Chapter 14 Pages 169-
Chapter Title: Live by priority
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As a kid I remember when the JC Penney Christmas catalog would come out. I’d spend hours each day looking through the toy section, highlighting the things that I wanted. We didn’t have a lot of money, but that didn’t stop me from dreaming. I’d still go through the pages and imagine having those toys on Christmas Day.
As we get older, a lot of us will stop dreaming with the same passion as we did when we were younger. Then there are others who have that same fire to get what they see in their mind. My question is why would we go from being high passion dreamers to low passion dreamers?
What happens to us along the way that makes us stop dreaming and wishing like the kids we once were? How do we go from believing that anything is possible to being so doubtful at times? This is definitely not an area that we want to try to fool ourselves.
A lot of us “talk” a good game, but when it comes to taking action, we don’t take the necessary steps that are needed because we don’t believe that we have what it takes to achieve the results we want. We are all guilty of this in one area or another. I’m sure that one reason comes from the negativity of others. Sometimes when we’re in the process of dreaming and achieving, we’ll allow people to come along and rain on our parade.
Encountering dream killers would even happen as kids growing up writing out a Christmas list; other kids might say: “you’re not going to get that”. I’m sure that we’ve all been on both sides of that fence. Either way, don’t let anyone kill your dreams. Dream Big, set goals that make YOU happy! Most importantly, make today a GREAT day!!
~Matthew
Food for Thought From Chapter 14
Live with purpose and you know where you want to go. Live by priority and you’ll know what to do to get there.
Purpose without priority is powerless.
Connect today to all your tomorrows.
The planning fallacy, first proposed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate the time needed.
