Embrace reality

If you run from it or deny it, it is yours.

But if you can embrace reality, you can do something about it.

Take responsibility.

Then you can make it better.

What do you need to accept now?

Develop your capabilities

How can you become more valuable?  Improve your capabilities.  Learn more.  

When you can solve more problems, help more people, have more skills, become more useful, and make yourself harder to replace, you will earn more money.

Read.  Practice.  Learn from other experts.

What other capacities can you develop now?

No energy? Get moving!

I went to start a motorcycle that had been sitting there for a long time, and the battery was dead.  If I had run it more often, the battery would be fine.

The same is often true of us.  If you are feeling lazy and have no energy, you need to get up and move.  The body PRODUCES usable energy when it is challenged.  A brisk walk, workout, stretch, or diving into a project that requires you to move your body can energize you.

You can’t be lazy, and wait for energy to come.

Use energy to get it.

Legacy Tax

I heard this term lately and it is worth talking about.  

A Legacy Tax is you paying the price for decisions you made in the past.

There are bad decisions you are paying for.  You bought something you don’t need and are making payments on it.  You bought a new car and made payments for two years, and it’s still not worth what you owe (a used car would have been a better choice).  But it’s not just about money. 

You decided to live in this place.  You chose this mate.  You joined this board and now have to go to meetings all the time.  You joined this country club and feel you have to go all the time to justify the dues.  You got this dog and now you can’t go away for long.  You formed this bad habit because it feels good but you are paying for it now.

Here’s the thing.  You don’t have to stick with your decisions.  You can reinvent yourself.  Just because you started, if you don’t want to stay with it because it is not serving you or is taking up all your time, then don’t.

We tend to make decisions early in life and they become who we are.  We stick with them even though we don’t like the results (anymore), or we are over it and could use the time back to do other things.

Now that you are here and knowing what you now know, what would you undo?

What Legacy Taxes are you paying?  

What do you want to change?

Nobody can do your push ups for you

Even with all the support in the world, the work is still yours.

You can’t sub it out, hire an assistant, or schedule it for later.

Stop whining. You’re tough.

Get it!