I originally thought about starting this blog a couple weeks ago while attending an AdvoCare 360 event. AdvoCare's founder, Charlie Ragus, said that he wanted to add value to everybody's lives. It didn't matter if you were involved in AdvoCare or not. This event was billed as a different kind of AdvoCare event, one that WOULD add value to peoples lives...and this truly did.
I was most impressed with Keith Cameron Smith, the author of The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class. He shared why he wrote the book, went through the 10 distinctions and gave more detail for each one. During his time on stage, I sat in my seat, and said to myself...Everyone Needs to Hear This! That's when I thought of creating a blog.
I thought I'd go into detail into each distinction, share my personal thoughts and how I could implement each in my life and the life of my family. Time to get to this:
I like to relate a lot of my life to sports. I'm a fairly new athlete, running for about a year and a half and into triathlons for even less time. When I started running, I thought about my workout that day, and maybe the workouts for the week. However, as I got more and more into running I needed a plan. I first used the couch to 5k plan (c25k). I knew what my plan was for 9 weeks. Then I came to the end of the plan. I was a floundering fish. I remember, I was in Las Vegas for my last run of my c25k. It was kind of symbolic, I finished my plan at one end of the Las Vegas strip. In the dry heat of Las Vegas, I wondered what's next.
I came back home, tried to do a run here or there, but I was a fish out of water. I recognized nearly immediately and decided to move onto a 10k plan. At this point, I'm still thinking long term. My first foray into triathlon taught me I need to be thinking long term. I new that I couldn't pick up 3 disciplines without a plan. My first triathlon was almost a failure, but I learned a lot about myself that day.
I also learned I was inadequately prepared to plan and train for a triathlon. At this point, I asked for help and got a coach. With the guidance of a coach, I executed a plan and completed my second triathlon last year and found that I enjoyed triathlon. I also found that I needed a long term plan, and at the end of the season my coach and I decided that 2013 would be the year that I train for a half ironman, with a further plan of completing a full ironman distance in 2014.
With the plan in place, I am no longer training for this week, but I train this week for the goals of this year, and next year. I'm planning long term.
When you talk about income or money, it's very similar. The middle class truly is working for others, making ends meet and working paycheck to paycheck, month to month and most run out of money before they run out of month. We need to start thinking long term, come up with the plan, utilize a coach if necessary, and change the mindset from just getting by to setting our sights on freedom.
Today's favorite quote: "A Head of Fears has No Space for DREAMS!"
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