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If you are looking for unique homes in Austin, look no further! We can find you what you want and need in Austin real estate. Maybe an Austin home with wooden beamed ceilings, fire places and a country kitchen is what you are dreaming of.
Its football season and you might be needing an over-sized game room with a loft to host your next football game party. When it comes to houses in Austin you want it, we will find it!
With Options Realty we give you options!
For all your Austin real estate questions and needs, please call Rose Castro at 512.656.3281 or [email protected]
NOTE: As a thank you for reading this blog post, we are providing you with a free excerpt from Dan Castro’s book CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES.
When was the last time you made a list of things that really give you satisfaction in life? How often and with what amount of intensity are you currently pursuing these things? Are you currently enduring a less than satisfactory situation when you know in your heart you should be doing something else? Are you making excuses for not pursuing your dreams? If you held your excuses in one hand and your dreams in the other, which hand would have more weight?
If you think following your dream is a luxury you don't deserve and you don't have the time or money to pursue it, then you have made a decision that will carve out your place in history—anonymity. But it’s never too late to change your mind. It's only too late on the day you choose to give up. This could happen when you are 65 or it could happen when you are 25. Giving up is a choice you make, not something that happens to you.
“We will either find a way or make one.”
Hannibal
Be willing to experiment with something new. There are new adventures around every corner.
You may be on the cutting edge of a new trend or a new discovery that will change conventional wisdom for years to come. You may not go down in history, but you may change the course of your life and the lives of those around you for the better. Only time will tell.
It’s never too late to decide what you want to be when you grow up. We should be on a never-ending quest to achieve our best and highest purpose, no matter what stage of life we find ourselves in. Remember, the decisions you make today affect your future more than the decisions you made yesterday.
Life is a little bit like fly fishing. When I first learned to fly fish, it was awkward because there was no weight on the end of the line to aid in casting. The casting is all done with a rhythmic motion of the arm and shoulder and a flick of the wrist. It requires a great deal of finesse. On the day of my first lesson, it was very windy. I thought attempting to cast an almost weightless fly line into the wind was a pointless exercise. But my instructor did it with great ease. He told me that in fly fishing you have to pick a spot on the water where you want your fly to land and cast toward it. If you don't pick a particular spot and keep directing your energies toward it, your fly line will be tossed about by the wind. The same is true in life. You need to pick a specific goal and keep casting toward it. Eventually, you will get there.
In order to get to your goal, you need to make two decisions. First, decide where to cast your hook. Second, make a decision every day to do something that is specifically designed to pull you closer to the goal. Ask yourself, "What specific action can I take today to get me a little closer to my goal?" If you don't know where to start, begin by reading articles and books on the subject. Talk to people who are already successfully doing what you want to do. But don't just sit there. Act!
Setting specific goals is very powerful. Writing down your “big picture” desires of where you want to be in ten years is critical. Today, you should stop and create a “dream sheet” of where you want to be and what you want to be doing in ten years. For now, ignore whether these dreams sound realistic or not. The key is to let your imagination run wild. Start dreaming now. Leave out no option. Deprive yourself of nothing. Make your list today!
Why is this exercise so important? Goal-setting creates the framework around which all other decisions can be made. Your goals become the standard upon which all options are evaluated. If a certain choice does not bring you closer to your goal, it should not be seriously considered. This simplifies what might have been a difficult decision. In short, we should reject all options that take us off the course that leads us to our goals. If you don't make a specific choice about where you want to be, then you can’t make the daily decisions designed to get you there.
When you chart a new course on paper by writing down your goals, you give your mind a new pattern to follow. This is part of restructuring the "programs" in your mind. You can't pursue a new direction until you allow yourself to do so in your mind. You’ve got to free yourself mentally to follow a new course. When you write down specific dreams and tangible goals, you give your mind guideposts to follow. You give your mind little handholds to reach for and hold onto one by one as you climb the mountain. When your mind starts following a new pattern, your actions follow. When your actions change, the results you get out of life also change.
“Sow a thought, and you reap an action;
sow an action, and you reap a habit;
sow a habit, and you reap a character;
sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
Charles Reade
THANK YOU FOR READING THIS EXCERPT!
Remember, if you are buying or selling Austin real estate, please call Rose Castro at EXIT: Options Realty.
Its football season and you might be needing an over-sized game room with a loft to host your next football game party. When it comes to houses in Austin you want it, we will find it!
With Options Realty we give you options!
For all your Austin real estate questions and needs, please call Rose Castro at 512.656.3281 or [email protected]
NOTE: As a thank you for reading this blog post, we are providing you with a free excerpt from Dan Castro’s book CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES.
When was the last time you made a list of things that really give you satisfaction in life? How often and with what amount of intensity are you currently pursuing these things? Are you currently enduring a less than satisfactory situation when you know in your heart you should be doing something else? Are you making excuses for not pursuing your dreams? If you held your excuses in one hand and your dreams in the other, which hand would have more weight?
If you think following your dream is a luxury you don't deserve and you don't have the time or money to pursue it, then you have made a decision that will carve out your place in history—anonymity. But it’s never too late to change your mind. It's only too late on the day you choose to give up. This could happen when you are 65 or it could happen when you are 25. Giving up is a choice you make, not something that happens to you.
“We will either find a way or make one.”
Hannibal
Be willing to experiment with something new. There are new adventures around every corner.
You may be on the cutting edge of a new trend or a new discovery that will change conventional wisdom for years to come. You may not go down in history, but you may change the course of your life and the lives of those around you for the better. Only time will tell.
It’s never too late to decide what you want to be when you grow up. We should be on a never-ending quest to achieve our best and highest purpose, no matter what stage of life we find ourselves in. Remember, the decisions you make today affect your future more than the decisions you made yesterday.
Life is a little bit like fly fishing. When I first learned to fly fish, it was awkward because there was no weight on the end of the line to aid in casting. The casting is all done with a rhythmic motion of the arm and shoulder and a flick of the wrist. It requires a great deal of finesse. On the day of my first lesson, it was very windy. I thought attempting to cast an almost weightless fly line into the wind was a pointless exercise. But my instructor did it with great ease. He told me that in fly fishing you have to pick a spot on the water where you want your fly to land and cast toward it. If you don't pick a particular spot and keep directing your energies toward it, your fly line will be tossed about by the wind. The same is true in life. You need to pick a specific goal and keep casting toward it. Eventually, you will get there.
In order to get to your goal, you need to make two decisions. First, decide where to cast your hook. Second, make a decision every day to do something that is specifically designed to pull you closer to the goal. Ask yourself, "What specific action can I take today to get me a little closer to my goal?" If you don't know where to start, begin by reading articles and books on the subject. Talk to people who are already successfully doing what you want to do. But don't just sit there. Act!
Setting specific goals is very powerful. Writing down your “big picture” desires of where you want to be in ten years is critical. Today, you should stop and create a “dream sheet” of where you want to be and what you want to be doing in ten years. For now, ignore whether these dreams sound realistic or not. The key is to let your imagination run wild. Start dreaming now. Leave out no option. Deprive yourself of nothing. Make your list today!
Why is this exercise so important? Goal-setting creates the framework around which all other decisions can be made. Your goals become the standard upon which all options are evaluated. If a certain choice does not bring you closer to your goal, it should not be seriously considered. This simplifies what might have been a difficult decision. In short, we should reject all options that take us off the course that leads us to our goals. If you don't make a specific choice about where you want to be, then you can’t make the daily decisions designed to get you there.
When you chart a new course on paper by writing down your goals, you give your mind a new pattern to follow. This is part of restructuring the "programs" in your mind. You can't pursue a new direction until you allow yourself to do so in your mind. You’ve got to free yourself mentally to follow a new course. When you write down specific dreams and tangible goals, you give your mind guideposts to follow. You give your mind little handholds to reach for and hold onto one by one as you climb the mountain. When your mind starts following a new pattern, your actions follow. When your actions change, the results you get out of life also change.
“Sow a thought, and you reap an action;
sow an action, and you reap a habit;
sow a habit, and you reap a character;
sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
Charles Reade
THANK YOU FOR READING THIS EXCERPT!
Remember, if you are buying or selling Austin real estate, please call Rose Castro at EXIT: Options Realty.
