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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?

Our futures are now

Posted on by philipdodson

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What we do right now in life is building and determining our futures. Every action we do this moment will be shaping our future. What we say, what we eat, who we talk to, the blog we post, the video we make, the song we sing. Equally what we choose not to do is shaping the future too.

Each step, each small building block, each tiny change, each action that we take now will be shaping our future. Small steps to a different life.

What we plan to do next week doesn’t matter.

Plan for now not tomorrow. We spend endless amounts of energy planning for something that might not happen. Instead of doing something now that will actually make a difference to the future.

Now determines the past and determines the future it is the only thing we can alter.

If you want a better future, then act right now, take a step towards it.

Now is our future and all that matters.