You Only Have Five Seconds To Change Before Your Life Self Destructs

With the weekend approaching, I thought I might encourage you to do something life changing.

First of all, I suppose I should ask you if you would not only like to change your life but if you have the courage to do so. Sound almost like Mission Impossible doesn’t it?

I Am Very Happy To Be Here?

Maybe at present, you are exceptionally happy with your life. Perhaps your life is full of joy. Well then how about if I ask if you would like to simply improve your life. Even those who are happiest know that to remain happy one must continue to look for ways to improve ourselves and our life.

Maybe you have forgotten what it means to live. Maybe you think life consists of doing the same things Monday through Friday with a short respite on Saturday and Sunday only to do the same things all over again until you retire or worse expire.  How about if I share with you some things that might help you remember what living is all about?

Reading is Fundamental For Your Life

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What I am going to prescribe is going to be extremely simple. It really isn’t going to be an impossible mission. There is one small caveat to my recommendation though, you are going to have to be willing to read.

When I say read, I don’t mean the thing you do when you read a blog (other than this one of course). I mean you are going to have to be prepared to read more than 400 to 600 words. There are not going to be any ridiculous titles with numbered lists or emotional words prescribing for you what you should think or feel.

Remarkably for many, it will be the first time in a while that you read something that will encourage you to think about where you are at this time in your life, where you once imagined that you would be at this time in your life and how to get wherever you truly want to be NOW in the unfortunate case that you are not there already.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist is a short read. You can easily read this book in a few hours. By the time you watch a football game, a couple of episodes of your favorite “reality” TV show, drive to and from the theater to watch a movie…you could have read The Alchemist.

Without question, reading The Alchemist is well worth the time. Without giving away the theme of the book, The Alchemist instructs and prompts us to remember what it means to have a passion, a goal and a desire to achieve something – to be someone other than average.

The Alchemist jogs your memory reminding you to complete your journey which is your destiny even when those all around you attempt to dissuade you and tell you that your goals are merely unobtainable dreams.

Finally, The Alchemist will remind you to always keep your imagination alive, stay creative and have the courage to listen to your heart. When you are done reading The Alchemist you won’t need a reminder from anyone about keeping the faith in face of challenges nor about the importance of always following our dreams.

Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris – The Four Hour Work Week is a bit longer read than The Alchemist. However, the book is broken up into short and easy to read chapters. My suggestion is that you review the table of contents and read those section first that appeal to you the most.

If you are like me, a parent who is convinced that as a society we do an underwhelming job as parents, I would especially encourage you to read the chapters on “outsourcing your life”, “escaping the office”, “mini-retirements” and “not to do lists”.

If you are like me, a person who believes that there has to be more to life than working 9 to 5 everyday, waiting for our annual two-week vacation, saving money in a 401(k) and hoping that we maintain our health or live long enough to enjoy an old age retirement – Mr. Ferris does an exceptional job of providing a blue-print to escape this treacherous “rat maze”. The Four Hour Work Week is the life design we need to show us how we can live the life The Alchemist reminds us we always wanted.

The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle – The Talent Code is not as it sounds. The book is not a book detailing the great feats of those we consider exceptionally gifted. Rather Mr. Coyle makes a scientific case that you can be among those the world considers exceptionally gifted if you are willing to use your God-given tools to the maximum ability.

The Talent Code specifies the three elements that work together to help you use your gifts to their maximum potential so that can achieve to unparalleled heights. For those of you who believe wherever you are is where you were destined to remain or that whatever you are is the best you could hope to be – The Talent Code dismantles this old misguided way of thinking. Thanks to Mr. Coyle, you can not only breathe a sigh of great relief but you can go ahead and do what you are fully capable of doing and being all that you are capable of being.

The Talent Code is reassurance that “average” people like you and me can achieve greatness if we are willing to change the way we think and follow the three-part instructions provided in this book. The Talent Code will equip you to reach your highest potential – the potential you first acknowledged when you were a child and again recognized after reading The Alchemist.

So that’s it. The aforementioned are the only three things I prescribe that you do this weekend.

Your mission should you decide to accept it, is to make your life the life you always dreamt but never imagined it could be. As always, should you or any of your children be discovered not living your life to your maximum God-given ability, The Raising Supaman Project will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This post will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck!

Do you function as if only other people can achieve at the highest levels? What will it take to get you to commit to living up to your full potential?