Know But Just Don’t Do
People are a funny bunch… how many things in life do we know we should do but we just don’t do it? Just to list a couple off the top of my mind:
- Budgeting is good for us and our checkbooks. It helps us save for the future. It helps us rely less on credit and pay less overall (interest pmts can end up doubling what you owe). We can create a fund for emergencies so that one major mishap won’t throw us in front of the bankruptcy courts. It gives us a better handle of where we are financially in life. It gives us a framework to live by so that we don’t end up asking ourselves “where did all our money go?” We begin to appreciate more the money we earned from our hard work. We no longer need to live paycheck to paycheck if we no longer overspend and start saving.
- Goal Setting is good for us and our future. We can end up accomplishing more if we set out S.M.A.R.T goals for ourselves. We feel a sense of achievement as we cross out completed goals one by one. It makes us really drill down and think what is really important to us and what do we really want to do in this life. It gives life a definite sense of purpose and a feeling that anything is possible as long as you set your mind to it. It helps you realize how fleeting life is and prevents people from just drifting. All great men and women in history had a great goal they set out and achieved. It makes you want to be great too.
But why do people not do these things if time and time again they have been shown to be effective tools in life? Some people say it’s too hard or they don’t have enough time or they don’t know how to do it. I say that nothing is too hard if you put your mind to it, you can always make more time if you look at the time wasted in your schedule (besides these tools help to make your actions more efficient and effective), and the Internet is a plethora of information, there is no excuse to say you don’t know how to do something, you can always learn.
One important thing though, it isn’t enough to just try to do these things once or twice, you need to do it over and over until it becomes marinated in your lifestyle and is almost second nature. That is when these things become really effective and you can see how your life changes for the better because of it. Doing them just once in a while is equivalent to eating healthy once a blue moon while the other 300+ days you dine at fast food restaurants. Not so effective right?
There are a number of other things that people should do but just don’t do. I fall in this trap too.
- Eating healthy
- Exercising
- Get more sleep
- Spend more time with family and friends
- Watch less useless T.V. shows
- Read more books
I need to start working on these things today…
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