Comments on: Shattering the 3 most-common excuses for not checking off items on your ‘BIG Life List’

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By: Steve Venter

Steve Venter — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:43:29 +0000

Good advice Yanik. Now that I’m writing my Big List I’ll post this next to it to keep me going!

By: Elitsa

Elitsa — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:29:51 +0000

Hi there Yanik,

Great post!

I’m sure everyone has “to do list”. Sometimes things don’t happen as we want it. My personal “to do” list is getting larger than last year. A lot of goals for the next year too. What about you?

Keep in touch!

Yours,
Elitsa

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:28:09 +0000

You are so right Yanik.We spend so much time making excuses that we never live our life 1/1000th to it’s fullest. I will do better!
~Lisa

By: Vitaly Grinblat

Vitaly Grinblat — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:43:54 +0000

Hey Yanik,

Great post as usual.

You’re absolutely right about the thoughts that people have. There’s a saying I heard years ago that has really impacted the way I treat my business and my time. And that is, “Don’t design your life around your business, but design your business around your life”

The funny thing, is that the business that I was in at the time I heard this didn’t allow me to do that. But it made me think long and hard about why am I even in this type of business.

I want to go and play golf or tennis in the morning, after taking my daughter to school.

I also want to be able to spend time with her in the afternoon, and be able to attend all of her activities.

Most people say, I can’t do all of that because of my business, time, etc…

I say, change your business, to do what you want to do.

It didn’t change for me immediately, after I heard that phrase, but it planted a seed in my mind. And later when I made the decision that I was GOING to do the things I WANT TO DO, that decision led me a series of “coincidences” that now I can do all these things, while making more money than ever before.

Now I want to raise the bar and do even more things that are on my list of goals and dreams. (Like travel the world, like Melanie and Jason Van Orden)

Cheers,

Vitaly

By: Ruth Seebeck

Ruth Seebeck — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:34:38 +0000

Loved your thoughts. I’ve always told my own family, friends and readers to find time for the important things. My dad died at 53. Heaven is wonderful, but I still think about the lakes he didn’t fish, the trips he didn’t take, the restaurants he didn’t sample.

Life comes with no guarantees. We’ve always encouraged our daughter to grab every chance to do something new. She studied in Spain and Costa Rica as part of her college courses. Built her own marketing business. Now she’s in Chicago on a new career.

Ed and I take every opportunity to travel and do the things we love to do. Now I plan to renew my own list (again) with new goals. Thanks for the reminder!

By: Melanie Van Orden

Melanie Van Orden — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:13:02 +0000

Hey Yanik, great post. It resonates with me and my mission to help online entrepreneurs travel the world longterm. (If that is one of the items on their Big Life List, anyway!)

Jason and I have loved every day of our stay here in Buenos Aires and couldn’t be happier that we embarked on our traveling lifestyle. Thank goodness we didn’t let all of our fears and the judgments of others get in our way!

You mentioned pursuing your Big Life List in relation to family, wife and kids. I think it’s awesome that you and Missy have worked out your “crazy adventures” so well, but I know so many people who say, “I would do what you are doing, but it makes it too hard when you have kids!”

I think it’s a shame that a parent’s dream of a jet set lifestyle and a child’s opportunity to gain so much enriching experience would be lost because a person limits their thinking!

So I started a section of my website to help traveling entrepreneurs with kids! I particularly decided to do this when you mentioned to me at the Underground seminar this year that you would love to see a site about that.

I realized that many other people had expressed the same wish as you had. I also realized that it was a wish I had for myself to continue my travels once my future kids are born. Thanks for a nudge in the right direction! People are showing real interest in this on my blog!

By: mark

mark — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:05:36 +0000

thank you so much Yanik. I guess I better get on my list of things to do
before I “croak”. My buddy who’s a blues guitarist needs a Bass Player
and I think I better jump on it.

I have a myriad of other to do things I better get on.

Mark in Canada

By: Paul Keetch

Paul Keetch — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:47:13 +0000

Hi Yanik;

Another great post and the timing actually couldn’t be better.

I do my annual personal review on my birthday in June, as opposed to at the start of the calendar year, and I am currently reviewing my big list to see what items need to be moved into priority.

This past year I found myself making more and more excuses NOT to do the things on my list (for a wide variety of reasons) so thank you for your timely reminder that if I don’t make these items a priority, no one else is going to do it for me.

Yanik – I also tried to get a message to you directly, with a video voice mail through a mutual friend, but not sure if you rec’d it. I was hoping to have you speak on my virtual platform this summer as part of http://www.MillionairePrepSchool.com.

If you’re interested, please have someone on your team contact me at paul [at] millionaireprepschool [dot] com.

– Paul

http://www.MillionairePrepSchool.com