Together with coach Laura Chica, Francisco Alcaide, author of Aprendiendo de los mejores (Learning from the best), has once again written an excellent book, one capable of opening a person’s mind, putting them on the right path and giving them the motivation they need to change the course of their life.
As the book’s title says, Tu futuro es hoy: your future is today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Today. Every day, when you wake up, you have a new opportunity to change your life by doing things in a completely different way from how you were doing them yesterday, and therefore getting different results.
To that end, Francisco and Laura focus on 40 areas you need in order to control, change and create your own destiny. These areas, or keys, range from clarity of vocation to goals, strategy, fears and so on.
Whether you are just starting out, have lost your way or need to make changes, you will certainly find some very concrete steps and a good dose of motivation.
On vocation
- “Everyone has a vocation that inspires others. The trick is, first, to find it and, second, to make a profession of it.”
As an old saying goes, there are two great days in your life: the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
On turning your passion into a business
- “The philosopher and writer Fernando Savater was once asked why he charged for giving lectures if he was doing something he truly enjoyed. He replied: if I stop charging for doing something I like, I’ll have to start doing something I don’t like in order to get paid.”
See also: How to find out what you should do for a living
Goals
- “The main reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.”
After all, it’s hard to get anywhere if you don’t know where you want to go.
- “All things are created twice: first there is a mental creation, and then a material one.” – Stephen R. Covey
Goal strategy
- “Don’t give yourself permission to quit. The hardest work is always not giving up.”
Difficulties and setbacks will always come, especially nowadays, at a time when change is constant and very fast. In the end, success belongs to those who keep moving forward despite life’s blows.
Action
- “In this life it doesn’t matter what you think, what you say or what you plan. The only thing that really matters is what you do.”
A decision is measured by whether you have taken action. If there is no action, you haven’t really decided.
Managing fear
- “There is only one recipe for overcoming fear. Feel the fear, but do it anyway. A fear faced is a fear that shrinks; a fear not faced is a fear that grows.”
Productivity
- “If you want to succeed, you have to learn to be productive… Time is what it is, and it runs out. It can’t be recovered, it can’t be recycled and it can’t be stretched. Every hour that passes never comes back.”
The quotations in this article are excerpts from the book Tu futuro es hoy.
See also: The 6 areas of your life you must master to control your destiny
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