Seven Steps to Living the Above Average Life
Seven Steps to Living the Above Average Life
Seven Steps to Escape from Mediocrity live
The Above Average Life
1 Earn a living doing something you love to do.
If your not going to work everyday doing something that intrigues you, motivates you, something you’ve thought about a lot and always wanted to do- then quit. In order to be happy with your life, (and be in that exclusive group that live in an above average way) then you must feel that you are doing something worthwhile, that you’re making a difference. The money will come. I’ve never met in all my years, a person that was doing what the loved that was very concerned about the money. This doesn’t mean it will be easy. Being a Cowboy, Astronaut, Olympic athlete, a Marine, a Navy Seal, a Mountain Climber or being the Owner of a small business with 25 employees, are all very difficult occupations.
My advice is from Jim Rohn: “Work harder on yourself than you do on you’re job.”
Personal development.
Self-improvement.
Go for it!
Resources:
Dan Miller- 48 Days to the Work You Love
2. Learn about money.
The mediocre people learn about this the hard way. But not you! You should strive to be above average! Study how money works. Study compound interest; how it works for you or against you.
Have an emergency fund!
Pay off credit cards. Start with the smallest.
Buy a used car and pay cash for it. People that have no net worth; (no cash in the bank) buy brand new vehicles and have monthly payments.
The average millionaire in America buys a one or two year old vehicle and pays cash.
Own your own home.
Resources:
3. Cultivate a happy home life.
Ain’t no such thing as a person that’s happy, productive, & meeting their goals at work while being unhappy, depressed, and miserable at home.
If you’re married go on a date once a week.
Go on a weekend two or three day trip 3-4 times a year.
Go to a marriage enrichment weekend seminar.
Read the Five languages of Love and How to Win Friends and Influence People by
Dale Carnegie. Be as nice at home as you are to your friends and clients at work. (Ouch)
Take a Dale Carnegie course they are put on all across the USA.
Resolve to each other to take some words out of your vocabulary: divorce, idiot, jerk, lazy, I hate you,
You never want to have sex anymore, and my mother told me not to marry you in the first place. (These are not good)
Replace those words with these:
“Honey I was wrong, I’m sorry, will you forgive me?”
“Is there anything I can do to help you with that?”
“You know sweetheart, I’m really proud of you.” The best decision I ever made was to marry you.
A woman wants romance, security, affection, attention, and conversation. (Not necessarily in that order)
All things considered; a man wants food and sex and recognition of achievement (in that order I believe). The woman will gladly give the man what he wants if the man FIRST gives the woman what she wants.
Resources:
Read her book:
Ten Stupid Things Couples do to Mess up Their Relationships
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The other Four steps coming on the next Post
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