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If you are happy and totally satisfied with where you are in life, if things are just the way you want them and ticking along nicely, if you have all the money you need and are confident you have everything in place for a secure future, that’s fantastic. If not, join the club that most people are in!

If you are not 100% happy, only you can change it. You can’t expect other people to do the work for you, or for certain factors to change, magically, overnight. The only way to change or achieve anything in life is to make a plan. Then you need to go about putting that plan into action with drive and a positive attitude. Maybe your plan doesn’t work at first. Well, then you adjust it. If you adjust it several times and it still doesn’t work, perhaps you need a new plan. You don’t abandon the process at the first hurdle.

If you bought a car and it got a flat tyre, you wouldn’t dump the car, you’d change the tyre. If it started leaking oil, you’d fix that too. If you found you’d been pouring money into your car for some time and it still wasn’t working properly, you might have to abandon it and get a new car, but you would explore all the possibilities to get it running well first. Your plan should be like your car.

People don’t usually arrive at their goals following one straight line. We are not computer programs, we are human beings; we get to our destinations through a complex, ever-changing web of processes. Failing is one of those important stages. Maybe you have people in your life who will judge you if you fail, but if you look a little harder you will find many people out there who will respect you for all the efforts you make, for trying again when you don’t succeed the first time.