my new goal.

How about this..

kevontemcfly:

How about you stop doing what you want and start doing what you need to do. I’m pretty sure 34 hours into your New Years you’ve broken at least one of the half-ass promises you made to yourself.

All across my dash, laundry lists of what people want in the New Year.

I wanna get healthy.

I wanna get a job.

I wanna graduate.

I wanna, I wanna, I wanna.

The reason you have so many problems is because you do what you want.

Start doing what you need.

I  started to stop doing what I want about 3 years ago.

I started doing what I needed to do.

I needed to get healthy.

I needed to quit smoking and drinking.

I needed to go to class.

I needed to graduate and get a job.

I needed to save money.

As soon as I took care of my needs, I got everything I’ve ever wanted and then some.

Hell on X-mas day I went to check my bank statement and long behold an unexpected check for 2k was in there from Uncle Sam. He owed me for back travel pay apparently. But I wasn’t expecting it and I didn’t need it or want it. It just happened.

When things are bad they tend to snowball.

Well the same thing happens when things are good.

You serious about change?

You ready for the internal tug of war?

To tell you the truth the hardest thing to do in life is change.

Even on New Years, a nice dinner with the wife was almost ruined.

I was ordering and I saw that wine menu and that little kid and like I said no matter how old you are, whether you’re 16, 21, 25, 45, we got that little kid in us screaming “I do what I want”.

Well he started creeping and making excuses and I heard him “it’s only one drink and you’ve been working hard and you deserve it”

And that adult in me was like “naw bruh, forget what that little nigga is saying, he ain’t talking about nuthin’, you need to run 3 miles in the morning remember”

And boom down goes that punk little kid. It’s the little battles you got to win.

But remember half the battle is in the preparation.

I’m prepared. I got wife across from me. That’s my battle buddy. She ain’t going to let me slip.

Ask yourself this question though.

How you going to go to battle with yourself hungover or high?

You going to lose every time.

You got to start now. You got to start checking that little monster in you.

You got to humble yourself and know that what you want, most likely isn’t what you need.

Actually it’s going to be the opposite most of the time.

Once you start taking care of what you need, everything you ever wanted starts to fall in your lap.

My New Years Resolution is to stop cursing.

It’s going to be an uphill battle with that one, but I’m going to win it.

Self actualization is a journey, not a place. You know you’re on the path when you feel yourself straining to reach your potential. You know you aren’t when you constantly bemoan your situation and circumstances, yet continue to do the same things hoping for different results. You were created with limitless potential; some call it “in the image of God”. - Professor D.V.