My Top 3 Learned Lessons of 2008
As 2008 comes to an end, I'd like to recollect on the top 3 lessons I've learned throughout the year.
1. Time Management - I've always advocated getting started, but I never really grasped the importance of stopping on time. In the past, if I marked on my calendar "Practice guitar speed and accuracy from 10-11 AM," I'd most likely practice for 3 hours, therefor overlapping whatever I had planned after that. This would bundle a lot of tasks in the vaste back burner realm, only a month later to be in the same situation as I was in the previous month. Now I know to stop when its time to stop and pick up where I left off at everything I do. This definitely helps everything move forward. Kind of like three 1 hour workouts is much more beneficial than one 3 hour workout per week.
2. Fighting for what you believe in, no matter what it is you believe in - I use to be really critical of people who had different opinions than that of my own. In the past year, I have become increasingly more and more passionate in what I do and what I believe in (As if I hadn't already!). Part of the reason why I feel so strongly in my passions and beliefs is because they are of "my own". I now realize that others opinions that are truely their own deserve their own voice. Indeed, I praise and solute those that are as passionate about their beliefs as I am of mine, no matter how much they may differ. I believe so strongly in passion and "decided" purpose, and despise conformity so much, that I will defend anyone's choice to do and believe what they truely want (All with good conscience of course).
3. If you don't fix it now, you won't fix it later - I learned this through my results and others' results to fitness goals. How often have you heard someone say (Maybe even yourself), "I will start a new diet on Monday (When its a Thursday)?" or "I'll start my diet after the holidays?" This self-talk will always dictate the results until you change your habits and your actions. If you want to be physically fit, you must start now. And maintain now. And continue to grow now. When you go half ass, guess what? You end up chasing it, year, after year, after year, after year. You find yourself in the same exact situation as you did one, two, three, four, or even five or more years ago. Still chasing those fitness goals, because you never went FULL tilt. It is now, and it is all or nothing. This applies to anything you work to accomplish. Those that have already accomplished what you hope to, went full tilt, and harder and more committed than the procrastinating, half-ass approach. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who once said, "Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today."
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