Getting In Control
Do you ever feel you're not in control? Let's put it this way: "You're not the only one". How do we know we've lost it and what can we do to regain control of our lives?
Not being in control really hurts. Here are some examples to help you discover when you've lost control:
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- When bills are hard(er) to pay (on time).
- When you sense that your mental, social emotional or physical health is declining faster than it should.
- When you know you're not doing what's most important and you just can't seem to get your head around to making that change.
- ...or when you're feeling poor and depressed and you just can't really tell why you sometimes feel that way.
Of course, there's no simple formula. If there was, we wouldn't be hurting in the first place. However, there's are a few principles that have greatly helped many people. You should know these principles. You deserve to know!
There's something else you might like to know about these principles, too: They're currently applied by the most balanced people you encounter in your life. On a sidenote, in the world of business these principles are literally worth millions of dollars, even though that's maybe not why you'd like to know, right now.
That Little Extra
Just for once, let me dive straight into HOW you could gain control, and then I'll just leave it to you to find out WHY you should. (After all, your WHY is ultimately something only you can answer.) On the first day of every week, revisit the following process:
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(1) Define your different roles (e.g. husband, father, employee...).
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Are you able to extract the principles behind why this is a process that really produces long term results? You'll find that these regular steps lead to one very important result: It's what I like to call "that little extra". Here's a real life example to illustrate.
| Some time ago one of my younger daughters paid me a thought provoking compliment: "Dad, you're really good at sitting in front of your laptop". Oh! that hurt me right to the center. Why? Because that's exactly the opposite of what I'd like her to say about me some time in the near future.
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