2012 is about real time.

This marks my official first post, and I figured I set the year off right with what I consider my motto for 2012: real time. The above video is the great Eric Thomas, a motivational speaker, who is an embodiment of inspiration. 

 I wish I would have seen this video earlier in my life, more specifically, sometime before university because I was never operating on real time, I was just operating on my time. Much of this has to do with the ego, but also for the fact that university is like living temporarily in a bubble, you choice what you want to learn, when you want to show up, and basically how you want to perform. But this could be far from real time. Most of us want to be that in control of our real lives, we strive to have that level of comfort where we can create our own rules and dictate the pace at which we live. In reality however, there are so many external variables which dictate the pace at which you live, that the transition into real time is like when your walking down a terminal at an airport and you step on the moving walkway; there is a moment where you're off balance, and for some this moment is temporary and you recover your stride, and for others they never can recover.

Eric really hits it home with the Reggie Bush example, how going from the big fish in the pond, to the real world is a big leap for many.  Its easy to get caught up with your limited perspective when you consider your own achievements, but like Eric said until you actually see what success really is, you have no clue how to achieve it in real time. No one sees the rappers in the studio everyday, or the athletes in the gym training, or the actors rehearsing lines. It all comes back to what is real time, and how much of your day are you utilizing towards what matters most. 

For 2012 my goal is simple: every hour counts. Even though I like to believe being lazy is in the human genome, the best way I have found to over come this is time management. Success is a pattern of behaviour and it begins with making the right hour-to-hour choices. It won't be the big decisions you make in 2012 which will determine your success, it will be those daily ones which compound and gain momentum which will propel you to your destination.

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