Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want by Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy

Author:Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy [Hyatt, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: BUS071000, SEL027000, BUS107000
ISBN: 9781493403257
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2016-03-01T07:00:00+00:00

7

Dedicate One Day

A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of understanding draws it out.1

—Solomon

Imagine we’re standing along the edge of a lake next to an SUV. The hatch is up and a large open chest sits in the back of the vehicle. Go ahead, have a look. You can see that it’s stacked to the top with $100 bills. To save you the hassle of counting, we’ll just tell you—it’s $3 million.

That much cash is heavy, of course, especially when you throw in the weight of the watertight chest. Now that we’ve secured the lid, we’ll need your help getting it into the boat.

After thanking you for the assistance, we leave you at the edge and row out to the middle of the lake. It’s a ways out, but you can see everything perfectly. We grab the chest on either end, hoist it over the side, and—you can hardly believe your eyes—drop it into the murky water below! A few minutes later and we’re back on the shore. We leave the boat in your care, shake hands, hop into the SUV, and drive away.

Now what are you going to do?

Here’s a good guess: You’ll pull out your cell phone and try to find the nearest available dive shop, while you keep your eye exactly on the spot you saw us drop the money. It doesn’t matter what you have planned. All appointments are canceled, meetings postponed, calls forgotten. Expense reports? To-dos? Your inbox? Forget about it. Your schedule just changed. If you know the location of $3 million, you’ll drop everything to go find it.

If you take your eye off the spot, if you leave and come back, if you get distracted by whatever else is nearby, you may lose it. You may miss your shot. It’s the same with Life Planning. At this point in the book, we have shared everything you need to know to create your Life Plan. But the longer you delay in seizing the treasure, the more likely you’ll lose it. The time to act is now.

If you’ve heard renowned business and life thought leader Jim Rohn’s “law of diminishing intent,” you know why this is important. The law of diminishing intent says that the longer you delay doing something, the less probability you have of actually doing it. You lose all the emotional energy. That’s why we encourage you to schedule a day within the next two weeks to create your Life Plan.

This is not something you can do piecemeal. In this chapter we explain why it’s vital that you put everything else in your life on hold and set aside a full day. We cover the right approach and preparation for this important day as well, but the main thing to remember is that this is the day that can change everything for you.

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