I posted a quick blurb on the Tribal Future Facebook page yesterday, but I thought I would take a minute to expand on it. I posted, the new year will be exactly the same as the old year, except for the books you read, the people you meet, and the actions you take. Now at least part of that is a quote from Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, but as far as I know, I am the only one that added action to it like this. If I am not, don’t tell me. I always liked Charlie’s original quote, but to me it fails to capture the truth.
What changes?
Knowledge without actions is useless. I know that eating McDonald’s is bad for us, but I still do it. I can meet 100 successful business owners, but unless I emulate their actions, I will not emulate their success. I can watch a yoga video, but if I am watching it from the couch, its not going to help much. We control our own future, and it takes action to change it.
Why bring this up?
Because its New Years, and my Facebook page is full of people HOPING for a new year. Setting new years resolutions they have no intention of keeping. Simply hoping that life happens to them.
I grew up in Pittsburgh. A town full of people moaning that the old days were gone, and why doesn’t somebody bring them back. I know that attitude exists everywhere, but there seemed to be a lot of it there, and it always offended me. The future is what you make it. If you make it about you bitching in a bar about how good other people have it, that’s all it will be.
C’mon, it just needs someone else’s elbow grease
Don’t just say you set a resolution. You wanna make more money, get a second job. You wanna learn to speak a language, estudio la espanol. You wanna lose weight, stop reading this blog over a pizza. Whatever you wanna do, the only person stopping you is YOU.
I found a great site called 13skills.com that I will be using to help myself learn some new things in 2013. I would invite all of you to check it out. I will have some more detail on it later today.
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