NOW - at the present time or moment. Without further delay; at once.
"DO IT NOW"! These three little words pack a wallop of a punch that can propel your mind and body into action. Brian Tracy, a popular motivational speaker, offers this advice in his time management series. Repeated out loud, the words get your mind back in the game and re-focused throughout the day.
5 Ways To Live Life NOW Not Someday
1. Remove or limit contact with anyone not living their life this way. This goal may seem harsh, impossible, and maybe the most difficult on the list because you might be related to some of these people. You cannot change another human being. Family, friend, and business relationships are NOW, happiness and fulfillment are NOW, success is NOW, fun is NOW. . .LIFE IS NOW! We're not guaranteed a next week, month, year, or even a tomorrow. People cannot be shelved and told, I'll get back to being your friend, wife, husband, parent, as soon as I've gotten X accomplished with my business.
2. There may be tasks that you do not enjoy performing. The key is to focus on how amazing it's going to feel after you've completed them. We'll do more to avoid pain than we will to enjoy pleasure. You need to reverse this. Visualize the sense of accomplishment and recognition you're going to experience afterwards. You can suffer through some discomfort in order to reap the rewards. What's the worst case scenario? Usually it doesn't happen and if it does, you can survive it.
3. Figure out in detail when you're going to write so that when your feet hit the floor in the morning you're ready to rock and roll. Without this you may wander, which wastes time. Block out writing time on your calendar each week so you know how you're going to progress on each book. How many pages and chapters will you complete? Keep track of projects that are due. Decide what days you will post to your blog if you have one (and you should). If you write articles, which online sites are you going to submit them to? Sketching out a plan even one or two days ahead will provide electricity to power your subconscious to drive you another step closer to your life is NOW existence.
4. Multi-task is not a bad nine letter word though some success gurus will tell you otherwise. Some prefer to tackle one writing project at a time. Others juggle stories and thrive all the way to the bank. Life is not a one size fits all. Applying makeup, talking on a cell phone, and drinking coffee while driving, not smart. Engaging in another task that prevents you from being able to listen in person or on the phone to someone talking to you is just rude. Most other combined activities are fine, as long as you're staying productive and they're leading you to a LIFE IS NOW existance. As writers, we're constantly multi-tasking. Fitting in time for our books around work, kids, spouses, friends, household chores, extra curricular activities. When we're not writing, we're thinking about what to write. I can be shopping, sleeping, showering, or buying a cup of java at Starbucks and an idea for one of my current books, or a new one sparks in my brain. So my advice on the "M" word is don't fight it. Just keep paper and pen handy in every room and the car and develop an organized filing system as a way to transfer your notes.
5. Here's how you accomplish these four tasks: Create a "Life's Landscape" wall in your house. You may know this as a vision board or treasure map. I have four large poster boards hanging in my bedroom. One for health and fitness, home and entertaining, travel, and career. I've carved my future out in color pictures cut from magazines and good ole Google. So every morning when I wake up, at night before I go to sleep, and during the day (benefit of working from a home office) I take quick journeys to Greece, Colorado, Argentina, chat with Oprah and Rachael Ray, I entertain in my waterfront mansion, and have book signings all over the world with my healthy mind, body, and soul. Then I go back to my office and do whatever it takes to make those trips a reality.
We writers have alot more power than ever before thanks to the wonderful wide open web. Find places you can write for today. www.ehow.com, www.bukisa.com, and www.ezinearticles.com are three of my faves! Review your writing goals. What! You have none? Then there's your first NOW assignment.
What is stopping you from living NOW? OR How have you overcome challenges that prevented you from living NOW!
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