Wear Out or Rust Out

You Either Wear Out Rust Out

I rather be a well worn polished by years of work than something rusted out an no longer functional.

Yesterday I caught myself twiddling away time rather than pouring effort into my many projects and the above quote hit my news feed.  Nothing focuses the mind like realizing you're falling behind or not progressing.

Pouring work into my volunteer efforts, mentoring and sites like 10distilled that allow me to help more people than I could ever help in person are a great start but I think that part of the problem might be that my goal list might have been neglected too long.

Post your current years goals in the comments.  I'm always looking for ideas or things to spark ideas.

First Steps

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity. -Martin Myers

Every journey begins with a first step.

Remember, even if you're gotten yourself on the right track... if you don't start moving down the track towards your goals you're not any closer.

Take a step today.  Any step.

Meanwhile at 10Distilled we've completed a review of the best sad lamps that are commonly available.

The quality of the post should be a big improvement over what we've put out before.

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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
- W. N. Taylor

Free time is a threat to me.
-Grant Cardone

Things tend to fall apart when we're not completely focused on what we want or what we want to accomplish in life.

Free time isn't necessarily fun time and focusing on your goals doesn't necessarily mean that we're not having fun or enjoying ourselves.

So often the biggest setbacks in my life happened during free time.  I look back and think what a waste.  If only I had those hours again.  Why did I watch that rerun of GOT?  Why did I chain watch an entire season.

Take a moment today to refocus on what you're after.  It doesn't mean you can't do what you want, when you want to.  Chasing your goals IS going after what you want and remembering that now is the them time you want to chase them.

Keep chasing your dreams.

Random Thought of the Day

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.

-Konstantin Stanislavsky

This quote is interesting.  Many authors such as Grant Cardone have published widely on this topic.  Think: Be obsessed or be average (BOBA)

I think there is a LOT of truth to this.

The idea that you have to be obsessed or need to devote tons of attention to the thing that you're after is absolutely true.

Just a thought

http://10distilled.com

10Distilled Blog is Officially Live

As you may or may not know launching a blog isn't the easiest of things.

Lots of work goes into thinking about just what exactly you want to go into the blog.  You always want to add value but you never know a priori what exactly your audience will want.

Actually, until your blog gets off the ground you don't even have an audience yet.  But let's not split hairs.

To start things off I think we'll focus on things I've found interesting during the day or maybe what goes on during the distillation process.  We'll see.

At some point you just need to start.  Good is good enough and if you just keep doing it the blog will find it's own path.

One thing I might touch on here and there is the growth of 10Distilled over time.  Really, the site is there to help people and a good measure of that may be unique visitors and bounce rate.

Right, if people stick around then they're being helped (for lack of a better way of measuring.)

Welcome

A new blog and a new day.

We're looking to push more and more content out as the days and weeks progress.

What's new is that this blog will serve as a place to put content that doesn't quite fit anywhere else.

(It may turn into a pile of rambling nonsense but give it a chance.)