You’ve gotta love 50 shades of cliché

Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life. You’re here for a good time, not a long time. So, trust your intuition, listen to your inner voice and step out of your comfort zone.

Start with a plan. None of us plan to fail but many fail to plan.

Visualise the big picture, chunk it down and remember that the only way to eat a giraffe is one bite at a time.

Know your limitations but dream big anyway. You are the creator of your reality: follow your passion, believe in yourself and keep showing up.

Take massive action. There’s no time like the present and if you stay true to yourself, your actions will speak louder than words.

Let go of what no longer serves you, focus on the goal and know that clarity  is power.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. A balanced approach is essential to realising your goals when life throws curve balls at you.

Be flexible, you may have to change your plan but not your goal. Roll with the punches and be prepared to bend, but don’t break. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Challenges are opportunities in disguise and they don’t knock twice.

Clear your mind and don’t be afraid  to risk success. If you’re given lemons, make lemonade.

Turn challenges into opportunities and problems into possibilities. It’s your dream, so make it grand, knowing anything is possible and that resilience is your super power.

Keep your head in the clouds but keep your feet on the ground. You’ve planned your work, now work your plan but remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Make every step a winner by doing something today that your future self will thank you for.

Stay in your lane and monitor your progress because you can’t manage what you don’t measure.

Timing is everything. A goal without a deadline is just a wish. The time is always now: seizing the moment will ensure the early bird catches the worm.

No man is an island, so get with the strength. Team work makes the dream work and while there’s no ‘I’ in team, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

All things being equal, at the end of the day, it is what it is. Focus, give it 110 per cent and smash it out of the park.

Enjoy the sweet smell of success. Hard work pays off. So, when your horse comes in, stand tall and proud and crack the champagne as you reap what you sow.

The prime directive of this article is not to bury clichés because they are essentially bite-sized metaphors – little nuggets of gold and small lights that illuminate big ideas.

Used judiciously, the humble cliché can be a powerful tool for emphasising the virtues of a key course of action in an immediately recognisable prompt.

A well-oiled machine runs smoothly, so take care of your tools and they’ll look after you.

Polish your armour and don’t let your tools gather dust.

Whether you’re writing articles  for seniors’ magazines, prospecting for gold or being the best version of yourself that you can be, don’t let familiarity breed contempt.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

 Charlie Griffiths is a certified life coach and Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner at charliegriffithscoaching.com