 When I was a teenager between ages 13 to 15 I developed a deep hatred for television because on the part of the world where I grew up TV is 99% about entertainment while entertainment itself isn't a bad thing What I saw around me were people whose entire lives revolved around entertainment as a young guy I decided I will work hard on myself to make myself resourceful and productive. I Borrowed and read every single book. I called I dreamt of becoming the best student in my school And I achieved that then I dreamt of building a company having a great marriage and leaving the exact way I want I achieved all these dreams and not because I had better opportunities than most people But because I focused on taking care of my days You see Jordan Peterson said and I quote if you fulfill your obligations every day You don't need to worry about the future if you pay attention to the 24 hours you have now and do that each day You won't need to worry about the next 24 years If you take care of today and each day your future will take care of itself The problem with most young people is that they focus too much on the future These people think about a future when they will have all the money But they avoid the daily discipline that least is such a future these people wish they could become successful artists Athletes writers entrepreneurs or anything like that, but they wouldn't make daily sacrifices that lead to such a future Stop deceiving yourself tomorrow doesn't exist. It will never come today is the only day you'll ever see So if you don't take care of today, you can't have a meaningful future. Have you fulfilled your obligations every day? You don't need to worry about the future Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29 1958 when he was only five Michael Jackson started his music career and went on to become one of the most successful musicians ever in the history of our planet But wait a second Michael Jackson didn't become a successful musician because he wanted to be More than a decade ago I read a newspaper story about how Michael Jackson practices dance and music for eight long hours every day I later watched a video of him where he confessed that he would always stay awake at night Practicing his music again and again Some of Jackson's assistants confessed that he would practice each of his steps 100 times and would still not be satisfied in 1979 Michael Jackson broke his nose during one of his rigorous practice and after his death on June 25 2009 Michael Jackson's autopsy report revealed that his feet were seriously deformed Possibly from the excessive dance dance, which was the reason why he always wore socks Now you can see Michael Jackson didn't become a great musician because he wished wanted or waited to be It was his daily commitment and sacrifices that made Jackson the king of pop now Let me ask you this question. What do you want to do with your life? It doesn't matter what that is the only thing that matters is your daily commitment to a stat goal If you can pursue it every day you can have it if you can't make sacrifices for it day after day You'll never get it if you fulfill your obligations every day. You don't need to worry about the future Born February 5th 1985 Cristiano Ronaldo started his life pretty roughly in fact his mother attempted to have an abortion when she was carrying him Simply because the family was too poor to care for another child But the abortion wouldn't be allowed by the doctor as a young child Ronaldo fell in love with football He would spend hours and hours practicing instead of reading for school and later got expelled from school at age 14 One year later at age 15 Ronaldo was diagnosed with a racing heart a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football Ronaldo underwent heart surgery where a laser was used to catarise multiple cardiac pathways into one Altering his racing heart rate. He was discharged from the hospital hours after the procedure and resumed training a few days later Aside from his heart challenge Ronaldo was belittled by different people for being fragile and this his critics claimed will stop him from being a successful Footballer, but young Ronaldo wouldn't listen day after day He would spend hours and hours working out and practicing his skill up till today Cristiano Ronaldo still sacrifices six difficult hours every day to become a better football player Even though he had become one of the most successful footballers in the world if you fulfill your obligations every day You don't need to worry about the future There's only one single day in your lifetime and it's called today No other day matters because you'll never live in them You can't live in yesterday and you can't live in tomorrow Your life's obligations is to take good care of today because that's the only day you'll ever have It doesn't matter what goal you have for the next decade or even the next year If you wake up each day and expect your life to be better one day It will never be better people who achieve greatness in life are those who take care of every day of their lives Whether you talk about business music Politics or even science the successful people in any field are those who take Responsibility and make a daily sacrifice for the long-term goal if you fulfill your obligations every day You don't need to worry about the future My journey to becoming a writer about 20 years ago. I was still in secondary school in a small town in Nigeria I would leave my parents home on weekends and go to a lonely place to write if you ask me today I don't know what I was writing The only thing I know is I loved to join words together But listen to this that you love to do something doesn't mean that you'll ever become successful doing it To become successful in any field years and years of daily practice and sacrifice is needed pay attention to these words Daily every day in my own case I have spent the last seven years consciously writing as many days as possible as at the time of making this video I write about 6,000 words every week. That's an average of 900 words per day These days I receive messages from people who tell me how good my writings are Well my writings aren't good by accident. They are good because I practice making them good daily If you'll fulfill your obligations every day, you don't need to worry about the future new year resolution is Nonsense usually towards the end of each year people's emotions get to their way of thinking Since everyone wants to achieve something bigger people figure out that the best time to pursue such a goal is at the beginning of a New year hence they set new goals for the year and make new resolutions But new year resolution is a waste of time According to the US News and World Report 80 percent of new year's resolutions fail by February a 2007 study by Richard Wiseman from the University of Bristol Involving 3,000 people showed that 88 percent of those who said new year resolutions fail Despite the fact that 52 percent of the studies participants were confident of success at the beginning of the year The University of Scraton's research suggests that just eight percent of people achieve the new year's goals Which means 92 percent of resolutions fail, but why do most people forget the new year's resolution by the second month of the year? Well, you can't ever live in the future. You can't take care of the future You can't even plan for the future the best and only important goal You can set for yourself is to take care of today. I mean today you can't take care of next year Not even next month by focusing on a year You give yourself the ticket to waste as much possible days as possible Since your focus is on the year by taking care of today by seeing today as the only day you'll ever have You put yourself in a position where you get the best out of each day if you fulfill your obligations every day You don't need to worry about the future. Here's what you should do Sit down and make a list of three important things you'd like to achieve in the next 10 years Then determine what you must sacrifice each day of your life for those things to be achieved This can be practiced. It can be reading and studying. It can be a brainstorming session with someone It can be taking actions and making mistakes The point is you have to do something every day that takes you a step closer to your goal Or you'll never achieve such a goal if you'll fulfill your obligations every day You don't need to worry about the future