May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Nelson Mandela
Life doesn’t just happen to us. We become our routine choices and decisions over time.
Our life today is the outcome of all the choices and decisions we have made in the past. And our life in the coming years will be determined by the small choices and routine actions we will continue to make.
The only way to achieve your desired life is by altering your daily life choices and actions from today. Here are the five critical life choices guaranteed to improve your life in the next five years.
1. Embracing Holistic Wellness
Prioritize taking care of your body, mind, and soul. Choose to eat better, move more, and sleep longer every day. If you become physically unwell, everything else around you will fall apart. Take charge of your thoughts and emotions because they strongly shape your reality and well-being. And connect with God and nature, for your existence and thriving is not entirely under your control.
2. Overhauling Your Friendships
By now, you should know that you are the reflection of the five people you hang out with most. You think, decide, spend time and act like them. To design your future life, rethink who you spend most of your time with. Ditch the people who hold you back and build a new social circle that will inspire and provide you with the support you need to create the life of your dream.
3. Focusing on Family
The people surrounding you in your final days are all that will matter at that moment. Besides, a solid social connection significantly improves wellness, happiness, and fulfilment. Choose your life partner with care, and invest time building a strong, loving, dependable bond with them. Spend time with your children to connect, inspire and support them. Make time to share and care for your ageing parents because your children are watching. Payback time is coming your way much sooner than you imagine.
4. Managing Your Money
Financial well-being is more about our daily money habits than how much we earn. Making small wise money decisions daily can make a massive difference over time. Save before spending and avoid reckless spending. Invest patiently and wisely to earn compounding benefits. Stay away from get-rich-quick schemes and play the long-term game of consistent investing in building a fortune. And do not forget to generously share your fortune, no matter how small, because giving to others rewards the giver more than the receivers.
5. Pursuing Your Passion
We spend years of schooling in preparation to do what pays more. With time, it becomes boring and unfulfilling to earn money without enjoying the experience of working. By choosing to do what we connect with most, what seems like work to others becomes play to us. Choose to relentlessly pursue that God-given gift you have permanently sat on or that creative idea that keeps playing in your head. And by doing so patiently, you will find happiness and great success along the way.
Our daily choices, good or bad, have consequences. With these smart choices, you will slowly find new possibilities, greater success, happiness, and fewer regrets in the coming days.
Good luck, my friend.