"If only you had a wish to change your past, what would you change?" Be strategic

If I had one naive wish, like a wish master or a fairy god mother comes down and say's I have one wish, you know the wish I'd make? I wish I could go back in time and tap myself on the shoulder when I was 15 and I'd tell myself to think more strategically about my life.

Let me explain, when you were much younger you think to yourself about how you should live each day as they come, and live like there's no tomorrow while you should be living in recognition that there is going to be tomorrow and there is a whole lot series of tomorrows.

What you ought to do is: the person you are today should be living to make a good life for the person you'll be tomorrow and the next days after that. You have to realize that there are thousands of yourself behind you and after you, so any decisions made today can affect who you will become in 70 or 80 years from now. There are decisions made in the past in our 20's and 30's that would live with us for the rest of our lives we may not be able to go back in time to alter our past but we can change our present.

When you get older the options you have in life becomes fewer, each stages of life has its major decisions, and cost of opportunities, when you take one route all other roads are closed. Just like when you decide to be a Lawyer or a Doctor or anything right before college immediately that is done the option for that is gone likewise your advancement in life your options becomes fewer.

Price for a change

We all want to change our lives whether is to improve on our health, relationship, work and lifestyle and we know sometimes it could be difficult and we back off of it, and back down from change because its scary.

"Do you know anyone who needs to change their lives?" And you keep telling them but they dont know "why? Have you had people with good strategies after a bad start and hope to achieve so much and end up not doing them, well it's because psychologically they are unwilling to face the price of change then they walk away.

What are you really going to have to allow yourself pay for that change, they are the price of admission into a better life and once you realize that you can consciously choose if the change will be strategic for your tomorrow then why not start it now.

• Uncertainty

When you want a change, whether it's going to work or not is totally unknown. You are going to change your career or quit your job, "Are you going to get a better lasting job?" You dont know, You are living that bad relationship to find someone who really loves you and cares for you and treat you well, "Are you going to find somebody better? You dont know, these uncertainties scares people.

Uncertainty is scary coz we might lose something we like or like doing, your mind must be willing to wrap around that.

To say to change means your mind has to go with this "I'm cool with the fact I'm not gonna know the heck is going on, I'm gonna do it anyway" I'm going to enter that Lion's den, I dont know if I'm going to be eaten alive, and I dont know the outcome but I'm going to go on and believe that I can change with the ability to figure it out.

To deal with change means to let go of everything, along with the need for permission or perfection and just try, that is the first step to making a long term change for your life. Think of where you want to be even as somebody who will be age 50,60,70,80 then you work your way back just like a map where you figure the destination on each path, wake up to realize the decisions you make now as a young man can affect your tomorrow.

Let's say you want to have a good wife and few kids then you have to walk backwards;

"How do I get the money for that?

What is the right moment to get married and have kids?

Is it better for you to get married first or get money first?"

Probably you have chosen a path and you hit a hard rock change your destination again and re-direct your steps, be willing to enter into the unknown to find more route.

• Judgement

Who do you think you are?

Why do you want that? Well that's dumb

You're going to get people saying those things to you but when you work that path and believe that what you're changing into will reflect on your future then why not.

Everbody's got a second chance, dont hold back change because someone dosent like it, they will mock you when things aren't good at the end of the day but when you succeed they will clap at you.

If at all you wish you had not accepted that offer when you where young, or you wish you quit smoking or stopped any addiction, or you wish you listened, or you wish you married the right person or you wish you went to a different school, or you wished that person you loved didn't die my life wouldn't be this way. Re-draw or rewrite your map and change the few things you can change, add more paths to your destination, its going to be hard but it's only in difficulty that the path becomes meaningful.

Present Wish

Financial Freedom

Either by entrepreneurship or through a career that allows you to make a living while doing something you find really meaningful.

Physical Fitness

Through sleeping well, exercising and eating good, you can reach your 60's, 70's with enough freedom of movement to continue doing many of the things you like in life.

Emotional Health

This refers to self-mastery. Indulge in self knowledge, if you had wished you did it before you can start now, you'll understand many of the paths you take in life and will be able to avoid many self-inflicted obstacles.

This will also help you make true connections with others and if you so desire form a family with a woman you recognize as a potential good mother and partner.

Knowledge

Gained through experience, by reading and being curious and learning more about life with the world and reality. You can make better decisions and avoid many not self-inflicted obstacles.

So you must come up with a strategy to achieve your objectives. Prepare a table of rows and column each column is a different aspect of your life and each row is a different decade of you life then start your math. If i could get a second wish I would wish to have known about cryptocurrency much earlier than I did.

Thank you for reading.

This article was inspired from @George_Dee recent post on every stage of life and the decisions we take that can either have a good and bad effect on our future. Thank you for writing that sir, please check out the post via his page and follow him.

July 10 2021

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