Commit Yourself to Action Now

I've noticed a lot of changes in myself as a absolute aftereffect of aging. Overall, I accept a academy akin of aplomb than I did as a 30 year old. I'm bigger at accepting after accordant with credibility of appearance that bend from my own on about any subject. I added consistently and anxiously admonish myself that my behavior - even my acerb captivated ones - are not facts, and that anniversary of my agnate credibility of appearance is artlessly that. I anticipate I've accomplished some acumen (as acclaimed from enlightenment) from accepting my behind kicked and as a result, achieve about bigger choices than I did at 30 or 40. Three developments accept afraid me as I've aged, however. First, my backbone apropos some things has in fact diminished, which contradicts what I was led to accept by my parents - that I'd become abundant added accommodating as I got older. As a result, I now abstain two types of humans like the plague: The aboriginal are those who analogously put their own interests advanced of those of added people, including their own families and abutting friends. The key chat actuality is "uniformly." The additional are humans who I accredit to as "naysayers, doomsdayers, and dreamslayers." Those humans appearance every bottle as bisected abandoned and every claimed aspiration as out-of-reach or self-indulgent. The additional development is my faculty of coercion to achieve things as my animation by itself diminishes with age, admitting alone a bit. Next year I'm aggressive Mt. Kilimanjaro. There's annihilation abracadabra about this accurate ambition except as a allegory and for propulsion. I'm aswell publishing a book advantaged "Redefining Type A" (the explanation is still getting debated). I feel as if I accept a continued way to go and a abbreviate - or beneath - time to get there. Coincidental to what I do for a active is the third development: my annoyance with humans who accept chock-full growing and are OK with that. These are humans who assume to accept that the aboriginal 25% of activity is for growing and the endure 75% is for resting. They are who they are traveling to be. They're satisfied, entitled, apathetic or resentful. Their abilities are anachronous and/or their perspectives accept caked and solidified. They ache for the way things acclimated to be and beef about how things are. Abounding attention themselves as victims and all others as villains. I'm fortunate, however. The humans who approach to animate with me are not those people. My audience are admiral and business owners committed to accomplishing advantageous visions of their lives. The abundant business philosopher/consultant/speaker Jim Rohn already said, in anecdotic what he did for a living, that he "worked on issues that amount with humans who care." I'd adulation to abduct that and accept it printed on the aback of my business card. It describes me and my business to a tee. Here are my wishes for you: Create the activity you dream about. No excuses, no blame, no guilt. Do more; accord more; absorb some; save some. Become the being you accept consistently capital to be. Establish goals and yield accordant activity against their achievement. Measure your progress; achieve advance corrections forth the way. Learn from your mistakes, of which there will be abounding if you're in fact accomplishing things. Apprehend the abundant books. Visit museums. Develop new skills. Achieve new accompany and acknowledge the ones you already have. Most of all, whatever your aspirations, never quit! My acquaintance and trainer to aristocratic athletes (Drew Brees and LaDanien Tomlinson, a part of others), Todd Durkin, admonishes and encourages others with the byword "and afresh some." You ambition to be a abundant leader? Be a abundant leader, AND THEN SOME! A abundant dad? Be a abundant dad, AND THEN SOME! Forth the aforementioned line, here's my catechism for you: If it isn't account accomplishing well, is it account accomplishing at all? Don't wait; the time for activity is now!! A brace of years ago, I invoked the name of John Goddard to achieve a point about claimed growth. His name, his activity and his accomplishments are account advertence afresh here, for context. Goddard is one of the world's abundant adventurers. Articles about him accept been accounting in abounding acclaimed publications. At the age of 15, he created a account of the things he capital to do, see or acquaintance during his lifetime. A part of his accomplishments, he visited the Abundant Wall of China; he abounding the Rose Parade; he retraced the avenue of Marco Polo; he climbed the Matterhorn in a blast that was so bad, even the able climbers wouldn't do it. Here's Goddard's ambition list. Items with an asterisk are those he completed by the age of 74. The Account EXPLORE: 1. * Nile River 2. * Amazon River 3. * Congo River 4. * Colorado River 5. Yangtze River, China 6. Niger River 7. Orinoco River, Venezuela 8. * Rio Coco, Nicaragua STUDY PRIMITIVE CULTURES IN: 9. * The Congo 10. * New Guinea 11. * Brazil 12. * Borneo 13. * The Sudan (nearly active animate in a sandstorm) 14. * Australia 15. * Kenya 16. * The Philippines 17. * Tanganyika (Now Tanzania) 18. * Ethiopia 19. * Nigeria 20. * Alaska CLIMB: 21. Mt. Everest 22. Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina 23. Mt. McKinley 24. * Mt. Hauscaran, Peru 25. * Mt. Kilimanjaro 26. * Mt. Ararat, Turkey 27. * Mt. Kenya 28. Mt. Cook, New Zealand 29. * Mt. Popocatepetl, Mexico 30. * The Matterhorn 31. * Mt. Rainier 32. * Mt. Fuji 33. * Mt. Vesuvius 34. * Mt. Bromo, Java 35. * Grand Tetons 36. * Mt. Baldy, California 37.Carry out careers in anesthetic and analysis (studied premed, treats illnesses a part of archaic tribes) 38. Visit every country in the apple (30 to go) 39. * Study Navaho and Hopi Indians 40. * Learn to fly a plane 41. * Ride horse in Rose Parade PHOTOGRAPH: 42. * Iguacu Falls, Brazil 43. * Victoria Falls, Rhodesia (chased by a warthog in the process) 44. * Sutherland Falls, New Zealand 45. * Yosemite Falls 46. * Niagara Falls 47. * Retrace campaign of Marco Polo and Alexander the Great EXPLORE UNDERWATER: 48. * Coral reefs of Florida 49. * Abundant Barrier Reef, Australia (photographed a 300-pound clam) 50. * Red Sea 51. * Fiji Islands 52. * The Bahamas 53. * Explore Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades VISIT: 54. North and South Poles 55. * Abundant Wall of China 56. * Panama and Suez Canals 57. * Easter Island 58. * The Galapagos Islands 59. * Vatican City (saw the Pope) 60. * The Taj Mahal 61. * The Eiffel Tower 62. * The Blue Grotto 63. * The Tower of London 64. * The Leaning Tower of Pisa 65. * The Sacred Able-bodied of Chichen-Itza, Mexico 66. * Climb Ayers Rock in Australia 67. Follow River Jordan from Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea SWIM IN: 68. * Lake Victoria 69. * Lake Superior 70. * Lake Tanganyika 71. * Lake Titicaca, S. America 72. * Lake Nicaragua ACCOMPLISH: 73. * Become an Eagle Scout 74. * Dive in a submarine 75. * Land on and yield of from an aircraft carrier 76. * Fly in a blimp, airship and glider 77. * Ride an elephant, camel, ostrich and bronco 78. * Skin dive to 40 anxiety and authority animation two and a bisected account underwater. 79. * Catch a ten-pound lobster and a ten-inch abalone 80. * Play canal and violin 81. * Type 50 words a minute 82. * Achieve a parachute jump 83. * Learn baptize and snow skiing 84. * Go on a abbey mission 85. * Follow the John Muir trail 86. * Study built-in medicines and accompany aback advantageous ones 87. * Bag camera trophies of elephant, lion, rhino, cheetah, cape addle and whale 88. * Learn to fence 89. * Learn jujitsu 90. * Teach a academy course 91. * Watch a burial commemoration in Bali 92. * Explore base of the sea 93. Appear in a Tarzan cine (He now considers this an extraneous adolescence dream.) 94. Own a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot, and coyote (yet to own a chimp or cheetah) 95. Become a ham radio operator 96. * Build own telescope 97. * Write a book (about his Nile trip) 98. * Publish an commodity in National Geographic Magazine 99. * High jump 5 feet 100. * Broad jump 15 feet 101. * Run mile in 5 minutes 102. * Weigh 175 pounds bare (still does) 103. * Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups 104. * Learn French, Spanish and Arabic 105. Study dragon lizards on Komodo Island (boat bankrupt down aural 20 afar of island) 106. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Sorenson in Denmark 107. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Goddard in England 108 * Ship aboard a freighter as a seaman 109. Apprehend the absolute Encyclopedia Britannica (read all-encompassing locations in anniversary volume) 110. * Apprehend the Bible from awning to cover 111.* Apprehend the works of Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Rousseau, Conrad, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Talmage, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, Bacon, Whittier, and Emerson (not every plan of each) 112.* Become accustomed with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Liszt, Rimski-Korsakov, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikosvsky, Verdi 113.* Become accomplished in the use of a plane, motorcycle, tractor, surfboard, rifle, pistol, canoe, microscope, football, basketball, bow and arrow, braiding and boomerangBiyang Overdrive Distortion 114. * Compose music 115. * Play Clair de Lune on the piano 116. * Watch fire-walking commemoration (in Bali and Surinam) 117. * Milk a poisonous snake (bitten by diamondback during photo session) 118. * Light a bout with.22 rifle 119. * Visit a cine studio 120. * Climb Cheops' pyramid 121. * Become a affiliate of the Explorer's Club and the Adventure's Club 122. * Learn to play polo 123. * Travel through the Grand Canyon on bottom and by boat 124. * Circumnavigate the apple (four times) 125. Visit the moon ("Someday, if God wills") 126. * Marry and accept accouchement (has 5 children) 127. * Live to see the 21st century What are you cat-and-mouse for? Copyright 2009 Rand Golletz. All rights reserved.