Are you choosing to live a happy, fulfilled life?
That’s right, studies have proven that ninety percent of the factors that make the difference between a happy life and an unhappy life are factors within your control. One life hack proven to help unlock your best life is setting, pursuing, and achieving goals.
But you don’t have to take my word for it; many other people are proving this point every single day. They are setting goals, doing the work and building the life of their dreams.
Don’t Take My Word For It, an Operation Melt blog series, shares how other people – people just like you – are choosing to achieve happiness through their goals.
Yes, you can choose a happy life, but don’t take my word for it!
Amuse-Bouche Before we jump into today's post, I offer you this "dad joke" as a light "amuse-bouche" to entertain your mind before we get serious. Like any other amuse-bouche, you may hate it, but it is worth every penny you paid for it, right? I found out I'm colorblind… the news came out of the purple!
Life & Death: Surprise Success Lessons from an Unlikely Source
Surprise Life Coach explores the goal success strategies, tips and mindsets found in the most unlikely places. Since launching this series, I have shared success tips found in movies, television shows, quotes and even the seasons. When I started this series, I never expected to share tips from today’s source… a funeral.
This week, I attended a funeral for someone I knew who was the brother of a good friend. His death was an unimaginably tragic murder. Sometimes, the only way to cope with senseless events like this is to look for lessons about how to live our lives a little bit better. That’s what today’s Surprise Life Coach is about.
A Brave, Inspirational Speech
At the end of the funeral mass, my friend, who is the sister of the deceased man, stood and shared a statement about her brother and the tragic events of his death. Her speech was raw, emotional, honest, brave, and amazingly well-stated, and I couldn’t be prouder of her for sharing it.
One sentence in her speech spoke to me, and I knew I needed to write about it in this week’s blog:
“He would want us to honor him by living our lives to the fullest, so let’s all make Bret proud and try to make every moment count.”
This powerful message hit me like a ton of bricks, and I can’t get it out of my head. As I have explained before ((see Whispers, Voices, Screams, Bricks) when the universe sends me a message like this, I have to listen lest I get hit with a brick.
No Surprise Endings
At the risk of being a buzzkill, I want to share a potentially difficult message. While many things have surprise endings, our lives do not. We are all going to die.
While we know that our lives are going to end, we never know how or when it will happen. I might have fifty more years, or I might die tomorrow in an accident or from some other unexpected cause.
It’s difficult to comprehend, but your life could end in an instant.
As you keep pushing off your big goal, idea or aspiration to tomorrow, one thing is for sure… you will inevitably run out of tomorrows. Todd Henry, author of The Accidental Creative and Die Empty, explains this very well:
“The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard. In the graveyard are buried all of the unwritten novels, never-launched businesses, unreconciled relationships, and all of the other things that people thought, ‘I’ll get around to that tomorrow.’ One day, however, their tomorrows ran out.”
So… how long are you going to put off that big goal? How long will you keep pursuing those goals that you should pursue instead of the ones that genuinely light you up? How long are you going to keep chasing someone else’s dream?
Life is too short and could disappear in the blink of an eye. Don’t spend one extra minute of your life doing something you don’t want to be doing.
Let’s all honor Bret and “make every moment count.”
Do you need a little help figuring out what you actually want from life? Download my free Goal Success Quick Start Guide and follow my ABCD goal-setting process.
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I believe in you and want to help YOU believe in you!
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Meet Coach Tony
My name is Coach Tony, and I am a coach, author and project manager on a mission. I am working to build a world where no goal ever dies of loneliness.
I almost allowed one of my biggest life goals to die without ever being attempted for forty years. My goal almost died, not of failure but of loneliness. But, I took a risk and leveraged a simple, logical process that helped me wildly exceed my goal.
I transformed my life, and you can do the same with the help of Operation Melt.
Operation Melt provides engaging, practical content and hands-on coaching to inspire, motivate and equip project managers and other left-brained high-achievers to pursue and accomplish their biggest goals.
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