Someday Isle

I heard this today and it really resonated with me. I usually write my own thoughts, but heck sometimes someone far more intelligent and wise (that's pretty easy to find, someone more intelligent and wise than me) writes or says something far better than I ever could, so I decided to share. I must admit, I have been to Someday Isle many times in my lifetime. It is never fun to stand on it's beaches and see one's dreams just on the edge of the horizon. Still visible, but beyond reach as long as I stay on the island. This quote below won't fit everyone. People have different goals I guess. But I suspect more people than not have been on this island that motivational speaker Brian Tracy discusses, and as comfortable as it is to be there, I bet most of us vacationers would prefer to be chasing our dreams. Enjoy.

"Everybody wants to achieve great goals. They want to be happy, healthy, thin, rich, attractive, financially independent. We all want the same things. But what happens is people decide I want these things but before they start they decide they want to take a vacation and they go to a wonderful place called Someday Isle. And on Someday Isle they say someday I'll lose some weight and someday I'll take that course and someday I'll finish it, and someday I'll send out that letter and someday I'll save some money, and someday I'll get out of debt. And who are they surrounded by on this wonderful fantasy land? Other people who are on Someday Isle. And what all these people day in and day out do is think of excuses. They think of reasons why not to get started.
And this is what we've found is that successful people take action, and unsuccessful people take vacations on the island. So I'm going to give you the first secret of success today; it is vote yourself off the island, for life. No more Someday Isle. If you get an idea today, tomorrow, yesterday, if you get an idea take action on it now. Move now, move quickly. Because 95% of your success or failure in life is determined by your habits. And anything that you do repeatedly over and over again becomes a new habit. So therefore if you develop the habit of moving quickly and with focus and purpose, you become a completely different person than people who develop the habit of going to the island before they take any action." Brian Tracy

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