You are the Master of your Destiny

“I always do like this,” “I am used to it this way,” “Why change something that works?”, “They taught to handle it in this manner,” and “Keeping a routine makes life easy.”

Can you relate to these phrases? Probably you can because they are so common. Habits are something natural for us as human beings. We learn something, we practice it, and suddenly we feel that we have mastered the habit. The next step is just to repeat it over and over again and become a master of your destiny.

On one side, we feel proud of ourselves because we master something, and maybe we do it well. On the other hand, and often without thinking about it, we have created a Habit. The negative side of a habit is that it helps us build a foundation of our “badly needed” comfort zone.

Master of your destiny outside your comfort zone

People who love comfort zones are normally the kind of people who graduate from school, get OK employment, earn decent money, and stay with the same employer for the rest of their lives. No risk-taking and no challenges either. For some people, this is a perfect lifestyle, and they should be given all respect for that.

What happens, for example, if they lose their jobs for reasons out of their control? Maybe the company will close down or merge with other industry enterprises.

First, they will automatically be pushed out of their self-created comfort box. As you can imagine, this scenario can generate tragedies without any preparation of an action plan if the “impossible” happens.

Be a Master of Your Destiny Through Determination

With a Plan I strongly believe in and am passionate about, the corresponding action implementation or Determination will help me get the necessary motivation to fulfill my action those days when things turn out to be tough, which happens now and then.

Working or acting with a sincere Determination in mind is very much a question of changing habits, not for the change itself but to reach the goal clearly stated in my plan.

Albert Einstein said once, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.”

An effective Determination often consists in changing habits and nothing else. But again, the change should have a reason. During the Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968, many things were used multiple times to describe different behaviors and events. Bob Beamon´s long jump I related to in my previous blog post, is only one example from those Games.

Dick Fosbury gave an even more spectacular impact when the men´s high jump competition started. The jumping style so far, and if you want, the jumping habit, was the straddle technique. Suddenly Dick Fosbury appeared, and millions of people couldn’t believe what they saw on the TV screen.

Against all “rules,” he seemed to do everything differently. It all started with the initial running, made in a curve, and ended with a twisted flop to “fly” over the bar with the upper part of the body first and the legs coming over at the end of the jump. All seemed to be executed backward. The Fosbury Flop was born, and Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by setting a New Olympic Record with 2 meters and 24 centimeters.

It’s all about changing habits

Absolutely everything changed in the high-jumping world, and today, the younger generation does not even know about any other jumping style. Talk about changing habits, or what a Determination. This is to be a real master of your destiny.

Changing habits does not necessarily have to be as big a deal as the Olympic Games. We apply habits multiple times in our daily lives without even thinking about it. Call them routines or whatever you want, but life would be difficult if we didn’t have those habits. Mastering your destiny is nothing magic. It’s a decision to make it happen.

One of my favorite blogs is James Clear’s. Among his life-improving advice, he talks a lot about habits, how to use them, and how to change them if needed. I recommend reading his e-book, Transform Your Habits, which you can download for free.

Let your Life be Determined by You

Analyzing all we do daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly, you will pretty soon recognize that life, to an important extent, has an implemented scheme constructed by routines or habits. A lot of habits are good to have, but when using them without reflecting on their efficiency and even usage, they can easily become roadblocks to our development.

When I decided to join the Six Figure Mentors and Become a Become a Digital Entrepreneur, it was mainly based on my dreams to run my own business and finally change my lifestyle.

To run this kind of business, you need to be fully committed, change your habits, and create many new ones. Success is very much determined by how close you can afford to live to the edge of your comfort zone.

In the same way, I am committed to my marathon running with its organized and disciplined training. My commitment to my own business falls into the same frame of discipline and organization.

One example of how to implement one little ingredient to my already existing habit is this blog. My idea and conviction are that this blog will not interest anybody if the posts are not published with a certain precise frequency. Therefore, I decided from the very beginning that my followers could expect one new blog post every 5^th day.

Failing a step forward

Now, to fulfill the other promise, which is relevant content with value, I knew that I was going to fail from the very first blog post if I sat down and tried to write something on the publishing day. With all the stress of producing material with content before the day comes to an end, it would be a horrible situation! Worst of all, I would not fulfill my commitment to my audience.

For this reason, I have implemented two new habits to fulfill my blogging commitment.

My smartphone I always bring with me is also my blogging notepad. Immediately, no matter where I am or what I am doing, I write down any idea appearing for my future blog posts. How often does it not happen that you get a brilliant idea, and later on, when you try to remember what it was, well, then it’s gone? Take Notes! ….Immediately!

Every single day, I dedicate at least half an hour to writing posts that help me always be ahead of my publishing date. Sometimes, I have a tremendous “flow” and write the entire blog post in 20 minutes. On other occasions, I will need several hours to do a post.

As my audience, you have no idea what is going on behind the scenes, and you should not have to worry about it either. My goal is to build up a huge community following my blog and share with me what we all believe is a roadmap towards our ultimate lifestyle. So, using habits as tools can make the difference between success and failure.

On this fantastic journey, I know I will sometimes fail. Failing is a natural part of the game.

“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.”

But with the Plan in place, the correct Action, and Determination like the leading stars, no one can stop me. No one can block my success. I know it! ……. What about you?

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