan. You may have to stay up late during the work week or get up early in the morning on the weekends, but there’s time to do it. The question is, will you make the sacrifice?
Utilize Every Minute
Once you begin to find the time to work on yourself, you’ll begin to see how critical each minute is.
Your goals should drive you to work diligently through to completion. If it doesn’t make you want to get up earlier or work later into the night to accomplish them, apparently, you don’t want it bad enough.
When you work on your dream, you’ll want to stay up later. You’ll want to be more productive on the weekends. You’ll want to turn down your friends for Sunday brunch. You’ll find it hard to focus on anything else. Your mind will become inundated with thoughts of success.
You’re on the right track. Your mind has become consumed with ideas and you become more aware of the time you have in your day.
Twenty-four hours won’t seem like enough time, but you will make it work. Every ounce of time you find within your day, you exhaust it. You are going to make it happen with the time you have been given.
Your environment will likely change to people who are more respectful of time. Everyone in your circle will be doing outside projects or side hustles. When you’re surrounded by people who are enthusiastic about their work, it rubs off on you.
Being in a productive environment helps you to stay on track and it allows you to become more creative.
Working towards your goals may seem hard, but after you start, the process becomes nearly effortless. You’ll lose those self-limiting beliefs as you grow. When you overcome challenges, you’ll learn from the past and know what to do the next time. Learning from the obstacles of the past allows you to make solid decisions and to move with more confidence in the future.
Excerpt from “Help! I’m Stuck: How To Increase Your Energy, Master Your Money And Control Your Time.”