Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

particular piece of knowledge. And that one time I need
it 
might
just change the whole outcome of my life. I‘ll give
you an example. In 2015, after my friends and mentors told
me I should share my ideas about productivity, life, and
business with others, I seriously started thinking about
doing it.
But there are many ways you can share your knowledge
with others. You can give training to groups and host
seminars. You can coach people individually. You can create
videos for YouTube. You can give talks at conferences. The
possibilities are endless. But because I’ve always had an
interest in writing and had read so much about it in the past,
I realized that I should start with written ideas. That was the
easiest way for me to get started.
I had also learned all about creating websites in the past. So
it was very easy for me to get started with all of this. In fact,
I created a website in a day. And I started writing every day
for a month. The result? A book and a bunch of articles.
Know Your Direction. Not Your Destination.
When I read about writing and building websites years ago, I
didn’t know I would use that knowledge to build my own
blog.
To be honest, I didn’t know what I wanted. I only knew what
direction I wanted to go in. I knew I wanted to make a
contribution and do work that I enjoyed.
So it’s not important to know exactly what you want to do
with your life. People change. Economies change. So, it’s not

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even realistic to boldly claim “I know what I want!” The only
thing every person needs is a sense of direction. A vision of
where you’d like to go.
Look, you don’t need to know your exact destination. You
often read about people who say they always knew what
they wanted. But that’s just a small portion of the
population. I’ve personally never met someone like that.
Most of us don’t have that conviction from day one. It grows
over time.
If you can’t decide what direction you want to go in life,
that’s automatically your #1 goal in life — to figure out
where you want to go. That’s what Jay Abraham also
recommends in Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve
Got (which is one of my favorite business books of all time):
“Your first priority is to identify what you want and then
make sure you take the path that’s going to give you that.
There’s nothing sadder than to see someone get to be
seventy-five or eighty years old and look back regrettably
because they pursued the wrong target.”
You see that he doesn’t say you should know exactly what
you want? That would not be realistic. Instead, we need to
know where we’re roughly going. I know, it remains
intangible. But that’s the only helpful answer that I’ve found
in life.