The Power of the Start
by Robin Sharma
24시간이란 70~80이라는 "나'너우리 그대인생의 축소판 미니에이쳐이고 엑기스이다. 오늘 이 하루를 잘못 살았다면 '나'너우리 그대는 인생을 잘못 산 것이다. 실제로 우리네 삶 시간에는 내일이라ㅓ는 단어는 비록 있을 망정 실제로 존재하는 것은 아니다. 내일은 준비된오늘이다. 준비한오늘이 힘이있고 생산적이고 긍정적이고 낙천적이고 진취적이고 전향적이다. 즐거운 마음을 가질려고 유쾌해질려고 목욕사우나를 가는가. 미친짓이다. 목욕탕 들어가 즐거워 지는 건 나오면 곧 금방 사라진다. 그 시간에 힘껏 걸으라. 열역학제1일의법칙이 거대한 창조물을 만들어 낸다. 오늘이라는 네 인생의 축소판 미니에이쳐를 최대로 가동하려면 "지금실시하라""지금시작하라""지금행하라"
실천하고, 실시하고, 행동하고, 시작하고 일어나는 발생하는 벌어지는 실수과오시행착오는 행동없는 계획과는 하늘과 땅 천양지의 차이다. 실천과 계획 전혀 별개의 것이다. 메뉴와 실물의 차이다.
There is great power in the start. One of the things I have learned is that you have to expect the unexpected. So many of us have long-term plans but life happens and we don’t turn those plans into reality. Yes, planning is important. And remember that this day will never come again and what you do in the remaining hours of this day could move your life in a whole new direction.
For example, today is the day you could pick up the phone and forgive that person who, you know in your heart, needs to be forgiven.
Today is the day you could start getting into world-class health.
Today is the day you could pull out your journal and reflect on what’s not working for you in your life.
Today is the day you could articulate a new set of personal standards.
Today is the day you could decide to be a world-class learner.
I believe that your days are your life in miniature. As you live your days, so you craft your life. Ultimately, time management leads to life mastery.
How the Best Succeed Success comes from the consistent practice of simple fundamentals. In other words, the best of the best are consistent. All too often we think success is complicated. And yet the more I work with the greatest people in business and in life I realize that they are using very simple practices but that they execute around these principles religiously. One of the most important of these fundamentals is that they are meticulous about protecting their time.
The first step in protecting your time is to know where you are going. Knowing your destination increases your focus. Knowing your destination allows you to make wiser choices. Knowing your destination saves you precious time and energy. If you don’t know where you are going, any road is going to get you there. Let me give you a metaphor for that. If you need to drive from Toronto to New York City, what do you do? The first thing you are going to do is locate the destination. Then you are going to plot your course. You’d laugh at someone who said I’m going to drive to New York City and just hopped into their car without a map or a plan. That would be recipe for disaster.
Most people spend more time planning their summer vacations than they do planning their lives. You would laugh at a business that had no business plan. You would laugh at a business that didn’t reflect on strategy. You would laugh at a business that did not articulate its mission and its guiding values. Yet most people don’t have a plan for their lives. Most people have not articulated a philosophy for their lives. Most people don’t have a mission. And one of the most important things I’ve discovered is that if you don’t have a plan and a philosophy for your life you will end up living someone else’s life.
I had lunch the other day with one of the country’s top entrepreneurs and I asked him what his number one success driver was. He looked at me and said, “We created a long term vision statement which we called our BHAG.” (A BHAG is a Big Hairy Audacious Goal which comes from Jim Collins’ excellent book “Built to Last.”)
| The entrepreneur went on to say, “We based all of our actions on our BHAG and it kept us focused.” |