How to choose the life you want to live, is all about taking control of your life and not just going through the motions and living your life on autopilot. For all of you that have found this post I am so happy for you and so excited for you because I know that you are ready to take control of your life and you are on the path to choosing the life you want to live. In this post I am going to lay out the foundation for you to live the life you want to live through choice.

To many people are living their lives one of two major ways. Way one they are living the life that someone else chose for them and they are sitting in the passenger seat on a journey of someone else’s choosing. Way two is that people have taken at least a little bit of control, and they are at least sitting in the driver’s seat, but they have put the car or plane in autopilot mode, and they have no real control of where their life is heading, but they are trusting life will lead them to the proper destination.

Now, I am going to present you with a third option that gives you full control of your life, but it is going to take some discipline and you may have to do some things that make you incredibly uncomfortable in the beginning. The first thing that I need you to do right now if you are serious about choosing the life that you want to live and I mean actually do this right now (Stop here and write down on a sheet of paper the following, “I am taking control of my life right now!”) before you continue reading any further.

Right now, is the only time that you can really control, think about it and never forget it! We don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow and to be honest we don’t even know what is going to happen 10 seconds from right now, but we do have control of what we are doing at any given moment in the present i.e. Right now!

Now that you have written down and decided that you are going to take control of your life and stop being a victim of circumstance, the second thing you need to do is develop a plan and or a routine. This is a very important and crucial step in creating the life you want to live. This is your choice so choose wisely. Personally, the life I am choosing is to become a multi-millionaire and I am taking all of the action steps necessary and even doing some things to speed up the process.

Real quickly I am going to lay out a few actions that could be part of your personal growth plan on your way to creating and choosing the life you want to live. One of the first things I do in the morning is to get out of bed when my body and mind naturally want to wake up and I do it without an alarm. Secondly, I go to the kitchen, and I start my morning cup of coffee. Thirdly while the coffee is brewing, I turn on my reading lamp that I have next to my sofa in the living room and I start reading whatever book I am currently on at the time (Currently I am reading “Start Late, Finish Rich” by David Bach, an oldie but a goodie, lol.) Thirdly once I have read roughly 10-20 pages give or take, I allow myself to watch some YouTube videos about Business, Finance, Personal Development, and Self Growth.

So, there’s my morning routine, which I assure you take discipline. The steps that I am taking beyond this to build my wealth and become a multi-millionaire quickly is, even though I don’t necessarily take home a huge paycheck, every week I still contribute 7% of my gross income to my 401K and I am about to increase that number to at least 13% in the next quarter because I am seeing great results and the longer I invest I get the effects of dollar cost averaging which is a strategy used by one the greatest investors of all time Warren Buffett. One of the other things that I am doing is I now spend my Saturdays from 10-6 working for my friend which gives me another $75 of extra income that I am able to save and invest. Another thing that I recently did to boost my income is I went to my boss and requested to come in an hour earlier so I could get some overtime or at least get my full forty hours which I had not been getting.

None of these things would have happened if I had just been content to be in autopilot and just go with the flow. I had to actively seek out opportunities to earn more and I took control of my life by asking for what I wanted. We all want more, but sometimes there is a little bit of a disconnect because we don’t always know where to start or how to begin. The reason I told you earlier to write down the phrase “I am taking control of my life right now, is because that takes action and it shows commitment to change even if it seems small or silly or ridiculous, it is a mental hack that is going to get the ball rolling.

After reading maybe one book all of last year, this year I am already on book number 8 or 9 and I can feel the momentum building and it has become a routine that I love. It’s like going to the gym for my mind and I am building the most important muscle I could build which is my brain. It’s cliche, but knowledge is power, and I truly believe that with all of my heart. A common theme that I keep hearing is that leaders read.

How else can you take control of your life? To go back to the plan and routine, make sure you create a written plan and maybe a few small goals that you can track and reward yourself for when completed. Another way to take control of your life is to stop being so heavily influenced by the opinions of others when they don’t align with what you are trying to achieve in life. When I was younger I had so many opportunities to do great things and build wealth, but I was worried about fitting in and having fun and so I was wasting all of my money going clubbing and barhopping, but that wasn’t what I truly wanted to do that was what I allowed others to influence me to do.

I was in the car, but I was a passenger in my own life, and I was doing what everyone else was doing, because I thought it would make me feel better, but it never did. The truth is that choosing to live your life may help you to realize that what you are currently doing isn’t you at all and you are being drug through life by people who are completely self-serving and have very little interest in you other than what you can do for them. Choosing your own life is much like those old books where you get to choose what you want to do next and skip to a different page in the book. Life is very similar, when you start making some choices and defining a clear path that you want to be on you will start to see new doors open up and you will get to jump ahead to better destinations quicker.

I am going to end with this, because I just want to really drive home that you can choose what you want and things will start to align for you. I mentioned earlier that I am working for my friend on the weekends to earn some extra money, but what I didn’t mention was how long it had been since I had seen or talked to said friend before we reconnected, because the universe had aligned and made our paths cross. So, my girlfriend and I were on our way to Kansas to spend the holidays with her family when we pulled in to get some gas at a 7-11. Once we got out of the car and were heading in someone said my name with great surprise and started walking toward me. When he came closer, I realized who it was, and I was so shocked and happy, and we gave each other a big hug because it had been at least a decade with no contact. I had been wanting to find an extra source of income but I hadn’t wanted to get an actual part time job and go through the whole process of corporate structure and like I said the universe just worked it out so I didn’t have to.

I had a plan though and I had written it out that I wanted to make some extra money, but I wasn’t too specific because I honestly did know exactly what I wanted to do. The point is that you just need to let the universe know that you are interested in something, and it will start to align things so that you can have what you want. Start today by choosing the life you want to live, Right now!

Go out there right now and start planting some seeds that are going to bear you so much fruit that you don’t know what to do with it all other than to give some to others. Take life by the horns and stop being a victim, choose your life right now.

-Founder Magbunga.com