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The First Step is to Make Some Choices.
Do you like making decisio or do you tend to avoid making decisio ? If you have a habit of sitting on the fence then all you'll end up with is linters in your butt. In order to have a great life you have to make some decisio about what you want to do and have in life.
If you ask kids who are leaving school what they really want to do with their life most of them don't know. That's okay because they are only kids and haven't experienced much of life yet. What is sad is that when most of these kids are 50 years old they still won't know what they really want to do in life because they have avoided the effort required to think about it. They are just floating along with the ma es without any pla ed direction, living the life of Mr. and Mrs. Average.
Life is full of po ibility. All you have to do is make a decision what you want your life to be like and then choose to follow that path.
The Second Step is to Become a Player Not a ectator
Step one suggested that you make choices. The first choice to make in life is to become a player rather than a ectator. A player is someone who takes action in order to affect the outcome in the game. A ectator is someone who is at the mercy of the choices that other people make. If you are a ectator then you get whatever life dishes out whether you like it or not.
Have you ever watched a orting match where your team is losing? It's frustrating i 't it? You really want your team to win but there is nothing you can do to help. Whether they win or lose has nothing to do with you.
Have you ever felt like that in life? Your life just seems to go along a path that doe 't really i ire you but it all seems to be outside your control. If that is ha ening to you it is because you are a ectator.
Decide to become a player. Decide do something to effect the outcomes in your life. Life will be a lot more fun if you do.
The Third Step is to Develop Self Discipline.
The key to moving from a ectator to a player is to develop self discipline. All great players, regardle of the ort, have developed self discipline. They need to discipline themselves to learn the skills of the game. They need to discipline themselves to practice those skills and to build up the strength and fitne they require. And most of all they need to discipline themselves to make good decisio when the game is in full swing and the pre ure is on.
The game of life is the same. There are skills to learn, strength and fitne to develop and most of all you need the self discipline to do what you have to do when the pre ure of life in on you. Self discipline is the key that ope the door to what ever you want in life.
The Fourth Step in Creating a Great Life is to Live With Pa ion.
How did you get out of bed this morning? Did you jump out with enthusiasm for the day ahead or did you reluctantly drag yourself out?
Life is either a pa ionate adventure or it's nothing! If you don't have a pa ion for life then you'd better make finding one your number one priority. Life is short, don't let the o ortunity pa you by.
The Fifth Step to a Great Life is to Focus on Beauty and Joy.
What do you tend to see most in life the beauty or the ugline , the joy or the sorrow, the pa ion or the hardship, the solutio or the problems, the health or the sickne , the wealth or the poverty, the o ortunities or the difficulties, the excitement or the boredom, the rewards or the work, the wi or the lo es, the ha ine or the sadne . It all comes back to step number one; making a choice.
One of the most powerful universal principles of living is that what you focus on expands. If you focus on the pleasures of being healthy then you will be healthy but if you focus on sickne then you will get sick. If you focus on beauty, joy and pa ion then your life will be filled with beauty joy and pa ion but if you focus on ugline , sorrow and hardship then that is what will expand in your life.
How Are You Playing the Game of Life?
How do you score on the five ste to a great life? Are you a choice maker and a player in the game of life? Do you have the self discipline to follow up on your choices and develop the mental and emotion strength and fitne to be a great player in the game? Do you see the beauty, joy, health, wealth and o ortunity that life offers?
The a wers to those simple questio determine what your life is like today and what it will be like tomorrow. The choice is yours.