Start executing your plan today.

"A good plan violently executed is better than a perfect plan executed next week." George S. Patton

I can't recall how many times I have said, "Things will be better when . . .," or I have heard someone else say, "I could be happy if . . ." The real question is what are you waiting for? You want a happy life! You want a fulfilled life! You want less stress, a better job, more freedom, real change begins in your mind. Abraham Lincoln, with all the stress and heartache he endured reminds us, "Most folks are as happy as they make up their mind to be."

You want a different life, an untethered life, the life you dreamed of - start taking some action. The people who have accomplished great things aren't really any smarter, competent, or talented than you are - but they do tend to have two very important characteristics that set them apart.

• They are people of action. They don't wait for the world to hand them their dreams on silver platters - they execute their plans violently. They don't allow naysayers, or negative people to hinder them from fulfilling their dreams - they act on them.
• They are not easily discouraged. Most successful people have endured monumental failure. They fail greatly and they succeed greatly. Consider these words by Teddy Roosevelt delivered on April 23, 1910.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

So, what are you waiting for?