{"id":3989,"date":"2018-09-28T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/28\/after-3-years\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T14:42:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:42:01","slug":"after-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/28\/after-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"After 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.<\/span> <\/span><\/span>– Galatians 1:18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where will you be 3 years from now?<\/p>\n

How about a year, or 7 or 25 from now?<\/p>\n

As Ramit Sethi often says: the time is going to pass anyway. The only question is how you’re going to deal with the inevitable passage of time.<\/p>\n

One approach is to just let it happen. Let whatever will be, be. After all, you never know what’s going to happen, right?<\/p>\n

Another approach is to dare to build something or grow something or prepare for something that requires that space of time.<\/p>\n

You could write a page a day and have a novel 2 years from now.<\/p>\n

You could plant an orchard and have a thousand apple trees, 30 years from now.<\/p>\n

You could get married, get pregnant and have a house full of 27 great grand children 70 years from now.<\/p>\n

You could choose to create your tomorrow through the choices you make today.<\/p>\n

If you have to have it yesterday, or before Noon on Friday, then you’ll be frustrated.<\/p>\n

But if you shift your focus to 3 years or a decade from now, and work towards that, you’ll be amazed at how the day to day crises that you’re reacting to will get in line with your vision.<\/p>\n

The time is going to pass anyway…What are you going to do with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. – Galatians 1:18 Where will you be 3 years from now? How about a year, or 7 or 25 from now? As Ramit Sethi often says: the time is going to pass anyway. The only question is … <\/p>\n

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