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Greatness is now

Posted on by philipdodson

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I’m reading the excellent ’12 Week Year’ and in part of it, there is a section about greatness.

I blogged about this (Our futures are now) recently. The result that happens in the future is not the moment of greatness. Your future is built now.

What we do right now is determining our future, so as Brian Moran writes in the book, what you do now is greatness.

Life is full of choices and what we choose to do now is how our future will be shaped, so what we choose to do to lead us to the result we want is greatness, not some event that happens in a year’s time. When the winner of a race takes the gold, that is not the moment of greatness, it is when she gets up at 5am to train in wet and the cold.

So we can be great now if we choose to and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t feel amazing about being great.

It’s up to us to make the right choices and stop putting things off into the future, now is the future, now is greatness.

What do you want to be great at?

New

Posted on by philipdodson

Each day we get up and often many follow the same repeating pattern each day.

While there are huge gains to be had from doing small repetitive daily tasks. We all know the compound effect and how daily tasks done often create often unstoppable momentum.

There can always be time for these important steps.

However, life becomes dull, unproductive and lacking in creativity without variety.

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Imagine if you set time aside each day to create something new, to learn something new, to make a small improvement to something. Even walking home a different route or pushing the trolley around the supermarket in a different direction. Taking a moment to look up while walking, not for too long, though!

If it was just 10 minutes or half an hour a day.

In a week you will have done 7 things that you’d never previously done, learnt 7 new things, seen new things and so on.

Now imagine doing that for a month, a year, the rest of your life.

Repetition of successful daily rituals is vital, however, add to that the power of doing something new and different, then you have created almost unimaginable possibilities.

Don’t limit yourself to the same routine, just add something new.