Today, I just realized someone from another part of the world is doing something similar to what I’ve been wanted to do for long long time, and he is doing it in a relatively large scale, yet doing it great! Once again, I am one step behind.

Does this sound familiar to you? On a very boring day, you are lying on your bed, brainstorming, thinking hard about your future and what comes next, being drown deep into thoughts…

… and “ting !”, a magnificent idea suddenly struck you. The more you imagine, the more you think it’s gonna work. It will make you become more successful, it will bring you from where you are to where you want to be… An “angel” on your left told you,  “OMG, that’s so cool !”

But at the same time, another “devil” on your right keep whispering, “You’re definitely not ready for it !“. At this moment, there will be four categories of people:

Type 1: Lose Before Battle

Back to zero, give themselves tonnes of excuses why they just can’t do it, ignore the “dream”, blame their own faith and get along with life.

Type 2: 3-Minutes Passion

Start taking little actions, gathering information, crunching books and journals… but the more they read, the more confuse they become. In the end, they gave up.

Type 3:  Chicken Little – The Sky’s Falling

Similar to Type 2, but they persisted. Take their sweet time gathering the “required information”, but always thinking that they are still not fully prepared yet. By the time they get started, they realized other people are already a hundred years in advance.

Type 4: Just Do It

People in this category will always tell themselves, “JUST DO IT!” They are clear with what they want to achieve in life and they know it’s not going to be an easy path. They have the great passion to try their best to reach their target. To them, their objectives of life is not a “should”, but a “must”. They do fall down in the journey but they keep themselves resilient. In the end, some may just achieve what they want… some may not, but still they know they have achieve quite a lot.

Often, we as human are thinking and worrying too much. Some are not satisfy with their life, they want to improve, but they do not want to take the responsibility. Some took little actions, but when it comes to obstacles they’d just give up. All these came from the same reason, they are not taking their goals seriously. They knew that without achieving their goal, they can still get along with life, their complaining life. They are only taking their goals as a “should”, but not a “must”.

Working hard for your goals might not 100% guarantee you achieving them, but not taking any action at all will always 100% guarantee you NOT achieving them.

Think for yourself, which category are you?

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