Determine your own timeline to accomplish goals

 This meme is pretty much a cliché these days. Everyone has seen it all over social media. It's true that one should not focus on age when accomplishing something.

The British actor Michael Caine bought his first car at age 35, being too broke before then. And he did it with some sweet revenge, too. He went to a Bentley dealership in ordinary clothes, right after getting his pay check for his first breakthrough movie.
The salesman treated him like dirt. Then he went over to the Rolls-Royce dealership across the road, where a salesman had some good manners. An hour or three later, Caine pulled out in a new Rolls-Royce, then he circled the block, honking each time he passed the Bentley dealership. Let this motivate you to go make a movie.

 

Your priorities explain why you look like you look like :D

 I wish more people would pay attention to this. Priorities. So many people are stupid enough to screw up their future by doing things that jeopardize their long-term happiness. People wanting instant satisfaction, and in the process destroying a bigger satisfaction in the future just around the corner, with deceit and lies. They don't succeed in fooling anyone but themselves. What people prioritize are there for everyone to see.

Do as a clock and keep going

Don't give up. Turn your ultimate dream into a goal by adding a date to it, type out the steps to get there, and start doing it. Don't quit. Balance your attention between the small steps and the big goal, and keep working that plan. Occasionally adjust the steps, but keep your passion for your goal, and work your plan.

Your Habits Today determine What You Will be Tomorrow

 Habits today determine success or failure tomorrow. Establish a firm routine full of good habits, and stick to it. Reprogram your mind for success, do exercise daily and eat non-processed foods for a healthy body, and you're set for a life filled with happiness and success.

Your biggest asset is your mindset

 

True! There's no wealthy person in the world with a poor mindset, and no happy person with an unhappy mindset, and no healthy person with an unhealthy mindset.

Confront your fears today, do what you are scared to do

 

Fear is your only real enemy. That's why people don't follow the advice on the meme. People fall into a comfort zone, even when they hate it and their circumstances, and they get trapped for years. They enjoy the parts of an inconvenient journey, without having a plan to get out of that comfort zone.

Get up and make things happen

 

Wow. Harsh, I say. Unfortunately, true. If you don't have a real partner that really loves you, you'll only have yourself to get through every crisis. Many that pretend to be friends are only after what they can get out of you, the party times, and all secretly hoping to get laid for a one-night-stand. They are the ones that disappear into thin air the day you really need them. Don't let their smooth words fool you, look at their actions, how they treated others before. When the fancy wears off, that's how they will treat you, too. Save yourself by making the right decisions, and make things work out for you. Have a dream, add a date to make it a goal, draw up a plan with detailed steps, and work that plan.

What you think and do you become

 One finds this saying in many forms, probably because it is so true. What you think about, you become. Your thoughts influence your actions, which will either attract more good, or more bad things to happen. What you believe, you do. And every action has a counter-action from those affected by what you did.

Cry if you want on the right shoulder

Strongly agrees, and disagrees. Strangers don't care, but a loved one does. Cry when you want, reach out for help, and let a special someone helps you back up when you fall. Pride kept many people down. Having too stiff a spine will break you. Willows bent in the storm, while the more rigid oak breaks. Just never ask the wrong people, because they always want something in return, while initially hiding it well.

Hiking is nature's medicine for peace

Hiking! Who else likes going for a walk with a backpack through the woods, seeing some breathtaking scenery, feeling that energy and peace around you, and warm sunlight baking all sorrows away. No better exercise without it feeling like that, while enjoying nature and taking photos. Or a brisk walk early in the morning, just as the sun rises over a new beginning.

 

You are not getting another life

 'nuff said. I don't know how old you, my valued reader is, but I do know that you will never again be as young as you are today. Don't wait till it is too late, to start finishing off your bucket list. Do you even have a bucket list? Goals? Dreams? A clearly typed out plan with daily steps? You are your own biggest investment, or liability. Choose wisely. Make your life worth living. Take risks. Take that leap of faith in yourself and the one you love. 

Destination addiction spoils happiness along the journey

This meme is deep. One has to have a clear, big goal, and several smaller ones called steps. But to only focus on that big goal means one misses the enjoyment of getting there, the journey, accomplishing the small goals.

At the same time, one cannot only focus on the journey, because if you take your eyes off the big goal too long, you start taking shortcuts, or loses focus, or loses your passion to really live.

You should be afraid of your comfort zone, especially when you're unhappy there. There is no real growth in a comfort zone. Eventually you'll adapt to it, stagnates, and never be really happy. That is a life unlived.

Have a big goal, many small steps, and celebrate each step along the journey to that one big goal. And do not let fear, insecurity, uncertainty, or a lack of faith distract you. Push on, stick it out, and great things are guaranteed to happen.

Make peace with your past and move on

 

The past is the past. Leave it there. Mistakes were made, slaps were dished out, parties got out of control, weddings were crashed. It's done, over. Choose today to make the right decisions based on life's lessons learned, and form the right habits. Because we are the results of what we regularly do, and we have the wisdom not to repeat yesterday's mistakes. Make today a new beginning.

Master self-control and keep your emotions in check

 Do not allow your emotions to control how you react to a situation. As in a video I made, the key is to respond to a situation, not to react. There is an important distinction. Whatever happens today, happens. But how you respond - not react - to it, is up to you. You have that superpower to deal with a situation you deem the best, and in order to do it the best way, you need to keep a cool head. You get to choose if you're going to panic when your car's tire burst, or if you're going to take control by calmly handling the steering wheel. Be as chilled as a dangerous puff adder.