Don’t take your life for granted. It is a human tendency to allow life to drift, and to expect everything to settle down and be in total harmony by the age of 40-50 years. If you wish to reap good quality fruits at 40, sow quality seeds in your twenties. Your twenties are the formative years of your career, your thirties are the consolidation phase and your forties are the period to take advantage of your previous two decade’s labor, a time to build on the advantages to create assets. This applies to your personal life, professional life, social life, and spiritual life, which will eventually make your life in fifties much more fulfilling. Be specific about what you want in life and from life. If your goal is to climb Mount Everest, you should know where it is located, the altitude, the oxygen supply, mountaineering techniques, best time, weather, and the equipment. Similarly, you should be specific about what you want from life, where and how you can get it, what are the efforts you need to fulfill the needs, and the time and equipment needed. Don't sally forth blindly without goals and signposts or be unequipped. Take risks, but don’t leave things to chance. It is a well known fact that without venturing and taking risks, not much can be achieved. It is good to take risks, but before taking risks, make an objective assessment of pros and cons, the gains and losses, the investment, the returns, and the time required. Remember, you cannot get the lost time back, you cannot unwind the clock. Time is the one resource of which there is always plenty but which can never be restored once passed.
Belinda
Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:01 am