Michael Nichols | Leadership Made Simple
Leadership Made Simple
Running towards your goal – If you’re not working out, you won’t be able to effectively reach your life and work goals.
Everybody has their preferred workout. There’s CrossFit, Insanity, P90X. Yesterday, I saw an infomercial for Hip Hop Abs. (I’m not sure anyone wants to see me do that.) What’s your favorite?
These days you can even pick your own celebrity trainer – Jillian, Shaun T, Tony, or Richard.
A couple of years ago, working out became a key part of my life plan – for 2 reasons:
When you have the right tools, the job is ALWAYS easier. And it’s no different with your finances – the right tools make all the difference.
In the past few weeks, I’ve received a number of questions from readers about the specific tools that we use to manage our finances. Many of the questions are the result of my previous posts about money. You may want to review them – they’ll add value to this post:
Now, here are the 5 essential tools for managing money:
No matter how hard you work to win the approval of others – your boss, a colleague, your father, your mother, a mentor, a man, a woman – you will be disappointed. Every time!
Because no matter how much money you make. No matter how much stuff you have. No matter how far you go in life, the approval of others will never be enough.
The reason is – your life has real purpose – and your life matters far more than what someone else thinks of you.
John Eldredge asks, in his best-selling book, Wild at Heart, Are you willing to live with the level of risk that your soul invites you to?
To live a fulfilled life, every person needs a clear, compelling mission – a life purpose. And every person needs a vision for accomplishing that purpose.
Your life has a purpose that no one else in the world will ever be able to fulfill. Here’s the challenge – no one can tell you who you are and what you were made to do. Nobody!
So why do so many buy into the lie – the lie that winning the approval of others matters? There are 3 reasons…
You went where?
We didn’t really think it was all that weird.
In fact, it was the end of the week before we realized that every person we’d met in North Dakota had responded the same way when we told them we were there on vacation…
I lacked focus and clarity. I was having a hard time getting motivated to get in bed on time. To get up on time. To work out. To write. Maybe you’ve been there.
Why does this happen? We set out with big plans and we make great progress – then the wheels come off! And we can’t figure out how to get it all back together.
Weeks, months, even years slip by. Then one day – reality slaps you in the face! You’ve got to get moving again!
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