Not everything that you experience in life deserves a response in that moment. In fact, most of it doesn't. If you're having a conversation with your wife and it's bothering you, you can say, hey, you know, thank you for bringing that to my attention. Let me think on that a little bit. If your kids say something that maybe is rude or upsets you or a client or your boss or a coworker or a colleague, et cetera, et cetera.

Pause. Take a time out. Take a breath. Relax. Not everything needs to be answered immediately.

I was watching one of my favorite movies, which is Gladiator just the other day. And the quote that really stood out to me as I was watching the movie was by Maximus, which said, what we do echoes in eternity.

Now, that might be a misattribution.

I think it was actually probably more likely to be Marcus Aurelius, who said that in his book,

Meditations and through his Stoic philosophy.

But regardless, the impact and the weight of what that had on me in that moment and throughout my entire life has been very, very powerful for me.

And I hope that it is for you, too.

If you've never heard that quote, or if you're just trying to wrap your head around what that means, I think being able to lengthen out our horizon and our time frame as men is a very powerful

thing. Too many of us tend to operate in the here and now. We allow our emotions

to get the better of us and we think what is prudent now is going to serve us best. But

I'm not going to say very rarely, but I am going to say that oftentimes what we want now

is a direct odds with our betterment for the future. So today I'm going to say that oftentimes what we want now is at direct odds with our betterment for the

future. So today I'm going to talk with you about a few things. Number one, I'm going to talk

with you about three things that you need to keep in mind as to why we need to maintain a very

long-term perspective with our goals, desires, dreams, and ambitions. And then number two,

I'm going to share with you three very simple strategies that you can implement right now

to ensure that you are keeping and maintaining a long-term perspective in life and therefore

producing results that just aren't fleeting or luck or chance or happenstance,

but very predictable results for your own betterment and for the betterment of the lives

of the people that you love and care about.

Number one, and we're talking about the mindsets, we're talking about the thought process

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