Get to Your Dream Faster This Year: Add Value to Your Life

HOW TO ADD MORE VALUE TO YOUR LIFE

I must admit that I struggled with the title of this post for a while. I did not just know how exactly to title it to get the message across to you the way I desire.

Every day of our lives, we desire to have more of everything except ill and negatives that don’t favour us. I have never met anyone yet who doesn’t want a positive addition in their lives. Yet, this never happens by accident. Nothing really happens by accident.

Both happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow, wealth and poverty are all products of actions – people’s actions. Some conscious, others not. The things we have or don’t have today, are products of what we or others have done or didn’t do. In other words, the way you are responsible for whatever becomes of you may be matched with the way others are responsible as well. What you are going through right now may not be because of what you did wrong or right, it may just be a result of other people’s errors.

For example, parents that won’t work and give their children a good life, always make the fulfillment of dreams elusive for those children. People who refuse to work always put a burden on the social security system of a country which is funded with other people’s money. For short, there is a part that other people play in what becomes of us. In all though, it is safer to not put so much fault on other people, because we owe the greater duty to ourselves and must learn to take responsibility for our lives.

The little things we do every other day add up to make our lives count for more or less. Those little things that we do or ignore make the big difference in our lives. Every minute, every passing hour counts. What value can you allude to every passing hour of your life? In a day, do you take stock of what you have done? And if you do, do you quantify what you did to know whether there was positive addition to your life or not?

Life is measured in time. If time is wasted, life is wasted.

How to add value to your life today

Consciously Plan and Work to Be Better

I believe it starts with the way you handle your early mornings and late nights. If every early morning is spent drafting out what needs to, and must be done in the day, and late nights are used to evaluate the successes or shortcomings recorded, just that way, you can achieve more, and like someone said, you will belong in the first 10% of achievers in life.

The daily activities are breakdowns. They are the little things that add up to make the big thing that is anticipated. They are ways you eat the elephant. They are the plans that help to achieve the ultimate goals that have been set. And it has to be done consciously.

Set goals for yourself that you are committed to working towards. Well-defined goals in your spiritual, family, work, finance, etc., lives, and ensure these goals are well-captured in your activities every day such that, as you work your activities each day, you are working towards your ultimate goals. 

You must aim somewhere. Remember, if you are going nowhere, you will get there.

Pay the Right Sacrifice

There is a price to pay for every prize you want to attain.

The price you will pay will be a reflection of the height you are aiming. Do you need to go back to school, attend some trainings or workshops, read a book, do you need to go see someone, set some time out to really think, increase your working hours, take up additional jobs, learn something someway, whatever that thing is that you need to do, that holds the key to where you are going in life, you must take the courage to take the step now. You owe yourself self-encouragement when no one is there to encourage you. It is your cross, you gotta bear it.

It is a process that must be completed, not started and stopped half-way. Imagine a goldsmith who started the refining process but got tired along the way and abandoned the process. You know as well as I do that he will get everything but the gold.

Expand Your Knowledge Base

It is easier to do silly things, have fun than make meaningful use of one’s time. Believe me, it is much easier to abandon work and go have a chat or watch movie. It usually takes less energy.

No focused person abandons his work for pleasure, except to take a break for a while. No one does. No one except the one who unconsciously means to add no value to himself or herself.

It is more pleasurable to watch a movie than to read a book, it is far easier to chat meaninglessly than to attend a seminar or workshop or learn with someone. And except you consciously choose to, you might find that it is very difficult to ignore that pleasure.

A lot of discipline is required if you will be able to pick a book and complete reading it. You need to be disciplined to go meet someone and schedule meeting with them so they can mentor you. You need discipline to put your mind to a process and stop at nothing until your desired results begin to show forth. This discipline you must cultivate to add value to your life.

When you read a book, get mentored by someone, etc., you rub minds with them and get results through them that would otherwise have taken you a long time in far shorter time. Cultivate the habit. It is nobody’s talent. Everyone doing it determined to, and cultivated the habit at one point in time or the other in their lives. You must do same.

Change or Expand Your Circle of Influence

The results you are getting today is not far to fetch from the result that those around you are getting. Your circle includes your friends, associates, etc., those whose opinion mean something to you.

If you want better than you are making at the moment, you need to examine first the association that you keep. If they comprise people that are going in the same direction with you but are not there yet, but are full of the potential, drive, vision, etc., you know there is a future with them, it is just a matter of time. Nothing is wrong though if you expand your own circle to include those who’ve been there, so they can help hasten your movement.

If your circle however consists of those among whom you are champion, you need to watch it. If those in your association are not in any way better than you, or making any meaningful upward movement, my friend, it is time to change circle.

I know it is not as easy as I am making it appear, but a man has got to do what a man has got to do. Change your circle. Come to yourself, go and meet those you need, those who need you will come to you. You need to move. Until you move, nothing will move. Remember the law of motion: everything remains in a particular state until an external force is applied. You need to generate that force. You need to move.

If you move, you will find a lot of other people who are moving like you, wanting more and making more. With them, you can start a new circle and add more value.

See you.