4,000 days
An element of our lives that is most often overlooked due to our busy schedules is time. We all think there will always be more time but what if there wasn’t? What if you only had a set number of days left in your human experience and then one day sooner or later, you are gone.
How would you choose to live life differently today with this being the case?
We fragment time into fancy words like days, weeks, fortnights, months and years… and many days it can feel like we just don’t have enough time available to us to get through our daily tasks, but that is simply not true. We are all given the gift of time to do as we will, but it is our free-will to decide how we use our time and that being – effectively utilising our time or choosing to throw our time away.
Over the Easter break I have been fortunate enough to take some time to reflect-back on the past years and the past 4,000 days with gratitude seeing just how far I have come in a very short period of time, that being – the last 11 years…
In this time Alyssa and I had purchased our first home, gotten married, travelled Australia, built and sold our first investment property, started our business, fought legal battles, sold our family home, and moved to the country to live debt free and mortgage free whilst enjoying a relaxed and stress-free lifestyle all by 39 years old…
I came to the realisation that we had had a lot of success along the way and that whilst some days were extremely hard and challenging that we were both grateful for the experience and grateful for the growth.
The key takeaways for me being that if you are serious about your goals you must put yourself first and you must back yourself.
On the hard days you push harder and keep going, remembering to rest but not slack off or take your eyes off the prize.
You must be tenacious in your endeavours and have the balls to go forth and make it happen.
You must be consistent, deliberate in your approach and not afraid of hard work.
You must have a non-apologetic approach of putting yourself first, whilst being humble and polite to others on their journey.
Above all else, you must help others on their journey.
When you break down your time into days rather than looking at the longer term key words that you begin to realise that you only ever have the present moment and the next day (if you are lucky) that in this very short time you must make every moment count.
If you are 21 years old today you have experienced 7,665 days, being you.
If you are 30 years old today you have experienced 10,950 days, being you.
If you are 50 years old today you have experienced 18,250 days, being you.
My question to you is what are you doing to make each day count?
In my opinion…
If you have a great day you must cherish it.
If you have a tough day you must learn from it.
If you have an average day you must find the gratitude in it.
But most of all you must make each day count.
None of us are guaranteed tomorrow, but each of us have the opportunity to find the magic in each day to go after our dreams to crush them without fear, and we must be brave enough to do so. We must have the tenacity and resilience within us – the deep fire of achievement burning as we head towards our goals with confidence knowing that it is up to us to bring forward what it is that we want to experience in our life.
If you are not happy with where you are now – CHANGE IT.
If you want to improve something in your life – DO IT.
If you feel you have failed – LEARN FROM IT.
It is up to YOU to put yourself first and make your life count.
It’s time to stop sitting on the fence.
Get up.
Take action.
Get it done.
What are you waiting for?
**Dedicated to Lily – forever in our hearts.
