I think most of our life — and where we’re going to end up in our lives — really comes down to three simple things.
1. We Have to Decide Who We are Going to Be
Who we become is not an accident, but a purposeful intent. That our days and how we approach our days are literally driven by the intention of who we’re going to be. That we bring our character into each of the circumstances of our lives, and by doing that, maybe we can’t always direct every circumstance of our life and can’t control everything, but we can certainly control our responses to them.
We can certainly dictate who we’re going to be in those circumstances, and that helps us achieve our ultimate destiny that we desire, not one that just lands on us.
2. We Have to Design Our Days
What ends up happening for so many people is they lose two or three hours to distraction each day, maybe four hours distraction of television a day, and over the course of their lives, a decade of opportunity is now gone. A decade of missed opportunities to connect with your family, to achieve your dreams, to work a little harder, to contribute that thing you always contribute and to learn that skill that you wanted to learn.
We have to decide on our days. We have to design them, to wake up and decide what this day is going to be about, what we’ll get done, and what deserves our focus or who we will reach out to, instead of just responding to everybody else’s needs.
3. We Have to Deal with Fate
Fate is a real thing. Things happen to us each day and maybe they were destined, and you either believe that or you don’t, but maybe the reality is that each day is always going to bring the same three recurring characters. Once you realize that then life isn’t so mysterious, it’s just about how you respond to those same three recurring characters, because they show up in cycles and throughout your life no matter what.
Every single day what’s going to show up for us?
- Fate brings us struggle and suffering.
- Fate brings us gifts and blessings.
- Fate brings us love and loss.
* Source: Brendon Burchard – Dealing with Fate; Deciding on Destiny