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Make a hole.
道を開こう。

 

As Jalaluddin Rumi once put it, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

The same applies to passion, motivation, or any positive emotions that come from inside your mind.

So what are the barriers? They are your negative beliefs, bad habits, or anything that prevents you from moving forward.

The barriers will never be disappeared—our brain sometimes creates them whatever the reason is—but we can make them powerless by learning a way to go through or go around them.

 

 

Train your mind.
精神を鍛えよう。

 

As Wayne Dyer put it, “Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

And we all know that it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Our brain is a frequent time traveler, and we often have a difficulty with having it focus on this moment. Regret for past mistakes or anxiety for future often wakes us up in the middle of the night.

Dealing with randomness of our brain is like a muscle training. We just have to keep working on it; it’s not a one-time inspiration, it’s a continuous improvement. Until we live our last day.

 

 

Invest time wisely.
賢く時間を投資しよう。

 

Time is the most precious resource in our life, and we better focus on getting the best return on investment (ROI) of our time—no matter what we do, and no matter how old we are now.

How can we measure the ROI?

It’s simple; If you have the life you wanted, you’ve gained enough return so far. If something in your life is not what you wanted—your body, relationship, financial situation, or anything—you haven’t gained enough return, or haven’t invested your time wisely. Either way, you definitely need to change what you do with your time.

Each one of us has a different target ROI. So my way of investing my time would not work for you, and vice versa. A challenge for all of us is to figure out how we should spend our time now—and for the rest of our life.

 

 

Get to the point.
核心をつこう。

 

At some point in our life, there is a time to scrap existing beliefs and rebuild new ones from scratch—especially when running a business.

In a business situation, numbers matter. Without monitoring key metrics, you can’t make your business grow. But some people are just keen to do what they want to do, not what they ought to do, and tend to forget their numbers. Their business will never be successful.

If no one visits your website, there is something to work on. If your customers don’t come back, you have something to improve. If your revenue does not hit your target, you’ve got to do many things—including things you don’t want to do—to turn the situation around.

Don’t just do what you love. Do what you love and MAKE MONEY. To make money, know what your customers want, then figure out how you can fulfill their needs by doing what you love.

In a business world, a customer need always comes first. Doing what you love is the second. The opposite will never work.

 

 

Choose where to go.
行き先を決めよう。

 

We either find a way or crate one. Or, instead of finding or creating a way, we find excuses. We choose one of them every day.

Which one would you choose today?