How Do We Get To Where We Want to Go?

John Cousins
2 min readFeb 9, 2023
Photo by Clemens van Lay on Unsplash

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Take a quick inventory of yourself and your actions and habits. What are you doing that you are less than pleased with? What should you be doing that you currently aren’t?

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

We first have to promise to be honest with ourselves. Rationalizing and making excuses to continue behavior we know deep down is wrong will not move us forward. Instead, we need to be open to change.

What got us here won’t get us where we want to go.

Doing the same thing over and over and hoping for different results is not the strategy we will rely on. Instead, we will use the scientific method to determine what works for us.

Be open to testing different approaches, measuring the results, and course-correcting as needed.

Everything starts as an idea. First, we must cultivate a mindset that can generate positive, productive ideas. Then we put those ideas to work consistently through habits and practices.

Each small change consistently executed changes the direction of the ship. Over time this is how we reap a destiny.

“Sow a thought, and you reap an action; sow an act, and you reap a…

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