Ever wonder why you seem so busy everyday, all the time—but you're not getting any closer towards your goals?

You feel exhausted, stressed but you have no results to show for it—even just a little.

It's because you're using the time you have wrong.

You think that simply being busy means you're progressing towards your goals. You waste your time by spending it on things that doesn't contribute towards something meaningful.

You're digging a hole in the wrong place. You're running full sprint towards the opposite direction.

This is why you're still stuck on the starting point of your project, business, or a job you hate. You continue to:

• wake up everyday

• do the same things

• follow the same routine

• sleep at the end of the day

• wake up the next day and do it again

You are stuck in a loop and the worst part is you're not aware of it.

The Disease

Procrastination.

It's such an overused used word at this point.

It's a disease that a lot of people volunteer to have.

It’s a plague.

It's the reason behind why your efforts seem pointless and why it feels like all you're doing is banging your head against a wall so many times but it’s not even making a single crack.

Your consistency, hard work, persistence are all worthless because you're doing the wrong things.

You are not lazy, you just don't know where to point your efforts.

You lack clarity.

This is obvious from all the things you've accomplished that doesn't really amount to anything when you consider it from a goal alignment perspective.

Being in the right general direction is enough, you don't have to be accurate about it.

Perspective Of Time

Time flies by in the blink of an eye.

It's true.

I'm not just saying that because it's a common quote.

This is exactly what I thought of when I started building my business and started to see results.

It took a long time before I started seeing the outcome—and I realized that there are people who are the same age as me, or even younger who's already winning. I immediately regretted not starting sooner. They've already been playing the game for a very long time, and when I look at it—they're still so young and so they still have so much time to enjoy what they worked hard for.

All that to say—I know I'm also young still, and I have a lot of years ahead of me to work on. But my point is, the sooner you realize that time is short, the faster you start chasing your dreams, so the longer you have left to enjoy what you want to enjoy in life.

People believe in the fallacy of thinking they have enough time.

Decades feel like a long time for us—it's because we live shorter than most species. With this in mind, decades that feels very long to us is actually a very short time compared to species like tortoises, sharks, and whales.

If you zoom out and realize that the earth is around 4.5 billion years old, you're just here on a very very very small fraction of time.

You think you have time to postpone making the important decisions that will greatly impact your life and potentially change it. You assume that your tomorrow is guaranteed or you'll still be alive in the next 5, 10, 20+ years. What you don't realize is that we humans actually live very short.

If you break down the time you have left in weeks—let's have me for example, the average life span of humans based on statistics is 73 years old—I'm 26 now, so when I break that up in weeks, I only have 2444 weeks left to live. To better visualize this, you can use a "Memento Mori Calendar", you can search it up, or use this (https://memento-mori-calendar.netlify.app/) (Don’t worry, it’s free)

Eventually, mortality will catch up to you to deliver the message that your time is up.

Very few people are prepared for this.

Making A Decision Is Better Than Having The Ability

Your results in life are much more affected by what you decide to do more than what you can do.

The limiting belief that you can't do something even if you haven't tried it yet is holding you back.

It stems from all the punishments and humiliations you've experienced from exploring your curiosities and making innocent mistakes since childhood, during your time in school, or from the seniors and leaders you have on the corporate job you have.

Your parents, siblings, or anyone older than you scolded you from running too fast, jumping too high, saying things too loud or too soft.

In school, you were taught to only have limited "right" answers and were punished, given bad grades when you get an answer "wrong". They say that you're not gonna go far in life if you don’t give them the answers that they deem right.

Only for you to graduate, earn a degree and someday work under a boss who humiliates you when you put a little of your own touch of creativity on the work that you do. They say that their way is the best and it's the only way—they take it out on your monthly paycheck or delay the promotion you deserve to punish you.

Over time, you lose all the confidence to try out new things. You start sticking with only doing the things that you've been doing all this time because you're afraid of being bad at something.

You forgot that you started out being bad at it.

Thinking that you can't do something when you haven't even tried doing it yet is the best way to close doors to opportunities.

You might be good at something, but if your mind thinks you're not—then you're not.

It's a waste of skill and talent.

Managing your mind and having control over it to make a decision is more important than having the skill or capability to do something.

You don't have to be good at it, you just have to decide to do it.

The Importance Of Goals

Your goals set a general direction or purpose in your life.

It's where everything starts.

The goal is the magnet that will pull you out of being stuck in the loop.

Without goals, you'll just be another leaf, floating around, getting blown by the winds of life—with no idea and no care of where it'll take you.

But it's very important to make sure that the goals you set are yours. Not what society set for you.

I've lived most of my life without having a clear goal that I've set for myself.

All I've done was to follow a goal that my parents and relatives imposed upon me which their parents and relatives imposed upon them.

Study this, study that, so that I can have good grades that is required to eventually become a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer.

My future was already laid out

I had a goal, but I still felt aimless and miserable at times.

It was not until I created a goal for myself.

I fell into the rabbit hole of self-improvement and entrepreneurship and it took me to where I am now.

All that to say—having a goal isn't enough. You have to have a goal that you created for yourself. Most people just copy other people's goals and so they don't have a strong reason to pursue it.

They fall off the moment it gets tough because they don't want it bad enough.

When you set a goal, the universe will test you in the form of challenges, struggles, failures, and a lot of pain—it's to see if you really want it and if you deserve the benefits and advantages that comes from achieving it.

How To Set A Goal

Realize The Gap

How do you do it?

1) Be brutally aware of your current situation and where you want to go in life.

2) Take the time to really reflect on what you want to do in life and what you want to get out of it.

3) Now ask yourself, what's stopping you from doing that?

That is the gap. Internalize it.

Soak it in and realize how much work you need to do to make it a reality.

Hate your current situation enough to build the intense desire to change it.

Set Out

Once you've realized the gap, you now have a general direction of where you really want to go.

All that's left to do is to set out and do it.

That's all there is to it, you'll figure it out on your own as long as the goal is in genuine alignment with your true, authentic desires.

When you reframe your perspective of time and realize that you're not gonna live longer than you think—you'll live differently by doing the things you know you want to do.

You'll have more than enough reason to take a risk and try to change your life.

• Do what you want.

• Make the risky decision.

• Live.

Your tomorrow is never guaranteed.

This is how you have meaning.

Good luck.

– James