Stop Making Excuses and Start Living With Energy

This was the title of the very first chapter of this book, and a must as a starting point. If you aren’t clear about what you want, there’s little hope you’ll get anything. Re-read the first chapter if you need some help thinking about a proactive vs a reactive life. You need to have a clear, detailed and absolutely beautiful picture of what benefits will come to you if you make certain choices. What will it feel like? What will you look like? How will it increase your self-esteem? Your productivity? How will you benefit financially? How will it also benefit others? The visualised outcomes need to be detailed to create an accurate compass for the direction in which you are moving, and they need to be beautiful to get you excited about going there. Take the time to write your answers right here, right now.

The real story is that you have time for everything that is truly important to you.

we need to cultivate a range of habits that will keep energy high week after week, and give us the long-term health that we would probably like to enjoy!

the love of his wife and child, fitness and health, travel and adventure, making a contribution to society – and the reality of his life.

Values are the things we would not want to live without – the things we hold dear.

health or inner peace

We have to make choices about how to spend our precious time and energy.

Remember, if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability. It is energy.”
THOMAS ARNOLD (1795—1842), HISTORIAN AND INFLUENTIAL HEADMASTER OF RUGBY SCHOOL