People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.
Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities.
To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.
And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don’t act on life, they only react to it.
So while you’re an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there’s going to be life after sports.
We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.
If you did the same thing yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.
Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.
A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.
It’s not what you have at the end of life, it’s what you leave behind that matters.