I want you to pause and give serious thought to the following quote;
“Your life is made of two dates and a dash, make the most of the dash.” – Unknown
Your dash may be short, it may be long. It has endless possibilities. Your dash is a mixed cocktail of uncontrollable events along with thousands and thousands of decisions that you made over a lifetime. Each of those decisions kept you on a path, or put you on a new path. Some of those decisions were the exact same decisions that you made yesterday, most of them were whether you realized it or not. The majority of our days is just repeating the behaviors and habits of yesterday. That’s comfort through consistency, even if the consistency is “consistently bad.”
Some people will have remarkable dashes with all kinds of adventures, excitement, uncertainty, discovery and accomplishment. Most won’t. Maybe your dash is filled with Wheel of Fortune repeats on a local TV station.
If the second date hasn’t already been written on a tombstone somewhere, then you still have a chance to change your dash. Nothing is set in stone (yet). There are still sands slipping though the hour glass. Do you want to change your dash?
Will your dash be filled with opportunities that were self-created? Will your dash be magnified by resources earned through experience and self-education? Will your dash be written in a font called regret? So many questions, so many possibilities.
Sometimes we forget how much we can influence our own dash. Sometimes we forget how much we can influence and impact another person’s dash. Are you making somebody else’s dash better or worse?
Are you giving your dash a chance? What if your dash really is a story of your life, what would the story be? Would you be a hero? Would you be a villain? Would your story be really boring?
If you are reading this, then it means at least your future chapter(s) can be changed and written with new plots. What will those plots and themes be? What will your character evolve into? What will you claim victory over? What will you figure out? What problem will you solve? So many questions, so many possibilities.
I believe that your story can include more wealth, health and happiness. They all revolve around learn-able processes and repeatable processes. But they are processes never-the-less.
In the meantime, point your efforts on making the best dash possible before they carve the second date into stone.