Hey everybody, Charlie here. President, founder of Growth Dynamics. How's everybody doing? We're here for another Fast Tip Friday. I admit I'm a little disappointed I didn't get as many ski days in as I wanted. But hey, look, there may be a couple weeks left where I can get back on the snow and get my legs loose and have a few more runs to savor the winter season before we break fully into spring here in the Philadelphia area.
Anyway, what I wanted to talk to you about was sort of along the same lines, and that is, don't expect things to happen if you don't expect yourself to be able to put them in a calendar and schedule them. If you don't make your priorities your priority, you're probably going to end up being the victim—hate to use that word, but it's true—of someone else's priorities.
Frankly, I wish I had learned this lesson earlier in my life, that if I didn't take control of what my definition of success was, I ended up working too many times for someone else's success that didn't necessarily line up with mine. So this is just a quick Fast Tip Friday reminder: don't hesitate to put your life on a plan, and don't hesitate to define what you would call your best life, or the best opportunities for you to enjoy as much as you can, while you can, when you can—the rest of the world be damned almost. It's a tough, hard way to live. But the sooner you've decided that you can live your life and still take care of the business that you've got to deliver, you'll see the rewards both financially, energy-wise, enjoyment-of-life-wise, relationship-wise—all those things will start to fall into place. And instead of creating more stress of a schedule, I think you'll actually have less stress, because your success will not be accidental. It'll be a deliberate, decisive process that'll take you where you want to go when you want to get there.
So don't hesitate to believe you are worth that life, and all you've got to do is make the decisions to do it. Thanks for paying attention this week. Have a great weekend, and we'll see you next week on Fast Tip Friday. We're out.
