“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
~ Maya Angelou, poet ~
This is great advice.
It is too easy to spend far too much wasted time and energy on complaining, worrying and wishing things were different.
Funnel that same time into planning, creating and changing what you don’t like into the financial goals and dreams you have.
Besides your attitude what can you change today to make a positive difference for tomorrow?
“You must do the things today that others will not do so that you can have the things tomorrow that others will not have.”
~ Anonymous ~
Your actions (or lack thereof) today will dictate the way your tomorrows will look, so the more you put off the required actions necessary to accomplish your financial dreams and goals the more days you also delay enjoying them.
What will you do today to move you toward your dreams for tomorrow?
Edgar Howe and American author and editor said “Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better.”“Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”
– Robert Orben
This is a great reminder.
How often do you comment on how fast time goes by?
Before you know it, it will be 2012 and then you’ll blink and it will be 2020.
What are you doing today to insure your financial world will be as you desire tomorrow?
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing
something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have
ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about
them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
— Nolan Bushnell: Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s
This is not just for entrepreneurs it is for all of us.
Let’s make 2011 the year of change and the beginning of a great new thing.
Don’t make the mistake of getting overwhelmed with making too large of goals (unless you know how to break them down) and end up not doing anything.
Pick one small thing and do it. Then choose another small thing and do it.
It could be a simple as reworking your budget to find $30 per month to cut out.
Or a way to make an extra $100 per month or begin putting $50 per month into a savings account for your kids college fund.
Or just get your free credit score finally and look for ways to improve your credit rating so you can save on your mortgage interest, credit card and auto premium interest rates.
Regardless what you choose I encourage you to stop putting off working on your financial future and start making even little baby steps today.
