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of your comfort zone and take great risks. Try a new hobby, meet new friends, take a new job, and
give that speech you’ve always dreaded. At the end of our lives, it’s the things we haven’t done rather
than the things we have done that we regret the most. As the philosopher Senecca noted so wisely:
“It’s not because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Be a Person of Action. All people who have built richly rewarding lives are people of action.
Contrary to popular opinion, knowledge is not power. It is only potential power. Knowledge has value
only when it is acted upon. Truly fulfilled people act on what they know. They read a good book on
time management and immediately act on its ideas. They discover a new way to feel happier in life and
have the self-discipline to act on this tip. They act on their goals, doing something small each and every
day to advance them. And they act on their dreams rather than spending their lives waiting for
something great to happen to them.
Laugh More. The average 4-year-old laughs 300 times a day while the average adult laughs 15 times
a day. Too many of us have lost the “laughter habit” as our lives have grown more complex and hectic.
Make the time to watch a funny movie or share a belly laugh with your child. Laughter relaxes you and
ensures that you don’t take yourself too seriously. As William James said” “We don’t laugh because
we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.”
Live in the Moment. Life is a gift. Yet too may of us spend our lives chasing that pot of gold on the
horizon rather than enjoying the rose garden that lies in our backyards. To jump start your life, begin to
savor life’s simplest pleasures. Watch the sun rise. Read a great piece of literature or relax to a great
piece of music. Dance barefoot in the rain or study the intricacy of a spider’s web after it has rained.
Every day offers up gifts of nature to those who have the wisdom to notice them.
“If you don’t act on life, life will act on you. Now is the time to act on your hopes and desires.
Otherwise, the days slip into weeks and the weeks slip into months and the months slip into years. By
then it will be too late and your opportunity will be gone.”
Reprinted with permission by Robin S. Sharma. Robin is the author of the motivational bestseller
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (available at good bookstores everywhere) and an acclaimed
professional speaker. For more information, visit www.robinsharma.com .
You can always get more money but you can never get more time.” K. Bly
Simplify Your Life. Management guru Peter Drucker once noted
that “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should
not be done at all.” The wisest and most dynamic people of our
world have cultivated the habit of spending their time only on those
activities that are important. To all others, they say “no.” Take an
inventory of what you do in your days and get rid of all the time
wasting, life draining pursuits that add little to the way you live.
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