A good way to frame your current state of affairs is to look back at what you were doing {X} amount of time ago.
When a software salesperson has a great month, it’s not simply because of their effort in that specific month. Blowing out December quota is from the cold calls and relationships and hard work in August and April and January and the previous November.
The opposite is true too. If December is a total bust in sales, it’s probably not because of December itself. The previous couple quarters are worth sniffing around instead.
And so it goes with just about everything else. Work skills. Fitness. Finances. Marriages. Friendships. Faith. A book idea. A musical instrument. A foreign language.
Sometimes the evidence is months, or even years, in the past. Sometimes it’s yesterday.
It’s a gift to your kids to approach life with this level of intentionality.
Gratefully Dad 