I have a question for you. Do you have goals? Let me guess. I’m here to tell you that you are hindering your success. This week I’m writing to you from my vacation in Agadir, Morocco. I’ve been thinking about my goal-setting and previous successes in life and made an incredible discovery. 6 years ago during the COVID lockdown, I made a bucket list. It’s a personal list of goals and dreams I wish to complete in life. Here are some of the goals from that list:
Here are some things I have accomplished since then:
Wallah this is not a brag - Alhamdulillah for all the goodness Allah has allowed me to have. What astonishes me is pretty much everything major that I have achieved was related to goal setting. I tracked my UCAT scores, my medical knowledge, the number of readers, followers, views in my videos, my bank balance, I trained my voice for public speaking (Yes I do voice training). For each and everything that I succeeded in, I set goals. I write about them regularly in my journal, I think deeply about how to make them a reality, and then I take action. Everything I do has a thought and a reason behind it. I want you to live a life of fulfilment. You need to set goals, accurately and intentionally and start living on purpose. What do you want to want? Medical School Update 🩺I was on a plane last week and realised that if something went down, I'm actually equipped to respond. I didn't have to though, thankfully. During my flight, there was a mom next to me who was travelling with her kids and one of them was applying to Dentistry, so I ended up giving a whole mentoring session in the plane. It just put things into perspective for me. I on the other hand am 26, nearly a decade older and I still feel like my life is just starting. It got me thinking back to when I was 18 and how much has changed since then. I'm not sure how old you are, but there's so much that can change in a couple of years. Never underestimate how your life can turn around in the space of 5 years. Not much of a medical school update but sort of related. Cool Stuff 👇🏽
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