You think you're too old, too young, too broke, or too late to start pursuing what you really want.

But every single day, someone with worse circumstances than yours is building the exact life you say is impossible for you.

The difference isn't their situation, their background, or their advantages.

The difference is they stopped making excuses and started making progress.

Let me ask you this, why do most people drift through life like leaves in the wind,

going wherever the current takes them, never really arriving anywhere meaningful?

I'll tell you why they're missing three essential ingredients for a successful life.

No vision, no focus, no progress. It's that

simple and it's that profound. You see, life has a way of teaching us lessons. And one of the

biggest lessons I've learned is this. If you don't design your own life plan, chances

are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Not much at all. I remember meeting a man at the airport several years ago. Nice fellow well-dressed, seemed intelligent enough. We struck up a conversation during a flight delay and I asked him what I always asked people what are you working on what's your plan?

He looked at me with a puzzled expression and said plan

I don't really have a plan. I just take things as they come. Just take things as they come. Can you believe that?

Here was a grown man probably in his 40s with no more direction than a piece of driftwood floating in the ocean.

And the sad part is he's not alone. Most people live this way. They get up, go to work, come home, watch television, go to bed,

and repeat the same routine day after day, year after year, wondering why their lives never seem to improve.

But here's what I've discovered after all these years.

The formula for a better life isn't complicated.

It comes down to three things, vision, focus, and progress.

Miss any one of these and you'll find yourself stuck in the same place you were last year and the year before that and the year before that well let me tell you something about vision first vision is not some mystical pie in the sky concept that only dreamers possess. Vision is simply knowing where you want to go.

It's having a clear picture of what you want your life to look like one year from now,

five years from now, ten years from now.

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