A sensible person learns from both mistakes and experience. Better again if that learning and its implementation follows hard on the heels of what has just passed. So, tonight, before you go to bed, ask yourself the hard questions that will enable you review your day's performance and behaviour - be hard on yourself and, tomorrow, you will be a more focused person.

It can be all to easy to fill one's day by doing things that make us feel busy, wanted and needed but do nothing to further our efforts in moving our life to where we would like it to be. And, sadly, the only person who suffers as a result of this charade is ourselves! We con ourselves into feeling busy and important but, in the process short change ourselves in leaving little or no time to do the key things that we might, from time to time, claim are the most important things in our lives.

This is how the normal life goes nowhere. As I have often said to people, the normal life follows, as one might expect, a normal pattern: get a good education, get a good job, get a car, get a better job, settle down with someone, get a mortgage, get a house, get a bigger car, have an affair, retire and die. OK - a little harsh but, unfortunately, not too far off the mark.

The only way you will move your life, business, career, whatever, forward is to give yourself the elbow room to do the things that are necessary to achieve that movement. Nobody else will do the important things for you - this is a job for one!

You are up to the task - you just have to stop handing on to the comfort blanket of 'I'm so important, because I'm so busy, doing stuff that makes no bloody difference whatsoever". Let go, get a hold of yourself, hold yourself to account - just do it.